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Pop Culture Archive
Cardinal Cyn: the Ultimate Sin-sation
Posted on March 19, 2010 | 5 CommentsA lovely, redheaded Hollywood makeup artist stood in the trailer of a 1950’s drive-in movie set talking with the film’s four lead actors. It was 2002, the last day of...
Hoop Church and Hot Mama’s
Posted on March 18, 2010 | 4 CommentsCome learn how to hula hoop at Hoop Church. Every Sunday from 12-2pm at Hot Mama’s. 2401 East 6th St. Austin, TX 78702 I could hula hoop just fine as...
Kathryn Bigelow Will Tell You What To Do
Posted on March 5, 2010 | 5 CommentsOr, WHY I LOVE K.BIG The Hurt Locker, directed by Kathyrn Bigelow, has been nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Director and Best Picture. Point Break, directed by Kathryn...
Finding America’s Lost Horizon
Posted on March 1, 2010 | 1 CommentIn the late 1930s, Depression-weary Americans turned to a movie (based upon the James Hilton novel), Lost Horizon, about a hidden Himalayan paradise, Shangri-La. In the 2000s, anxious Americans turned...
Young King Tut: 20th Century Pop Star, Felled by Malaria in 1334 B.C.
Posted on February 16, 2010 | No CommentsThe tomb of the Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun was discovered in 1922. The rest was pop culture history, as the discovery sparked movies about the curse of the mummy, popular songs,...
Je T’aime
Posted on February 14, 2010 | No CommentsFrom 1969, Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg’s scandalous pop song. Originally recorded with Brigitte Bardot before their break-up, Gainsbourg honored Bardot’s plea that it not be released. Gainsbourg then recorded...
Love/Hate vs. True Love
Posted on February 9, 2010 | No CommentsGrowing up, I used to play over and over the scene from Spike Lee’s DO THE RIGHT THING in which Radio Rayhem bumps into Mookie on the street. When Mookie...
The “Miranda” Blessing for Corporations
Posted on January 27, 2010 | No CommentsYou have the right to spend billions in the public sphere, silencing the voices of individual Americans. Anything you can say or do politically to further your private corporate interests...Supreme Court: Moloch Unchained
Posted on January 25, 2010 | 3 CommentsHistory might be written by the winners, but our most profound, long-lived legends and stories are created by the folk. That’s why the stories, songs and poems are not called...
Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree
Posted on December 7, 2009 | 3 CommentsSometimes I look back over my life in series of things. Jobs I’ve had (17), schools where I’ve been a student or a teacher (15), cars I’ve had (11), pets...