Pop Culture Affidavit Episode 174: The Odyssey
It’s part two of a two-part crossover with Required Reading With Tom and Stella. In part one, we looked at Homer’s The Odyssey. Here, we take another look at The […]
Remember being in school and the teacher wheeled the TV/VCR cart into the room? You knew that it was going to be the most amazing part of the school day. Well, this time around, I go back through my memories of watching educational films in school. Starting with kids movies and Afterschool Specials in elementary school and up through AIDS education films in high school, I go through the movies I remember the most.
A dear friend once said to me: “It’s a lot of fun when everyone’s a dork of some sort or another.” As I look back on my life as a dork, I realize that not only have I geeked out, but not in the right way. My taste, you see, isn’t great. But instead of hiding from that, I’ve decided to embrace it. Part commentary, part memoir, this is an exploration of my weird love for the obscure and for those things that sorta suck.
Tagged as: high school, educational films, VHS tapes, school, AIDS, drugs, 1980s.
A dear friend once said to me: “It’s a lot of fun when everyone’s a dork of some sort or another.” As I look back on my life as a dork, I realize that not only have I geeked out, but not in the right way. My taste, you see, isn’t great. But instead of hiding from that, I’ve decided to embrace it. Part commentary, part memoir, this is an exploration of my weird love for the obscure and for those things that sorta suck.
Tom Panarese July 29, 2026
It’s part two of a two-part crossover with Required Reading With Tom and Stella. In part one, we looked at Homer’s The Odyssey. Here, we take another look at The […]
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