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The verdict I gave when the lights came up was, “I fell asleep three different times”. My friend laughed a little - arrogantly so - having predicted that I’d find Lincoln boring when we bought the tickets…
Hosting an awards ceremony is always fraught. No matter how talented the host is, such night-of-nights are always boring and, as I’ve written previously, scarcely entertaining enough to sustain a multi-hour…
Aside from being convinced that I’d seen the whole Carnival Triumph story play out before - pretty much the same thing happened in 2010 with the Carnival Splendor - my interest was piqued by Twitter chatter…
Watching Silver Linings Playbook was how I’d imagine a shiv being shoved into my ribs would feel. Over and over and over again. And just when the plunging stops, the wounds would get doused in battery…
For the first 5 years of primary school, my best friend and I were in the same class. Come Grade 5 and we were abruptly separated. As a world-crumbling-around-her 9-year-old, I begged my mother to get…
There’s a worthwhile article to be written about Brenda (Kyra Segwick), the protagonist of the sadly now-defunct The Closer. Brenda, who went to her drawer for a Ding Dong every time she was stressed…
A couple of years ago I went to a rather interesting fetish conference in Istanbul. One bloke, giving a paper about porn, read his paper monotonously from his notebook; behind him on the screen played…
Late January spells hot and hideous weather, the TV full of rubbish and the saddest of legacies left behind by Little Johnny Howard: stores full of flag crap and bastions of hypocrisy like Dick Smith vying…
I’m a vegetarian who’s served as an apologist for KFC. I abhor the elevation of athletes to God-like status, but sure, I’ve defended Warnie. I actually quite like David Koch so writing a defence of him…
I understand the morals clauses in contracts. I might not particularly like them - being morally ambiguous and all myself - but they make sense: you signed a contract with PETA; wearing a coon-skin bikini…