Back in July, I pointed to a YouTube video of an NBC Nightly News broadcast from July 4, 1972. Here’s another one, found via Boing Boing, featuring a young Karl Rove in his role in the Young Republicans as the “GOP College Director”. Then-reporter “Gunga Dan” Rather describes Rove’s group in a voice-over as “an [...]
Category Archives: Pop Culture
Every Goth Dance Bar Needs One of These
July 10, 2007 – 11:24 am
Click to see the picture at full size.Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
“Squeal Like a CGI Pig, Boy!”
July 9, 2007 – 2:08 pm
The movie Deliverance has so infused its way into North American pop culture that most people are aware of its “Squeal like a pig!” scene. Back when I played background music for improv comedy shows here in Accordion City, I’d play the opening notes from Dueling Banjos whenever an actor would make some reference to [...]
Looking for the “First Corinthians” Tramp Stamp?
July 6, 2007 – 7:29 am
I know from checking the server logs that my switching blogging tools and domains (from “accordionguy.blogware.com” to “joeydevilla.com”) has thrown off a lot of people searching for specific images from this blog. It’s going to take some time for Google and the other search engines to re-index the blog, but eventually the search engine results [...]
The “South Park” Characters, Reinterpreted
June 30, 2007 – 2:40 pm
[via Reddit] I rather like these interpretations of the characters from South Park…
Click the picture to see it at full size.
And Finally, the News…
June 27, 2007 – 3:54 pm
It may not be the Howard Beale “Mad as Hell” meltdown scene from the movie Network, but I’ll take it for now: here’s MSNBC anchor Mika Brzezinski refusing to cover the Paris Hilton non-story despite the prodding of her co-anchors and producer. Really, people, of all the things with which we should concern ourselves, that [...]
The Nirvana “Nevermind” Baby is 15?!
June 26, 2007 – 2:30 pm
The year was 1991, and as a DJ at Crazy Go Nuts University, I was getting a lot of mileage out of this album:
Guess what: Spencer Elden, the baby on the album cover, is now 15 years old.
[via Reddit and The Striker Diary]
Visual Thinking Day, Part 2: Which “Buffy” Character Names are Popular?
June 7, 2007 – 11:10 am
According to this graph from Very Small Array, “Xander” is the hot name for babies right now, with “Willow” a close second. “Buffy” peaked in the early 1970s, and with perhaps “Rupert” and “Giles” are due for a comeback:
Click the chart to see it at full size on its original page.
Visual Thinking Day, Part 1: Where the best IHOP-to-Pancake Lover Ratios Are
June 7, 2007 – 9:49 am
If you’ve ever wondered which states have the best access to the International House of Pancakes (and they truly are international — they’ve got ‘em in Japan, too!), wonder no more. The blog Very Small Array has the answer, and in a lovely visual form to boot:
Click the map to see it at full size [...]
Your Midweek "MacGyver" Moment
January 24, 2007 – 7:01 pm
This made me chuckle: the MacGyver Multitool!
Speaking of MacGyver, here are three shorts featured on last weekend’s Saturday Night Live in which MacGyver gets parodied. I give you…MacGruber!
