The Wednesday Pop Culture Rant can see, shimmering there in the distance, the end to our long national nightmare. Which will immediately be followed by candidates declaring for the 2020 presidential race and The Rant poking sharp instruments into our … Continued
After my father died in January I had his mail forwarded to me. There wasn’t much. He was a long-retired mailman and an increasingly hermetic widower of seven years. By August it had become a trickle of fundraising pleas from … Continued
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
Some time ago, never mind how long, with time off school and a desire to expand my horizons, I took up residence at the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute. Say what you will about Oklahoma, but even though a state-sponsored program, … Continued