It’s got to be so weird to be a parent.
One day, you’re an independent person with a schedule allotted with tasks essentially of your choosing. And then someday, all of a sudden (even, I imagine, if it’s nine months of major bloating later), a tiny little human, with impossibly small hands and toes and ever-loose [...]
I’ve always said girls are funny. Not everyone may agree with me, but I’m a true believer in the argument that ladies are often the best comedians because they add something unsuspected to the equation (by which I mean, of course, “a vagina”).
So, naturally, I’ve been a fan of Variety Shac for years. [...]
The Internet loves cats. We like to see them looking both cute and essentially contextualized to look, well, retarded. So it should come as no surprise that Garfield, the wisecrackin’ calico made famous by cartoonist Jim Davis, has found new popularity online in alternately bizarre, existential forms.
Garfield Minus Garfield, a web comic in [...]
Viral video infamy does not guarantee its subjects anything besides 15 unpaid minutes of fame (and a spot in the history of fabled Internet archives) and, at best, a mention on a second-rate talk show. The question of whether or not viral videos can produce superstars off the browsers and in the real, paid world [...]
From Sarah Silverman’s tawdry balladeering about “f**cking Matt Damon,” to Craig Bierko bathing John Malkovich from behind, to the ubiquitous online prevalence of Sacha Baron Cohen in the months leading up to the release of Borat, actors and comedians have turned to the Web to develop an “in” reputation with smaller audiences – video viewers [...]
There’s now doubt about it – the Web 2.0 generation is one comprised heavily of nostalgia…or maybe it’s that things from our childhood are just more accessible.
We wear tee shirts that quote Saved By The Bell. We worship CollegeHumor’s beautifully-executed takes on minutia meant exclusively for us. We’re gluttons for pop culture references from our [...]
Chances are, if you’re reading this, you’re likely to be at least mildly familiar with the blogeratti. In the age of Web 2.0, these “citizen journalists” have helped make Nick Denton rich, Perez Hilton famous, and Jason Kottke a ta
stemaker.
While, at worst, they’re known to spew venomous criticisicm at often-undeserving subject material, the small [...]
Not to sound like Jerry Seinfeld, but what is the deal with The Hills? As someone who follows pop culture (semi-professionally, may I add), I’ve never fully understood the mass appeal of the MTV “reality” show. Its producers have readily admitted to manipulating the narrative, which boggles my mind because…ummm…nothing of consequence seems to happen on [...]
