Archive for the ‘pop culture’ Category
Monday, June 5th, 2006
Today I saw a guy at the University of Colorado Engineering Center wearing the t-shirt shown to the left. Contra was a game for the original Nintendo Entertainment System of the late 1980s. Within seconds of seeing it, I started to play the games theme music, and I ...
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Monday, May 30th, 2005
I was considering seeing the movie Crash, so I went to mrqe.com to look at reviews and started to read the one my A.O. Scott in the New York Times. Now, I'm averse to this publication because of their assinine punctuation policy of using apostrophes for pluralizing acronyms such ...
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Sunday, April 25th, 2004
Except for the "good" one. OK, the Coen Brothers' remake of The Ladykillers (1955) is the first movie I've seen with facial hair in mind. Still, the only people with facial hair of any kind were the thieves. The clean-shaven thief reformed himself at the end. ...
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Wednesday, October 15th, 2003
As I write this, both the Chicago Cubs and Boston Red Sox are one or two wins away from being in this year's World Series. This is significant because the Cubs have not won the Series since 1908, and the Red Sox since 1918. Most people I've talked ...
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2003
Earlier this week my friend Dominic forwarded me Beloit College's Class of 2003 Mindset List, which lists many things the class is not familiar with because most of them were born in 1981. Dominic writes
This is why we all think our grandparents are nuts when we talk to them ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2003
Is the body/face type of Playboy's Playmate of the Year correlated with economic conditions? A couple of psychologists think so. Popular link. Academic journal article.
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Saturday, March 1st, 2003
Something clicked in my brain a couple of days ago such that I notice light blue outerwear, that is, backpacks and jackets. I saw a woman with a Northface jacket on, light blue, she thought it was a color introduced last Fall. Somebody's up to something....
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