Archive for the ‘Pop Culture’ Category
In defense of fighting
by Mike Dob A few months ago (December I think) Esquire Magazine published an article in which the author promoted the practice of punching assholes in the face as a mechanism for maintaining a mannerly society. In a subsequent issue of the same magazine, Chuck Klosterman wrote a piggyback piece putting forward his theory that [...]
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by achitophel I’m usually behind the times, and I bet this won’t be an exception. [ed.'s note: yes, yes you are.] There’s a fantastic blog out there called Stuff White People Like. It’s fantastic because it’s cleverly inane, and it’s fantastic to me because it’s designed to appeal to the prejudices and realities associated with [...]
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Happy Dyngus Day Everybody!
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by Jesse It has been one week since the end of The Wire, the best show on HBO, and I have to admit that I really miss it. It took me about 6 months to get through the first 7 episodes, but I am so glad that I did. No show has touched me as [...]
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Insidious ads, Vol. 1
by Josh Talking stains, talking babies, talking turtles, talking lions. All contagious commercials that entertained us during Super Bowl timeouts and inspired healthy twaddle around the water cooler. But other ads go one better; they generate a bona fide cultural phenomenon. These ur-ads reinforce the ties that bind a shared consumer culture. They let us [...]
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by elmickerino (noun) Definition: 1) A five syllable synonym for a pompous, puritanical, pedantic patrician, whose preposterous pandering – profligated in his pusillanimous publication The National Review – provoked political permutations, and whose passing was promptly parsed by the milieu of modern media. 2) This asshole: note the remarkable similarity to another world-renowned asshole, and [...]
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by Josh “All I know is that this Lo Pan character comes out of thin air in the middle of an alley while his buddies are flying around on wires cutting everybody to shreds while he just STANDS there waiting for me to drive my truck straight through him with LIGHT coming out of his [...]
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Save Friday Night Lights
by Lindsay It seems NBC is considering cancelling beloved “Friday Night Lights” and fans are attempting to pull the same hat trick as “Jericho” to save the show. In an impressive grass roots Internet movement, “Jericho” was saved from cancellation by fans sending thousands of pounds of peanuts to CBS. (Why nuts? In the [...]
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Orgasmurmurs vs. Go-Go-bots
by achitophel Ah there it is. Robot sex, anime porn, and nostalgia – all in one day. Now that that line’s been crossed, I will post a prediction. Cybertron. Fall, 2019. Responding to rising criticisms of objectifying women and gay men, as well as the expense of matching the national health service plan, by [...]
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Nostalgia by Josh “Things just ain’t what they used to be” is a cliché with near universal appeal. Every generation in history has looked at the next with the despair that, in its hands, the world would melt into anarchy and ruin. Our parents think that the internets and cell phones have made us [...]
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