Today in pop culture: Like whoa, can you handle it? edition
July 29th, 2008 by Amanda Schurr in Arts, Film, Music, News, PoliticsEven Extreme Makeover recipients aren’t immune to the foreclosure crisis…
The earth moved in a sizable, seismic way. Here’s hoping our west coast friends are okay.
Winehouse in the hospital. Winehouse out of the hospital. Rinse, and repeat.
Hallmark and Fox team up for, um, blockbuster greeting cards with no substance and shark-jumping special effects.
“Two tickets to the gun show?” Or just this instead?
Speaking of which, “Hey Laaaaadies!” Jerry busted for packin’ heat.
Starbucks — More cuts in coffee town. Those without jobs? Likely as bitter as the brew itself.
If only Starbucks had implemented their “appreciation beanbag toss.” ‘Cause, you know, it’s all about “appreciation.” And, tossing tossers.
This is fine and… cough… all, but we’ll… cough… still see Pineapple Express first.
Again with this madness? As we said to the Duggars yesterday, you make us wanna punch babies. Your babies.
Bennigans goes bye-bye; in memoriam to the “krispy” Monte Cristo. (LOCAL UPDATE: The SRQ location is a franchise and, as such, remains open. So devour your sammich with comfort… And…)
Courtesy of the Huff Po, you want a margarita to go with that?
For the motherflipping linguists out there.
Crazy op-ed contributor Jon Voight blogs politics; the world wishes he’d go back to being a crazy grandpa.
Congrats, corporate douchebags. You’re all winners to us.
Woe is O(prah). (If only she had that slutty Cyrus in her pages.) Jezebel weighs in.
No room for competing Satellites here. Say hello to Sirius XM.
[Sound of slow, mocking clap.] Well played. Well. Played. (And another excuse to link to this…)
This, in San Francisco of all places? [Sound of a second, slow, mocking clap.]
Cross reference alert! Our past local encounters with the Naked Cowboy.
Hmmmm…. we could totally get our favorite Shel Silverstein verse on our back!
Scrabulous is Facebooked out of existence. Now there are only 1,587,296 (an approximate) ways to waste your time. And ours.
The music half-year in review. Yeppers, the biz — Bon Jovi notwithstanding — is still in the crapper.
And with this… with this… and with this…
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