Neal Conan weinered-it-up on NPR’s Talk of the Nation today in a short, but somewhat in-depth, discussion with NPR’s resident comic book blogger, Glen Weldon on the topic of the recently released Iron Man 2 movie. I had no idea that one of my favorite talk radio hosts is a self-proclaimed comic book geek!

Listen to the 16 minute “podcast” on NPR’s website:
‘Iron Man 2′ Full Of Easter Eggs For Fans

When Neal quips, “I don’t read a lot of capes,” I literally laughed out loud. Another fantastic highlight is toward the end when one of the callers mentions that he now knows what was in the much sought-after briefcase in Pulp Fiction. Ha!

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125898462&ps=cprs

Not that it already hasn’t hit… but this article was neat.  Apparently “History Girls” are the new hip thing.  Most fascinating to me was the bit about how after the economic woes of the 90’s, people began finding meaning to their lives not in their families or careers but in their hobbies.