I was hoping to devote Cocktail Crashers to the history of Black Friday, but it’s far less interesting than I thought. Instead, I figured I’d go back to my favorite past time- finding the bizarre etymology of words and phrases that seem slightly out of place, until you study their origin, and find that they’re not only… Read More
By Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza
I was watching a part of the Macy’s Day Parade yesterday. I saw something I had always wanted to see, and never knew I did. The Fred Hill Briefcase Drill Team. The group was created by Fred Hill for his suit store he opened a long time ago. Well since then the store closed, but the drill team… Read More
By Hawkes Klein
Finally we can start listening to Christmas music again! Growing up we listening to Elivis and Willy Nelson’s Christmas albums and watching “White Christmas” and “Christmas Vacation” over and over! I just moved my 100+ Christmas song mix over to my ipod and I’m listening to it now!
I synched up my ipod with this video (because I… Read More
By Matt Lambert
You know what there’s not? A dearth of reviews of Chinese Democracy. Well first of all, the only review of Democracy that anyone really needs to read is Chuck Klosterman’s. Secondly, this isn’t really a review, it’s a Popten list. And thirdly, Guns N’ Roses has been my favorite band since I was eleven, which I… Read More
By Jeremy Kotin
-Not quite just another meal in the big city
It started as a standard meal in the West Village. As the appetizer was being served, I turned and saw we had been seated next to Lisa the “evil lesbian” from Top Chef: Chicago. I wasn’t sure if this meant I was at a good restaurant, I mean… Read More
There’s nothing I love more than finding a passage in Shakespeare or Moby Dick that I’ve heard before in a hip hop song. What better proof that all ideas are recycled, translated for the current generation?
Dr. Dre? Quoting Moby Dick. Eminem? Quoting Chuang Tzu and Shakespeare. (Really, my theory is that Eminem and Dre travelled back… Read More
By Chivo
Forget moving further and further out on the L, or- dare I say it- sprawling out to the JMZ… HOBOKEN is where it’s at. Sure the people suck, but we’ve got so many “artists” here in Williamsburg and East Bushwick that we can infest the Jersey shore, attract the yuppies and BAM! Sooner than you know it,… Read More
No cavemen, I promise.
You have to click the link “Burger King Commercial” to view. Don’t miss that one!
The rest after the Jump…
In a country where all the good ideas have been taken by all the awesome people in other countries, we’ve resorted to repetition. I mean really, who doesn’t like their parents clothes, or music, or drug habits? It’s pretty much the basis of this whole pop culture thing. I remember being in seventh grade, and the new new… Read More
As I was searching for a specific part of every M.A.S.K. cartoon that reminded me of Obama’s Economic Team Formation, I came across this video…
I had to post it, because it is so completely, unbelievably off. I’ve never even heard of half of these shows, and I was a cartoon junkie for that entire decade! However,… Read More
Tomorrow marks 100 days since the BP oil spill in the gulf. I know they “successfully” capped it, but as long as that sucker is still leaking, I’m saying there is still an oil spill. But this disaster got me thinking a lot about the good old days of folk – when popular music regularly included anthems… Read More
When I was in my formative high school days, going to the Warped Tour was a highlight of the summer. Just old enough to drive, we’d pile about 9 bros and skateboards into mom-duke’s Ford Exploder and drive at high speed to Fitchburg or some other pseudo-municipality in middle Massachusetts, blasting Rage Against The Machine and… Read More
