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Feline Fantasy Novel Debuts At L.A. Times Festival Of BooksRead More

by Freddy Tran Nager, Founder of Atomic Tango + Monkey Enthusiast; photo by Daiei Onoguchi, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons… I was recently quoted in a story by Annenberg Media about the social media phenomenon Punch, the baby monkey. (If you haven’t heard about him yet, you must have been hiding out.) Below is the full interview, with questions by journalist Zia Sirianni…Read More

by Freddy Tran Nager, Founder of Atomic Tango + Guy Who Loves A Good Scare… On TV… Hollywood has long loved Halloween. The horrific holiday brings out the best (and the beasts) in TV and movies, since hardcore horror fans will devour whatever the industry dishes up, turning even low-budget indie flicks into box-office smashes. But my favorite scene from a horror show or movie is not the least bit scary or gory… except for predatory capitalists and those of us who must co-exist with them…Read More

by Freddy Tran Nager, Founder of Atomic Tango + Hardcore Binge Watcher… You’re binge watching some show, and along comes a story line that makes you say, “I’ve seen this before…”Read More

by Freddy Tran Nager, Founder of Atomic Tango + Advocate of Brain Freshening; image from the TikTok video Tralalero Tralala… What’s the surreal TikTok obsession with “Italian Brain Rot”? I provided my take in a story by Forbes magazine, and thought I’d expand on it here.Read More