Star Wars Modern

Binge Drinking: Evil Kirk and anti- Occupy Wall Street Critics of consumerism, on both the Right and Left, usually count it...

James Doohan and Simon Pegg as Scotty Even if many Americans have lost track of the full promise of the American Dream - the dream th...

Norman Rockwell,  Freedom From Want   (1950);  Jennifer Rubell  (2011) Most often, when the word 'modern" is used in a generic low...

Gene Roddenberry's original Star Trek crew; The men of Mad Men . The short answer is: Because it takes place in the  future . My fri...

Batman Begins  (2005), Friedrich Nietzche (1844-1900), Superman Returns  (2006) In his book about the creators of golden age comics,  Men o...

The modest kitchen featured in Blade Runner or the even more radically modest dispensertopian kitchenette pod in Fifth Element will almos...

I have been thinking about the kitchen of the future a great deal lately—it keeps coming up. While I opened this blog with some thoughts on...