SIEGE OF TROY

FROM THE SHOTGUN REVIEWS ARCHIVES: PORNUCOPIA aka THE AMAZING PORN ESSAY (1997)   If you’re one of the few, you happy few, who remember the original ShotgunReviews.com , you might be saying, “Wait! I thought The Mighty Shotgun didn’t open until 6-29-99!” And you’d be right. I wrote “Pornucopia” in 1997 while I was still working at Old Towne Video in Terre Haute. Grad school was wrapping up, and I’d depart for Indianapolis in October of that year. But I was still writing things just to have them and would kick off the original version of Shotgun on ComicKingdom.com, a site officiated by my friend Nick Jankowski. This piece, nicknamed “The Amazing Porn Essay” by Shawn Delaney, would end up being the anchor of the Feature Forum section on the Shotgun site. I decided to put this one up because, in some ways, it’s hilariously quaint. Video stores are basically gone; even the brick-and-mortar Family Video stores went down in January after 42 years. Really, only Redbox is the last k...

  From the Shotgun Reviews Archives By Troy Brownfield 5.31.02 – The Graduation Story Note: Portions have been edited from the original version. Graduation, then. Recently on our message boards, frequent guest Joe D. noted his own impending graduate status (Congrats, Joe) and asked if any of us had any good graduation stories. Boy, do we. Shawn Delaney, Terry McCammon, me - 1991 Setting the Way-Back Machine:  Here's the deal. It's May of 1991. Webmaster Shawn Delaney and I are seniors at Terre Haute North High School in Indiana. Shawn sings and plays guitar for a band called The Ravenous Doorknobs. We frequently hang out with a large group of guys, including but not limited to, Terry McCammon, Brent Poole, Mike Timmons, Tim Laitas, Ross Cadick, Eric Higgins, and Ryan Rusk (a junior at that time). Terry's neighbor is a sophomore named Dave Halpern. The other members of Shawn's band...