Pop Culture

With 2 simple words "Rare Earth" Malcolm of Pop Culture Dish, Presented by Malcolm won the first ever Guess This Classic Rock Group contest at 70's Classic Rock. His first guess of MC5 was so good I double checked who my post was on. This guy definitely knows his music and apparently a hell of alot more.The Lowdown:Website: Pop Culture Dish, Presented by MalcolmAddress: : Malcolm (aka ultfan)I vis

its from Thailand!! met Napat via online chat during the toycon web chat activity. there we exchange notes and get to know each other about our toy culture in different homeland. then he sent me their 2 issue magazine called Monkey Magazine Napat is from a team of toy designer called Monkey Planet. they are last seen at the Singapore Toy Comic Convention 2008 check their photos here at http

Pop Culture- handle with care. A tiny bit can be tasty, but too much is down right poisonous! Let's take a look at some of Pop Culture's messages that, if believed, can easily ruin your life! How to Ruin your Life in 3 Easy Steps~ Pop Culture Style 1) More Money = More Happiness. Be sure to spend lots of time fantasizing about how much better life would be if you had more money. Picture your hair

Image via WikipediaTeen pregnancies are on the rise for the first time since 1991. A group of at least 17 teenagers in Gloucester Massachusetts made a "pregnancy pact" to all get pregnant and raise their babies together. What could be the reason for all these teenage pregnancies?Lets look at our popular culture over the past year or so. In the celebrity category we have 17 year old Jamie Lynn Spea

Did you love arcade games when you were younger? Would you like to share them with your teenagers and play them again? Then you must visit The American Classic Arcade Museum. If you can't make it to New Hampshire, where the actual Museum is located, there is still a lot to see and games to play on the website. It is the true pop culture experience for long time video gamer.The American Classic Arc

In honor of Xavier McDaniel and Gary Payton coming to Seattle Monday for the Save Our Sonics Rally, I thought I’d post a couple pop culture favorites of the X-man.OK, off to the Washington Brewers Festival to drink my weight in grain alcohol and ruin Father's Day Weekend for my family, again.

Image via WikipediaI once had to give a presentation for a job interview on any topic that I wanted. I chose "How to keep up with popular culture online". I began by discussing the reasons why you might want to keep up with pop culture, and one of the reasons is so you can understand a lot more of what is said on television. I recently began to think about which TV shows this applies to most, excl

James Gandolfini’s Personal Collection Of Costumes Worn During Filming of The Sopranos Will Benefit Wounded Warrior Project Christie’s Pop Culture auction on June 25 in New York will be highlighted... Continue reading at The Chicago Syndicate

Entertainment Weekly asked Alex O’Loughlin what should live on as pop culture forever, here are his answers…. 1. Velcro. I think we all know why Velcro is as great as it is. It’s just terrific. You can stick an entire dining set to the roof. Very versatile: Shoes, nappies… sex toys. Whatever you need. 2. Monkey (aka [...]

So, would you? Would you try this flavor of Pepsi? TOKYO — Japanese are staying cool as a cucumber this summer with “Pepsi Ice Cucumber” _ a new soda based on the crisp green gourd. The soft drink, which hit stores here on Tuesday, doesn’t actually have any cucumber in it _ but has been artificially flavored to [...]

An in person autograph collection will be sold April 26 including George Reeves, 3 Stooges, Boris Karloff, Vivian Leigh, Barbara Streisand, Margaret Hamilton, John Lennon, Ronald Reagan, Eric Clapton and Billie Holiday among hundreds of signatures.An autograph collection consisting of 25 "Theater World" Hardcover Books with dust jackets from 1940s through the 1970s, profusely autographed in person and including signatures by the Greats of the Stage including Broadway, Off-Broadway, City Center, Repertory Theater, National Touring Companies, Shakespeare Festivals, Gilbert & Sullivan Savoyards, Professional Resident Companies, Award-winning Productions, Dance Companies, Variety Productions and Follies, Comedy, Drama and Experimental theater productions. This is a written history of Stage Pro

It’s Friday, it’s time for a little fun! First up is the Ultimate Pop Culture Trivia Challenge that Hey! Nielsen is running. I was one of the dozens of pop culture sites and entertainment bloggeres that were asked to contribute trivia questions for the challenge and it’s a fun way to waste a few minutes. Plus, [...]

