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Meanwhile, on the STORYMEN podcast….

Our top 12 books of all time and deep thoughts about True Detective.

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Thoughts on The Walking Dead ep. The Grove (4.14)

If you saw the episode of The Walking Dead called The Grove–a.k.a. Of Mice and The Walking Dead–we have to talk about this right?

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True Detective: Facing the Abyss

True Detective affirms life in the face of death, finding hope in every act of resisting darkness, defying the Abyss.

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This documentary about Thundarr the Barbarian is well worth 18 minutes

I loved  Thundarr the Barbarian when I was a kid. For those of you who have the misfortune of a Thundarr-less childhood, he was a barbarian warrior who lived in a future Earth and had adventures with a sorceress and a Chewbacca-like alien thing named Ookla. Character designs by Alex Toth and Jack Kirby! Neat!  

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Top 10 TV Shows of 2013

I count down my 10 favorite TV shows of 2013. And yes, I cheat a little bit. Sue me. What are yours?

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The Gospel According to Breaking Bad by Blake Atwood

Don’t miss my StoryMen interview with author Blake Atwood! Now that the dust has settled, it’s clear that Breaking Bad will go down in history as one of the great television shows of all time (though it’s still not quite The Wire). Creator and show runner Vince Gilligan (of X-Files fame) made meticulous attention to […]

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Hollywood’s Nelsons via Tom Hanks, The Fonz & Jethro Gibbs

What do hair metal, a 1950s sitcom, Tom Hanks, and Arthur Fonzarelli all have to do with each other? Like me, I’m sure you get this question on a daily basis. Today the mystery ends. A few months back author Melissa Tagg and I began discussing movies from the Golden Age of Hollywood. After a […]

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Has Anyone Ever Impacted You This Much?

Here’s what I know about Steve Harvey: He’s a comedian who hosts Family Feud. That was about it until today when someone shared this video on Facebook. Apparently Steve Harvey has a TV show and it was his birthday a while back. That’s when the producer or someone surprised him. Here’s the video. I think […]

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What Can The Walking Dead Teach Us About God?

One of the early promos for the original airing of The Walking Dead used the idea of how a person’s awareness of God would come into play during a zombie apocalypse. Of all the footage the producers could have selected to help introduce this new show they chose these 15 seconds for one of the […]

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Television and Zombies

I had the privilege, nay, the honor yesterday of spending some time with Master Knox McCoy who I’m pretty sure was the first-born child of that most interesting man in the world guy. Knox’s new podcast Xtra Bacon began this month, and I was his guest to discuss an important topic in the most fun […]