One year ago today I was sitting in a terrible college summer dinner theater performance, killing my iPhone battery from relentless under-the-table Googling and scrolling through a deluge of "Michael Jackson is dead" updates on Tweetie.
My mind was blown. It was a weird day. Farrah died. Michael died. Scroll scroll scroll.
Hey, I'm not trying to jock up the joint over here. This is a pop culture website, not a sports blog. So I'll spare you the details about why you should be watching the World Cup even if you're not a sports fan (sanctioned daytime drinking and several shirtless menfolk, for starters). But I wouldn't be your friend if I didn't show you this pop culture/sports crossover moment of glory, surprisingly courtesy of a star of film and television. Seriously, in terms of sports, this is, like, better than Rudy.
You may know you're getting up in years when the music that had a major impact on your generation and your own little life is deemed historically significant.
That's what the Library of Congress is saying about Tupac and R.E.M. So thanks, Library of Congress. Because you know this is really all about my mortality.
Do you want to be the modern day, virtual equivalent of Martha Quinn?
Do you know who Martha Quinn is?
Never mind. Proving that it is solidly on the social media tip, MTV is holding a competition to choose a Twitter Jockey - a TJ, if you will.
Because every movie concept that could ever possibly exist has apparently already been imagined and fully- realized, every fucking week another studio announces another inevitably-terrible, uncalled-for remake. This week's impending-bastardization announcement comes courtesy of the creative geniuses at The Mark Gordon Company, who are reportedly looking for writers for a Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead remake.
Who'd have thunk it? Either I am getting old or pop culture just keeps getting weirder and weirder.
I know that I run the risk of getting kicked off of the site for admitting this, but I have a confession: I didn't watch the LOST finale.
The world's okay, but it would be so much better if we had seven to nine year old girls bootie dancing in lingerie to Beyonce's Single Ladies.
FOX and ABC got caught being prejudiced again. The last time I wrote about them it was about how they wouldn't run a gay dating commercial. This time, ABC refused to air a Lane Bryant commercial because it showed too much cleavage.
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Any good fan of the Sex Pistols felt a little bit saddened when they heard the news earlier this month of Malcolm McLaren's passing. McLaren's family has come up with an idea of what we can all do with our grief.
Malcolm McLaren's son has asked that at midday today, we all observe a moment of mayhem.
Rumors have it that Prince William and Kate Middleton are getting hitched. The word on the street is that June 3rd and 4th are blocked out on the royal calendar and somehow that indicates that these kids are going to announce the engagement in June. If this is true it means what you think it means.
That's right ladies, Middleton wins. She just scored the most eligible bachelor in the world. I mean, now that Tom Brady is married the second in line to the British throne isn't a bad catch.
He is cute too.
First, allow me to say that nothing makes me more angry than when stars or athletes are treated with preferential treatment when accused of horrible crimes. I'm not saying Roethlisberger committed sexual assault or didn't, but the spin-machine in place to protect this man makes me want to throw up on everything.
Now it seems the security video taken by the Capital City nightclub's surveillance system has been erased. WTF?
Inglorious Basterds star and sexy bitch Eli Roth, 37, has fired off a compassionate, rather well articulated letter to Hamilton James, President and COO of The Blackstone Group, otherwise known as the folks who own SeaWorld. He writes his thoughtful letter on behalf of himself and PETA, which makes this the first PETA-related piece of news I've supported wholeheartedly in, Christ. A year? (I'm an animal rights supporter and will fight a clawing, hair-pulling, groin kicking ghetto fight on behalf of animals, but something about PETA's methods just don't sit right with me. But I digress.)
In the wake of last month's SeaWorld tragedy, Roth writes:
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