Happy Birthday, “Back to the Future” (1985): Sending us back for 35 years…

“Well, I figured…what the hell?” 1985 saw the release of “Back to the Future”, a pop culture phenomenon that has, in the years since, become more a time capsule of 1980s pop culture than the 1950s culture it romanticized.  It is one of the most iconic films of its decade, right along with “Ghostbusters,” “Raiders…

Visions of Futures Past…

We’re a few years shy of two decades into the 21st century, and I’m a graying, spectacled, middle-aged geek who’s now living in the “future”of his childhood. And so far it’s not quite the future I imagined in my youth.   Parts of it still amaze me, but the bulk of it is very underwhelming and more…