In Depth

Indulging the obsessions that form the foundations of our individual geek identities, In Depth takes you along for the ride as a Twin Cities Geek contributor goes into detail about a given topic they just can’t – and don’t want to – stop thinking about. This should be fun!

Larry Houston, like most Black pioneers, may not be as widely recognized by name as he should be, but his work definitely is. If, like me, you grew up on The Tarzan/Lone Ranger Adventure Hour, Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, Flash Gordon, Blackstar, and a host of other cartoons from the ’80s and beyond,…

I was working in eye care when the new billing codes were published in the 10th edition of the International Classification of Diseases. As we underwent training on the implementation of these new diagnosis codes, I remember laughing with my coworkers at how specific some of the codes were. For example,…

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien famously detested allegory, and any one-for-one analysis of his life and work runs the risk of making a dead man roll over in his grave. Still, it’s impossible not to see echoes of Middle-Earth in almost every sentence of his biography. Tolkien was four years old when…

Movies get paired together all the time. There’s the standard Hollywood counterprogramming, like when Happy Feet opened opposite Casino Royale. There’s accidental synergy, like when dueling magician films The Prestige and The Illusionist opened around the same time. Steven Spielberg…

Paul Rugg might not be a person everyone knows by name, but he’s a voice that ’90s kids will recognize. You might’ve heard him as the Jerry Lewis character from Animaniacs or his more prominent role on Freakazoid! as the titular silly superhero. But he’s also done plenty of work behind the scenes as a screenwriter…