• Harry & Meghan: A Review

    December 18, 2022

    Episodes 1-3 I’m not so much a royal watcher as a lifelong student of media (and professor of media studies at Fordham University), so it…

    Review of ‘The Peripheral’ 1.4-1.5

    November 15, 2022

    Who took Lev’s tea? The disappearance of his tea in episode 1.4 of The Peripheral on Amazon Prime Video was an another signalic moment, just…

    Review of ‘The Peripheral’ 1.3

    November 15, 2022

    So, I entitled this review of The Peripheral 1.3 “John Snow,” even though it had an already excellent title, “Haptic Drift”. Here’s why: First, John…

    The P&A

    November 4, 2022

    The road was beyond slippery. The anti-skids on the car went in and out of activating. The duel between chaos and control continued for a…

    Why Time Travel Is Enjoyable

    October 6, 2022

    Time travel is my favorite kind of science fiction, as a reader and a writer – precisely because it’s almost certainly impossible. Not like travel…

    Slipping Time

    September 27, 2022

    I slipped on the wet pavement. I got to my feet and soon discovered it was five hours earlier. This was not the first time…

    It’s Real Life

    September 26, 2022

    “That’s ‘Real Life,’ from the Beatles’ 1985 Come and Go LP, and I’m Pete Fornatale on WFUV’s July 4, 1996 weeklong celebration.” Pete sighed with…