David Bowie was as unpretentious an artist as I've seen. He made his art and took on bizarre personas and dabbled in many mediums but it never felt like artifice. What is missing from a Miley Cyrus or a Lady Gaga is the way Bowie seemed like he just had creativity bubbling up and he needed to share it, and it seemed…

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THIS. Every time something like this happens I wonder if we are the generation with the most reason to believe the end is nigh. But surely the folks in London during the bombardment thought the world was ending and surely those who lived through the plague thought the world was ending, and on and on. Is it simply…

For me it was when the family is in their house (which when you're a kid is the safest place to be) and the frickin government comes crashing into their house in nightmare biohazard suits, shining flashlights in their faces and basically take over their house/yard. I think this is also when Elliot starts to get sick…

The main things I remember about Jem was absolutely loving it (but I was only 6 or 7 so my taste couldn't be trusted) and having the worst fights with my brother because he wanted to watch Transformers instead, back in the days when we only had 1 TV.

I loved Whisper of Death - fourteen year old me found the idea of returning home only to find that all the people in the world were missing to be really unnerving. And I read Season of Passage 3 or 4 times - who would have thought you could weave Mars, aliens, vampires, and the garden of eden together into one…

Okay, did anyone burn through all of Christopher Pike's books as a teen besides me? I always thought Stine's books were trivial popcorn books but teenage me thought Pike's were much more sophisticated and grown up. Pike's books had SUBTEXT, so I felt very grown up reading them (not to mention that they were great…