If you are watching the Oscars - or even if you are not, and just feel like bitching about Cameron Diaz's complete inability to construct a sentence that does not contain the words like, totally - then you should be checking in here. Some fun shiz, for reals.

Why hello there, fancy seeing you here. Sorry it's been awhile, yours truly accidently destroyed the power cord to his laptop, watched the last of its power disappear and has now been without a computer since Thursday. But this is not a legitimate excuse to leave you all hanging (I know everyone's dying to here what I have to say), so here it goes. First and foremost: Rainydayz, check it out. If

The simple answer to whether pop culture, trends and morality influence the outcome of an election is, yes! This raises other questions like why and how; that is not so simple to answer.In days past a presidential candidate made appeals to labor unions, military personnel, farmers, industrialists and quite a long list of common people. Today candidates are courting voters from the gays, the MTV generation, abortion proponents and a melee of other emerging social groups.Click here to continue reading the article at CrossAction News.Written by: By Rev. Michael Bresciani

I have a friend who apparently is a finalist in some kind of comic book superhero contest. If he wins, his character and plot will be featured in a series of comic books.Other than attending the occasional movie based on a comic and visiting Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash (the New Jersey location), I know nothing about comics -- but I can usually tell when something is a big deal. I quickly decided that my friend's contest must be a pretty big deal if he's getting email congratulations from some really big names in the entertainment industry. So, at first, I thought that his accomplishment was the equivalent of being crowned king of the geeks. But according to the A.V. Club, my impression was dead wrong: Comic books don't even rank on their list of the 20 geekiest pop-culture obses

Coffee is more than a drink these days it is a cultural phenomenon that seems to have taken the world by storm. While we aren't quite sure it exactly how it began or when it got so big, one thing is for certain: coffee is a drink that is definitely here to stay. If you are interested in beginning a business of your own, you might want to cash in on this big business (in excess of 5 billion United States Dollars per year) and the popular culture it represents.For whatever reason the idea of a coffee franchise has grown, expanded, and evolved over the last two decades making it one of the most sought after franchise types available on the market today. Why is it so popular? The possibility of high profit for a low investment is one reason though certainly not the only reason. Investors tend

A group that had a significant following in past pop culture is currently pioneering another wave in pop culture. This group was famous in the 70's and 80's and has continued to see a broad base of fan support.They have indicated that they feel a bit like those who first pioneered television must have felt. Each month this group puts together an hour-long television type show that is free and available on demand. The video stream is produced with the same elements you would find in a television show, but without the commercials. The show features live music from an intimate studio room located at the home of one of the singers. It may provide guest artists and interviews as well as candid moments with the band. The end result matches virtually any artist profile show you might watch on TV.

Christian publisher Thomas Nelson has delayed the launch of 'Pop Culture Mom: A Real Story of Fame and Family in a Tabloid World', a book by Britney Spears' mother Lynne following news that her 16-year-old daughter Jamie Lynn is pregnant. NBC's John

True LifeJoJo will star in "True Confessions Of A Hollywood Starlet" to air on Lifetime in 2008. JoJo will star as a young singer who is an alcoholic. Sound familiar? JoJo will begin working on her third album in January.November is trying to fly by! Here is it and it is already the 5th day of the month. Are you all ready for the holidays? What are you doing?

A family in Thailand runs these shops in that make great hand-made metal statues from scrap metal auto parts.  I am not a big fan of statues or sculptures but these are changing my mind.  They are great.  I especially like the Spider-Man and Star Wars Battle Driod sculptures.  Link to their site.

