Sasha Frere-Jones visits Toronto, surprisingly un-smarmy
Posted by Anupa in Internet, media, Pop Culture, Toronto on 03. May, 2010 | 1 Comment
I’ll tell you an amateur-ish secret: when I first envisioned the visage of New Yorker pop critic Sasha Frere-Jones (after the 2007, Arcade Fire-baiting piece came out with that now-infamous deck “How Indie Rock Lost Its Soul”) using surname etymology (Frere-Jones sounds kinda Creole?) and having only met girls named Sasha, I construed a black, [...]
Dave Eggers would kick Ziggy’s ass
Posted by jessekg in comics, media, Pop Culture, Uncategorized on 16. Apr, 2010 | 0 Comments
For some reason I’ve always had this hate on for Dave Eggers. Well, I guess there is a reason, just as much as their is a reason to hate Bono’s face – it’s everywhere, or at least was for the most part of the aughts (for the record, that is the first time I have [...]
Chat Roulette is a giant waste of cyber space, but….
Posted by jessekg in Curiosities, Internet, media on 08. Apr, 2010 | 0 Comments
Okay, we get it, chat roulette is was the latest internet craze. Please stop reporting on it, mainstream media, like it’s some big sociological experiment. In fact, the best reporting on it has been the non-reporting by Jon Stewart, and in fact the best thing about the entire site isn’t the site itself, but what [...]
Hilarious ads: Old Spice 2010, The Man Your Man Could Smell Like
Posted by Anupa in media, Pop Culture, Television on 18. Feb, 2010 | 1 Comment
Twice yesterday at work I got caught watching this commercial and snickering quietly to myself. To American readers who might have seen Old Spice’s “The Man Your Man Could Smell Like” during the SuperBowl: it’s not my fault that we don’t get your ads. It was actually after the first commercial break of Tuesday night’s [...]
Vancouver artist’s ‘Pedobear’ brands the Winter Olympics
Posted by Jef in Curiosities, Internet, media on 09. Feb, 2010 | 2 Comments
YAY I love this story about a Polish paper mistakenly using an image of ‘Pedobear’ for their piece on the Vancouver Winter Olympics. It features the bear next to the official Olympic mascots, and in the paper’s defense, the characters do bear a stylistic resemblance. The image was done by Canadian artist Michael Barrick using the [...]
