Author: Genna Rivieccio
Genna Rivieccio writes for myriad blogs, mainly this one, The Burning Bush, Missing A Dick, The Airship and Meditations on Misery.
Visages Villages–Un Beau Mirage
The camera as pen, writing a narrative in a literary and therefore sentimentalist way, is nothing new to auteur Agnès Varda. From the moment of her [Read More…]
My Loneliness Is Killing Me (No, Really)
Britney Spears’ “…Baby One More Time” might have been written off as “a little tween ditty” when it was first released–with Spears herself regarded as [Read More…]
Hopefully Jared Leto Plays A Better Hugh Hefner Than Mark David Chapman
Jared Leto may have the forgiveness of time on his side when it comes to audiences forgetting all about the rather bad 2007 Mark David [Read More…]
Better Off Dead: “Mary Jane’s Last Dance” & What It Says About Projecting Expectations Onto A Lover
Maybe there’s something to the necrophiliac’s fetish for the corpse. Of course, like all things perverse, this predilection tends to be most commonly found in [Read More…]
The Cringeworthiness of Re-Watching The Break-Up
When The Break-Up came out in 2006, it was on the heels of Jennifer Aniston’s own highly public break-up with Brad Pitt—or rather, she was [Read More…]
Battle of the Sexes: A League of Their Own-esque for More Reasons Than Bill Pullman Being In It
“I never said women were better. I said we deserved the same respect as men.” Billie Jean King (Emma Stone, clearly vying for another Oscar [Read More…]
Azealia Banks Might Have A Point About Cardi B
The somehow divisive results of the number one song for the week of September 25th on the Billboard Hot 100 not only speaks to the [Read More…]
How Hugh Hefner’s Death Marks the Demise of the Last Vestige of Masculinity As We Knew It
Hugh Hefner: deemed a god by some, a lothario of an asshole by others. But no matter who you asked, the general consensus was always [Read More…]
The Remake of Spawn, Starring Kylie Jenner
There aren’t really too many scenarios in the realm of Kylie Jenner spawning another member of the Kardashian/Jenner brood at the tender age of twenty [Read More…]
Reflecting on the “Scandalous” Ads For Gossip Girl on Its Ten-Year Anniversary
When Gossip Girl‘s first episode aired on September 19, 2007, the Bush-drenched United States could never have anticipated just how “scandalous” the ads promoting the [Read More…]
