Trash & Treasures: Watership Down
The one about the rabbits. You remember the rabbits, don’t you? Happy Halloween!
Still Buffering Delivers Great Cross-Generational Sisterly Bonding
Years ago, the McElroys joked about a counterpart to their show My Brother, My Brother and Me called My Sister, My Sister and Me. While that did eventually come into existence as a one-off bonus for donors to the Maximum Fun network, the public at large was left […]
Trash & Treasures: Mary & Max
A stop motion animated flick about the moving friendship between an adult man and a little girl. I guess “not as twee or creepy as the premise implies!” wouldn’t be a very good pull quote for the box.
Trash and Treasures: The Great Mouse Detective
Who would’ve thought a bunch of 90s kids would have so many feelings about detective mice? Not Disney, that’s for sure. RELEASE THE MERCH. WE KNOW YOU HAVE IT.
Trash & Treasures: The Pilot
Welcome to Trash & Treasures! We rescue the movies others throw away. As I toil away on Gankutsuou – posts apparently determined to be difficult to write in a manner proportional to my love for the series – I wanted to take this moment to share an exciting […]
Morph Club – The Best Kind of Nostalgia
No series taught me more, at the tender age of nine, about war, death, trauma, loss, and excruciating body horror than Animorphs. I can comfortably say that KA Applegate’s children’s novels are irrevocably stamped all over my tastes as an adult (frankly it’s a short skip and a […]
Podcast Recs: McElroy Family Edition
Last Monday we took a trip to The Adventure Zone, which has become one of my alltime favorite podcasts. It’s still Max Fund Drive season this week, and I’m in a podcast sort of mood, so it seems like time to stroll through another round of recommendations. Specifically, […]
Why Your Life Needs More of The Adventure Zone
All art for this essay was kindly provided by Carey Pietsch, and is reprinted with permission. Check out her amazing portfolio at careydraws.com Three idiots, nee adventurers, walk into a tavern and accept a quest that promises untold amounts of fortune, glory, and definitely not any betrayal or […]
Quality Dystopian Propaganda: Our Fair City
In the tunnels below and the singular monolithic tower looming above an icy, postapocalyptic wasteland, the policies of Hartlife huddle close together and listen to recorded histories of the company’s glorious history. Such is the stage for Our Fair City, a serialized podcast created by veterans of the […]
Scary Podcast Stories for the Season
That most Hallowed-Eve time of year is upon us again, when everything is doused in pumpkin flavors and the general popular spends a month acting like cosplayers do year round (that is to say, approaching every strange and discarded garment as a potentially useful tool and trying to […]
