MamaPop Remembers Beastie Boy Adam “MCA” Yauch

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On Friday, the world lost a bad-ass MC, a humanitarian, and an all-around good person when Beastie Boys founding member Adam “MCA” Yauch lost his battle with cancer at 47 years old. When the news hit Friday morning, many of us at MamaPop were profoundly affected. So, rather than just one of us writing the [...]

Boy Bands Around The World – Tween Review

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ONE DIRECTION! SQUEEEEEEEE! OMGOMGOMGOMG, THE WANTED ARE SOOOOOOO CUTE! BIG TIME RUSH…uhhhhmmmm…Big Time Rush is sooooooo…GNARLY! Are we still saying gnarly? No? Yeah, I’m not the target audience for boy bands, am I? The target audience for boy bands is mostly middle school girls wearing flowery mini skirts, all-weather flip flops, and coordinating rubber bands [...]

Michael Jackson & Pepsi Together Again! Now With Less Head Burning!

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Hey, folks?  Thirsty? Allow me to crack you a can of cold Dead Pop Icon! In a move that I think would have the departed principals of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce rolling over the empty bottles of Jameson strewn about their graves, the estate of Michael Jackson and juvy diabetes enabler Pepsi announced an unholy [...]

Chatter Box: Today’s Top Gossip/Entertainement News

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Of course the topic of the day is the fact that Jessica Simpson finally had her baby after what seemed like forever according to the world, even though she only announced her pregnancy seven months ago. (Unless I’m mistaken, celebrities have the same gestational period as human beings.) But some other stuff happened, too, and [...]

T-Boz and Chilli Must Be Trippin’: Why Trios Should Never Become Duos

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  This week saw the 10th anniversary of the death of Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes – founding member of 90s all-girl R&B/hip-hop trio TLC.  You may recall that she was never too proud to beg, at times wore a prophylactic as an eye patch, and, along with T-Boz and Chilli (the other two members of [...]

PMS Bombs – Commercials That Make Me Sob

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So, I’m sitting in front of my Internets minding my own business—reading Facebook rants about Ann Romney and That Idiot who cut someone off in the middle school drop-off lane, or how everyone needs coffee—when this damn P&G London 2012 Summer Olympic Games “Film” gets posted on my wall: And now I’m weeping. And I [...]

Welcome To The Future, AKA The Same Crap In Better Definition

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The Jetsons lied to us. We watched the show as children and dreamed about the futuristically fantastic world we’d raise our children in. Technology was already on a rocket-path then, so it could only get better! The future was supposed to be glorious! The future was supposed to be full of flying cars and still [...]