By Dan Freeman
I do not “do” the Twitter. I don’t lead, or follow, or Twit, or Twat in 140 characters or less. In fact, I generally think of the service as nothing more than yet ANOTHER venue (first came “pop culture” blogging) for jobless vainglorious idiots to express their pathetic existences (with some notable exceptions).
Today, I realized what it’s all about.
10. “The worst…
By Dan Freeman
How much does James Cameron ride George Lucas’ dick? Only enough to base an entire movie, Avatar, on the final battle sequence from the last good film in the Star Wars franchise, Return of the Jedi. Each film has its ragtag band of native creatures, each film pits basic bush weaponry against mechanized slaughter machines, each film has exploding trees.…
By Peter Brauer
Watch the popten exclusive real video story of Santa Claus. To keep with the times and provide the nicest toys, Santa was forced earn money by promoting everything from Coke-Cola to M&M’s. His unlimited supply of soda and sweets made him fatter and fatter. When his doctor told him he has type two diabetes, Santa couldn’t stop with the sweets. …
By Hawkes Klein
Just in case you’ve been out of touch or don’t have any funny friends (I got emailed this link by three people) you need to know that WitStream exists.
Remember how your Twitter friends aren’t really that funny? They talk about being hungry and tired and wah wah my job is lame blaaaaahhhhhhhzkjhfsdkhfsdkhgshgfhk;adnbvknnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn oh sorry! I just fell asleep thinking about it!
That’s…
By Peter Brauer
I just had the pleasure of watching The Guild seasons 1 and 2 on a sweet two-disc set. I remember watching season 1 on the internet when it came out a couple of years ago. But I must say this show is definitely best when packaged together on one DVD. While each season is broken up into many episodes, the…
By Peter Brauer
I had the pleasure of watching the dress rehearsal for Robert Cary and Benjamin Feldman’s new play Inventing Avi (and other theatrical maneuvers). It was side splitting funny. The play, which is directed by Mark Waldrop, tells the behind the scenes story of how duplicitous people will be to make it in theater. The cast is hysterical and employs great…
The best 2.0′d comic strip since Garfield Minus Garfield. I love me some Bukowski, and I can’t think of a better mash-up for his talents.
This opens up a whole world of comic mash-ups I’d like to see. Cartoonists take note! (And please add some in the comments, folks…)
Big Nate by JD Salinger
Blondie by Raymond Carver
Family Circus by…
By Chris Baily
Anyone been spending time looking around at all your friends and maybe getting a little jealous of decisions they made and you skipped? Like Michael Jackson used to say… You are not alone.
Nick Baily – my brother and occasional contributor to POPTEN sent this to me last night… super timely and funny post from the NY Times blog “Happy Days”
Money…
By Peter Brauer
Thank you Mr. Onion for making me laugh for so many years. This fake news is priceless. (Disclaimer: Theodore Barrett, the Former White House Press Secretary is my dear cousin Jay Potter. So my opinion is completely biased.) But you should watch this and draw your own conclusions about its hilarity.
Another lollerific adventure from Cracked. I only wish they’d included LotR’s five-minute solution- flying the ring to Mt.Doom on the eagles. Still, many of these are pretty priceless.
Matt Ellsworth and I met while making Second Skin, a documentary I directed on virtual worlds. He’s one of the boys from Indiana who loves to game. Our conversations over the years have led to a few things, one of them was finding a common love for Johnnie Walker Black Label, and the second was a penchant for postulating about…
The geek have officially inherited the Earth, as was prophesied in Psalms 37:7 (more or less) so many bearded men ago. It’s a fairly recent thing, having happened somewhere between Google’s ascent to ubiquity, the second installment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and the eyebrow-raising popularity of Weird Al’s White & Nerdy. And since history is told by the…
How much does James Cameron ride George Lucas’ dick? Only enough to base an entire movie, Avatar, on the final battle sequence from the last good film in the Star Wars franchise, Return of the Jedi. Each film has its ragtag band of native creatures, each film pits basic bush weaponry against mechanized slaughter machines, each film has exploding trees.…
Come with me, friends, to another time. Let’s say 1998ish. Ross and Rachel rule the airwaves, ER is hailed as the Best Drama Evar. As the sun sets on Seinfeld, critics mourn its passing, proclaiming that we’re not likely to see a show of its brilliance ever again.
I watched an episode of Seinfeld yesterday. It’s still funny, despite the canned…
I sincerely hope I made every attempt to be fair and honest and if I left off a film you love, please know that it was not with malice and there are only ten spots. I even split them into two genres because taking any of these off the list kind of made my heart hurt. Also, feel free to…