Happy Autumn!Since it is the first day of Fall, what better time to start the Fall TV season? Actually, I would have preferred it if the new prime time shows started a couple of weeks ago because since all of the summer shows have ended television has been slim pickings. I have finally watched just about everything I have saved on my DVR. That Burn Notice marathon was super fun. But then again I have always been a sucker for watching a whole season at once. Yes, I am one of those people that records everything and zips through the commercials. If by some chance I start watching something "live" I get frustrated and put it on pause long enough so I can fast forward through the ads (just in case you are wondering that's 20 minutes for an hour long show. See how much time I save?). Yes, I watch A LOT of television and I have it down to a science (or maybe an art? possibly both?) -- I watch even more TV now that I don't have any money to go do anything. Kudos to me because I ha

Let's face it, I would much rather spend my time filling my brain with useless crap and escaping into trashy television rather than enriching my mind. Occasionally I find myself checking out some pseudo-intellectual type book along with the usual garbage I like to read, but it just gets shifted to the bottom of my book stack until it is time to take it all back to the library. Oh well. I tried. That is not the point of all of this. I have decided to save you all some time and tell you what useless information I discovered this morning (and I'll throw in my opinions for free!). Just a side note here, I had to do something to wash out the memory of MOTL's adventure in television for women (read post below). And just for those wondering, when I confronted MOTL about this he first told me that he was sleeping and not watching it. See, we think alike! But when I pointed out that he was the one that chose the channel, he admitted that he actually finds himself watching things on

I've been flirting with a cold for over a week. I would probably get completely well if I didn't work twelve hour night shifts. So -- when ever I start feeling perky -- I go to the hospital and get completely worn out and dehydrated. Poor me.But you know what makes me feel better? Watching marathons of America's Next Top Model and eating in bed. You would think that watching a long drawn out modeling competition would make a not-too-skinny girl like me feel bad about herself. Not so. Let me tell you why.1) Those are some dumb girls. (Not all of them -- there have been a couple that were apparently literate -- but literacy is not the norm here, folks.) My favorite dumb girl moment? Hmmm, there were so many. How about when the girls visited Nelson Mandela's jail cell and the African American girl says something like, "this prison was, um, from when they had, like, some kind of serious, um, racial problems here." Or how about when they had to read from the teleprompter and

I asked all "advanced" J.H./H.S. students to bring me a 100 yen clear type folder so we could start something new.I will start teaching "current" pop/media icons with pics ( via. google image search ) and bios ( via. a good site I found) and we will start on it this week. I chose Beyonce for the first one because she is familiar to them and she is definitely "current" .I wanted to use 2pac but explaining about a rapper who was persecuted by the media and assassinated by rivals will have to wait a bit...maybe he will be #4 or 5 ?(Note)The blog title should say "Chris's English School" if it does not, please refresh the page. This page was designed for monitors of 1024+ res.

I’ve been tagged for my first ever meme! I had mixed emotions when Kelly from Taxgirl let me know that I was one of her chosen 7 bloggers to take part in this, going from happiness, to annoyance. But now, as I write the post, I realise I’m happy again, and I’m going to enjoy writing my 7 random facts about me. But there’s the thing, I thought it would be better to make it fit Pop Buzz UK a bit, so instead here are 7 pop culture facts about me… 1. My favourite decade would have to be the Sixties. No, I’m not old enough to have lived through it, and that’s what makes it so intriguing I think. The music, fashion, attitudes and freedom completely appeal to me, and I’m jealous of the people who got to live through it. 2. My favourite band at the moment is Maximo Park. There was a swathe of new British bands who released their first album a couple of years ago inc. Maximo, Bloc Party, Arctic Monkeys, Futureheads. Now they’ve all release

