Tom Panarese
@popaff.bsky.social
Podcast host of Pop Culture Affidavit and Required Reading With Tom and Stella. Uncollector. Long Island expat. Long-suffering Mets fan. https://linktr.ee/popcultureaffidavit
August 4, 2026. The day of “There Will Come Soft Rains.” For the publication history and inspiration behind this remarkable story, scroll down to Number 3 on my list of ESSENTIAL BRADBURY SHORT STORIES. Should it have been Number 1? #RayBradbury www.samweller.net/bradbury-1/2...
THE ESSENTIAL BRADBURY — Sam Weller
As Ray Bradbury’s biographer—having worked with the man for twelve years on four award-winning books and a graphic novel—people often ask, “Where should I begin when reading Ray Bradbury?” This is a...
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Every conversation with my parents turns into "Who's on First?"
Wanna hear Stella and I tear into the Odyssey movie? popcultureaffidavit.com/2026/07/29/p...
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 Odyssey, this time look…
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Why is it that when it comes to cigarettes, I can smell one from miles away?
Anyone who doubts that we have a literacy crisis in this country really needs to watch Wheel of Fortune.
New Required Reading! We spend and entire podcast episode calling Odysseus a jackass. Oh, and we talk about The Odyssey. requiredreadingwithtomandstella.com/2026/07/21/r...
Required Reading Episode 116: The Odyssey
It’s the one hundred and sixteenth episode of Required Reading With Tom and Stella! This podcast, which is hosted by Tom Panarese (Pop Culture Affidavit, In Country) and Stella (Batgirl to Oracle: …
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Five kids spend all day in the school library.
Darryl Mott@gamerstavernshow.com · last mo.A bar owner's ex shows up at his bar with her husband. He makes sure she leaves with her husband.
I swear the band Train is the rock and roll equivalent of herpes. It's there, it's gone, and then it flares up out of nowhere. Btw, I do not have herpes.
Episode 173 is here! Parker Lewis Can't Lose! popcultureaffidavit.com/2026/07/14/p...
Pop Culture Affidavit Episode 173: Not a Problem
Synchronize Swatches! In 1990, Fox debuted Parker Lewis Can’t Lose, a show about a charming teenager who always seems to get his way. Comparisons to Ferris Bueller abounded, but th…
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Is it a hot take that Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey is hands down my favorite?
Imagine that. People who have learned to research and write and reason — and who have studied culture and the human experience—have deeper thoughts than “AI natives.”
Lauri Donahue@lauridonahue.bsky.social · last mo.futurism.com/future-socie... lol
Just took the Jeopardy! test and got a Macbeth-related question. AP Lit teacher powers activate!
Wonder Twins
ALT: Wonder Twins
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New blog post! A look at 1990s TV station promos from the NYC area, especially WNBC's "We're 4 New York." popcultureaffidavit.com/2026/07/01/s...
Station Identification Song and Dance
In episode 172 of the podcast, I talked about the Fox Network, and at one point, I played part of the “It’s on Fox!” promo that first ran in 1990 and was a showcase for their then…
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New Uncollecting about cleaning out the hard drive. theuncollecting.com/2026/06/30/p...
Personal Archaeology 36: The Digital Age
Stop me if you heard this one before: my inbox/Google Drive/hard drive is a mess. My folder of files from high school ported over from a floppy disk. While everyone out there is not a collector or …
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New episode! Looking at the first decade of the Fox Network. popcultureaffidavit.com/2026/06/23/p...
Pop Culture Affidavit Episode 172: It’s on Fox!
90210, The X-Files, The Simpsons, In Living Color, 21 Jump Street, and … Herman’s Head? Join me this episode as I take a trip back into the late 1980s and the first decade of the Fox ne…
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I still want to know what Harry and Larry were fighting about that made Larry ask you to be best man at his wedding.
New Uncollecting: books read while I was at the beach last week. theuncollecting.com/2026/06/22/b...
Books I Read Last Week While on Vacation
I just got back from a week at the beach, and just like every year that I go on vacation, I blew threw more than a few books. In this case, four that I’d packed. I also picked up three more b…
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Attention Charlottesville Drivers: That lever to the left of your steering wheel is called a turn signal. FUCKING USE IT!!!
Very sorry to hear this. CHEERS is one of my all-time favorite TV shows, and James Burrows was the best director the sitcom form ever saw. R.I.P., sir. Thank you for all the great entertainment.
James Burrows, Cheers Co-Creator and Will & Grace Director, Dies at 85 (Exclusive)
James Burrows has died at the age of 85. An 11-time Emmy winner, he co-created 'Cheers' and directed episodes of 'Will & Grace', 'Friends', 'The Big Bang Theory', 'Taxi' and many other TV sitcoms.
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New Uncollecting: Liz Phair's "Horror Stories." theuncollecting.com/2026/06/08/h...
Horror Stories
To say that Liz Phair is an important voice of my generation is an understatement. That being said, I really didn’t know who she was when I was a teenager (beyond a certain Rolling Stone cove…
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Mike Sterling, Funnybooks Guy@mikester.bsky.social · 2mo agowe don't usually see each others headers, but here's mine. quote post with yours (if you feel like it)
Being home for the summer means your wife catching to you jamming to Pat Benatar while you load the dishwasher.