Culture on My Mind is a regular series that highlights elements of pop culture that I just can’t stop thinking about. It was inspired by the weekly Can’t Let It Go segment on the NPR Politics Podcast where each host brings one thing to the table, political or not, that they’ve been fixated on.
2025
- January 6 – Narrative Diversions (Autumn 2024 Edition)
- January 9 – President Jimmy Carter
- January 13 – Section 31
- January 15 – The Disturbing History of America’s Highways
- January 17 – The 2024 Star Wars Droid Factory Advent Calendar
- January 20 – January 20, 2025
- January 22 – “A Happy Beginning” by B.A. Richards
- January 24 – The 2024 LEGO Spider-Man Advent Calendar
- January 27 – When Compassion Becomes Resistance
- January 29 – The 2024 LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar
- January 31 – Dragon Con Report 2025 #1: 2025 Wishlist
- February 3 – Resolutions
- February 5 – Superman and Lois: It Went By So Fast [AmSFFM]
- March 3 – Dragon Con Report 2025 #2: Gaming
- June 6 – Dragon Con Report 2025 #3: DC 4 Kids
- June 9 – Talking Raiders on The Best Stuff in the World
- June 11 – There’s a Reason…
- June 14 – We Don’t Do Kings Here
- June 16 – Peter David
- June 20 – Dragon Con Report 2025 #4: Glamour Geek Revue
- July 3 – Dragon Con Report 2025 #5: Palmetto Knights
- July 10 – The Word and the Fire
- August 26 – Dragon Con Report 2025 #6: Trek Track
- August 27 – Dragon Con Report 2025 #7: Bunny Hutch
- August 27 – Dragon Con Report 2025 #8: Revelry Round-Up
- August 28 – Dragon Con Report 2025 #9: Crunch Time to Con
- September 24 – Narrative Diversions (Winter and Spring 2025 Edition)
- October 18 – We Don’t Do Kings Here (Round Two)
- October 27 – Dragon Con Report 2025 #10: 2025 Dragon Con Debrief
- November 3 – The Quest for Sunshine Preservation (Autumn 2025 Edition)
- November 5 – Dragon Con Report 2025 #11: Dragon Cults
- November 24 – Drew Struzan
2024
- January 19 – Narrative Diversions (Autumn and Post-Strike 2023 Edition)
- March 8 – The 2023 LEGO Avengers Advent Calendar
- March 11 – The Quest for Sunshine Preservation (Spring 2024 Edition)
- March 15 – The 2023 LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar
- March 22 – Dragon Con Report 2024 #1: Top 12 Things We Would Never Change
- March 29 – Dragon Con Report 2024 #2: Host Hotel Hunger Games
- April 5 – Narrative Diversions (Winter 2024 Edition)
- April 12 – Dragon Con Report 2024 #3: Photo Shoots
- April 19 – Theater & Nerddom: Is Theater Part of Pop Culture? [DC Theater]
- April 26 – Dragon Con Report 2024 #4: Volunteers
- May 17 – Oregon Trail
- May 31 – Dragon Con Report 2024 #5: Adventures in AmericasMart
- July 12 – Narrative Diversions (Spring 2024 Edition)
- July 17 – xkcd‘s Ten Thousand
- July 19 – Dragon Con Report 2024 #6: Dragon Con Wrestling
- July 22 – Dragon Con Report 2024 #7: Broadway, Bands, and Burlesque
- July 24 – Battle Broadway 2023: What is Dragon Con’s Favorite Musical? [DC Theater]
- July 26 – *batteries not included
- July 30 – The Magic of Disney on Broadway [DC Theater]
- August 1 – xkcd on Spent Fuel Pools
- August 6 – Shakespearean Comedy: Love, Mistaken Identities, and Social Satire [DC Theater]
- August 8 – Slim Goodbody
- August 13 – Dragon Tales
- August 15 – Dragon Con Report 2024 #9: The Final Countdown
- October 14 – Dragon Con Report 2024 #10: Let’s Unpack Dragon Con 2024
- November 4 – The Quest for Sunshine Preservation (Autumn 2024 Edition)
- November 23 – Narrative Diversions (Summer 2024 Edition)
- November 27 – Dragon Con Report 2024 #11: 2025 Con Prep Begins
- December 11 – Dragon Con Report 2024 #12: Post Con Blues
2023
- January 6 – The 2021 LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar
- January 9 – Where the Drama is Local [DC Theater]
- January 13 – The 2021 LEGO Marvel Advent Calendar
- January 20 – The 2022 LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar
- January 27 – The 2022 LEGO Guardians of the Galaxy Advent Calendar
- January 30 – Where the Drama is Local, Act II [DC Theater]
