Sep 9, 2022 Best of Opus Pop Culture Your Favorite Pop Culture Has Just Gone “Woke.” Now What? Accusations of “wokeness” are fascinating, not because I agree with them, but because of the semblance of legitimacy that surrounds them.
Sep 3, 2022 Music Technology Music Made Physical: In Defense of the Humble Cassette It’s time to appreciate what cassettes lent to the experience of listening to music.
Mar 19, 2022 Best of Opus Literature Revisiting Some Classic Choose Your Own Adventure Books I recently bought some of my favorite childhood books. Were they worth the money, or just a nostalgia trap?
Jul 15, 2020 Miscellany Why did I watch this Pizza Hut training video from 1988? There’s no pandemic in this kitchen. Just the promise of perfect pizza.
Feb 6, 2020 Web Development A Trip Down (Web Development) Memory Lane Sometimes it’s easy to forget just how much CSS offers today’s web developers.
Nov 21, 2019 Movies Alissa Wilkinson on Disney’s Nostalgia Problem This is why she’s one of my favorite movie critics.
May 6, 2019 Technology The ’90s as a Golden Age Remember the golden days, when we had “just enough internet”?
Feb 2, 2019 Personal Technology The Sights and Sounds of the PowerBase 180 After two decades of sitting on a shelf, my first computer started up just fine (albeit, very slowly and loudly).
Oct 25, 2018 Best of Opus Technology Internet Memories and Battle of the Bands ‘93 For better or worse, the internet has become a big collective memory organ.
Apr 18, 2018 Miscellany Feeling Homesick for a Place You’ve Never Been Exploring the German concept of “fernweh.”
May 31, 2017 Best of Opus Personal Sometimes You Really Can’t Go Home Again The demolition of my childhood home and the impermanence of memory.
May 20, 2017 Reading Reading: Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus, Star Trek: Discovery, MST3K, Fearing the Alt-Left & More Also: Screwing over creatives, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2’s narrative flaws, saving old TV shows, redeeming nostalgia, touring Apple’s new campus, hand-coding CSS, and a better pro-life approach.
Jan 8, 2017 Music This Tooth & Nail Records Catalog Is a ’90s Christian Music Time Capsule I’d spend hours poring over catalogs like these, trying to decide what music to buy with my meager college paychecks.
Mar 26, 2011 Video Games Game Over: A classic video game death montage Now you can relive all of those moments that came right before you pumped the machine full of another stack of quarters.
Feb 14, 2011 Movies Nerdery My Obligatory Flight of the Navigator Entry In which I probably write way too much about what was my favorite movie for part of my childhood.
May 18, 2010 Music The Changing Sounds of Musical Nostalgia What musical element will cause someone who is currently fourteen or fifteen to wax nostalgic when they hear that same song in their thirties?
Oct 26, 2006 Music Fears to Remember The sounds of the track take me back to all of those sweaty, exhausting nights spent in the Cornerstone Dance Tent.