The Dread Pirate Rant

The Wednesday Pop Culture Rant had just alerted the Coast Guard that a sea creature had washed ashore and taken up residence on Justin Bieber’s head when we learned he was growing dreadlocks. Our bad. But seriously Biebs: you should … Continued

A Rant is Worth a Thousand Words

The Wednesday Pop Culture Rant encourages you to hunker down for some binge enjoyment of Documentary Now!, Bill Hader, Seth Myers, and Fred Armisen’s sly and brilliant take on all types of documentaries and their tropes. The Eye Doesn’t Lie, … Continued

Prescription Rant

The Wednesday Pop Culture Rant finds it endlessly amusing to watch nuns protest contraceptive coverage in the ACA. Why do all these religious groups act like they will be strapped to a gurney and waterboarded with birth control pills? Maybe … Continued

Your Humble Rant

The Wednesday Pop Culture Rant believed that the MHH (Most Hubristic Humans) Award had been locked down by the Trump campaign around the second week of January. Clear some room in the trophy case. But awards are all about upsets, … Continued

Cast Your Rant

The Wednesday Pop Culture Rant thinks we would do well to remember politics in this country has never been a picnic on the green. In 1859, George Kyle headed to the polls in Baltimore, ballots tucked under his arm (you … Continued

Blowin’ in the Rant

The Wednesday Pop Culture Rant has long extolled the virtues of Oklahoma and Tulsa as the center of the roots music universe. So let’s just say The Rant wasn’t shocked when Tulsa revealed that Bob Dylan’s personal archives would be … Continued

Rant for Rant’s Sake

The Wednesday Pop Culture Rant was once dispatched to pick up a Very Important Editor of a Very Impressive Art Journal. He hailed from New York, full of sophistication and avant garde cred. Being Midwesterners, we were intimidated and nervous … Continued

Rant to the Top

The Wednesday Pop Culture Rant must immediately indulge in a side rant: The venerable New York Times has a headline this morning that reads “Deconstructing the Westminster Dog Show.” Had the ghost of Jacques Derrida returned to ruminate on the … Continued

We are the Rant

The Wednesday Pop Culture Rant has a day job in the nonprofit industrial complex. This comes as a surprise to many people as they believe we just hibernate in a hyperbaric rant chamber that pumps in high pressure snarkiness. Believing … Continued

The Grapes of Rant

Well, you must tell me, baby How your head feels under somethin’ like that Under your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat–Bob Dylan The Wednesday Pop Culture Rant would like to commend Cam Newton on the zebra-print Versace pants he sported … Continued