- February 3 – A Weird Al World [AmSFC]
- February 10 – Quickly Canceled [AmSFC]
- February 13 – Willow
- February 17 – Jukebox Musicals [DC Theater]
- February 20 – Compassion Means More Than Magic
- March 3 – A Career in a Coffee Mug
- March 6 – The Art of Plays [DC Theater]
- March 10 – Darren Nowell
- March 31 – Battle of the Fictional Bands 2023 [AmSFC]
- April 3 – More Than Musicals [DC Theater]
- April 7 – The Italian Plumber from Brooklyn
- April 14 – Narrative Diversions (Winter 2023 Edition)
- April 21 – A Great Ape at 90 [AmSFC]
- May 1 – Phantom of the Opera: A Salute to the Music of the Night [DC Theater]
- May 10 – Twenty
- May 26 – The Impact of Theatre Education [DC Theater]
- June 9 – Narrative Diversions (Spring 2023 Edition)
- July 17 – The Queer Revolution: Breaking the Broadway Mold [DC Theater]
- July 24 – SUBSAFE
- August 11 – Not Just Musicals: Stand Up and Magic [DC Theater]
- September 1 – Dragon Tales
- September 8 – Narrative Diversions (Summer 2023 Edition)
- November 6 – The Quest for Sunshine Preservation (Autumn 2023 Edition)
2022
- January 10 – Slay Bells [AmSFC]
- January 17 – Fly You Fools! [AmSFC]
- January 21 – Fly You Fools! (The Second Breakfast) [AmSFC]
- January 24 – Bel-Air
- January 31 – Yer a Twenty-Year-Old Wizard! [AmSFC]
- February 7 – Toynk Toys Minecraft Box
- February 14 – Leeloo Dallas Multipass! [AmSFC]
- February 21 – The Book of Boba Fett
- February 28 – Sci-Fi Sports [AmSFC]
- March 7 – The Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawai’i
- March 14 – Battle of the Fictional Bands 2022 [AmSFC]
- March 21 – Spread Love
- March 28 – Bram Stoker’s Dracula at 30 [AmSFC]
- March 29 – The Earth Station One Podcast: The MCU, What’s Next?
- April 4 – Eat the Hot Dog! [AmSFC]
- April 11 – Sacheen Littlefeather
- April 25 – The Classic Two-Fer [AmSFC]
- May 2 – Speed of Light
- May 9 – The Fourteenth Doctor
- May 16 – Star Trek: Picard
- May 22 – The Classic Stephen J. Cannell [AmSFC]
- June 2 – Execute Chapter 66 [AmSFC]
- June 20 – TV Vampires and Saturday Cartoons [AmSFC]
- June 27 – To the Blue Grotto Batcave [AmSFC]
- July 4 – Independence Day 2022
- July 11 – Remote Control [AmSFC]
- July 18 – Gilligan Meets Gomez [AmSFC]
- July 25 – Marge Piercy’s “Right to Life”
- August 15 – So Much Yummier [AmSFC]
- August 22 – Werewolves, Zombies, and Spiders (Oh, My!) [AmSFC]
- August 29 – Totally True* Tails of Dragon Con [AmSFC]
- November 4 – Lycan Subscribe [AmSFC]
- November 21 – Theater Nerds [DC Theater]
- December 16 – Stick the Landing 2022 with Tee Morris and No Kid Hungry
- December 23 – Classic Christmas in Pac-Land [AmSFC]
- December 30 – Lord, Laird, Lady?
2021
- January 9 – Post-Christmas Classics [AmSFC]
- January 15 – The Life Cycle of a Cup of Coffee
- February 19 – Early Year Classics [AmSFC]
- February 26 – The Color of Our Food
- March 23 – February’s Classical End [AmSFC]
- March 26 – Battle of the Bands [AmSFC]
- April 16 – Brawn, Bands, and Bunnies… Oh, My! [AmSFC]
- April 23 – Super Follies and Nuclear Power
- April 30 – Sci-Fi Metal of Death and Rock [AmSFC]
- May 7 – Death Mountain
- May 14 – The IDIC Podcast Festival
- May 21 – Spooky Golden Radical Marvels [AmSFC]
- May 28 – Gingertail’s Mandalorian
- June 4 – Good Puppers and Dreams Given Form [AmSFC]
- June 11 – Pershing’s Own and Queen
- June 18 – Juneteenth
- June 25 – Classic Traumas, Robot Mockery, and a Birthday Potluck [AmSFC]
- July 2 – Independence Day
- July 9 – Dads and Princes [AmSFC]
- July 23 – The New Colossus
- July 30 – Legally Mars, Syndicated Toons, and a Fresh Prince [AmSFC]
- August 6 – Smarter Every Day Dives Deep into Nuclear Submarines
- August 13 – The Secret of the Ooze and Alan Rickman [AmSFC]
- September 2 – Dragon Con Shenanigans 2021 [AmSFC]
- October 1 – The Physics of Bowling Balls
- October 8 – Behind the Scenes of Nautilus
- October 15 – They’re Baaaack! [AmSFC]
- October 22 – Hobbes in Bloom County
- November 5 – The Spoopy Pages [AmSFC]
- November 12 – Amok! Amok! Amok!
