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April 10, 2014

After the Flood – Sunset Observer #30, by Whitney Farmer – Un Pop Culture | @MDWorld

Follow Whitney at @farmer_whitney (Twitter/FLICKR) or farmerwhitney (Instagram)! Mia the Sun Conure hates earthquakes and flies out of her cage and across the room to get to me when they...

April 7, 2014

Students, Athletes, Unions, and Reality, by Mike Gold – Brainiac On Banjo #361 | @MDWorld

A lot of people atr up in arms about the recent National Labor Relations Board ruling in favor of the Northwestern University footballers that wished to form a union. Of...

April 6, 2014

“All New Ghost Rider” #1, by Marc Alan Fishman – Snarky Synopsis | @MDWorld

Written by Felipe Smith. Art by Tradd Moore, Nelson Daniel and Val Staples Did someone at Marvel Comics sell their soul to Satan? They must have, because DC keeps floundering...

April 5, 2014

Cruel to Be Kind, by Martha Thomases – Brilliant Disguise | @MDWorld

“April is the cruelest month.”  T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” Benjamin Franklin “April showers bring...

April 4, 2014

The Point Radio: CONTINUUM Making Time Travel Work | @MDWorld

Twisty time travel is back on a new season of CONTINUUM. Creator Simon Barry and star Rachel Nichols tell us what’s coming up on the SyFy series and how they...

April 4, 2014

My Amber, by Michael Davis – Straight No Chaser #345 | @MDWorld

The image is of my dear friend Amber and her son on the beach in her beloved Hawaii. Amber is an original. People say that about other people all the...

April 1, 2014

The Point Radio: Why NBC’s CRISIS Is Different | @MDWorld

NBC’s new hostage centered drama, CRISIS, might seems a bit familiar when you compare it to other shows on the air right now. However, series stars RACHEL TAYLOR and LANCE...

March 31, 2014

Paranoia The Destroyer, by Mike Gold – Brainiac On Banjo #360 | @MDWorld

Continuing our theme of how healthiness can be bad for your health… In their publication Internal Medicine, The Journal of the American Medical Association  detailed a study co-authored by J....

March 29, 2014

Homeward Bound, by Martha Thomases – Brilliant Disguise | @MDWorld

Everything I’d ever read by Jews about Jerusalem made me think it would be a religious experience.  I would be moved by the history, by the centuries of evidence that...

March 28, 2014

Woe To You, by Michael Davis – Straight No Chaser #344:1 | @MDWorld

I’ve just been uninvited to speak at a university because they heard I use profanity. They didn’t call and ask me not to use profanity. They didn’t write and ask...

March 25, 2014

The Point Radio: Creating Creatutres With Henson | @MDWorld

Brian Henson and the company formed by his late father, Jim, are taking their talents to a new reality based competition show on SyFy. Brian talks about why he’s doing the CREATURE SHOP CHALLENGE...

March 24, 2014

Fat Is Good! Say, Woody Allen Was A Genius! by Mike Gold – Brainiac On Banjo #359 | @MDWorld

This is only going to surprise the self-righteous, elitist food fascist know-it-alls. The rest of us just can’t be surprised by dietary revelations anymore. According to The New York Times,...

March 23, 2014

“Justice League 3000 #4” by Marc Alan Fishman – Snarky Synopsis | @MDWorld

Written by Keith Giffen and J. M. DeMatteis. Art by Howard Porter and Hi-Fi. Here it is, kiddos: The big, ultra-secret, hyper cryptic, mega-surprising origin of the future Justice League!...

March 22, 2014

The Parabola of the Fig Tree – Sunset Observer #29…by Whitney Farmer – Un Pop Culture | @MDWorld

Mom has been speaking to fig trees since the ‘70s. To be accurate, ficus benjamina, which are known (or to my mother ‘who’ are known…) as weeping fig trees. Often...

March 22, 2014

The Difference Engine, by Martha Thomases – Brilliant Disguise | @MDWorld

Israel is nothing like I expected. Well, mostly.  It is warm and beautiful.  There are historical ruins thousands of years old. But … It can be disorienting to think that...

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