Entries Tagged as ‘Pop Culture’

October 8, 2009

In Case You Were Saving the World Before Dinnertime

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 [...]

September 25, 2009

In Case You Were Getting a Bikini Wax

Note: This will be a regular, if sporadic, blog post. Here are links to stuff (stories, photos, videos, etc.) I found interesting over the past few days:
Joss Whedon fans unite! Entertainment Weekly magazine lists the best episodes of Whedon’s shows,  such as “Angel,” “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Dollhouse,” which launches its second season tonight on FOX. EW.com definitely gives the [...]

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 [...]