Archive for the ‘Pop Culture’ Category
Wall of Sound
The worlds most powerful iPod speaker is available for just under $5,000 and weighs over 200 lbs.
Question: Should “worlds” in that sentence have an apostrophe? I think it should, but per their website they didn’t include one.
The Final Season of LOST as Seen by Someone Who Has Never Seen
Hi. As you can probably tell from the totally sweet title of this blog, I have never seen LOST. The final season starts tonight. I thought I would watch the final 12 episodes even though I have very little knowledge of what is happening. Since blogging is the kewlest, you get to read my interpretation of what is happening on a potentially confusing show.
First Post: The Final Season of LOST as Seen by Someone Who Has Never Seen LOST
‘Cuss-Free Week’ in California
Watch your mouth, California.
The nation’s most populous state is asking its 38 million residents to stop using four-letter words for an entire week beginning Monday.
On a voice vote, the Assembly passed a resolution Thursday declaring the first week of March each year as “Cuss-Free Week” and inviting, but not requiring, Californians to comply.
The resolution honors McKay Hatch, who started a no-cussing club at his South Pasadena junior high school nearly three years ago.
The 16-year-old Hatch, who has seen no-cussing clubs expand to more than 100 schools and 35,000 online members, attended Thursday’s Assembly vote.
Catholic Church suing Columbia Pictures over use of Christ statue in apocalypse movie 2012
Brazil’s Catholic Church is suing Hollywood for using unauthorized images of Rio’s famous giant Christ statue in its disaster movie blockbuster 2012, a lawyer involved in the case said on Wednesday.
Rio de Janeiro’s archdiocese is demanding unspecified damages and interest from Columbia Pictures for showing the iconic landmark being destroyed in a worldwide apocalypse in a film that came out last year, the archdiocese’s attorney, Claudine Dutra, said.
The archdiocese manages copyright issues related to the 40-meter (130-foot) high statue erected in 1931, which overlooks Rio with its arms outstretched.
Under Brazilian law, copyright resides in the author of a work until his death, and then is passed on to his heirs or estate or successor entity for another 70 years.
The Christ the Redeemer statue was created by Paul Landowski, a French artist of Polish descent, on commission from the Rio archdiocese and erected in 1931.
Landowski died in 1961, meaning the archdiocese holds copyright until 2032, when the sculpture becomes part of the public domain.
For all you Stephen Baldwin fans . . .
Stephen Baldwin of the famous “Baldwin Brothers” Hollywood clan is a veteran actor who has starred in over 60 films and TV shows.
In 2003, he had an experience that changed his life forever. He became Born Again Christian, giving his life to Jesus Christ. Over the next few years, he became very vocal about his faith, using his spotlight to boldly preach the gospel. However, because of this convictions it has caused him the loss of many jobs and the most recently, a highly publicized bankruptcy.
He has been publicly ridiculed and insulted by people who think that he has been abandoned by God. A simple search through the internet will reveal that people not only mock Stephen, but mock God.
In response to this (with the permission of Stephen’s ministry President Daniel Southern) we have established RestoreStephenBaldwin.org. A privately funded and managed website. Our vision is to see Stephen Baldwin publicly restored in front of millions. Stephen’s platform will increase allowing him to reach even more people with the Gospel and God will get all of the glory. Publicly.
Not fond of Canada’s speed skating uniform
Last night I was watching women’s speed skating on NBC and couldn’t help but notice how the uniform for the Canadian team makes them look like they pooped their pants.
Pretty Awesome Voltron Costume
I really liked that cartoon, and part of the reason was because the leader of the crew was named Keith, which I think is the first and only time that name has been positively used in pop-culture. For those of you that have seen Hoodwinked, you know what I mean.
And little did I know that a Voltron movie was being planned.
Edit: Here’s an even more impressive Voltron costume.
Hannah Storm’s Outfit
Tony Kornheiser was recently suspended from ESPN for commenting on Hannah Storm’s outfit on his radio show:
“a horrifying, horrifying outfit today. She’s got on red go-go boots and a Catholic school plaid skirt … way too short for somebody in her 40s or maybe early 50s by now.”
“She’s got on her typically very, very tight shirt. She looks like she has sausage casing wrapping around her upper body … I know she’s very good, and I’m not supposed to be critical of ESPN people, so I won’t … but Hannah Storm … come on now! Stop! What are you doing?”
