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Articles written by Jason Strangis


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  • Never forgetting about the wonderful and fun decade of the 1980s

    Jason Strangis, Outside the Box|Dec 3, 2019

    Oh, how I miss the 1980s! MTV was actually cool and playing popular music videos 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Big-hair music bands were everywhere. Guns N' Roses, Bon Jovi, Van Halen, Madonna, Whitney Houston, and other famous bands and solo artists were constantly on television and radio. Meanwhile, video stores renting out those clunky old VHS movie tapes (remember them?) were in neighborhoods everywhere across the country. On the big screen, John Hughes' teenage heartbreak movies like...

  • Living Life Without a Car is Worth it in L.A. No More Traffic Jams for Me!

    Jason Strangis, Outside the Box|Nov 22, 2019

    As the State of California becomes more and more clustered on the freeways and busy streets, a growing number of local residents are deciding on other options besides driving a car. Count me in as one of those who now choose not to drive in the large Los Angeles metropolitan area. Some background is in order here: Ever since I first got my driver's license as a teenager, I've used a car to get around to most places, unless it is within short walking distance (I'm talking within a mile). Having...

  • Are iPhones a Disease Or a Disorder? High-tech consequences and Invasion of the Pod People

    Jason Strangis, OUTSIDE THE BOX|Nov 15, 2019

    "It's a malignant disease spreading across the whole country." So states actor Kevin McCarthy as Dr. Miles Bennell in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers." In that chilling 1956 science fiction classic, alien seeds drifting through outer space finally take root in fields throughout the planet Earth, replacing people with unemotional duplicates incapable of feelings of joy, sadness, love and potential romance. Impossible, you say! It's already happening, here, now, and something had better be done...