Category: Pop Culture
Party’s Over: Knowing How to Make an Exit, Michael Alig Dies of Heroin Overdose on Jesus’ Birthday
So many aspects of Michael Alig’s existence smack of a heavy-handed metaphor for New York City. As though he was created for the sole purpose [Read More…]
Lily Allen, Jill-of-all-Trades, Ends Up As the Poster Child For The Year of Masturbation
Maybe it all makes sense coming from a girl who got her start with a single called “Smile” (#fuckyouKatyPerry). And what’s Lily Allen smiling about [Read More…]
Mariah, Ariana and Jennifer: A Christmas Simulation
Mariah Carey, by now a well-known whore for Christmas and all the dividends that arrive in her bank account with it, has not gotten lazy [Read More…]
The Bisection of Britney’s Personality As Likened to the Norman Bates Defense Mechanism
As everyone continues to cry #FreeBritney on her thirty-ninth birthday, wondering how much agency this woman approaching forty really has, it bears noting that Britney [Read More…]
The Philistines Unable to Discern Maradona From Madonna
Granted, no one has been conditioned to expect much from Americans since, oh, around the time Nixon took office, let alone be aware of other [Read More…]
Brad Pitt and Kurt Cobain Amnesia: Harry Styles Isn’t The Only Bloke To Have Donned A Dress, Nor The First To Have Rekindled the Double Standard For Straight Men Freely “Playing With” Gender
It is mainly, of course, because of the “human stain” far right commentators that are Candace Owens and Ben Shapiro that anything tends to get [Read More…]
White Girls in Native American Garb
A tradition almost as time-honored as Thanksgiving itself in America, the odd gravitational pull white girls feel toward dressing in Native American garb (mostly for [Read More…]
Mariah Carey’s Only Mentions of Madonna in Her Autobio Are Expectedly Shade-Drenched
While Madonna is no stranger to being her own Master of Shade, it has always been, in this particular dynamic, Mariah Carey to keep the [Read More…]
North’s Friesian Horses Redux
While seven years old isn’t exactly a milestone for any child, when you’re North West, it apparently warrants your very own Friesian horse. This is [Read More…]
An Amalgam of 00s Tabloid Stars Makes the Case for a Lack of Feminine Agency in Dollhouse: The Eradication of Female Subjectivity From Popular Culture
Perhaps the most grim of realities are best expressed by puppets (via stop-motion animation, in this case). Filmmaker Nicole Brending likely knew that harsh truths [Read More…]
