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Movie Corner!!!
Ghost Town
Haha! What’s funny is the idea that a man with these teeth could ever be a dentist.
What isn’t funny is the rest of the movie.
Read this entry >>One Pistol’s Opinion
For some reason, I am totally rooting for Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz.
They seem compatible.
Maybe it’s their hair.
Read this entry >>Idiot Boksen
And then, and then, and then.
Television!!!!
i.e., SPORTS ACTION TEAM.
I didn’t know what the hell was going on. What sports-themed sitcom parodies the puppet show from The Sound of Music?
Also: Sports-themed sitcom? Really, Left Hook? Sports???
Yes.
And yes.
This is on network tv—NBC to be exact. Can you believe it? Does it not renew your faith in humanity? […]
Read this entry >>RIP, dude.
Here at Meta-Mirror, Inc. we do not usually concern ourselves with celebrity news, at least not publicly. I mean, sure, if Lefty and I bump into one another at the watercooler we might chat about Amy Winehouse’s latest hijinx–we’re only human!–but we are always sure to punctuate those convos with something like:
-Who IS Amy Winehouse, […]
Left Hook’s Guide to the Presidential Primaries
Welcome to Election ’08. Now, I’m not “political.” I don’t read the newspaper, not really. But I do have a TV! So I watched part of the Iowa debates, not because there was nothing else on–no! I was riveted by the democratic process. So unpredictable! So genuine! Clear, pure, commanding voices, lifted above the babble, […]
Read this entry >>Vindicated!
Remember when I called bullshit on Michael Clayton? Nice to finally have someone else acknowledge (and a dude at that!), amid all the rave reviews, what seemed so obvious to me and the Inspector.
The Leonard Lopate Show: Most Overrated Movies of 2007
“Strangely misogynistic” at 13:50.
And speaking of overrated movies of 2007, here’s my mini list:
1) […]
Eat this grenade
I’m smarter than you. (File under: precocious childhood, adult-onset failure.) That’s why I’m here on your computer monitor: to steer you artfully around the pitfalls that a human of average intelligence encounters daily.
Here’s a fact you might not know: your body is smarter than you, too! It goes about its business, making new blood […]
FINALLY.
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Movie Corner!!!
Michael Clayton, written and directed by Tony Gilroy.
Hey, everybody! Wasn’t it funny how the Tilda Swinton character was shown getting dressed and we saw that flabby bulge of flesh under her bra? Wasn’t it funny and didn’t it make her look sad and old and grasping and pathetic even though George Clooney in real life […]
Thanks for making me feeling like a REAL pedophile, International Herald Tribune
From Michael Cera’s comedy of raw adolescence:
Michael Cera, who just turned 19 years old but whose peach-fuzz cheeks and deceptively innocent eyes make him seem at least five years younger…
Yeah yeah, I know I can be a creep when it comes to teens. But c’mon. He does not look FOURTEEN YEARS OLD.
Does he?
Normally I’d make […]
Shapes the Final Frontier
First there were shapes: circles, squares, and so on. Then came shapes.
Like, see that dude across the street? “I like the shape,” you can say.
Also, “I have a pain in my shape,” can mean you went to the gym and overdid it on the leg press.
The day after Remembrance of Independence, Pistol Whip and I […]
Stars are just like us
They’re paranoid schizophrenics too!
Read this entry >>Sarah Jessica Parker to make nuclear bomb, literally
Sigh.
Read this entry >>Who will play Jenny Wren?
With Blogue Partenaire off to the wilds of Alabama (am I allowed to say that?) for the aforementioned wedding, I have nothing better to do than sit, glassy-eyed, and muse on the human condition.
Out of sheer laziness, I invite anyone who wants to guestwrite or ghostwrite an entry to send it in, and if it’s […]
I just finally took the time to respect my body.
The second episode is better than the first. The editor’s on too much lorazepam, but Michael Cera is a national treasure.
If you don’t rewind the shot of him passing the ball to his buddy in the gym, I don’t know what you are.
I heart Nancy Franklin
Her TV reviews are pretty much my favorite thing about the New Yorker. And I don’t even watch TV, except at the gym with the sound off. It doesn’t matter whether you’re ever going to see the show in question, because her writing is so smart and funny and engaging, you just want to gobble […]
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BLADES OF GLORY
All you need to know is this:
Gawd.
[I can’t get audio-player to work, so just hum “The Final Countdown” yourself.]
UPDATE: Full Farrell redemption. WHOEVER INVENTED ROPE IS A REAL A-HOLE!
Movie Corner!!!
“PLEASE DO CALL IT A COMEBACK! Dylan’s hair is absolutely fabu in the new tween comedy “Reign Over Me.” Just like the peacoat he so smartly sports, some things never go out of fashion. I’d like that poodle near my cootle!” –Zibby Peterson, Variety
“Dylan hasn’t looked this sharp since he bojangled around the Village […]
I would actually spell it “hooch.”
Thanks to Sis (aka Firecracker) for sending me this article about prosti-tots.
Girls Gone Wild: What Are Celebs Teaching Kids? [Newsweek]
I guess it’s the Newsweek cover story or something. I haven’t seen it. I mean the actual issue of Newsweek. I did, however, see a newsstand on the Upper East Side with Penthouse in the most […]