- November 15 – Disney+ Day 2021
- November 19 – Your DNA is Everywhere
- November 21 – Rogue Squadron Grounded
- November 27 – The 2015 LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar
- November 28 – The 2016 LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar
- November 29 – The 2017 LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar
- November 30 – The 2018 LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar
- December 10 – Ask Gary and Best Franchises [AmSFC]
- December 27 – Rankin-Bass Thunderdome! [AmSFC]
2020
- January 3 – The Call of the Wild
- January 10 – Hans Zimmer Has No Time to Die
- January 17 – My Two Cents
- January 24 – New Voyagers
- January 31 – Star Wars: The Clone Wars
- February 7 – Film Music Podcasts
- February 14 – Every Storm Runs Out Of Rain
- February 21 – The Tiger Returns
- February 28 – Staying Curious
- March 6 – Degrees of Separation
- March 13 – The Chaos
- March 20 – Moving Pictures in Isolation
- April 3 – Slipped Discs and Squid Ink
- April 10 – Ten Films of Vivid Memory
- April 25 – Quarantine Con [AmSFC]
- May 1 – Quarantine Con, Episode II [AmSFC]
- May 4 – May the Conference Be With You
- May 8 – Quarantine Con, Episode III [AmSFC]
- May 15 – Quarantine Con, Episode IV [AmSFC]
- May 18 – WHOlanta’s Virtual TARDIS
- May 22 – Quarantine Con, Episode V [AmSFC]
- May 25 – Memorial Day 2020
- May 29 – The Cautionary Tale of Eaglemoss Publications Pre-Orders
- June 1 – Quarantine Con, Episode VI [AmSFC]
- June 5 – The Floor is Lava?
- June 8 – Quarantine Con, Episode VII [AmSFC]
- June 12 – Quarantine Con, Episode VIII [AmSFC]
- June 19 – Lessons from Short Circuit
- June 26 – Quarantine Con, Episodes IX and X [AmSFC]
- July 24 – Quarantine Con, Episodes XI-XIV [AmSFC]
- July 31 – Quarantine Con Special Edition [AmSFC]
- August 7 – Clone Stories After the Republic?
- August 24 – Quarantine Con, Episodes XVI-XIX [AmSFC]
- August 28 – DC FanDome and Justice League
- October 23 – Quarantine Con, Episodes XX-XXI [AmSFC]
- December 14 – Disney Investor’s Call 2020
- December 21 – Dragon Con American Sci-Fi Classics Continues [AmSFC]
- December 21 – Disney Investor’s Call 2020: Addendum
- December 25 – The 2020 LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar
2019
- June 6 – Operation Neptune: Normandy at Seventy-Five
- July 12 – Toys, Collecting, and a Review of Hasbro Pulse
- July 20 – We Came in Peace For All Mankind: Apollo 11 at Fifty
- October 14 – The Mystery of the Missing Doctors
- November 1 – Creative Criticality Supports #TeamTrees
- November 4 – No Laughing Matter
- November 8 – All That Glitters: The Skywalker Saga Commemorative Figures
- December 27 – The 2019 LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar
2018
- Pop Culture Download: January 28, 2018
- Pop Culture Download: February 4, 2018
- February 9 – It’s Not About…
- Pop Culture Download: February 11, 2018
- Pop Culture Download: February 18, 2018
- Pop Culture Download: February 25, 2018
- Pop Culture Download: March 4, 2018
- Pop Culture Download: March 11, 2018
- Pop Culture Download: March 18, 2018
- Pop Culture Download: March 25, 2018
- Pop Culture Download: April 1, 2018
- Pop Culture Download: April 8, 2018
- Pop Culture Download: April 15, 2018
- Pop Culture Download: April 22, 2018
- Pop Culture Download: April 29, 2018
- Pop Culture Download: May 6, 2018
- Pop Culture Download: May 13, 2018
- Pop Culture Download: May 20, 2018
- Pop Culture Download: May 27, 2018
- Pop Culture Download: June 3, 2018
- Pop Culture Download: June 10, 2018
- June 15 – Adventures with the Automower: A Major Award!
