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MAMAPOP IS SMART POP CULTURE ANALYSIS, COMMENTARY, MERCILESS FUN-MAKING AND OTHER SUNDRY AWESOME, DISHED UP DAILY BY PARENTS, FOR PARENTS, AND ANYONE ELSE WHO UNDERSTANDS THAT PLAYTIME IS BETTER WITH VODKA. PLEASE TO ENJOY.

MamaPop Founders, Editors & Tyrannical Overlords:

Tracey, aka Sweetney, has a blackbelt in the Couch Potato Arts and is proud of it. Obsessed with very bad reality tv in all it's wonderous forms and the bizarre spoils of the intarwebs, she still misses Buffy, stalks Joss Whedon (lovingly), and cannot freakin' believe you aren't watching The Wire yet. And oh yes, she'll feel compelled to tell you so, OVER AND OVER AGAIN, UNTIL YOUR EARS BLEED. She designs awesome blogs and twitter backgrounds at Sweet Blog, Covets consumer goods at We Covet, is an Editor for Kirtsy and a Contributing Editor at BlogHer. (She likes to keep busy.) She's a prototypical Gen-Xer, a mouthy broad, and a stinkin' commie.
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 Amy, aka Amalah, has terrible taste in television and sometimes needs to be reminded that the characters are 1) not actually real, and 2) cannot hear her yelling at them, the stupid morons. She looks forward to sharing her extremely juvenile sense of humor with her very own juvenile child, along with her love of wine and cheese and badly-dressed celebrities. She met Andrew Shue once and has not shut up about it since. Her secret dreams include appearing as a contestant on both Project Runway and The Amazing Race. She cannot sew, but does know how to drive a stick shift.
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MamaPop Managing Editor & Whipcracking Underlord:

Catherine, aka Her Bad Mother, believes that devotion to pop culture is a sign of higher intelligence. After spending more than a decade getting advanced degrees in political philosophy, she discovered, belatedly, that she much preferred mothering, gossip-mongering and incessant navel-gazing to studying Plato. She now spends most of her time writing, wiping bums and cruising the Internet in search of breaking gossip and stupid cat pictures; the rest of it, she spends watching America's Next Top Model and wondering whether Western civilization really is in decline, or if that's just her imagination. She thinks that Jake Gyllenhaal is totally gay.
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MamaPop Brain Trust, Contributing Writers & Snark For Hire:

Kelly, aka kdiddy, lives in beautiful Pittsburgh, PA with her husband and six-year-old son. She very ungracefully balances a full-time job, her family, a big, old house, and the beginning, tentative steps toward a master's degree in writing. Her vices include the internets, reading everything in sight, compulsive writing, TV, watching as many movies as possible, and being a pinko.
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Jodi, aka Jodifur, is one of the few native Washingtonians still living in the DC area.  She is a TV junkie, and once posted her entire tivo season pass list as well as the time she spent a week torturing Direct TV because her tivo broke.  She works part-time as an attorney in child abuse and lives with her husband, toddler, and a dog with many, many issues.  She looks forward to using her very expensive legal education to analyze the legal woes of celebrities.
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Dana blogs at Mamalogues and is a talking head on an affiliate radio station in St. Louis. A one-time journalist, Dana has authored an award-winning newspaper column, done television commentary, appeared on the Fine Living network, and founded a bloggers guild in her city along with a local advertising network. She believes that beef jerky is its own food group and that Stag is a fancy beer because it comes in a gold can. She loves sci-fi, anything by Wes Anderson, any television show where peroxide-blondes slap each other, southern gothic, and opining about pop-culture. She and her husband live in St. Louis city with their two sons.
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Miss Banshee is a rabid monkey masquerading as a 31 year old woman. She has lived in nine cities in seven years, was once fondled by Keith Richards, and almost broke her back in the name of Black Sabbath. She was once a timid, blonde Catholic school girl, and now she is a foul mouthed, ill-tempered, black haired pierced, tattooed freak. Don’t worry, she’s still a dork. Her voracity for pop culture and gossip is all consuming and the source of so much glee that it worries her friends. She abandoned the entertainment industry to work with people with severe mental illness, which is not unlike working with actors at all. Miss Banshee enjoys coffee, cigarettes, big black boots, the musical stylings of Tom Waits, making fun of her cats, and never turning off the TV. She pities no fools, and will not tolerate any smacktalk about the great state of New Jersey or the power of the Boston Red Sox, so you best ackrite. You can read her psychotic ramblings over at Inverse Candlelight, where you can find a picture of her dressed as Boy George for her 2nd grade Halloween parade.
