The Wednesday Pop Culture Rant enjoys a brisk stroll in the fall, a carpet of leaves beneath our feet, the smell of a chimenea burning contentedly on someone’s back porch. So The Rant would be thanking you to stop ruining … Continued
The Wednesday Pop Culture Rant has been wondering how you convince someone to become something they already think they are. We had been enjoying our eggs and country ham at Phil’s Diner, the sort of place where the waitress calls … Continued
New York, you’re perfect/Don’t, please don’t change a thing–LCD Soundsystem The Wednesday Pop Culture Rant is back in the New York groove. You can feel the juice coming right out of the sidewalk. We understand the kids living here, … Continued
The Wednesday Pop Culture Rant apologizes for the absence, but we have been helping decamp the Calliope World Wide Headquarters to Tulsa. The move became inevitable after the Cain’s Ballroom refused to lease us a cot under the hole Sid … Continued
The Wednesday Pop Culture Rant tried to stay away; we really did. But apparently America is a like a teenager that swears to be responsible if left alone and promptly sets the house on fire. During an unauthorized party. That … Continued
If you don’t like my potatoes/Please don’t dig up my vine–Elmore James You don’t hear a lot of blues growing up in a white, Baptist church. Since it was rated R, I didn’t see The Blues Brothers either, which at … Continued
Editor’s Note: While The Rant is on hiatus, we are reliving our most cherished pop culture moments in what we call the Wednesday Pop Culture Recall. The Rio Olympics have been keeping us entertained, but they still don’t hold a … Continued
Evangelicals want their city on a hill to be a gated community. This tension between the desire to transform the world and to retreat from it always ends with seclusion the victor. Understanding this impulse sheds light on the political … Continued
Editor’s Note: While The Rant rehabilitates at H.L. Mencken’s Sanitorium for the Chronically Cynical and Infirm, Calliope will be pondering those seminal moments that shaped our pop culture sensibilities. Think of it as a prosaic sorbet between courses at Chez … Continued
The Wednesday Pop Culture Rant, after much soul-searching, has decided to declare free agency. We will be taking our talents to the back porch. A bottle of Templeton Rye made us an offer we can’t refuse. Now, dry those eyes. … Continued