M.Y.O.P.I.A. # 42: The Exchange of the Personal Ghost Story
With Halloween near, with longer and darker nights the standard, it’s easy to think of those things that frightened us as children. So I wish...
Category: MYOPIA
My Yesteryear Opinionated and Probably Irrelevant Analysis
M.Y.O.P.I.A. # 41: Why Do Mythical Creatures Fear Iron?
There is a concept that permeates some fantasy stories, though not all, where some magical creatures, but again not all, have an aversion or weakness...
M.Y.O.P.I.A. # 40: My Favorite Jackie Chan Films
When Jackie Chan swept into the US mainstream in the mid-1990s, I not only got caught up in the wave of his popularity, I saw...
M.Y.O.P.I.A. # 39: VHS Tapes-An Obsolete Standard Which once had Absolute Dominance
VHS tapes were a staple of the 80s and 90s. Back in the age of photographic film, projectors in school, even rewinding our audio cassettes...
M.Y.O.P.I.A. #38: The Invasion of 90’s Anime Part 2: A Sequel to Saturday Morning Cartoons
To read part one, click here. Last time I wrote about the history of animation in Japan and left off at the early 80s. This...
M.Y.O.P.I.A. #37: The Invasion of 90’s Anime Part 1: Big in Japan
Anime is a mainstream form of entertainment throughout the world today. The word “anime” likely even evokes a distinguishable style of drawing, allegorical storytelling, or...
M.Y.O.P.I.A. #36: Are the Books that Inspired These 80’s Movies Inspiring Enough to Read?
I was born in the early 80s. I loved the movies, the music, the optimism of the decade. I recently found myself curious about famous...
M.Y.O.P.I.A. # 35: Back in the Heyday of TV Reunion Shows
The reunion show has been part of the TV viewing experience since the 60s. In many ways, a reunion is an encore, a last hurrah...
M.Y.O.P.I.A. #34: Discarding Daenerys (What Still Bugs Me About the Game of Thrones Ending)
Were I to ask you to name your favorite fantasy-genre hero, the answer might come easily. If not, there are many choices to contemplate: Frodo,...
M.Y.O.P.I.A. # 33: Zombie Convergence: How Movies and Videogames Funneled this Monster into Focus
By sheer volume alone, zombies have become popular culture’s dominant monster over the last few decades—of course there is admirable irony that the monster known...
M.Y.O.P.I.A. #32: A Hero Best Suited to the Syndicated Past – The Night Man
Jazz musician by night, superhero by night also, and frequently during the day despite the name, this is my retrospective on the live-action superhero no one was clamoring to see on TV, but for comic-book fans in the 90s, this was about as good as it got. This is the not so aptly named Night Man.
MYOPIA # 31: The Lasting Legacy of 80’s Toys and the Politics that Helped Birth Them
The 1980s were a time of many pop-cultural shifts in the US. There was MTV, the proliferation of neon, movies aimed at youthful angst, even...