So I’ve only seen a few seasons of Project Runway, and I truly enjoyed it. It’s an actually interesting reality show – I like watching people be creative on deadline, with strict constraints. It’s sort of like the end of my college career, except that I didn’t get to dress hot girls in poetry. Come [...]
Over on the Monkey See blog, a complete and total genius has come up with an NPR name meme. I’ve always wanted to know where some of the worldly and vaguely foreign sounding names of NPR correspondents came from, and now there’s a simple formula. Take the first letter of your middle name, insert it [...]
When I was a kid, my jetlagged father would wake up at 3 a.m. and go sit in the den and watch music videos that he had taped from MTV onto a VHS tape. Occasionally, I would wake up and go upstairs and we would watch child-appropriate 80′s videos. As I remember the 80′s from [...]
In the last week or so, NPR has launched “Monkey See“, a new pop culture blog written by Linda Holmes. I’ve read the first few entries, and it seems to be off to a good start. Ms. Holmes was a former Television Without Pity writer, which gives me great hope, as I love TWOP’s scathing [...]
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Both of these are in/associated with one post at the “Monkey See” pop culture blog at NPR.org: This picture from the NPR homepage: And for one particular reason given why he’s wearing said shirt: “Back of shirt says, in masking tape, ‘DID NOT PUT ME ON THE LIST OF 50 MOST IMPORTANT RECORDINGS OF THE [...]