Posts Tagged ‘culture’

Is There Anything Such as Too Many Ugly People Having Sex?

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

That is what Stephen Marche asks as Esquire magazine gives a name to the times that we live in:

the great bedraggling (n): a period that began in the mid 2000′s, with the proliferation of easily uploaded web videos, that has made famous people seem unattractive and unfamous people really unattractive

Why are there no independent movies worth seeing?

Monday, July 7th, 2008

“What is creepy and obvious is that the market was suddenly flooded with morons who thought, ‘If I’ve got $500,000, I can make a baseball cap that has a company name on it and say I’m a filmmaker.’ ”   

Robert Downey Jr., star of Iron Man

Read the rest here.

New Adult Oriented GI Joe Cartoon Webisodes in 2009

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

I couldn’t help but post this, being raised in the 80′s on Saturday morning commercials I mean cartoons.

The series is supposed to be more adult friendly (meaning people will actually die– but still PG-13). They will show on Hasbro’s GI Joe Website .  There will be 10 5 minutes segments with a 10 minute finale. 

“Cobra Commander is serious and ruthless in this series. He kills a baby seal in the first episode (Possibly said as a joke to underscore his ruthlessness).”  More here.