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OMG MIDTERMS!!!
It’s true, I got a bad case of the midterms. Plus, I haven’t watched a music video or seen a movie in forever – just TV. So instead of boring you my love poems for Dexter, Mad Men, Venture Bros, etc – how about I just post t...
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 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...
The Top 9 New Marvel Films Starring Samuel L Jackson as Nick Fury
Superhero movie fans breathed a collective sigh of relief this week as Marvel Studios announced that Samuel L Jackson will be back to play Colonel Nicholas Joseph Fury… back, that is, for NINE more fucking films!!! While is certainly feels good...
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...
The Top 9 Superheroes Who Don’t Have a Solo Series Right Now (But Should Have One!)
9. Luke Cage. New Avengers may feature Carl Lucas in the lead, but the big name heroes in the book limit his face time. I want a Cage solo series wherein our invulnerable heavy hitter from Harlem handles business on his downtime. 8. Havok. He’s...
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...
The Top 9 Van Halen Songs (A Somewhat Sacrilegious Countdown)
If you follow our weekly podcasts or listen to our Beatcast, you know about my hip hop work with the Unlicensed Attorneys at Law and my original instrumental music made as Nik Furious. I’ve even shared a few tracks by my garage band, Dirty Week...
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...
The Top 9 Fighting Games
This is an ambitious Top 9 list mostly because I’m not a huge gamer. However, I am a rabid fan of fighting games (all fighters, of course… but this list is specifically composed of versus fighters… that’s why you won’t s...
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...
Obama and Bush Are Tag-Teaming WHO Now?
Thank you, Yahoo, for this great headline. I’d be uneasy too if George W and Barack were trying to tag-team me for money. Man, those guys will do ANYTHING to bail us out, huh?...
The Top 9 Greatest X-Men Pencilers of All Time
9. Rick Leonardi 8. Chris Bachalo 7. John Romita, Jr. 6. Frank Quitely 5. Neal Adams 4. Dave Cockrum 3. Jim Lee 2. John Byrne 1. Paul Smith Next: The Top 9 Playable Marvel Characters in Capcom Fighting Games! Why the Top 9? Because 10 is to...
Bars, Brews, and Bullshit - AKA The Great Debate
So I’m at home for the holidays, and one of the rituals is going to Archie Moore’s (the local neighborhood bar) with my sister and her husband for beers and dessert. During the course of our round table, we found ourselves with a lot of c...
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&...
Zombies and Zucchini - Or The World’s Worst Joke
I hate dumb jokes. Me: what’s for dinner? Matt: tonight? Mushroom and Spinach Galette Me: chicken? Matt: no chicken, it’s vegetarian Me: hunh, weird. maybe I’ll do up some brown rice and chickpeas - and zucchini Matt: what does a ve...
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 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 ...
Candy Should Not Require Pageantry
Sometime in middle school I stopped caring for Halloween. I got fed up with going to so many houses and get so much shitty candy, when all I really wanted was Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, Kit Kats, and Watchamacalits. I do not like the idea of b...
Seriously People, You Must Vote Next Week
With one week left till the big day, I implore all of your who are registered to go vote. It’s your civic duty. Not enough motivation for you? How about this? Get the Flash Player to see this player. Is this not the best thing to come out of ...
Found! - Men’s back waxing special in Pittsburgh
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 ...
Found! - Drain on the ground in Peoria, IL
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...
Found! - Dr. Sak license plate parked in Pittsburgh, PA
