Category Archives: Popular Culture

Popular Culture, Technology and Society

Kobe Bryant

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I’m not a basketball fan, so while it’s a very sad for his family, I’m having trouble getting worked up about it. But judging by what I was hearing on talk radio while running errands, LA is gutted.

Sounds like it was controlled flight into terrain in IFR conditions. It’s been a cloudy/foggy day. That area has a lot of steep hillsides that can come up at you quickly if visibility is bad. Apparently he’d been using choppers for commuting for years, and it finally caught up with him.

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Here‘s the latest from PJMedia.

Guy in Home Depot told me he’d heard that all of his daughters were aboard, but fortunately, only one was. He left a wife and four others.

Business, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Popular Culture, Social Commentary

Ricky Gervais

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I don’t watch awards ceremonies, but apparently he handed woke Hollywood its ass last night.

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More from Steve Kruiser, with video.

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Boo, hoo. Lorraine Ali is all butthurt.

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More from Kyle Smith. And Emily Jashinski.

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Hollywood proved Gervais’s point.

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Related, I think: What happened to Howard Stern? If you want to skip the long history, jump to the end, which relates his recent interview with Hillary.

[Tuesday-morning update]

To hell with these gilded charlatans.

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The “liberal” reviews are in for Gervais’s performance, and their tears are delicious.

Media Criticism, Popular Culture, Weird

Cats

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I’ve never seen the musical, and I’m not inclined to, but nowhere near as much as I’m not inclined to see the movie, which is getting terrible reviews.

[Friday-afternoon update]

“I watched Cats, and I have some questions.”

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Follow the whole thread.

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Here’s the unroll for that thread. RTWT.

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Universal notifies theaters that the movie will be “updated” for special effects. For a film already in release.

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This is one of the longest-running Broadway musicals. Can anyone tell me if there is a single memorable song in it other than “Memor<del>y</del>ies”? It seems to me that it’s like Les Miserable; apparently tunes aren’t important in musicals any more.

[Wednesday-afternoon update]

OK, here’s another Twitter review.

And here’s a review of the software update.

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[Saturday afternoon update]

A review of Cats, by cats.

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