Category: Pop Culture
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Quantifying baseball caps in Justin Bieber videos
Craig Robertson of Flip Flop Fly Ball, noticed something interesting in Justin Bieber music videos–the Biebs wore different baseball caps in different videos. Craig meticulously watched the videos, took notes and made an information visualization of his findings of baseball caps in Justin Bieber videos. Screenshots included! Interesting: 20% of MLB teams (that’s 6 teams) […]
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Jimmy Fallon and Jeremy Lin
“Bank this off the back booooooaarrrrd” I love this. Being a Pearl Jam fan, any reference to the band in pop culture is amusing. Jimmy Fallon takes the tune of Jeremy, changes the lyrics to reference Knicks star Jeremy Lin, complete with Eddie Vedder’s Jeremy video look and spooky lighting and does a good job.
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I’ll see your truth and raise you satire
Too often, we’re sensitive to truth and doing the right thing, or in the case of the New York Times, forget our purpose. I’m looking for reader input on whether and when New York Times news reporters should challenge “facts†that are asserted by newsmakers they write about. Vanity Fair’s Juli Weiner eloquently, in her […]
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Keep calm and rock out
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This post is full of awesome
The word awesome seems to have become the go to word to describe anything as remotely delightfully cool. In fact, there’s even an Awesome Foundation. In naming the Awesome Foundation, Hwang said the word captured the organization’s aims perfectly. “Awesome conveys surprise and delight, and that’s at the core of what we’re trying to do. […]
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To cull or to surrender
In an insightful piece of enjoying and consuming art (of all kinds), Linda Holmes discusses the sad, beautiful fact that we’re all going to miss almost everything. Culling is easy; it implies a huge amount of control and mastery. Surrender, on the other hand, is a little sad. That’s the moment you realize you’re separated […]
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SNL Celebrity Jeopardy, a history
See how SNL’s Celebrity Jeopardy evolved from a means for Norm MacDonald to act out his Burt Reynolds impression to the hilariously absurd Connery-Trebek duels. Videos included of all 14 skits. The first Celebrity Jeopardy sketch aired on December 7, 1996 with Will Ferrell as Alex Trebek, Norm MacDonald as Burt Reynolds, Darrell Hammond as […]
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An American sportswriter in India
Wright Thompson, for ESPN, tells of India, Cricket, the Cricket World Cup and how life and culture intersect. I turn to Rahul. “Do Indians still love the actual game of cricket?” There’s a pause. “It’s a delicate sort of question,” he says. Another pause. “The thing about Indians’ love for cricket is a lot of […]
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A rock show at your house
If bands/artists playing intimate shows to 50 people at someone’s house is a trend, that’s a trend I can fully support. “It was at my friend Bodie’s small apartment in Boulder, and Joe Pug was playing,” said Browne, who writes and edits the popular website Fuel/ Friends. “There were probably 40 people in a tiny […]
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Ex-Heroes – Peter Cline
“Ex-Heroes” (Peter Clines) tells of a world overrun by zombies, and individuals with super abilities take on a seemingly powerful zombie horde through the streets of Los Angeles. Led by Stealth, an intelligent and quick female hero, the heroes took shelter within a movie studio compound and provide protection to those they can take in. […]