Category: Pop Americana
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"Cut his nuts off" wins Jesse Jackson extra google juice, NYT and Jay Leno
Jesse Jackson has remained a pretty marginal figure (even though he is an honorable and honest man). Wow, yesterday he learned an important lesson: to get coverage by the major media, all he has to do is to accidentally mutter an off color phrase in a semi-public forum. The American public loves a laughingstock they…
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TV Vomiting Hall of Shame
July 10 Update: To accommodate the groundswell of public support, I have formed a Coalition to Prevent Gratuitous Vomiting on TV facebook group. Maybe when you read my recent complaint about too much vomiting on TV, you thought I was exaggerating. I wrote: I don’t watch much television except when eating. I have my basa…
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Anti-Smoking Goes Disney
Magical Amount by Sunny Side of the Truth. I’ve blogged about this Public Service Announcement video production group before. Here’s some older videos. The most interesting thing about these PSAs is that they never appear in time slots I watch–so essentially I never hear about them except through youtube. I have no doubt that they…
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RIP, Maryam Irene Haley (Haley Paige, Miriam Haley)
This post is not going to be work-safe, because it is about the death (and possibly the murder) of a woman who starred in porn movies. The woman’s stage name was Haley Paige, but her real name was Miriam Haley (or Maryam Haley).
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Late Night TV Observations
Jay Leno interviewed a presidential candidate (Barack Obama) on the Tonight Show yesterday. I realize it’s not a hard-hitting news show, but in the 20 minute interview, Leno did not ask Obama a single policy question. Not one. As informed as I consider myself about American politics, I admit I really don’t know what Obama…
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Numbness of Sorrow: 18 Minute video interview of a murder victim’s mother
Here’s a sad and otherworldly 18 minute TV interview with a mother of a murdered girl. It seems on the surface to be a perfectly ordinary interview, but the girl died the day. the mother found out only hours before she did the interview! She and her son had actually seen a newscast about the…
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Yu-Gi-Oh and Hot Chicks with Douchebags
As far as I can tell, the site is totally safe for work, but Hotchickswithdouchebags.com is a bizarre form of entertainment. People at Matt Yglesias discuss the worthiness of the federal tax deduction for mortgages. (I personally think it stinks) Adblock Plus is a revamped version of Firefox Adblock which apparently stops a lot more…
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Google Hoaxes
A wikipedia listing of google hoaxes. I have missed a surprising number of these such as Google Romance.
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O’Reilly gets trounced…again and again
Wow, here’s a new spectator sport: watching Bill O’Reilly get trounced in yelling fights. Here’s him against Chris Dodd (btw, Chris Dodd is my pick for president; he’s also a Peace Corps volunteer). See also Bill Oreilly vs. Donahue and Bill Oreilly vs. Geraldo Rivera. (Actually, these three video clips are time wasters). Gosh, you…
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Political kitsch videos
Political kitch as a musical video: Obama Girl vs. Guiliana Girl . See also Hot for Hillary. RX of course was the pioneer of this format with his song Dick is a Killer. I remember Tom Tomorrow’s prediction that the reelection of George W. Bush would make it easier for him to make a living.…
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Ann Coulter and Paula Jones and Hillary Clinton
While writing yesterday’s post about Ann Coulter, I discovered something incredibly interesting about Ann Coulter on Wikipedia. In her previous lawyer career, she was on the unpaid legal team representing Paula Jones. She had (according to Michael Isikoff of Newsweek) been responsible for leaking words of Bill Clinton’s “distinguishing characteristic” that was to give credibility…
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Should we Pity Ann Coulter? Should we invite her on national TV?
John Edwards’ wife criticizes Ann Coulter. Even though Edwards made her point politely and Chris Matthews was appropriately critical, I blame MSNBC for even putting her on the air. Wow, it looks like Media Matters feels the same way. Gosh, remember that Time Magazine put Coulter on the front page. It’s just hard resisting the…
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Bambi Woods comes back (NSFW)
This is definitely NOT safe for work (NSFW), but this interview with Bambi Woods (of Debbie Does Dallas fame) was fascinating (here is part two). The actress who played her in the movie disappeared for more than 20 years, living in comfortable obscurity in Australia. She never reveals her identity, but makes this offer: My…