2001: Kubrick’s Audacious Masterpiece and Clarke’s Big Idea

Arthur C. Clarke’s novel 2001: A Space Odyssey is basically a 1960s version of a YouTube “2001, the Movie, Explained!” video

May 10 • Sean Bugg

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Grope a Dope

The conversation over Barney Frank’s “hands on” nature is highlighting the gay Gen X tendency to minimize sexual bad behavior

May 8 • Sean Bugg

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Landyn Pan: Trans Fitness, Body Image, and Gender Euphoria

Landyn Pan (they/them) is a transmasculine, non-binary fitness and nutrition coach whose mission is to help queer and trans people build strength…

May 4 • Sean Bugg

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February 2026

Growing Up Southern

Two gay white Southerners on their experience with race, class, religion, and privilege from the post-Civil Rights Act '70s to the politics of today…

Feb 26 • Sean Bugg

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The Short Life and Early Death of Tech Optimism

For decades, science fiction writers touted technology as the solution for human suffering while sowing the seeds of their own disappointment

Feb 16 • Sean Bugg

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Post Toasted

We've seen lots of hometown papers die but the Washington Post's collapse is a straight-up murder

Feb 9 • Sean Bugg

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Cowboys, Dragons, and the Apocalypse

Review Round-up: “Tom’s Crossing,” “King Sorrow,” and “The End of the World as We Know It”

Feb 4 • Sean Bugg

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Flashback to Amazing

Traveling back to 1982 for Sci-Fi Nazis, Racial Tensions, and a Major Midlife Crisis

Feb 3 • Sean Bugg

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January 2026

Profane in the Membrane

Value-free centrist civility politics got us into this mess and I’m happy to curse and scream my way out of it

Jan 20 • Sean Bugg

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November 2025

Flashback: Taking an Amazing Journey

This early '80s sci-fi jaunt through Nazis, sequel-itis, and racial tensions shows that all of this has happened before and all of this is happening…

Nov 3, 2025 • Sean Bugg

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October 2025

“The Medicine Cabinet” - A Halloween Special Treat

A trip back into the vault with my first published short story, a spooky season tale of a night out gone very, very wrong

Oct 28, 2025 • Sean Bugg

September 2025

The Habit of Reading

Falling in love with reading is a lifelong affair — author Louis Bayard joins to talk about the joy (and work) of reading

Sep 5, 2025 • Sean Bugg

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