Thinking pop culture
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Aside from flicking over it while staying in generously-cabled hotel rooms, I don’t think I’ve ever actually watched MTV. I say this not with pride and not with shame, but as a simple point of fact: it’s…
According to American Hustle, 1978 was a time of big hair. Of cool music. A time before, apparently, bras were invented. Perhaps it was also a time when people had the patience to sit still for 138 minutes…
I’m big on textures. I won’t eat lychees for example, just in case my tongue accidentally slips inside one. Ditto eggplant and the whole oral exfoliation-thing. And I’d rather wear 46 layers of less-warm…
If dinner runs smoothly and if future plans get made, by the third meal he - whoever he is - will suggest one of two vegetarian restaurants. This happened the other night. The delightfully lascivious man…
There are lots of ugly reasons behind discrimination. One of the less hideous and less predictable ones is hiring/coupling-up with/living near people just like us. As progressive as we might believe ourselves…
Taking plot cues from the dreadful Weekend at Bernie’s (1989) and the delightful Little Miss Sunshine (2006), Bad Grandpa is 92 minutes of dick and fart jokes. And those dick and fart jokes were apparently…
He and I were sitting in a Chinese restaurant. They’d forgotten to bring us our food and we were handed a small bowl of damp peanuts to dissuade us from gnawing our chairs. As you do when you’ve been denied…
Lunch with one of my PhD students. Not a formal supervision meeting so we got to spend an hour on topics of true gravitas. High-end mascaras vs the cheap stuff. If anyone ever uses eyeshadow without primer…
My first takeaway from Captain Phillips was a sweaty suspicion that the heating was cranked up in the theatre so we’d share the pain of the hostage. The second centers on Catherine Keener. Cards on the…
I gravitate to lists. A vegetarian, sure, but I’ll always click on the article about Melbourne’s best pies. Top ten station wagons? Fantastic! Who cares that I don’t have a license and haven’t had any…