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Terrible, Awesome, and Terribly Awesome: Fifteen Pop Culture-Inspired Tattoos

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Joining fan clubs? Buying DVD box sets? “Liking” movies and shows on Facebook? Kiddie stuff. It’s time to throw inhibition to the wind and get inked up in this piece.

Ellen DeGeneres Will Remain As J.C. Penney Spokesperson Despite One Million Moms’ Protest

Ellen DeGeneres

It’s hard to find anything to dislike about Ellen DeGeneres. She brings Kristen Bell to the brink of tears at the mere mention of sloths: She challenges First Lady Michelle Obama to an on-air push-up contest, which she graciously “allows” the FLOTUS to win: As far as I can tell, she’s a funny, cute, smart, [...]

Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon is Making an Indie Rock Workout Video – Unironically

Bon Iver Workout Video

Are you tired of workout videos with impossibly attractive fitness personalities who can’t even grow a decent beard? Do you long for a circuit training regimen set to music that won’t lower your indie cred? Well, folks, the wait is over. Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon is making a workout video, and he’s not just [...]

Extremely Loud and Say Hello to Your Mother For Me: Wahlberg Opens Mouth About 9/11

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In a recent interview with Men’s Journal, Mark Wahlberg, of music/screen/underpants fame, discussed the close call he experienced during the September 11th attacks in 2001.  Wahlberg would have been on one of the planes that crashed on that horrific day had he not changed his travel plans and flown to Toronto for a movie shoot [...]

In Lieu Of Another Golden Globes Post, Here Are Several Nicolas Cage GIFs

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I had every intention of joining my fellow MamaPop’ers at last night’s Golden Globes Open Thread, but Life intervened: I had to take my son to a birthday party, my daughter was having a Class A meltdown, and my wife was under the weather. So I ended up firing off a few tweets about the [...]

Los Angeles Wants You To Practice Safe Porn

They hated Free Willy, too

During the late 19th century, America was an orgy of unhindered growth and unprecedented productivity. Referred to by historians as urbanization and industrialization, the seedy reality behind this prosperity was brought to the public’s attention when Upton Sinclair published The Jungle. Painting an uncensored picture of the meat industry, The Jungle paved the way for [...]

Go On a Cruise With Kate Gosselin! A Fate Worse Than a Watery Grave!

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Even though the worst of winter is right ahead of us, summer will still be here before we know it.  Summer is a great time for families, what with the vacations and fun-filled activities you can all take part in together.  Now I know what you’re thinking, “What if I hate my family?  What if [...]