From felgercarb to transcendent

Like a lot of folks who were kids in the Star Wars era, I’ve got a major soft spot for science fiction. It’s the idiot savant of genres. So much of it is bad that it’s hard to hold one’s head high and proclaim love for it, but when it’s...

The Future is a Weird Place

You often hear that Tokyo is the closest thing we have to a city of the future. Sometimes that idea leads to a conundrum: are we destined for a future full of bizarre cultural trends, or is that just Japan? There is something singularly odd about certain trends that...