PopCulturalist

  • Following in the footsteps of Bravo’s “Real Housewives” series, MTV’s crusty ol’ “The Real World” is coming to Washington, D.C. Possibly because they need more drunks with STDs in D.C. running around like douche bags. The cable network announced Wednesday that the 23rd season of the reality series would begin production in the nation’s capital…

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  • CBS News took a stab at the whole Disney’s first African-American princess story with their new New Orleans-based “The Princess and the Frog” film. Naturally they discussed both the excitement and Disney’s less than stellar track record when it comes to portraying various ethnicities in animation. (*Cough* Song of the South! *Cough*) They also talk…

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  • Leggings are NOT PANTS, ladies! They’re not pants! Just because everyone is doing it doesn’t mean it’s a good idea By Luvvie As you must be aware now, I have a personal vendetta against trends and all that comes with it. I seldom participate in trendy fashion because I like to be able to rock…

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  • Ding dong, your show is dead.If you tried to save “The Game” and “Everybody Loves Chris” on the CW your efforts went unnoticed. You, sirs and madams, are NOT fresh faced white teens. What you want to watch does not matter.  But you knew that, right? So get out your chisels and the limestone so…

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  • I hate to say it, but the best part of this video is that my beloved divo Kanye is barely in any of it, giving up all the screen time to enigmatic pop/R&B dance star Rihanna. In the video, I find her beautiful, unsettling and haunted … and pant-less for a small part of it.…

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  • My favorite divo Kanye West — who’s mother was an English professor mind you — has come out against books while trying to sell one. The sparse 52-page book is called “Thank You and You’re Welcome,” which made me think of comic Will Ferrell’s one man George W. Bush show “You’re Welcome, America.” The level…

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  • Weezies!From Huffington Post, via the Columbia Journalism Review: Wanda Sykes made fun of the media skirting the race issue when talking about Michelle Obama during an appearance on Leno Wednesday night… Sykes says the media didn’t know how to cover her. “There are little subtle ways they dance around the race issue,” Sykes told Leno.

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