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SnarkyAmber is a full-time student at a crunchy, hippie liberal arts college in the Pacific Northwest, where she is also employed for a staggeringly low salary as the coordinator of the campus queer outreach program. When she is not pushing the gay agenda upon innocent students or attending classes on how to become a Marxist feminazi, Amber can be found watching stupid TV with friends or playing Rock Band with her husband, Andrew. She may also be destroying your world in a game of Scrabulous on Facebook.
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Sarah, aka Goon Squad Sarah, lives in the Washington D.C. suburbs and spends a lot of time obsessing about football, beer and Top Chef. She likes to think that she was a fairly rational person before giving birth to twins in 2004 but really she was probably messed up WAY before that. Sarah spent the years of 1981 - 1992 watching MTV. She blames her inability to do math on too much useless music knowledge.(Example: NiKki Sixx's birthday is December 11th.) Sadly, her extensive music trivia knowledge ends aburptly in 1995. She blames the radio for sucking so badly. (Please send Sarah new music.) On a typical day Sarah wastes at least 45 minutes of her time trying to win free stuff on the interweb. She spends the other 23 hours on the internet and watching Bravo reality television occasionally pausing to yell at her kids.
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Schmutzie hails from Saskatchewan (which is just above Montana and North Dakota for those Americans in the audience), where she lives with her husband and three cats.  No one-hit wonder, she also blogs at Milkmoney or Not, Here I Come, Five Star Friday, and Schmoetry, knits a mean arm warmer (she is honestly planning on knitting the other one soon), does occasional web design, sells her photography, and will challenge you to find anything more ecstatic than eating bacon, or anything wrapped in bacon, or eating spoonfuls of bacon bits right out of the jar.  Although world domination is proving difficult from her present location in a beige cubicle, she is a hopeful soul.
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Martin, aka Black Hockey Jesus, both fears and embraces the notion that popular culture is the new Nature. For instance, the television is way more relevant to him than bushes. He uses fuzzy logic to reason that imagining fictional characters from novels and movies is the same as hanging out with them, leading to various controversies surrounding the authenticity of his statements. If you try to tell him there’s no way he was in an absinthe fueled threesome with Rimbaud & Verlaine, he becomes irritable and flips over tables.
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 Jennie of She Likes Purple spends most of her time whining about the cancellation of Veronica Mars and spending quality time with her jam-packed DVR. She also mixes things up by dropping far too much money at as many Super Targets as she can find. Jennie is pregnant with her first child who she hopes will inherit her love for reality programs and trashy teen dramas and her husband's red hair. She lives with that redheaded husband and  also her red-haired vizsla in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. She takes both her jobs in publishing and rooting for The Office's Pam and Jim equally seriously.
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Aidan, aka The Palinode, is the savior of the human race and the author of the weblog In Palinode's Palace.  Alone in his space station, he sends his blog entries back from a nightmare future in which Gary Busey has yoked humanity to his dark purpose.  Aidan's weblog is actually a complex code that will inoculate your brain against the will of Busey.  Go read it if you value your freedom, because you won't enjoy life as a drone in a Busey memorabilia factory.  When not saving the world, Aidan takes refreshing jogs around the station perimeter and raises plants with two adorable robots.  Sometimes he dreams that his life as the standard-bearer of humanity is a fiction, that he can't even save a few bucks for cab fare, let alone humankind.  He dreams that he's a government speechwriter in his mid-thirties who staves off the vacuity of his job by writing about the dark meaning behind Happy Days.  In that dream the world is a fitful shadow behind a scrim of pop culture, and Gary Busey is just a minor celebrity stumbling around the mazes of his own mind.  Then he wakes up in his space pod orbiting the ruined Earth, and all is well and post apocalyptic once more.  Aidan's other claim to fame is being married to fellow MamaPopper and blog imperatrix Schmutzie, which is great fun if you like cats, plaid blankets and an insatiable lust for ravioli.
