Under Paris: The Dystopian Shark Movie That Comes Just in Time for the Olympics (Though Probably Not in Time to Make a Difference for Climate Change)

On the heels of a heart-wrenching report about how pharmaceutical drugs have infected the waters of our planet so egregiously that they’re causing unexpected and [Read More…]

“I Keep My Side of the Street Clean”—Not!: Taylor Swift’s Garbage (Not to Be Confused With Taylor Swift Is Garbage)

Like most things that the hoi polloi are expected to endure/“deal with,” celebrities and the otherwise wealthy are not. For someone of Taylor Swift’s caliber [Read More…]

“Snow on the Beach,” Climate Change Child’s Play, Doesn’t Provide the Best Simile For Evoking the “Unusual” Phenomenon of Falling in Requited Love

Even when “Snow on the Beach” was “first” released on the first iteration of Taylor Swift’s Midnights, “all the way back” in October of 2022, [Read More…]

That Littering Scene in Mad Men Cuts to the Core of How Corporations Would End Up Pulling A Fast One on Their Consumers

Amid the many scenes from Mad Men that still linger in one’s mind, one of the oddest (at least to modern eyes) is the moment [Read More…]

Lorde’s Video for “Fallen Fruit”: A Missed Opportunity in Significantly Evoking What the Song is All About

Does staring “thoughtfully” into the camera really “mean something” anymore? Lorde seems to think so. That it’s all that’s required to get across the message [Read More…]