And now for something really scary...

By AprillBrandon in Pop Goes the Culture

Happy Halloween, everybody! In honor of this festive, sugar-laced holiday, I wanted to share with you a Web site that was passed onto me from my good friend Terry (thanks, Terry...you are a scholar and a gentleman, despite what is ...

Kevin Smith: What's so wrong with the word porno?

By AprillBrandon in Pop Goes the Culture

Oh that crazy Kevin Smith is at it again. With curse words and sexual references galore, he is getting people's knickers in a twist with his latest movie "Zack and Miri Make a Porno." The movie opens Friday and just ...

Heck, even Paris Hilton wrote a book

By AprillBrandon in Pop Goes the Culture

(Although I use the term "book" loosely here...as in, yes, there are pages with words on them secured together with binding and her name is on the cover). And if she can then pretty much anyone can (heck, if she can, a ...

Manscapes, Veepstakes and Guitarthritis, Oh My!

By AprillBrandon in Pop Goes the Culture

Who knew? Americans love crazy slang words invented specifically to describe our current events. Time Magazine has recently named Urbandictionary.com as one of the 50 Best Web Sites for 2008. Pitting themselves as the "slang dictionary that you wrote," the Web ...

Home schooling just got a little hipper

By AprillBrandon in Pop Goes the Culture

Oh those crazy hip New York parents. What will they think of next? Great story last week by the New York Times on a group of New York City moms opting out of both traditional public education and home schooling ...

National Heterosexual Pride Celebration

By AprillBrandon in Pop Goes the Culture

Chances are, you probably clicked on this blog because you were curious about the title. And chances are even better that if that title had said "National Homosexual Pride Celebration," even more people would have clicked on it. As newspaper ...

Free Katie Holmes! Free Katie Holmes!

By AprillBrandon in Pop Goes the Culture

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, folks. It seems a group calling themselves Anonymous is launching a campaign to expose what they call the human rights abuses of the Church of Scientology and they are doing it by trying to ...

So, like, you want that done now?

By AprillBrandon in Pop Goes the Culture

Well Generation Y, the big, bad media is at it again, telling us we are sub par compared to other generations. And this time it's our work ethic they are going after. According to a study by Jobfox, Gen Y ...

These kids today, I'll tell you...

By AprillBrandon in Pop Goes the Culture

I may only be a 20-something but already I can feel myself getting the urge to compare my generation to that of today's teeny-boppers. For instance, I'll be out shopping when I run into a group of teenagers texting on their ...

Why vote? I hear polar bears can swim

By AprillBrandon in Pop Goes the Culture

"Darfur? Who cares? That sounds like a T-shirt company to me." My favorite part of election season? Celebrity PSA's. A new one put together by Leonardo DiCaprio's non-partisan company Appian Way is perhaps my favorite. It's funny yet makes its ...