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Whoopi ~ Rape-rape

By ~LS~ On October 2, 2009 · Add Comment · In Feminism, Politics, Pop Culture and tagged Tagged With: Feminism, Pop Culture, Rape, Sex, The View, Whoopi

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By ~LS~ On September 30, 2009 · Add Comment · In Humor, Pop Culture and tagged Tagged With: Humor, Music, Pop Culture, Queer, Texas

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10 Random Musings (#10 is the best)

By ~LS~ On September 18, 2009 · Add Comment · In Random Musings and tagged Tagged With: D&D, For Wordies, Generations, Obama, Politics, Pop Culture, Race

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The End of an Era – Deaths this year

By ~LS~ On August 7, 2009 · 1 Comment · In Pop Culture and tagged Tagged With: Pop Culture

With the recent deaths of many of my childhood icons — Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, Walter Cronkite, Ed McMahon, John Hughes, Bea Arthur – I got to thinking about the famous people who died this year. I remember growing up and watching the Oscars segment honoring those who the industry lost during the year. It seems like there’s more celebrity deaths this year than ever before. Actually, it’s probably more accurate to say I’m now old enough to recognize the famous people who are dying.

Curiously, Wikipedia keeps track of the deaths of “important” or famous people by month and year. I looked over the list for this year and I was amazed at how many Hollywood people I recognized. Some fascinating people died this year. I suppose they do every year, but this is the first time I ever took notice. I also noticed that there were great losses [...]

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Pointless Cover Songs (or more proof that I’m hopelessly retro)

By ~LS~ On June 20, 2009 · Add Comment · In Pop Culture and tagged Tagged With: Music, Pop Culture

I just saw one of the trailers for the new Fame and obviously there’s a buzz about the quality of the remake. I have some hope for it since it has Debbie Allen, Bebe Neuwirth, Kelsey Grammer, and Charles S. Dutton in it. I just like the original Irene Cara song, and Erica Gimple’s version, corny as they comes off today. The new version sounds generic to me.

I already talked about Seether’s remake of Careless Whisper. Since I’m on vacation, I decided to make a pointless list of pointless cover songs. Note, I made this list prior to finding the Covers Project, which is actually a pretty decent website. So….

My Top Ten List of Pointless Cover Songs (in no particular order):

1. Anything by Britney Spears (goes without saying….)

2. Imagine by John Lennon, pointless cover by Perfect Circle

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L. Frank Baum and Oz

By ~LS~ On June 6, 2009 · Add Comment · In Feminism, Politics and tagged Tagged With: Books, Goals, Pop Culture, Queer

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