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Culturology 049 – Based on Facts
I didn’t go to see it, and probably won’t ever, but there’s a movie out right now that perhaps you’ve heard of: The Fourth Kind. Apparently, it’s about a spate of alien abductions that happened once upon a time in Alaska...
Culturology 048 – Now With New Sub-Features!
No, I haven’t made a mistake. “47″ is such an unlucky number, I decided, way back around Culturology 035 (or was it Culturology 035?) to figure out a way that I could skip right from 046 to 048, and it worked, so here we are, that...
Culturology 046 – JCVD Roundtable #1: Kicksport
As Nick mentioned his JCVD letter of intent over the weekend, Culturology will be joining in on the officially-begun-but-lasting-as-long-as-possible Van Damme Fest 2K9+, by posting occasional roundtable discussions focusing on a couple or a few of Je...
Culturology 045 – Cartoon Last Bash
As I typed out the “045″ in the subject line of today’s post, I wondered to myself as to whether I’d really been typing out three digits-worth for the numbers on all of these articles, not really believing that I’ve ever...
Culturology 044 – A Misguided Foray into Territory Dangerously Far from Culture
In case it’s ever not clear that the apparent discord between myself and Neal is anything more than just staged tomfoolery hoping to excite the otherwise occasionally drab tendency-to-agree-with-each-other that dominates my online relationship ...
Culturology 043 – Unsimulated Criticism
A celebration is in order with this post, as it marks the beginning of the second year of Culturology. Crazy, I know. I think forty-two posts/articles (some more fully formed than others, though all of them springing forth, Athena-like, from my foreh...
Culturology 021 - Comic Book Disloyalty and the Future of Cinema
Figuring that the rest of Audioshocker would have Street Fighter covered, rather than running out to see it over the weekend, I finally got around to seeing Push, which really wasn’t too bad. In fact, it was just about as good as it needed to b...
Culturology 020 - Still Talking About That Thing From Last Week
One of the things about writing a column on Mondays is that if something catches your eye on Tuesday or Wednesday, and you decide to write about it, then you’re already a week late by the time that you’ve gotten your opinion out there. An...
Culturology 019 - 3-D Recession-Era Special!
Eager to hop on the recession-era 3-D movie craze, I ran out over the weekend to see the recently-released stop motion feature Coraline. The movie had enough cred going for it in the first place, being stop-motion in the first place, and based on a b...
Culturology 018 - WALL-E: Creepy Stalker or Lonely Atavist?
For this week, we have a special guest culturologist analyzing culture along with me: none other than Audioshocker’s own Nick Marino. We’ve decided to structure this as a debate, so hopefully you all will be able to chime in in the commen...
Culturology 017 - Sports! Sports! Sports!
Well, it’s a good thing I don’t live on the West Coast, since otherwise I would never get things up on time on Mondays. But I had, once again, a busy weekend, the highlight of which was, as you might guess, given the conversation a couple...
Culturology 016 - Things That Go ‘Punk’ in the Night
For as long as the Bad Brains’ song “Fearless Vampire Killers” has been one of my favorite songs, I’ve always been proud of the fact that the title of one of my favorite songs is “Fearless Vampire Killers.” It stri...
Culturology 015 - Non-Starter
So most of you probably have to work today, or have been working already. Of course, as you probably recall from your own school days, MLK Jr. Day is often a full holiday for Universities. So when I slept in today, once again having not yet written a...
Culturology 014 - Football and Beer
Welcome to the latest “Oh shit! It’s Monday already!” edition of Culturology. I’m feeling more and more like I didn’t know what I was getting myself into when I told Nick I’d write a weekly post for him. So here go...
Culturology 013 - Back for the New Year and as Half-assed as ever!
Well, I meant to come storming back into this new year of culturological musings with all guns blazing, but here I am, already well into the work day, the doldrums of which this post is intended to ameliorate already well set in, I imagine. And I am ...
Culturology 012 - Happy Solstice!
Well, the winter solstice is still a few days away, but this is really just a placeholder post anyway. If you don’t know this already, or couldn’t tell from my cultural elitism, I’m in Graduate school, and as such, am still operatin...
Culturology 011 - The Problem With Sincerity
It appears to be the case that I’m not quite done talking about this whole ironic enjoyment issue just yet, as much as it’s something of a digression from what I’d rather be doing with this column (though, as mentioned last week, I&...
Culturology 010.5 - Ironic Enjoyment Redux
Rather than writing this up as a comment to my most recent Culturology post, I think it’ll be easier if I just put this up as an addendum to the first. First of all, I have to admit that I wrote out the prior post in one fell swoop Monday afternoon...
Culturology 010 - On Ironic Enjoyment
If I determined anything over my Thanksgiving holiday, it’s that, if I’m going to keep up with writing these posts on a weekly basis, I’m going to have to do a better job of keeping up with and generating opinions about pop culture....
Culturology 009 - At the Movies with Culturology!
So I went and saw the James Bond moving picture Thursday night, still within the first week of its release, as intended. I’ll of course be dedicating some space/time here to my take on the movie, but I’d like, first to reflect a bit on se...
Culturology 008.5 - Signs of Evil
An addendum to Culturology 008 - Hours Late and Surrounded by Evil, here’s the sign hanging up in Pete’s condo building:...
Culturology 008 - Hours Late and Surrounded by Evil
Those of you that are already adamant readers of my still young weekly post here at Audioshocker may have checked in this morning, or on your lunch at the office, only to find that this post was not yet there for your reading enjoyment. I apologize. ...
Culturology 007 - Nugent Way Update!
With Tuesday’s historic election, the country seems to be on the way to change. I personally have my fingers crossed for some serious infrastructure (if you’re not as anxious for me to see a new High Voltage Direct Current National Power ...
Culturology 006 - Films versus Movies, Fact or Fiction?
A friend of mine recently asked me if I was interested in going and seeing the new Kevin Smith movie, Zack and Miri Make a Porno. I had to politely decline; I’ve never been a fan of Kevin Smith. I never could even make it through the entirety o...
Culturology 005 - Here’s to Future Nostalgia!
I’d like to start once again this week with something from several months ago, Portishead’s most recent album, Third. It is not my intention to write an album review here; rather, I’d like to point out something, which is obvious about it, that...
Culturology 004 - Dick Cheney, We Forgive You
So this week I’d finally look ahead to the future, and talk about something that I’m sure no one else, anywhere, ever, has yet talked about: the title of the new James Bond picture, Quantum of Solace. Or, it’s one of those things that it seems ...
Culturology 003 - Rallying ‘Round the Rally
So I know in my first few columns here that I haven’t been quite as topical as I might be—more or less current, but not as current as I can be—I do aspire to one day being so on the pulse of American Popular Culture as to blog these things as t...
Sneaking Into Comics 005 - Tom DeFalco + Inappropriate Emails = Cracked.com
I was on the phone with the human resources department at DC Comics when I missed a call from Tom DeFalco. It was early 2005. I had been emailing humormag@yahoo.com for a couple weeks after finding a vague posting on Monster.com calling for humor sub...
Culturology 002 - Shoot Brad Pitt in the Head After Reading
I realize that this post is, maybe, three weeks late to be as topical as it could be, but let’s look all the way back, for a moment, to the month of September and the Coen brother’s most recent film, Burn After Reading. I saw this on its opening ...
Culturology 001 - The Nugent Way
I must admit, I’m a bit nervous about my first post on the Audioshocker. Not that I should be (I did, after all, once upon a time, participate in one of the podcasts), but I am concerned that I am simply neither hip enough nor up-to-date with m...