- Pop Culture Download: June 17, 2018
- Pop Culture Download: June 24 & July 1, 2018
- Pop Culture Download: July 8, 2018
- July 13 – Adventures with the Automower: Installation and Technical Details
- Pop Culture Download: July 15, 2018
- Pop Culture Download: July 22, 2018
- Pop Culture Download: July 29, 2018
- Pop Culture Download: August 5, 2018
- Pop Culture Download: August 12, 2018
- Pop Culture Download: August 19, 2018
- Pop Culture Download: September 23, 2018
2017
- Fortnight Philosophy: January 2, 2017
- Fortnight Philosophy: January 16, 2017
- January 27 – Ad Astra Per Aspera: Fifty Years
- Fortnight Philosophy: January 30, 2017
- Fortnight Philosophy: February 13, 2017
- Fortnight Philosophy: February 27, 2017
- Fortnight Philosophy: March 13, 2017
- Fortnight Philosophy: March 27, 2017
- Fortnight Philosophy: April 10, 2017
- Fortnight Philosophy: April 24, 2017
- Fortnight Philosophy: May 8, 2017
- Fortnight Philosophy: May 22, 2017
- Fortnight Philosophy: June 5, 2017
- Fortnight Philosophy: June 19, 2017
- Fortnight Philosophy: July 3, 2017
- Fortnight Philosophy: July 17, 2017
- Fortnight Philosophy: July 31, 2017
- Fortnight Philosophy: August 14, 2017
- Fortnight Philosophy: August 28, 2017
- Fortnight Philosophy: September 11, 2017
- Fortnight Philosophy: September 25, 2017
- Fortnight Philosophy: October 9, 2017
- Fortnight Philosophy: October 23, 2017
2016
- January 22 – Review: Star Wars Smuggler’s Bounty Resistance Box – January 2016
- January 28 – Go at Throttle Up: Thirty Years
- April 22 – Thoughts on Legends
- July 18 – Ghostbusters: Ain’t Afraid of No Ghosts
- September 7 – Star Trek at Fifty
- September 9 – Book Review: “The Pseudo-Chronicles of Mark Huntley” by Jeff Deck
- December 27 – The 2019 LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar
- December 31 – Goodnight, 2016
2015
- February 11 – My Only Hope for Star Wars: The Force Awakens
- February 27 – Leonard Nimoy (1931-2015)
- April 17 – Book Review: “Player Choice” by Jeff Deck
- May 11 – Thoughts on Gotham
- May 14 – Cleaning Up After the Storm: Reflections on Black Widow in the Age of Ultron
- June 5 – Best Day of Television
- June 23 – A Symbol, for Which it Stands
- October 23 – Movie Review: Nintendo Quest (2015)
- November 22 – Review: Star Wars Smuggler’s Bounty Premiere Box
- December 10 – Seven Days of Star Wars: Day One – The Clone Wars
- December 11 – Seven Days of Star Wars: Day Two – Revenge of the Sith
- December 12 – Seven Days of Star Wars: Day Three – Attack of the Clones
- December 13 – Seven Days of Star Wars: Day Four – The Phantom Menace
- December 14 – Seven Days of Star Wars: Day Five – Return of the Jedi
- December 15 – Seven Days of Star Wars: Day Six – The Empire Strikes Back
- December 16 – Seven Days of Star Wars: Day Seven – A New Hope
2014
- April 3 – Earworm: Hardware Store
- May 4 – Shelving the Star Wars Expanded Universe Makes Sense
- May 6 – Veronica Mars
- May 7 – Book Review: “A Children’s Illustrated History of Presidential Assassination” by Bryan Young
- May 30 – Book Review: “Gone Girl” by Gillian Flynn
- July 5 – Movie Review: Green Lantern (2011)
- July 7 – Movie Review: The Ultimate Gift (2006)
- July 11 – Movie Review: Batman (1989)
- July 16 – Page to Screen: “Sahara” by Clive Cussler
- July 21 – A Mighty Lady Thor
- July 28 – Protecting our Childhoods
- August 13 – Goodbye, Robin Williams
- September 4 – Movie Review: Batman Returns (1992)
2011
- March 28 – The Glory of Being a Nerd
- May 11 – Katie Lucas is Awesome, Reason 1138
- May 23 – Star Wars Fandom and The ForceCast
- May 25 – Follow Your Bliss
- June 10 – Phoenix Rising: In Which Tee and Pip are My First Steampunk
- October 12 – My Thoughts on Lost
- October 14 – Darth Maul and the Hollowness of Death
2010
- August 26 – Why Can’t We à la Carte?
- September 6 – Celebration of an Idiotic Lifestyle
- September 7 – Jar Jar Binks
- September 10 – Tuesday Morning
- September 29 – Star Wars, Comin’ Right Atcha!
- October 8 – Why the Star Wars Expanded Universe Matters to Me
- October 12 – In Memoriam: USS COLE (DDG 67)
- October 21 – Religion in Science-Fiction
Culture on My Mind is inspired by the weekly Can’t Let It Go segment on the NPR Politics Podcast where each host brings one thing to the table that they just can’t stop thinking about.
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