Posts by John Pond

When I think about heroes on horseback, I picture the likes of Harry Hamlin in Clash of the Titans, the Lone Ranger (or his doppelganger, Zorro), and the brave Prince Phillip in Sleeping Beauty. These are the brave heroes I thought of when I thought of a perilous time before cars, that is, until I…

When I was four, before I even began to comprehend my ABCs, I got the greatest gift imaginable for a child at the time: the Nintendo Entertainment System. This magical grey box came with a single game called Super Mario Bros., and I was overjoyed that it was mine to own. “It doesn’t get better…