The last week of April, the blogosphere finally took notice of a song that aired in March on Rush Limbaugh‘s program entitled “Barack The Magic Negro.” Comedian Paul Shanklin impersonated Al Sharpton singing (to the tune of “Puff the Magic Dragon”) a lament that Barack Obama appealed to people in ways that the Reverend Al [...]
“Go to lost wages, lost wages.”
My new Spot-on piece is up and it’s all about Sin City. This is a convenient time to register a complaint. Why is it that as good as CSI is, CSI: Miami and CSI: NY suck? I’m not a big fan or anything, but I’ve seen each show a few times and it seems readily [...]
Monica Goodling: Music Critic
There was an article on Monica Goodling in the New York Times today, with further details about she carried out the politicization of the Justice Department. I’ve only ever seen one photo of her, I’m guessing from a Regent University alumni event, but it actually loooks like it’s from a sorority mixer. There are plenty [...]
Flirting with my love
As referenced earlier, there are reasons why this joint is called The Pop View. Chief among these is that I love pop culture — and by that, I don’t just mean I love movies, music and so on. I mean that I love little indie films and big dumb popcorn movies. Yeah, I love obscure [...]
Feist & Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip
Neither of these is new, but haven’t I already established that we work at the slow-and-steady pace here? I love this Feist video for the song “1234″ because it’s simultaneously simple and complex. It’s set on an empty soundstage with one continuous camera shot, but there’s some complex staging to the whole thing. For example, [...]
This means war.
Last September, I wrote an item entitled “Culture Wars Redux,” in which I anticipated the arrival of a couple books that would ramp up the old Culture War (“Rock ‘n’ roll is destroying our kids!”) to a new level (“Hip-hop is responsible for the death of thousands!”). In my new Spot-on column, I take a [...]