Oh, my beloved show. What has happened to you? The Simpsons of old was densely layered and whatever pop culture references they used were integrated well and organically funny. This new series, while producing isolated moments of brilliance, is clearly coasting on a well-earned reputation but does nothing to burnish…

Oh, I didn't get a world band radio. I got an inflatable globe, a subscription to World magazine, a board game, the famed jacket, and of course the trip. I picked California . . . pretty safe bet. Years later, as I searched Wikipedia for any clue that the result had been recorded for posterity, I found that my name…

As someone who was actually on Carmen Sandiego, I can testify to the fact that it was just physically challenging to do the end map. The markers were tall and really heavy. I was a lucky fuck who got the US, and so I won, but I was an out of shape 11 year old who needed every one of those 45 seconds to actually…