Tag: Genna Rivieccio
Now’s the Time: Abolish the Monarchy
Let’s not ignore the elephant in the room when it comes to “mourning” the queen. Because, for the better part of her reign, she was [Read More…]
X Marks the Gerontophobic Spot
It’s perhaps one of those ideas that no one immediately realizes is brilliant because it’s so simple: to make aging—and the fear of it—the key [Read More…]
Saucy Santana Essentially Said, “I Hated Rich People Until I Was One”
By now, it should be evident that we all say it’s not “okay” to be a shitty human being… until money enters the picture. At [Read More…]
Jay-Z, Champion of Capitalism as “Pulling Yourself Up By Your Bootstraps” As Opposed to System That Has Fucked Over Most of His Brethren
Capitalism and the Black community do not exactly constitute an “acceptable” (and certainly not “safe”) topic to talk about. Least of all by a white [Read More…]
Mondo Ironico #7: Timothée Chalamet, Rich, White Man, Says “It’s Tough To Be Alive”
In a series called Mondo Ironico, let us discuss how fucking antithetical something in pop culture is. “Societal collapse is in the air.” Apart from [Read More…]
American Booty: Nicki Confirms That All the “Super Freaky” Shit Happens in Suburbia
With a song that speaks to sexual freakdom, no one should have been surprised that Nicki Minaj’s concept for the “Super Freaky Girl” video would [Read More…]
Janus-Faced Politicker or Mere Pawn in the Capitalist Agenda?: Gorbachev
It’s easy for the West to say that Russia had a “complicated” relationship with Mikhail Gorbachev in that it doesn’t want to flatly admit that [Read More…]
Last Action Hero and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: Prime Examples of How Shane Black Contrasts NY vs. LA in His Films
During the time when Shane Black co-wrote the script for Last Action Hero, perhaps he was still somewhat slightly enchanted with Los Angeles. Even if [Read More…]
Last Action Hero Is Ultimately Just The Purple Rose of Cairo
It’s usually the norm for Woody Allen to be the one to steal concepts from other filmmakers or playwrights and rework them for himself (see: [Read More…]
Hold Me Closer, Tiny Shred of Sanity: Elton and Britney Enlist the Help of Music Therapy
Although some would try to use Britney Spears’ ability to “bounce back” so “quickly” after being “released” (“gee thanks, Dad”) from her conservatorship roughly nine [Read More…]
