Tag: ‘pop culture’ · TangleBones

Great Pop Culture References in History

“On Novem­ber 4th, we must stand up and say, ‘Eight is Enough.’”

Bar­rack Obama, decid­ing that his his­toric accep­tance speech as the first African Amer­i­can pres­i­den­tial nom­i­nee for a major Amer­i­can party needed a ref­er­ence to a thirty-​year-​old Dick Van Patten sitcom. I would have gone with some­thing a teensy bit more cur­rent like, “…we must stand up and teach the Repub­li­cans the ‘Facts of Life.’”

The Inevitable Biopic

With the emer­gence of real­ity shows and the increas­ing bland­ness of movies, it can only be can only be so long before Warhol’s 15 min­utes of fame extend to movies of the week and unau­tho­rized biogra­phies for all of us. That being the case,
it’s only a matter of time before pop cul­ture redis­cov­ers Che and they make a movie. And there’s an obvi­ous choice for the lead role.

I know I can’t be the only one who sees it. You all agree right? I mean, if Beni­cio doesn’t play Che, who will?

Anybody else want in?

I’m begin­ning to real­ize that if left to my own devices, this site will be noth­ing more than left-​wing polit­i­cal com­men­tary, com­ments on geeky news items and the occa­sional pop cul­ture review. Not that those are bad things, but I’d like it to be more.

Not that I couldn’t do more - anyone who knows me can tell you that I can write end­lessly on any topic or none. But how many gen­uinely inter­est­ing things do I have to say in a given day?

That’s where you come in. What do you want to write about? What would you like to say? This site man­age­ment soft­ware allows mul­ti­ple authors, so why not put it to use? Any takers?

We’d have to work out some edi­to­r­ial guide­lines - what sort of lan­guage is accept­able, what sort of edit­ing could be made on some­body else’s story, what the site should look like if not having a giant pic­ture of me in the top right corner. But I think it’d be fun.

I’m open to ideas. In fact, I’ve been think­ing of get­ting a new domain for myself, so this site could be any­thing. Want to write tuto­ri­als? Reviews? Sto­ries? Poems? Songs?

So?