a dapper (and sometimes disgruntled) take on popular culture
Posted in '90s, 90210, Actors, Celebrities, Entertainment, Pop Culture, Television, Video on Sep 2nd, 2010
As 9.02.10 comes to a close, let us reflect on the best thing to come from the original Beverly Hills 90210: David Silver.
Posted in Pop Culture on Sep 2nd, 2010
Oh how my students love me.
One of my students (shout out to Gena) spent her entire summer in Paris and before she left, she purchased a gift for me:
Instant A — well, it would’ve been an instant A if she were taking one of my classes this semester instead of last semester. (OK. Total joke. [...]
Posted in Actors, Celebrities, Entertainment, Fashion, Pop Culture on Sep 2nd, 2010
Wrote a blog post for SFGate.com’s fashion blog, SF Unzipped — wanna hear it? Hear it goes…
William Ivey Long has an impressive track record when it comes to designing costumes for the divas and divos of the musical stage. He’s won Tony Awards for creating the costumes for “The Producers,” “Hairspray,” “Nine,” “Crazy for You,” [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Pop Culture, Video on Aug 31st, 2010
Yakult is, according to Wikipedia, “a Japanese probiotic milk-like product made by fermenting a mixture of skimmed milk with a special strain of the bacterium Lactobacillus casei Shirota.” And I guess its mascot (shown above) is some sort of muppet incarnation of the digestive system.
It’s kind of cute, but at the same time it makes [...]
Posted in Actors, Celebrities, Entertainment, Film, Movies, Pop Culture on Aug 26th, 2010
Long and Barrymore in ‘Going the Distance’ Photo credit: Warner Bros. Pictures
When I say that Nanette Burstein’s romantic comedy, Going the Distance is a fictional take on long distance relationships – I mean exactly that: it’s fictional. I am not saying that they never work nor am I speaking from first-person experience; I am just [...]
Posted in Celebrities, Entertainment, Music, Pop Culture on Aug 25th, 2010
It looks like jailbait pop star and Kanye’s newest homeboy, Justin Bieber has recently, like many celebrities before him, purchased some insurance on his face. He is now a Proactiv spokesmodel.
This made me think that he was eavesdropping on the interview I was doing with John Waters a couple months back. Not only did he [...]
Posted in Actors, Celebrities, Entertainment, Pop Culture, Television on Aug 25th, 2010
NBC’s show, The Event doesn’t air until September 20, but lucky for you, I can hook you up. Actually, I don’t have that much power. In fact, I don’t really have any power of that magnitude. I only have the power of teleportation. Nonetheless, NBC has the power to hook you up. They chose San [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Music, Pop Culture, Random, San Francisco on Aug 24th, 2010
I like how you can add “-pocalypse” to anything and it becomes a revelatory Armageddon-like crisis. For example, remember when there were heaps of snow on the East Coast in February and they called it “Snowpocalypse”? That was kind of cool — but not as cool as the term, “douchepocalypse” which I think originated from [...]
Posted in Actors, Celebrities, Entertainment, Film, Movies, Pop Culture on Aug 19th, 2010
There’s a part in The Switch where Wally (Jason Bateman) has to procure a head lice situation with his artificially/illegitimately inseminated son Sebastian (Thomas Robinson).
It’s probably the best part of the entire movie – that and the tormented cuteness of Robinson’s portrayal of Sebastian.
But let’s rewind just a little bit to paint a picture [...]
Posted in Pop Culture, Shopping, Television on Aug 19th, 2010
Thank God. Every day I pray that someone would create something like this so that I can hide my shameful cleavage that is exposed when I wear my low cut tops.
I love how it comes in a variety of colors — because everyone could use a SPLASH of color to an outfit. Now we [...]