Comments(2) A recent expedition to the Twin Cities uncovered this 8-man reggae band. Irie Sol is a tight unit with a live show that will blow your joints out. Their horn section is D-Nice… takin’ out suckas and you don’t know how they did it. Their eponymous debut CD drops this fall and they love the […]
category: Popular Culture
Comments(2) Supersized portions and a lack of exercise may not be the only reasons for the spread of obesity in the U.S. A new study finds that having an obese friend makes a person 57 percent more likely to develop a bulging waistline too. The effect was strongest for close friends but also occurred if friends […]
category: Health, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics
Comments(0) [Best commercial or greatest commercial? A hilarious parody of Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger” from Rocky III. BK]
category: Humor, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics, Television
Comments(12) Disney president and CEO Robert Iger told Ed Markey, that concerns raised by the lawmaker about cinema’s influence on underage smoking prompted the action. Disney also plans to place anti-smoking ads on DVDs of films in which the actors light up. –Brooks Boliek, Reuters
category: Health, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics
Comments(0) The rings vibrate in a variety of manners to instruct the wearer which direction to go, which could certainly help an English tourist in Japan feel a lot more at home. Granted, even the inventor admits that the current design is entirely more suited for a lady, but we can envision quite a few macho […]
category: Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics, Technology
Comments(1) [Hilarious re-enactments of great movies like Superman, Spider-Man 1 and 2, James Bond, and Star Wars along with others! From Monty Ernst. BK]
category: Comics, Humor, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics
Comments(0) Before we elect her the official ambassador of “how our society should be educated on,” however, we thought we should put this budding young teacher to the test by taking a red pen to her screed**. And, sure, everyone makes mistakes now and then — we certainly are not immune — but we do feel […]
category: Humor, Pedagogy, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics
Comments(1) A year in the works, the electronic tissue dispenser is being rolled out to the masses by Kimberly-Clark Professional as it seeks to capture more of the $1 billion away-from-home toilet paper market. The company believes most people will be satisfied with five sheets — and use 20 percent less toilet paper. -Greg Bluestein [Interesting […]
category: Popular Culture, Technology
Comments(0) While the study deals only with how much men and women talk, Mehl also found some robust sex-specific differences he plans to publish later. “Men talk about technology, sports and money. They use more numbers,” Mehl said. “Women talk about fashion, but also about relationships.” -Erika Gebel
category: Health, Rhetoric and Poetics
Comments(1) Songwriters Tommy Dunbar and James Gangwer, members of The Rubinoos, allege Lavigne’s hit 2007 single ‘Girlfriend’ is strikingly similar to their 1979 song ‘I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend’. -Monsters and Critics: People News
category: Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics