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The First Echo: Why R.L. Stine's 'Party Games' is a Tricky Piece of Literary Nostalgia: 3 Ways to Read It

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Why RL. Stine's 'Party Games' is a Tricky Piece of Literary Nostalgia: 3 Ways to Read It. Plaid flannel and babydoll dresses may be making a comeback at the mall, and dance music appears to be returning to its house roots, but there's another reason why 2014 is feeling very 1994: author R.L. Stine has returned to Fear Street. The series of books that dominated the Young Adult section in bookstores during the Clinton era. The latest entry, Party Games. So it may be difficult to criticize a writer who is s...

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The First Echo: An Open Letter to John Burk (and Other Body Shamers)

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An Open Letter to John Burk (and Other Body Shamers). Army veteran John Burk, a self-proclaimed “fitness motivator” from Georgia, racked up millions of views on a July 2015 video rant. Here’s my response. Dear Mr. Burk,. Hiko Mitsuzuka here, American soldier in the Battle of the Bulge since…let’s say, sometime in the late 1980s. That thing you do to support your sweeping generalizations and blanket statements? It involves looking up facts and statistics and some reading…You know, reading. Perhaps some ki...

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The First Echo: March 2015

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Nerdgasm of the Month: 'The X-Files' Returns. Words cannot express all the feels I have about the official return of the show that influenced 21st century genre television.and defined most of my adolescence. Thank you, Fox, for the early birthday gift. The All-You-Can-Eat Buffet Incident. Another excerpt from my book-in-progress. The mighty All-You-Can-Eat Buffet. When I moved on to the soups, a woman walked up and stood behind me with her own empty bowl, noticing the heavy load I had on my tray. 8221; s...

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The First Echo: January 2015

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Eulogy for My Grandmother. The death of a grandparent is something that always lingered over my head like a gray cloud threatening rain. The older I got, the darker it got. Would I be ready for the downpour? Was I prepared to deal with the sudden change? Of course I did everything to ignore the looming possibility, but as the years wore on - and as certain health scares popped up here and there - I felt that prickly sensation, just like when the hairs on the back of your neck stand up before a storm.

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The First Echo: POWER: The 2015 Summer Playlist, Vol. 5

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POWER: The 2015 Summer Playlist, Vol. 5. Okay, so I lied. Wasn't my last. Turns out there's even MORE music to share and enjoy before this season comes to inevitable conclusion. Another Disclosure collaboration with Sam Smith? A nu-disco jam from Redfoo? A One Direction song that sounds like The Police? Say it isn't so! Sadly, Spotify (nor iTunes) doesn't have some of the songs I'd like to include here, so you'll have to sample them separately - further below. Feet Don't Fail Me Now" by Foxes:. His obses...

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The First Echo: April 2015

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TBT: That Time My Great Aunt Accused Me of Attempted Murder. In the summer of 1993, my mother's aunt (my great-aunt) Anna treated us to a trip to Disney World. We sort of knew what we were getting ourselves into. Aunt Anna, after all, often gave the impression of being a crotchety wench when it came to just about anything. (Her birthday was on Halloween - analyze that however you like. 1 She thinks aliens built Disney World. 2 She complained that the screen was broken in the 3D theater. 4 "It's not the m...

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The First Echo: R.L. Stine's 'Fear Street' Turns 25: Honoring Those Demonic Cheerleaders and Psychotic Stepsisters

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RL Stine's 'Fear Street' Turns 25: Honoring Those Demonic Cheerleaders and Psychotic Stepsisters. It all started with a seemingly safe boy-meets-girl story.which ended with identity theft and murder. In June 1989, The New Girl. Kicked off one of the biggest YA series in publishing history, Fear Street. Transporting young readers to the fictitious hamlet of Shadyside, where the mortality rate rivaled that of similarly sinister towns like Sunnydale or Sleepy Hollow. There were vamps sucking it up in. Inste...

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The First Echo: 20 Life Lessons from R.L. Stine's 'Fear Street'

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20 Life Lessons from R.L. Stine's 'Fear Street'. My first visit to Fear Street. Was 25 years ago. In the fall of 1990, I picked up a copy of the eighth title in the series, Halloween Party. And throughout the following decade I was hooked on the sinister goings-on in the fictitious town of Shadyside. Since then, there hasn't been a book in R.L. Stine's seminal series I haven't read. (To see how fanatical I am, see: here. That's why I like to think I'm an expert when it comes to all things Fear Street.

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The First Echo: Shameless Plug: Movie Review Alert

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Shameless Plug: Movie Review Alert. Just a reminder: I'm still writing movie reviews for the folks at ScreenPicks. Most recently, I shared my thoughts on The Diary of a Teenage Girl. Above) as well as. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Brought to you by. Who is The First Echo? Hiko can currently be seen in the role of Manager of Creative Planning at Stun Creative. PromaxBDAs North America Agency of the Year, 2013 and 2014. Executive Editor of Hotter In Hollywood.