Adam Raymond, an editorial assistant for Radar magazine's website, sent me a note this morning:Hi M-mv. I've got a quick, perhaps strange request. I write for Radar Magazine and I'm putting a piece together for our website about Rosie O'Donnell's poetry that she writes on her blog. I was wondering if you'd be willing to provide a review of a piece. I've pasted it below. [And he did. Here's a link to O'Donnell's poem.] We'd provide a link to your blog and it should be a pretty fun. You can just write a sentence or two or as much as you'd like. Ideally, this will appear alongside a few other reviews of the same poem from some of your fellow lit-bloggers. Thanks!So, I spent a few minutes reading the poem, poking around O'Donnell's site, and visiting Radar.Heh, heh, heh.Adam -- may I call you that? -- I'm just a plain ol' book-blogger. I am not a critic; I am not particularly interested in what I suspect will be "fun" at O'Donnell's expense; and, truth be told, "Pop - Pol

It seems like I'm not the only one experimenting on blogging. Now it has reached college where a professor and his 28 students are performing an Gender and Pop Culture Blog Experiment. I don't consider this pop culture but I'm pretty sure they have some interesting discussions in class. Funny thing though...Blogging in College: The Gender & Pop Culture Blog Experiment

Pop Culture Round-UpIt's moments like these that make me thank God I was born an American with its national right to reality TV. Sunday night saw the season finale of Flavor of Love and then Monday was another episode of The Bachelor. It was like a one-two punch of "reality" TV goodness!Let's start with Flavor of Love: Enough has really already been said about it that I don't need to go into detail (plus I'm a little behind because, to be perfectly honest, I can't stay up that late to watch TV and still get up and go to work the next morning so I actually watched the final episode on Monday afternoon) but I just want to put it out there -- I'm glad Deelishis won. I don't think anyone will disagree with me. New York is a bad-weave-wearin', drama-inducin' PSYCHO. Luckily, we haven't seen the last of her and apparently she's gotten her own show. On which men compete. For her hand. HAH! I admit it right now, I am MOST CERTAINLY tuning in to that program!The Bachelor had a lame-o

I saw Interview's Pop Culture test today (thanks Gawker!).I am astounded that I can only identify ten of them without resorting to Google or Wikipedia. Therefore, I've concluded that Interview is way out of my league.Accordingly, I've decided that I ought to come up with my own Pop Culture reference test. Possible candidates from recent blog posts include:George Allen Stephen Baldwin Charles Barkley Bono Tim Burton Kirk Cameron Naomi Campbell Neko Case Eric Dane Patrick Dempsey Devo Ted HaggardLogan EchollsTina Fey Mark Foley Kinky Friedman Lorelai GilmoreJeffrey, Michael, Uli & Laura Alex P. KeatonJimmy KimmelMichael Kors Rush Limbaugh Richard Linklater Dave Navarro Chris O'Donnell O.K. Go Matthew Perry Ryan Phillipe Trent Reznor Santino Rice Alex Rodriguez Al SharptonSlash & Axl Wesley Snipes Jeff Suppan Bill Watterson Jim Webb Gene Weingarten E.B. White Bradley Whitford Wegmans Michelle Williams Scoring: If you can't identify the majority of these names, then clearly, this

For most Marylanders who live, work or visit the city of Baltimore, landmarks such as the Inner Harbor, Camden Yards and Fort McHenry are synonymous with the city in the same fashion as crab cakes or oysters. Recently, I stumbled upon a hidden treasure up above the floors of Sports Legends Museum at Camden Yards while at an event this weekend.Geppi's Entertainment Museum, atop the Sports Legends Museum at Camden Yards is unlike most museums you'll ever see.Let's say, I was a kid again for the first time in a long time. With eyes wide open, and armed with just my memories and vivid imagination, I took a look at American history and a definition of Americana, not in words and pictures, but in advertisements, posters, comic books and toys. Unlike most museums that require you take an academic approach to what you see, Geppi's Entertainment Museum is a place for anybody to relive their childhood, reminiscence on their past, and enjoy a lighter, brighter side if life. The museum is c