It's the start of another new year, better call the newspaper up. I'm not usually one for self-indulgent posts (cough, cough) and I have studiously avoided blogging memes, but I couldn't resist end of year wrap-up, even if there are still a few days left in 2006. For those interested, just snag the first sentence of the first post of each month and let 'er rip.
January: There are no 20-something acting superstars these days, and The New York Times blames it on the actors.
Almost a year later and it's still true. Come on 20-somethings, step it up. Is Lindsay Lohan the best you have to offer?February: Lots of interesting tidbits about the new James Bond film, Casino Royale, today.
Yeah, I was going on about the new Bond back them and months later it was totally worth it. Best Bond in years.March: Forget the Seinfeld curse, that’s so early 2000s. The question now, is there a Friends curse?
Seems like Matthew Perry has put an end to that speculation with the full-year pick-up of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. Not that any of the rest of them have anything to brag about.April: Why do TV shows have such inferiority complexes?
I still don't really want to see The Simpsons movie.May: It’s funny how pop culture moments happen.
It sure is. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!June: File these under Ways In Which My Life is Unlike a Celebrity.
I could pretty much begin all posts this way.July: Canadian musicians haven’t recorded anything worth commemorating since 1970.
I don't actually believe that to be true - just being overly dramatic for effect.August: Jer is back at his cottage - lucky bastard - and tagged me to step in for a post.
Yeah, I'm a real slacker. I wish it was summer already.September: I wonder who looked at the short and stubby Hobbits and thought, “what it would be like if they could sing Broadway tunes?”
September was a truly geeky month for me.October: Will Lost sink or swim this year?
Still waiting to see. The second-half of the season better rock. And enough with the Others.November: It’s odd, I know this song, but I can’t say I’ve ever listened to it.
Pop culture, you don't always need to participate in it to be part of it.December: It's down to the final day of voting for the Canadian Blog Awards and Popped Culture is in a tight, three-way battle for the title of Best Entertainment Blog, thanks to your votes and proselytizing on my behalf.
Second! It's the new first!
The results are in for the Best Cultural/Entertainment Blog at the Canadian Blog Awards and I can't deny the fact that you kinda like me, right now, you kinda like me! The votes have been tallied and Popped Culture came in... fourth. Hmmm. It's like high school all over again.
I'd also like to thank/ask you to visit the other members of the illustrious Top Five: Department of Culture, The Nag on the Lake and The Delete Bin, which are all new blogs to me, and is kind of the point of all this anywho.
It's the sort of thing I'm willing to do and all I ask is for you to vote for me as Best Cultural/Entertainment Blog in the Canadian Blog Awards, where I am one of five finalists.
My most used words from the last 20 posts on Popped Culture (minus some more common vocabulary), courtesy of Wordle.net. Typography toys are fun.
So, Archie is watching you. Or at least Archie Comics Publications is and they aren't too pleased about any depictions of the Riverdale gang participating in anything related to sex, violence or any other adult situation. But at least they aren't going to sue me, so that's cool. (Those of you reading through RSS will need to see the posted image to see what I'm talking about.) Here is the posting that started it all.
Four years can be a lifetime in pop culture, more so for a blog. So Happy Birthday Popped Culture, which turned four today.
"These are the people who saw an overcrowded marketplace and said, 'Me too!'"
Popped Culture is taking a short hiatus to recharge and catch up with some pop culture instead of just writing about it. But not to worry (if that's the sort of thing you're prone to doing), I'm not packing it in, just a vacation of sorts. See ya soon.
It's the start of another new year, better call the newspaper up. I'm not usually one for self-indulgent posts (cough, cough) and I have studiously avoided blogging memes, but I couldn't resist end of year wrap-up, even if there are still a few days left in 2006. For those interested, just snag the first sentence of the first post of each month and let 'er rip.
I’d like to thank my agent, my lawyers, God (in that order), and all the little people who helped me get where I am today. Oh, I told myself I wouldn’t cry. Hey, don’t play me off!
Happy Birthday Popped Culture! My blog turned two yesterday and it has turned into such a precocious little tyke.
