The Wednesday Pop Culture Rant would like to say, “hello summer, you’re looking tan and hot.” So frolic ye woodland nymphs, stir the summer breezes airy sylphs. Too old school? Must be the heat. The Rant has spacious offices here … Continued
The Wednesday Pop Culture Rant was out for our morning constitutional when an older gent shuffled toward us. Gramps was wearing an orange ball cap and no shirt. Come on bro; we’re out here at 7am to beat the heat–The … Continued
The Wednesday Pop Culture Rant has found no small delight in watching Republicans state the obvious immediately followed by a statement of sheer delusion in regards to their orange muppet presidential candidate, Trump the Grump. To wit: Trump makes a … Continued
The Wednesday Pop Culture Rant knows its Thursday, but we finally got around to seeing Interstellar, and once Matthew McConaughey demonstrated how to bend time to his will, we followed suit and now The Rant abides in a perpetual Wednesday … Continued
The Wednesday Pop Culture Rant has decided we are ready for the end of the Big Data craze. Yawn. Can we just state the obvious here, starting with Billy Beane and his precious Moneyball system. Tell us again how many … Continued
Lionel Barrymore, part of the vast Barrymore acting dynasty, including our very own Drew Barrymore, remains best known for his role as Henry Potter in It’s a Wonderful Life. The wheelchair Barrymore occupies in that movie served as no mere prop; for … Continued
The Wednesday Pop Culture Rant begins with two random observations. First, if the intertubes possessed as many jaw-dropping pictures as the listicles claim, The Rant would be in a perpetual state of Jacob Marley. Let’s just calm down 13 Jaw-Dropping … Continued
The Wednesday Pop Culture Rant would like to commence the rantin’. We really would. But we have been very busy carving our iPhone into a shiv so we can protect ourselves in the Target bathrooms. Throngs of men with flame-throwing … Continued
The Wednesday Pop Culture Rant can barely keep pace with all the lovely goofiness floating around in the cultural firmament. To begin, how in the ham sandwich did NBC pass on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt? Ellie Kimper is a national treasure. … Continued
“New York I love you/But you’re freaking me out”–LCD Soundsystem The Wednesday Pop Culture Rant has been traveling and gathering intel out in the nation’s capitol and in the city that never sleeps (The Rant does sleep at our advanced … Continued