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Whit Honea writes on blogs, walls and slow-moving elderly people. His websites include every single one that you've ever read, or should have: FameCrawler, DadCentric, UpTake, and StyleList, all have problems with capitalization (see also, MamaPop). Green Daily, the Disney Blog and Honea Express (his personal space) are much more traditional in terms of spacing. He writes screenplays, produces movies, films documentaries and looks great in a bar, especially if you've been drinking. Whit has two young boys and a wife, who is also young, but way legal.  Together they live with 3 dogs , some cats and a Wii. Whit has officiated three weddings, has four tattoos and used to date your girlfriend.
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Kurt, from The Monster Apathy , was crated-trained until he was 17 at which point he learned the value of furious justice (which is the only valid kind), by driving his oppressors before him. Okay, that was actually "Conan the Barbarian"...he just went to college and got laid, but like as a metaphor? Totally crate-trained and rebellious. He would like to believe that you are wondering if the name of his website means he is apathetic on a monstrous scale or if maybe, just maybe... apathy ITSELF is the monster! But he's also a realist and knows you're probably just killing time until "Lost" comes on, and who even cares that he spent like infinity hours coming up with that cool name. Not you. That's who. Kurt loves long walks by the seaside whilst being pursued by a horde of flesh-eating undead and talking about himself in the third-person. He lives in Upstate New York with his ego and 2 children.
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Marsha, aka Sweatpantsmom, hates writing bios because she finds it weird and uncomfortable and they always come out making her sound incoherent, but here goes.   She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two daughters and is the author of the blog sweatpantsmom.  She also mercilessly skewers celebrities on FameCrawler; in spite of that she has interviewed Mischa Barton, Jessica Alba and Paris Hilton, none of whom had Googled her name beforehand, thank God.  Marsha starts way too many sentences with the phrase, “And another thing.”  She loves pop culture, especially when it gives the universe things like People magazine and Mary J. Blige.  And another thing, writing this has done nothing for her hatred of bio writing.
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Katie (aka motherbumper) is one of those sneaky Canadians who was raised on a steady diet of American pop-culture and this, in her opinion, gives her to the right to call herself a Certified Celebrity Gossip Whore. Her tutelage consisted of reading endless copies of People magazine and other assorted gossip bibles as a sickly child in doctors waiting rooms and later evolved into religiously watching Entertainment Tonight -- aka  "the news" -- as a self-imposed shut-in during university. How she got her BSc is a mystery even to her. She blogs at her personal site motherbumper, is all patriotic at Canada Moms Blog, flexes her design muscles at Sweet Blog and is an editor over at Kirtsy. She figures she will sleep when she's dead.
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Lena is a Bay Area transplant living in Orange County who left not only her heart in San Francisco, but also her 20's, all her ex-boyfriends, and the perfect bagel. She took her first hit of US Weekly at 12 years old and has been chasing the high ever since. An indoor girl with a focus on sitting, she watches way too much reality TV and is just coming off a string of bad haircuts. She believes everything is better with the word "kickass" in front of it. She's skeeved out by animals that walk on their hind legs and people who want to tell you what they dreamt last night. She's the only person on the planet that didn't like the movie Office Space and is surprised that this offends people more than the fact she once voted Republican. She recently quit her job to write full-time on her blog Cheeky Lotus because what the world needs now is another self-absorbed, opinionated, mouthy blogger who wants to tell you about what she dreamt last night. She lives with her husband (when he can find her), their 1 daughter, 3 fat cats, and a kickass dustbunny collection.
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Jason Avant is the Founder and Managing Editor of DadCentric, a groundbreaking and popular blog that, according to his agent, provides an offbeat look at events and issues that affect today's fathers. He writes about travel-related stuff for UpTake. He also writes about surfing, parenting, the arts, politics, the coming Robot Uprising and other nonsense at his personal blog, Pet Cobra. Jason lives and works in San Diego, California. He has many leather-bound books, a house that smells of rich mahogany, a wife, two kids, and a dog. He strongly disagrees with Gino Vanelli's theory that black cars look better in the shade. His ability to reference uber-obscure pop culture works and figures (i.e., Gino Vanelli) is both a blessing (it landed him a spot as a Jeopardy! contestant) and a curse (contrary to what you might think, the ability to recite "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" in its entirety does not get one laid). One time he sat next to Brian Wilson at Jerry's Famous Deli in L.A. Brian was having the split pea soup. Another time he found five dollars.
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