A long time ago … In a galaxy far, far away … … there was a movie unlike anything anyone had ever seen before: Star Wars. George Lucas’ space opera would recalibrate our cultural expectations of what a movie can do. And with its arrival on May 25, 1977, the era of the modern blockbuster […]
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Even though the Internet has been around a relatively short while, people often pontificate about what this digital domain says about us. And that’s a complicated question, isn’t it? The Internet, after all, is such a vast collection of disparate bits, pieces, raves and rants. So what couldit possibly say about its creators? Well, when […]
Continue ReadingI spend a lot of time in my job on the Internet, observing what’s happening in the news and popular culture. Here at Plugged In, we pay especially close attention to how entertainment is influencing our society in general and young people in particular. Sometimes that means we have to engage—or are at least be […]
Continue ReadingI really like stuff. Always have. I’m a natural-born materialist. That tendency is one of my biggest spiritual struggles: being content and relinquishing the impulse to consume, to have more. And I’d like to talk a bit about that tendency today, especially as it relates to Thanksgiving … and the day of materialistic bingeing that […]
Continue ReadingHead football coach Rex Ryan of the New York Jets was recently fined (again) a whopping $100,000 for swearing. Surprised? Yes, even in this day and age of supposed “everyone can say whatever they want whenever they want,” there still is a sense that some things are still out of bounds in the NFL—at least […]
Continue ReadingI don’t know if I’ll ever be able to watch The Cosby Show in the same way again. I loved that show. Was a fan of it ever since I was a little kid. For a lot of us growing up in the 1980s, Bill Cosby, who played the funny, wise, patriarch of the Huxtable family, […]
Continue ReadingI’ve been married for 20 years now, and I can say the last two decades have been the best and happiest of my life. I’m not just writing that because my lovely bride will surely read this at some point, either. Heidi collaborates with me, completes me, complements me and even compliments me from time […]
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