Posting is going to be a bit light here for a couple of days while I move my virtual office from my loyal but nearly obsolete HP computer running Windows 7 to a more modern Dell. I generally have to be dragged kicking and screaming to updating an operating system. I wait until I get a huge, blinking red pop-up that says something like “After March 21 Smoke Signals will NOT be supported, and there will be no further updates.” That day has come, so my hand was forced.

This is a huge undertaking, not so much because of the installing software and networking computers stuff, but because of the large portion of my desk which hasn’t seen daylight since the arrival of the HP thirteen years ago. There’s like a four-foot high pile of books, magazines, toys and Kickstarter rewards that has accumulated, and that has to be moved to make way for the new baby.

So today might be a good day for looking back at PopCult.

Five years ago today…uh…the world was going to hell because we elected an insane dolt to run the country and he shut down the agencies that were supposed to protect us from a pandemic. Good thing that’ll never happen again!

Ten years ago today we told you about cool things that were happening in Charleston, and shared a video from JoeLanta, 2015 of Larry Hama discussing the GI Joe “Silent Interlude” story, plus we had Gypsy Rythm on The RFC MINI SHOW and photos from our trip to JoeLanta. This year, we are not making the trek down South to what is now ToyLanta, but it is coming up and I’ll point you to some info about it next week.

Fifteen years ago today, we didn’t have a post. I wasn’t able to crank out a post every day back then as my life was consumed with caregiver duties for a relative. However, the day before that date, I did a follow-up on a controversial post about a matter that has since been mostly forgotten, and also had a nice photo essay on Art Walk (and I believe Art Walk returns tonight in Charleston. Go HERE and look). As a bonus, there are also a few photos from an IWA East Coast wrestling show.

Nineteen years ago today (we haven’t been around for twenty years yet), I took aim at the awful movie adaptation of V For Vendetta. The passage of time has not dampened my contempt for this act of literary vandalism.

And that is today’s post.  I’ll have something in this space tomorrow, but I’m not sure which computer I will be using to compose it. I need to go find some boxes for all this cool stuff on my desk now.