Pop Culture

Burn, Baby Burn!

March 19, 2002

I love this trend of utilizing the connections between weblog writers to exchange tangible objects. The first one I came across was 1000 Journals, then 20 Things and the Secret Santa Exchange. The latest is Burn, Baby Burn!—a summer mix CD exchange. You come up with a mix CD, burn 5 copies, and send to [...]

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Slam slam revolution

August 5, 2001

The trip update will have to wait a while longer—other things have been happening lately and I feel compelled to put them down first, so we’ll do this week and then back up if that’s OK with you. So this week was all about drumming, silence, and poetry. And since we’re working backwards anyway, I’ll [...]

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Last of the Weird Food

December 27, 2000

A final installment to my apparent series of weird food sites: Ray’s List of Weird and Disgusting Foods. Warning: This list, as opposed to the earlier two, is a list of pretty gross foods, rather than the still-edible-but-from-another-era. It is a paean with recipes to buttress Ray’s theory that every culture on Earth has one [...]

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Minipops

December 27, 2000

For anyone who hasn’t had enough holiday cheer yet, I present yet another dose of micro-pixelated fun: FlipFlopFlyin’s fun fun fun: christmas style. And if you find it cool, try the non-holiday installment too. And maybe check out his collection of MiniPops. It’s amazing how well you can identify these little figures with so few [...]

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Cool…

December 21, 2000

Well, it’s too late for the holidays, but I have just found the pop culture superstore of my dreams. From H.R. Pufnstuf to the more traditional sock monkey, Wicked Cool Stuff has something for everyone who was a kid during the ’70s. Right now I’m looking at a bitchen’ Atari long sleeve t-shirt, and after [...]

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More Legos

December 13, 2000

Another neato Lego creation, this time on a smaller scale: scenes from Monty Python and the Holy Grail made with little Lego people. The title of the page says it all—”This is english crazy movie.” Find your favorite scene! [via the always-excellent Pop Culture Junk Mail]

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Bodgetastic

December 13, 2000

New guilty pleasure, now that I have cable: Junkyard Wars on TLC (or Scrapheap Challenge for those more Britishly-inclined). This show is a blast to watch: two teams of amateurs have 10 hours to build a device (like a demolition machine or a windmill) using only what they can scavenge from the set’s well-stocked junkyard. [...]

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Get Out the Map

December 8, 2000

With all of the election result mapping that’s been going on lately, I’m glad to see that researchers are putting these techniques to use for important causes. Maybe now, with increased computational power, we can finally determine once and for all one of the most vexing questions of American culture: is a fizzy carbonated beverage [...]

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Scary Food

December 7, 2000

Another entry in the “Scary Food from the ’50s” category: Cate’s Garage Sale Finds. There’s probably some cookbook overlap with the earlier link, but these books are so horrifying in their concepts of tasty food and “nutrition” that another dose of commentary is helpful to remember how far we’ve come in 50 years. [via Pop [...]

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Rudolph Deconstructed

December 6, 2000

Subtext is everything. It never would have occurred to me that Hermey the Elf was gay, but Kottke’s analysis makes perfect sense. Almost makes me wish I’d watched Rudolph last night. Come to think of it, you could probably make the same argument for Rudolph himself, with that flaming red nose and all.

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