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
The Wednesday Pop Culture Rant would like to request people quit claiming they are “misunderstood” when they say, tweet, post, or write something stupid. Own up already. You aren’t sad that you’re being misunderstood; you’re sad that everyone understands you … Continued
The Wednesday Pop Culture Rant has been thinking about Loving v Virginia, the 1967 Supreme Court decision that struck down the prohibition to interracial marriage in the United States. Mildred and Richard Loving slept in their bed in Central Point, … Continued
If Richard Attenborough perfected the human crowd scene in all its facets (milling about, panic, violence, triumph) with the movie Ghandi, then Kornel Mundruczo has done the same for dogs in White God. I’m talking about real humans and real … Continued
The Wednesday Pop Culture Rant was enjoying an old episode of Prime Suspect with the marvelous Helen Mirren, a woman The Rant assumes has a Dorian Gray-like portrait of herself stashed in a closet somewhere so she can continue never aging. … Continued
The Wednesday Pop Culture Rant noticed that the rapper 50 Cent has been trying to synchronize his bank statement with his handle. Apparently he succeeded and then declared bankruptcy. Oh Fiddy. In court filings, 50 says he drops around $108K … Continued
“Everybody loves the sound of a train in the distance, Everybody thinks it’s true”–Paul Simon The Wednesday Pop Culture Rant went to pick up the dry cleaning, and there among the hangers we spotted it: The Prodigal Shirt. Gone for … Continued
The Wednesday Pop Culture Rant would kindly like to request that companies stop pretending to be our BFF and valuing our input: “Tell us what you think!” “Your opinion matters!” “Take our short survey after this call!” We both know … Continued
The Wednesday Pop Culture Rant celebrates twenty-six years of marriage today. We’ll pause so you can make a snide comment about the time/space continuum being sundered, the condition of our spouse’s eyesight, evidence for miracles, blah, blah, blah. So mature. … Continued
The Wednesday Pop Culture Rant always enjoys a good jail-break yarn that involves a file smuggled in a cake. Lest you think such chicanery the stuff of cartoons and silent movies, we offer up the tale of Irish freedom fighter … Continued