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 9, 2022 Best of Opus Pop Culture
Music Made Physical: In Defense of the Humble Cassette It’s time to appreciate what cassettes lent to the experience of listening to music. Sep 3, 2022 Music Technology
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? Mar 19, 2022 Best of Opus Literature
Why did I watch this Pizza Hut training video from 1988? There’s no pandemic in this kitchen. Just the promise of perfect pizza. Jul 15, 2020 Miscellany
A Trip Down (Web Development) Memory Lane Sometimes it’s easy to forget just how much CSS offers today’s web developers. Feb 6, 2020 Web Development
Alissa Wilkinson on Disney’s Nostalgia Problem This is why she’s one of my favorite movie critics. Nov 21, 2019 Movies
The ’90s as a Golden Age Remember the golden days, when we had “just enough internet”? May 6, 2019 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). Feb 2, 2019 Personal Technology
Internet Memories and Battle of the Bands ‘93 For better or worse, the internet has become a big collective memory organ. Oct 25, 2018 Best of Opus Technology
Feeling Homesick for a Place You’ve Never Been Exploring the German concept of “fernweh.” Apr 18, 2018 Miscellany
Sometimes You Really Can’t Go Home Again The demolition of my childhood home and the impermanence of memory. May 31, 2017 Best of Opus Personal
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. May 20, 2017 Reading
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. Jan 8, 2017 Music
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. Mar 26, 2011 Video Games
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. Feb 14, 2011 Movies Nerdery
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? May 18, 2010 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. Oct 26, 2006 Music