Favorite Fictional Characters, #201: Girl In 1993-94, as I was making the transition from high school to college, my life soundtrack...

Favorite Fictional Characters, #200: Spock To celebrate 200 days of my favorite characters, I turn to one of the greatest fictional...

The Pace boys used to watch the Three Stooges on Saturday mornings on WSBK-38 back home in NH, all three of us laughing ourselves sick...

I've never been a huge fan of Jim Carrey's goofier work (Ace Ventura, Dumb and Dumber, Cable Guy). When his character is too wacky, he...

There are certainly guilty pleasures in life, and Party of Five was one of mine at the tail end of college and right after. For those...

There are things to love about each of E.B. White's three classic children's novels. Charlotte's Web is an achingly poignant fable about...

Roger Zelazny is not mentioned as often as he should be when the topic of sci-fi/fantasy greats comes up. And yet he won six Hugos and...

Sometimes it's the bit players who are the most memorable. Ernie who? You remember him as the smug, curmudgeonly, absolutely hilarious...

You want a fun piece of geek sacrilege? I've never seen any of the Buffy TV show. Not a minute. I know, I'm missing out on one of the...

One of my favorite books when I was young was The Iceberg Hermit, by Arthur Roth. The protagonist first appears in The Surpassing...

Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends was a short-lived Saturday morning cartoon from 1981 to 1983, but had a huge impact on me. Much of my...

I admit to a certain feeling of kinship with Dan Brown, sharing a hometown, knowing his family, meeting him several times. Even if none...