The Toxic Soup We Call Pop Culture

What If It Were Cancelled By a Troop of Feces-Stained Gibbous Monkeys Moonlighting As Network TV Executives?

by Mike on 12/20/2006

in Best of Release, Perpetual Beta : Release, The Toxic Soup We Call Pop Culture

So it’s 9:30-ish on Wednesday night, and my TV is off, because instead of Day Break, ABC is running repeats of the George Lopez show. As if that crap gets funnier with age, like Mad Dog or Night Train. It seems that the dentally-disadvantaged inbreds used to determine the Nielsen ratings stopped watching the show [...]

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Soup! There it is.

by Mike on 12/17/2006

in The Toxic Soup We Call Pop Culture

Justin Timberlake may be the only SNL host all season who’s actually been funny. Everyone else better give it on up for homelessville. UPDATE: The “D*k in a Box” short left us gasping for air we were laughing so hard. Better than “Lazy Sunday.”

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Day Break

by Mike on 11/15/2006

in The Toxic Soup We Call Pop Culture

I just finished watching Day Break, the new Taye Diggs show in the old Lost time slot. Its fantastic. I’m looking forward to the re-runs. UPDATE: Jim has a nice review of the show.

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More Jeffblogging: What a Frakkin’ Great Show

by Mike on 10/10/2006

in The Toxic Soup We Call Pop Culture, There Are Many Copies

Jeff does an in-depth analysis of BattleStar Galactica, and find that it is not an allegory for Vichy France, the Iraqi insurgency, or the defeat of Xerxes at the hands of the Greeks: It’s just not that simple, people. And that’s really the whole point. Life is complicated. In an extreme situation — such as [...]

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Frak Party

by Mike on 9/21/2006

in The Toxic Soup We Call Pop Culture, There Are Many Copies

Some people are a little jazzed up about the new season of Battlestar Galactica. Then there are some people who are a little too jazzed up, like the good folks at Frak Party. Link via that frakker Jeff.

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Hollywood Still Sucks

by Mike on 5/20/2006

in The Toxic Soup We Call Pop Culture

It’s as if there hasn’t been a decent movie made in the last fifteen years. Tonight, I browsed my local mega-super-video-rental store, sifting through rack after rack, aisle after aisle, section after section, finding thousands of examples of steaming feces digitized and forever preserved to plastic disc so that, centuries from now, archaeologists can decode, [...]

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The Best Show You Might Not Be Watching: Big Love

by Mike on 4/3/2006

in The Toxic Soup We Call Pop Culture

HBO executives last week announced the next wave of original series they’re going to be adding to their lineup – a cop show, a hospital drama, a hospital comedy, and a new reality show. Just kidding. HBO calls its original series development “groundbreaking” and fairly so. If it could air on the major broadcast networks, [...]

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Cool Band Name

by Mike on 2/22/2006

in Loud Rhythmic Noises, The Toxic Soup We Call Pop Culture

I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness I’ve had days like that.

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The Kurgan

by Mike on 2/15/2006

in 4-8-15-16-23-42, The Toxic Soup We Call Pop Culture

Tonight’s episode featured Clancy Brown as an intelligence agent of some kind, named Joe Inman. I first noticed Clancy in his role as the Kurgan in the movie Highlander. Since then, I’ve been vaguely aware that he’s been an unusually prolific actor, but little else about him. Turns out Clancy’s a very interesting guy. Besides [...]

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