So I logged on today to talk about two things that have occupied my thoughts today from the world of pop culture.

( The Really Bad )

So, there's nothing quite like hoping you're a Shane and finding out you're really an Alice ( Read more... )

So, since over a year ago C for reasons unknown borrowed the movie Napoleon Dynamite from a friend of ours whom we knew we would not be seeing again (she moved away), and now we should probably mail it back to her, today I sat down and watched it.

Let me say first, that the back of the case seems to imply the movie has a plot. Rest assured it doesn ( Read more... )

Sanjaya was terrible, what is with the judges falling all over themselves for his performance? It was terrible - he did nothing but shout the lyrics! Reverse psychology? Stephanie got voted off so it obviously didn't work. And what the fuck was with the little girl crying in the audience like a bad Beetles flashback ( Read more... )

A few years ago I picked up Carol Shield's The Stone Diaries, and read it. I wasn't a big fan. It may have won The Pulitzer Prize, but call me a crappy critic - I didn't like the idea that the protagonist referred to herself in the third person throughout. I thought it was... I don' t know if pretentious is the right word. When I told a friend of ( Read more... )

So all I seem to be posting about is pop culture, but what can I say C is out of town and unless you want to hear about my housecleaning there isn't much going on.

The L Word

I haven't been watching it much this year but I have caught it sporadically. Today was Shane and Carmen's wedding (I think we're a season behind the American shows). All I can ( Read more... )

Regarding my previous entry about American Idol:

WHAT THE FUCK, AMERICA?

SANJAYA SURVIVED AGAIN!

[edit] I just want to reach into the TV and peel off his obviously stick-on felt eyebrows.

This is my first season watching American Idol. I have one question for you other American Idol watching peeps.

WHAT ON EARTH IS SANJAYA STILL DOING THERE?

About 4 weeks ago C and I agreed that he didn't deserve to be there anymore, and yet I said that because of the demographic that actually votes (for American Idol, not, say, important things like ( Read more... )

I have to proliferate knowledge of this clip! It is 4.5 minutes long but SO worth watching. (Work Safe)

Click here to see the decline of George Bush. I don't even care about whether the doctor's quote is legit.... the difference is unbelievable.

I thought he was always a bumbling oaf who couldn't speak english. WTF?

[edit] I always like to check stuff ( Read more... )

I was reading an article reviewing and debunking the book "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" when I came across this quote:

"Irregardless of the fact that the Cathars and the Knights Templar were ostensibly on opposite sides,"

Now, I came across HBHG today at the bookstore, and picked it up because though it seemed to be a pretty shiny piece of psuedo- ( Read more... )