Author Archives: Shawn Crawford

Thanksranting

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The Wednesday Pop Culture Rant would like to tell Gwen Stefani that just because you sit next to someone on a TV show that does not make them your soulmate. We know you’re on the rebound, but Blake Shelton, really? … Continued

Revisionist Rant

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The Wednesday Pop Culture Rant has been reading Ben Carson’s Golden Book O’ History. In addition to his claim the pyramids were built by Joseph to store grain, we are learning so many new things. Lincoln’s hat? A station on … Continued

Royal Rant

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The Wednesday Pop Culture Rants hates to say we told you so. Wait. We love to say we told you so. The Rant warned you NY. Remember when Matt Harvey, the Dark Knight, talked the manager into pitching the ninth … Continued

Little Pink Rants for You and Me

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The Wednesday Pop Culture Rant would like Mets fans to know that’s just how the Royals do business there in Kansas City. You probably weren’t aware since we don’t reside in a precious “major market” on the coast and our … Continued

Big Shoulders Rant

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The Wednesday Pop Culture Rant touched down in Chicago with the city vibrating over the Cubs. A couple on the train, the man decked out in an old Greg Maddux jersey, discussed the series with a wily old veteran of … Continued

Rant in the House

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The Wednesday Pop Culture Rant would like to point out that anyone can be elected Speaker of the House. Voting someone in from the majority party is merely tradition, not law. Given that the Republicans can’t currently organize a Koch-funded … Continued

The Rant Feels Fine

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The Wednesday Pop Culture Rant couldn’t decide whether to fire up the rant machine as a group called eBible Fellowship has declared the world will end today. The online congregation loves each other but apparently not enough to gather in … Continued

Art for Life’s Sake

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Too bad for you if you don’t know Cindy Zimmerman. Her taxonomy would go Artist, Philosopher Queen, Creator of Worlds (also of our Hurdy Gurdy logo), Communal Glue. She makes beauty and truth out of images and words and symbols … Continued

21 Gun Rant

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The sing-along songs will be our scriptures–The Hold Steady   The Wednesday Pop Culture Rant recently engaged in some high level negotiations and reached the following diplomatic breakthrough: if the Tween would attend the Tallest Man on Earth with us, … Continued

The Rant is 90% Mental

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The Wednesday Pop Culture Rant must insist we declare a moratorium on exclamation points. In the early years of our country, exclamation points started in the grammar mines of West Virginia. Then they made their way to the punctuation mills … Continued