Here are links to stuff (stories, photos, videos, etc.) I found interesting over the past few days:
• Fun facts — Harper’s
RT @harpers Tons of mud a Mongolian girl has eaten since ‘94, because she finds it “delicious”: 1.7
RT @harpers Price, at a Reykjavík restaurant, of a whale kebab called “Moby Dick on a Stick”: $9
• Rwanda had [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Pop Culture’
September 12, 2009
Charlize Theron Can Tickle Your Funny Bone
Sometimes it’s tough to sit through TV interviews without tearing your eyes out — even with the biggest movie stars.
It’s rare that an actor is as magnetic on a talk show as he or she is in the movies. Julia Roberts can pull it off. So can Paul Bettany (“The Da Vinci Code”) and Hugh Laurie [...]
August 19, 2009
In Defense of Jennifer Aniston
Katherine Heigl hate has been going around like the mad cow disease, but one writer decided to break away from the herd and be original. Cinematical’s Elisabeth Rappe has directed her hate at Jennifer Aniston instead.
The writer zeroed in on Aniston’s film choices. Rappes wrote, “every romantic comedy she signs onto only furthers her own [...]
July 24, 2009
Newlyweds: a Possible YouTube Phenomenon ‘Forever’
Some people just have to make an entrance.
Newlyweds Kevin Heinz and Jill Peterson have found YouTube stardom with a video of their wedding entourage dancing to Chris Brown’s “Forever.” The video has claimed more than 1 million hits online.
New York magazine states that as a result, Brown’s song is climbing up the charts. I suppose [...]
June 24, 2009
He Said, She Said: The Meaning Behind ‘That’s What She Said’
I was severely punished – for not watching “Wayne’s World.”
Since I’ve hopped aboard the Facebook train, I have come across bumper stickers and flairs that state, “That’s what she said.” I was hip enough to know the pop culture reasoning behind, “I’m on a boat,” which also appears on multiple Facebook applications. (It’s from a recent SNL [...]