Archive for the 'pop culture' Category
Festivus!
I kind of feel like I’ve spent the year celebrating Festivus, at least the part of airing my grievances. All I need is my aluminum pole, and then Christina and I will engage the Feats of Strength: until she pins me, Festivus isn’t over!
Read More..>>Gaga
My girlfriend puts her car radio on the top 40 pop station, and so I’ve been hearing all this stuff I ordinarily could care less about. Some of it is fucking annoying: if i ever get my hands on the person known as “Owl City” I am going to douse him in gasoline and set [...]
Read More..>>Naked Bike Ride (NSFW)
Let me tell you, riding in the Philly Naked Bike Ride was no joke, even if it WAS the funniest thing I think I’ve ever done in my life. About 300 of us, most in at least some stage of undress (the men were, by and large, more bold about stripping down entirely than the [...]
Read More..>>Hey! More French Pop!
french pop: jacques dutronc
I don’t own any french pop, but whenever i hear artists like Francoise Hardy I immediately want to go buy tons of it.
Fortunately my friend Ty is posting these videos all over facebook today. Here’s one by Jacques duTronc, whose work i need to hear more of.
Et moi, et moi, et moi
More to come!
Marilyn Chambers, RIP
Marilyn Chambers is dead. Whil I knew she was the face of Ivory Snow in more innocent years, I had no idea she was a Rhode Island girl.
“Behind the Green Door” was notorious for a couple of reasons. First of all, when the film was released, boxes of Ivory Snow showed Chambers, in a straight [...]
Old Time: Not Just for White Folks
I love this band. They are awesome. The african american string band tradition has been largely forgotten and/or buried, and it’s great to see [relatively] young people bringing it back.
Old time is not a crime!
Laura Ingraham is Jealous of Meghan Mccain’s Womanly Figure
Laura Ingraham in her natural habitat
Meeeeeeowwww
Noted right-wing howler monkey, Skeletor impersonator and stick-insect stand-in Laura Ingraham hit the airwaves today with ad hominem attacks against Meghan McCain, who recently criticized the more extreme wings of the GOP. apparently, Ingraham couldn’t really deny McCain’s charges, so instead she chose to go after McCain’s shapeliness:
INGRAHAM (mocking): [...]
Ricardo Montalban, RIP
I hope his coffin is lined with soft Corinthian leather:
Read More..>>Good Time for a Replay
Scotty, make more videos so I can post ‘em, ya big lug!
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