Archive for the ‘Popular Culture’ Category
Tripping The Lightsaber Fantastic
Apparently Tony Perkins and his anti-LGBT stormtroopers have nothing better to do than to complain about virtual same-sex relationships in the new Star Wars online game. After first going after Girl Scout cookies, Family Research Council president Tony Perkins is now attacking the game Star Wars: The Old Republic for allowing same-sex relationships. Stephen Reid [...]
January 27, 2012
· 
Zandar · 
98 Comments
Posted in: Gamer Dork, Gay Rights are Human Rights, Popular Culture
Red, White, And Pink-Slip Blues
Looks like Hank Williams Jr.’s job at Monday Night Football is long gone lonesome on a permanent basis after he compared President Obama’s Israel policy to Hitler. On Thursday morning, ESPN said it had made the decision to bench Williams for good. “We have decided to part ways with Hank Williams, Jr,” a statement on [...]
October 6, 2011
· Zandar · 86 Comments
Posted in: Popular Culture, Show Us on the Doll Where the Invisible Hand Touched You, Teabagger Stupidity
One of Life’s Mysteries
Reading about the really awful crash at the Reno air show, I don’t understand why people attend these events. If you’re far enough away from the action to be “safe”, you’re too far to see much, and if you’re close enough to see what’s going on, then you’re too close. I’m sure I’m overestimating the [...]
September 17, 2011
· mistermix ... World Peace · 67 Comments
Posted in: Popular Culture
Early Morning Open Thread: Gresham Wept
Unlike Mr. ‘Every Boomer Nerdgirl’s First Crush’, the Guardian reports that China uses prisoners for WoW goldfarming: As a prisoner at the Jixi labour camp, Liu Dali would slog through tough days breaking rocks and digging trenches in the open cast coalmines of north-east China. By night, he would slay demons, battle goblins and cast [...]
May 30, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 39 Comments
Posted in: Gamer Dork, Open Thread, Popular Culture
Capsule review, Too Big To Fail
Came out looking best: Hank Paulsen. The whole movie is told from his perspective (more or less), and in lieu of any other protagonist worth rooting for he serves in a pinch. If this was Brick he would come across as Brendan to Ben Bernanke’s Brain. Warren Buffett comes across as a delphic sage for [...]
May 23, 2011
· Tim F. · 62 Comments
Posted in: Popular Culture, Show Us on the Doll Where the Invisible Hand Touched You, the Great American Bubble Machine
RIP, Randy “Macho Man” Savage
Ooooh Yeah: Watching that video from the late 80’s, it occurs to me that three decades later a performance that lucid would make you the frontrunner for the Republican nomination.
May 20, 2011
· John Cole · 42 Comments
Posted in: Popular Culture
This 5-Year-Old Wants a Job Before She Gets Married
Justin Beaver ain’t got nothin’ on this 5 year old. Never fear, dear. If the Teabillies have their way, you’ll be working in a sweatshop by the age of 8, pregnant by age 12, forced birth by age 12.9 (give or take), after which the Teabillies won’t even look you in the eye. Why? Because [...]
May 19, 2011
· ABL 2.0 · 50 Comments
Posted in: Humor, Popular Culture
Monday Night
Game of Thrones update: partway through the third book I started to worry that George Martin had settled into a recursive storytelling pattern of the sort that Wheel Of Time fans know and hate. I’m not worried about that anymore. In other news, for reasons that a few of you can guess Walder Frey (the [...]
May 16, 2011
· Tim F. · 57 Comments
Posted in: Dog Blogging, Open Thread, Popular Culture
Could “The Core” Have A Rival…(Open Thread)
...as the worst science-fiction movie sweepstakes? I had to take a serious hiatus from blogging, or really much of anything this week. (Speaking of which, my feline Galtian Overlord is eyeing me with hunger and peculiar disdain just now.) So I’ve missed what seems to have been an eventful couple of days around here. Given [...]
May 14, 2011
· Tom Levenson · 24 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread, Popular Culture
Game of Thrones
I wonder how many people bought the book just because they can’t stand to wait another week to find out what happens next. To avoid spoilers, I will say two things. 1. Badass. Completely badass. 2. Walder Frey appears in maybe four pages total. By the second he had joined my pantheon of all-time great [...]
May 1, 2011
· Tim F. · 39 Comments
Posted in: Popular Culture
Early Morning Open Thread: Missing
R.I.P, Sarah Jane Smith. (If only The Doctor’s TARDIS worked for us non-Time-Lords.) *********** Because DC is very much a company town, the Washington Post must interpret even a Twihard convention through the lens of the local obsession: ...There were absolutely lessons for the political process in this, about “Team Edward, Team Jacob, and inability [...]
April 20, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 44 Comments
Posted in: Absent Friends, Music, Open Thread, Popular Culture
Open Thread: A Million Little Niches
James Frey has written is publishing a new novel! The Financial Times reviewer says it is “... both a work of art and a bombshell hurled at the religious right. It tackles the Second Coming of Jesus in modern America – with the promised Messiah enacting the deeds the religious right consider most wicked. He [...]
April 19, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 109 Comments
Posted in: C.R.E.A.M., Open Thread, Popular Culture
Open Thread: Only in Ankh-Morpork
Melissa Bell, Washington Post blogger, “bemoans” the end of a rival city’s latest (inadvertent) tourist advertisement: It’s official: the Bronx Zoo Cobra has been found. I’m glad the poor zookeepers can get back to business as usual, but I do mourn for one thing: the end of one of the best New York City advertisements [...]
April 1, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 85 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread, Popular Culture
I Must Be Getting Old
Sully links to this Rebecca Black song, which I had never heard of until about five minutes ago: Apparently this is the newest big thing, and it is sweeping the intertrons because it is apparently really, really bad. Critics are panning it, and Sullivan included one critic who stated that “Black’s video for ‘Friday’ is [...]
March 15, 2011
· John Cole · 344 Comments
Posted in: Popular Culture
Open Thread: ET Phone… Deep Throat?
... Although I think Men in Black (S. Spielberg, Executive Producer) would be a better template. From the Guardian’s preliminary victory lap: Steven Spielberg’s Hollywood studio [Dreamworks] looks set to oversee WikiLeaks: the Movie after securing the screen rights to WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange’s War on Secrecy, the book by Guardian journalists David Leigh and [...]
March 5, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 102 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread, Popular Culture