Random Lost Thoughts
- What’s up with Jack and mirrors? He looks in a mirror on the plane and finds a mark on his neck, in last night’s episode he found an appendix scare while looking in the mirror, and then he smashed all those mirrors in the lighthouse. I think he now has about 28 years of bad luck. Also, he was staring at his reflection while outside of the temple.
- But let’s take it a step further, his son was a mirror image of himself albeit a younger version.
- I think that was the first time I ever used albeit in a sentence. I saw the opportunity and decided to take it.
- Lets go back to the appendix for a moment . . . you may recall that Jack supervised his own appendix removal on The Island back in season four with the help of Bernard, Kate, and Juliet.
- Jack sure does like Alice in Wonderland, he read it to both David and Aaron. But did you catch another hat-tip to the book when Jack went to David’s house and found the key to the front door underneath the rabbit lawn ornament?
- Interesting pictures of the lighthouse mirrors.
- Lostpedia states that Dogen said the following to Hurley in Japanese, “You’re lucky that I have to protect you. Otherwise I’d have cut your head off.“
- It was hard for me to accept Claire being tough and all, perhaps it was bad acting.
- Most interesting words spoke by Claire, “If there’s one thing that’ll kill you around here it’s infection.” She’s definitely the new Rousseau.
- Jack and his son’s relationship seemed to be similar to Michael and Walt’s.
- I wouldn’t be surprised to see the mother of Jack’s son actually be Juliet. And I wouldn’t be surprised to see Juliet and Sawyer actually date in a sideways storyline.
- The word “candidate” and its variations seem to carry a lot of weight. Did you notice the “Welcome All Candidates!” sign as Jack walked into the audition? And that word seems to be tied to Dogen who was also at the audition.
- The piece that David Shepard was playing at the recital was also played by a young Daniel Faraday.
Surely he isn’t the first
German Olympic luger breaks tooth on medal
BERLIN (AFP) – Germany’s silver medallist in the Olympic luge David Moeller took an embarrassing trip to the dentist after breaking his front tooth biting into his prize, mass circulation daily Bild said Thursday.
A sheepish Moeller, 28, explained: “The photographers wanted us to bite into our medals at the presentation ceremony. And a corner of my front tooth broke off.”
“It wasn’t too bad and it didn’t hurt,” added Moeller, saying that it had happened before to him at home.
“But it is annoying when you can’t smile as you normally do. And because I want to have nice pictures and happy memories of my Olympic Games, I went to the dentist to get it repaired,” he said.
30 Chick Flicks in 30 Days
How far would you go to understand the opposite sex?
That question has helped to fuel the idea behind this site, “30 Chick Flicks in 30 Days: One Guy’s Exploration of Romance Through Movies Loved by Women”.
First, you should know that I’m that “guy” exploring these films. Second, my name is Nick. I’m a husband, and have been for seven years. Third, no one put me up to this. And fourth, I’m not some professional film critic. I live in a small town in southern Oklahoma. I work in communications.
This little experiment will begin Friday, Jan. 15, 2010, and conclude on Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010—the day before Valentine’s Day. That’s 30-straight days; 30-straight chick flicks.
‘Horse with No Name’ was actually called ‘Derek’ – but it could have been Keith
In a confession that looks set to rock the US singer-songwriter fraternity to the core, the author of America’s transatlantic top 5 hit A Horse With No Name has admitted that the horse in question was actually named by the writer ‘on the second part of the journey’. Nearly four decades after its release Dewey Bunnell broke the news whilst promoting his new autobiography ‘Na Na Naa Na-na-na-na-naaah’ on LA’s KWHY Radio.
‘Face it, the desert is a pretty boring place,’ he said. ‘There really wasn’t much else for me to do, so I ended up considering all sorts of names. ‘I tried singing, ‘I’ve been through the desert on a horse called Keith’ but I ran out of rhymes. For a while the horse was called ‘Ray’, ‘Bryan’ then ‘Alan’ and following a particularly severe case of sunstroke he was a horse called ‘Mighty Zoltan the Destroyer.’
Americans are ‘most attractive’ people in the world, poll finds
The United States, home to George Clooney and Jessica Simpson, came top in a poll of more than 5,000 globe-trotting Britons.
In second place was Brazil while Spain, which boasts Hollywood actress Penelope Cruz as one of its natives, was third.
Blonde, tanned surfers of Australia saw it voted into fourth place, while Italy came fifth.
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Since America is first and Brazil and second, I guess that means the baby that Tom Brady and Gisele had is one good looking kid.
