Posts about TV and comedy rooted in '80s childhood nostalgia, in the context of happy memories of family and home.
Essays drawing from the experiences of losing my mom, leaving my long-time job, and becoming a parent for the first time--all within two years.
"It wasn’t until we were physically at Rockefeller Center that it started to hit me. After 35 years of watching the show almost every week, I was about to be inside Studio 8H."
"I started watching 3-2-1 Contact and looked forward to the day I’d reside in some sort of half-house, half-science lab in the middle of a forest, making a living doing important experiments."
April is tough, because it's the month of your birthday, and the month we lost you. But April is also great.
Hi Archie,
I sometimes do this thing where I write an email to your grandma, with all of the things I would tell her if she were here. But today I decided to write an email to Future You.
In that moment, I realized that even if I did have a right to be sad, I didn’t have a right to let the sadness overtake me or, just as importantly, the people around me.
"As WGN falls prey to the current trends and tragedies of modern media, the brand for me will always be a gateway into the past, a fulcrum of my nostalgia not just for how I was introduced to television, but to the city of Chicago itself."