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The Art of the Sell: “Limousines for Your Feet”

Dan Seeger

These posts celebrate the movie trailers, movie posters, commercials, print ads, and other promotional material that stand as their own works of art.  I can’t overstate the primacy of Converse Chuck Taylor All Stars in my day-to-day fashion choices. My default icon on social media outlets provides some insight as to dominance of the footwear brand on the lower level of my closet. Accordingly, I have a perpetual weakness for the various print ads over the years that promoted the brand, largely because of how ridiculously off-base they often were. Few please me more than the mid-eighties campaign that posited Chucks … Continue reading The Art of the Sell: “Limousines for Your Feet”

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Beers I Have Known: 3 Floyds Brewing Co. Flying Tigersault and Perched Atop the Denim Throne

Dan Seeger

This series of posts is dedicated to the many, many six packs, pony kegs and pints that have sauntered into my life at one point or another. I am a mediocre beer hunter. I admit this fact with humility and a dollop of shame. Though I take woozy delight in a artfully crafted beer, I am woeful when it comes to holding relevant details in my head about those concoctions that should be chased. I am a willing and eager wingman for those cohorts with encyclopedic knowledge of the breweries and their beers that are simultaneously great and elusive, and therefore … Continue reading Beers I Have Known: 3 Floyds Brewing Co. Flying Tigersault and Perched Atop the Denim Throne

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Character Sturdy: An Introduction

Dan Seeger

Recently, I was prompted to think again about authorship. More specifically, I thought about how often I devote ample digital column inches in this space to considerations of pop culture that make a presumption about specific visions. Those visions are sometimes collaborative, but they almost always reside within a confined framework. When I write about comic books, I stick to single issues or runs on a title by a set of creators. When I write about television, I lock in on one season, weighing it against others only as a comparison that helps me assign a superlative. I chose those two … Continue reading Character Sturdy: An Introduction

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Beers I Have Known: Sierra Nevada Nooner Pilsner

Dan Seeger

This series of posts is dedicated to the many, many six packs, pony kegs and pints that have sauntered into my life at one point or another. Because summer. No, wait. I can actually muster a few more words. Though I have ample admiration for all the brewers who toil and strive to make concoctions of maximum complexity, abuzz with cascades of confounding flavor, there’s something pleasing about a more commonplace beer style that’s done exactly right. I will chase hoppy IPAs and revel in bourbon-blasted stouts with the best of them, but I’m grateful that recent years have found craft … Continue reading Beers I Have Known: Sierra Nevada Nooner Pilsner

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The Art of the Sell: “Lamp”

Dan Seeger

These posts celebrate the movie trailers, movie posters, commercials, print ads, and other promotional material that stand as their own works of art.  I’ve taught a college-level film class, but I didn’t have the time to really dig into examining the mechanics of cinema with the students. Being me, I can’t help but spend my time thinking about exactly which clips I would use to illustrate exactly how movies work, how specific shot and editing choices carry narrative and convey emotion. There’s a passage in Steven Spielberg’s The Sugarland Express, for example, involving an automobile’s gas gauge dipping towards “E,” … Continue reading The Art of the Sell: “Lamp”

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Laughing Matters: Jim Jefferies, “Guns Are Not Protection”

Dan Seeger

Sometimes comedy illuminates hard truths with a pointed urgency that other means can’t quite achieve. Sometimes comedy is just funny. This series of posts is mostly about the former instances, but the latter is valuable, too. I lived in the Orlando metropolitan area for six years. While I was there, I worked for Rollins College, which was located around seven miles from Pulse, which has tragically become the most famous gay night club in the state of Florida. My chief responsibility there was General Manager and advisor to student-run radio station WPRK-FM. When I arrived, in 2001, one of the … Continue reading Laughing Matters: Jim Jefferies, “Guns Are Not Protection”

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Beers I Have Known: New Glarus Brewing Company Bubbler

Dan Seeger

This series of posts is dedicated to the many, many six packs, pony kegs and pints that have sauntered into my life at one point or another. Recently, I and my partner-in-all-things attended a beer sampling event in our current city of residence. We followed that with a stop at a nearby watering hole, where we engaged in an impromptu debrief session. As I was sipping on the New Glarus Brewing Company beer I bought, I was doing my best to sort through which of the middling offerings from our prior stop were worth remembering. My lovely and wise drinking buddy argued, … Continue reading Beers I Have Known: New Glarus Brewing Company Bubbler

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My Misspent Youth: Captain America by J.M. DeMatteis and Mike Zeck

Dan Seeger

I read a lot of comic books as a kid. This series of posts is about the comics I read, and, occasionally, the comics that I should have read. Considering I operated with only a modest outlay of spending change, my youthful comic book obsession was shaped by selectivity. I went all in for Marvel Comics early on, but I was never able to be one of those kids who bought practically everything with the company’s distinctive banner cutting across the top of the cover. I even forced myself to bypass some of the publisher’s most stalwart characters, such as … Continue reading My Misspent Youth: Captain America by J.M. DeMatteis and Mike Zeck

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Laughing Matters: Patton Oswalt, “You Are Allowed 20 Birthday Parties”

Dan Seeger

Sometimes comedy illuminates hard truths with a pointed urgency that other means can’t quite achieve. Sometimes comedy is just funny. This series of posts is mostly about the former instances, but the latter is valuable, too. I don’t agree with Patton Oswalt about everything, but I’m in full support of his stance on birthdays. As I’ve come to expect from Oswalt, he tackles the cultural deconstruction of narcissistic clinging to yearly birthday celebrations with the fearsome intellectual intricacy of a deeply devoted science fiction fan. By the end, anyone might reasonably be ashamed of all the cake and paper that’s been … Continue reading Laughing Matters: Patton Oswalt, “You Are Allowed 20 Birthday Parties”