Pause. Nine.
Everybody else’s Mad Men recap on the Internet is better than mine, so I’m not going to try a comprehensive blow-for-blow. But I am going to explain the...
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American Idol 12 Recap: Top Six “Bacharach/David and The Song You Wish You Wrote”
I don’t usually cross-post my Idol recaps over here, because Idol is the height of frivolous pop culture ephemera. But in its 12-season history, this was the first...
Read MoreTunes For Tuesday: Margaret Thatcher Protest Songs
Baroness Margaret Thatcher passed away yesterday. I wasn’t a fan of her or her policies, but I was a fan of the protest songs she engendered. So in honor of her...
Read MoreTunes for Tuesday: Scott Hardkiss
(While you’re taking a mental break from today’s SCOTUSing, hang out with Tunes For Tuesday! Xposted from IShouldHaveBeenABlogger) RIP Scott Hardkiss. In...
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The Ministry of Magic Takes on Rape Culture
If Wizards have a handle on this, why can’t we muggles do the same? (Xposted from...
Read MoreRebel Without A Pause, s1e13: Waiting For Justine
To this day there’s only one thing I’ve seen in popular culture that accurately displays what it’s like to go through puberty, and that is the...
Read MoreThe Death Star Conspiracy
Was the destruction of the Death Star an inside job? This underground short documentary makes a surprisingly compelling case. What do we call those who accept this...
Read MoreTunes for Tuesday: Justin Timberlake
This is not ‘NSync, this is Justin Timberlake. (Though I will accept arguments that Pop is in fact the latter rather than the former.) To celebrate the release...
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Pause. Eight.
Firstly: sorry about the lack of new RWAPs. Those punks at Grantland are expertly handing me my cheese with everything from David Bowie to My Bloody Valentine to...
Read MoreTunes For Tuesday…Interrupted
I was going to do my usual Tunes for Tuesday blog cross post today. It was all 80s/90s nostalgia of R.E.M. and everything. But I’m afraid you’re going to...
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