Archives for the 'culture' Category

Sometimes the Internet stinks…

Published on 23 Apr 2008 at 4:19 am. 1 Comment.
Filed under blogs, Hollywood, culture.

… And sometimes it shines.
Finding Victor Davis Hanson, Frank Miller and Bill Whittle discussing actors and the movie industry in the same thread.
Now I could definitely find worse ways to start the day.
(Scroll down the comments for Miller and Whittle)
UPDATE:
Oh and, if by any chance Frank Miller was to read this: please Sir, drop the […]

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Distorted Morals

Published on 24 Jan 2008 at 10:37 pm. 1 Comment.
Filed under media, motherhood, culture.

For some reason this, Times of London “Pope attacks media for ‘distorted morals,’” and this, SF Chron’s Daily Dish, “Jamie Lynn Spears to give baby to mom?” seem related.

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What Is Hip

Published on 20 Jan 2008 at 8:15 am. 2 Comments.
Filed under media, America, culture.

Sunday morning deep thots compliments of West Coast hipster Driscoll, who weighs in on Kelly and Steyn re Sinatra, Wayne, Hope vs Fonda etal in The Birth of Cool. Whether or not Sinatra succumbed to irony or not could make someone’s dissertation, though. Kelly, in case you don’t know him, was very cool, unironic, made […]

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A Jolly Rogering

Published on 6 Jan 2008 at 12:00 pm. 4 Comments.
Filed under culture, Flashman.

Administrated by the late great George MacDonald Fraser, in his 2002 jihad vs. mainly British politicial correctness in this excerpt “Light’s On At Signpost.” Daily Mail:  

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Queer Eye for the Naked Chick

Published on 3 Jan 2008 at 10:01 am. 6 Comments.
Filed under America, culture.

The beauty and genius of reality TV has always been how it launches relatively normal people … which is to say petty, conniving, weak and tantrum-prone … into utterly unreal situations and pits them against each other like lab rats. Subcategories include career-launch reality TV and socially responsible reality TV.   

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Stunned

Published on 29 Dec 2007 at 7:16 am. No Comments.
Filed under lawyers, culture.

Trekkie claims Christies sold him bogus Trekabilia. 

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