Month: October 2014
Ivan Pavlov: A Man Whose Accomplishments Make You Salivate
Though never really deemed a “psychologist,” Ivan Pavlov is always studied in basic psychology classes. His most well-known achievement included measuring the amount of saliva [Read More…]
Esmerelda Gosling & The Celebrity Stable of Children
Perhaps fortuitously sharing a birthday with 2 Chainz (September 12th), Esmerelda Gosling, the daughter of Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling, rounds out a seemingly never-ending [Read More…]
John Lennon: A Libra of the People
On what would have been John Lennon’s seventy-fourth birthday, his effect on the masses continues to remain a force to be reckoned with. His irreverent [Read More…]
Traveling, Traveling…Back Twenty Years to Revisit Bedtime Stories
1994 was one of Madonna’s stranger, more transitional years. It was post-Erotica, which meant not as sexual, and pre-Ray of Light, which meant not as [Read More…]
On Morrissey’s Deathbed
The recent (tear-jerking) reports that Morrissey has cancer has led one to wonder: what would Morrissey say/admit to on his deathbed? Would he be fanciful [Read More…]
Strange Marriage: Charo & Xavier Cugat
Xavier Cugat, in many ways the foil to Desi Arnaz, was the sort of cliche Don Juan to have been married five times. His fifth–and [Read More…]
Twin Peaks in 2016: Allowing for as Much False Expectation as Possible
The internet frenzy caused by the news of Twin Peaks being resuscitated after twenty-five years is only to be the beginning of the flurry of [Read More…]
To Catch A Thief: Showing How Men in the 50s Were Rent Between Being a Loner and a Domestic Animal
One of many of Alfred Hitchcock’s classics, To Catch A Thief, differs from his other work in its clear-cut display of the main character’s utter [Read More…]
Lena Dunham’s New Book and the Increasing Badness of Personal Essay Novels
Let’s get one thing straight. Everything contained within Lena Dunham’s memoir, Not That Kind of Girl, can be found at once proudly displayed on Girls. [Read More…]
How Phoebe Buffay Was Just There
By this time, twenty years after the show’s premiere, countless articles have been written dissecting the nature of Friends. But no one ever seems to [Read More…]