Top of the pops: The San Antonio Express-News (registration required) reports on a joint meeting of the Popular Culture Association, the American Culture Association, and the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations, which runs through Saturday. It's no geeky comics or sci-fi convention, though. Okay, it's probably geeky. But more than that, it's a meeting of some 2,200 academics discussing comic books, horror films, the Alamo and the like.