It's Monday morning, I haven't even had breakfast, and already my mind is blown? So it's going to be one of THOSE weeks. It's probably a good thing, though, that I haven't eaten anything yet today, you know? This... CONTINUE READING KEANU REEVES = CHARLEMAGNE (BECAUSE: LOGIC)»
Posted on November 2, 2009 in
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Tags: Charlemagne | History | Immortality | Keanu Reeves | LOLk | The Decemberists | The Truth Is Out There | Vampires
This has been floating (get it?) around for a few days now, and has been sent as a tip many times. It's a trailer for Ghostbusters if it had been made in 1954. Fair enough.... CONTINUE READING WHAT IF GHOSTBUSTERS WAS BLACK AND WHITE AND INSTITUTIONALLY RACIST?»
Posted on July 31, 2009 in
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Tags: Ghostbusters | History | Mash Ups
Yesterday, Empire posted a new trailer for a horror movie called Triangle. You can watch it here. It looks pretty scary! The plot seems to be that a bunch of yuppies sail their sailboat into Scott Wolf's White Squall and... CONTINUE READING A HISTORY OF THE FLOPPY SACK MASK, AMERICA'S SCARIEST MASK»
Posted on July 17, 2009 in
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Tags: Floppy Sack Masks | History | Horror Survival | Triangle
Look, Eminem has earned his place in history. Whatever you think of his hate-filled, Weird Al Yankovicly comic rhymes, the fact is that he has made white rappers legitimate* in a way that Snow failed to, despite the hard work... CONTINUE READING WE GET IT EMINEM, YOU'RE AWFUL NOW»
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Roger Ebert is the best. Duh. BLOG US SOMETHING WE DON'T KNOW. But now his "best" status is going to be made official, because his childhood home is being declared a historic landmark. From the Sun Times: Already a national... CONTINUE READING ROGER EBERT OFFICIALLY THE BEST NOW, FOREVER»
Posted on April 23, 2009 in
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Every once in a long while, there is a moment that captures the spirit of an era. Dorothy walking along the Yellow Brick Road. Elvis Presley shaking his hips on the Ed Sullivan Show. Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda sitting... CONTINUE READING THE SINGULAR MOMENT THAT DEFINES THIS ERA IN POP CULTURE»
Posted on March 4, 2009 in
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Tags: Crying | From G's To Gents | Girls | History | LOLk
(This week, we're highlighting some of our favorite Videogum posts / video-related moments of 2008. So that's why things look different, and are old, this week. Happy Almost New Year!) Originally posted on Videogum on September 30, 2008: In a... CONTINUE READING WAS 2006 THE GOLDEN AGE OF VIRAL VIDEOS? »
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"Rap is a way of saying 'knock knock.'" "Who's there?" "It's me. Open the door and listen to what I've got to say." [ED. NOTE: no, it's not.] (thanks for the tip, Edith) The People's Movement to End Fake Rap... CONTINUE READING TRACING THE HISTORY OF FAKE RAP: MR. T.»
Posted on October 6, 2008 in ,
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In a recent post, I made a throwaway joke about how sometimes the internet works really hard to provide us with something new, and sometimes it just lays some Sarah Palin audio on top of some Miss South Carolina footage... CONTINUE READING WAS 2006 THE GOLDEN AGE OF VIRAL VIDEOS?»
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