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P+P swung by Falcon on Sunset Friday night to check out the scene at the L.A. launch of Generation O— the Obama camp’s effort to rally twenty-something support. See what we found, including a few minutes with L.A. City Council President Eric Garcetti, after the jump.
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Smokin’ Aces is a most rare thing: a good movie released in January. Crazy! A Universal Pictures-Working Title Films product written and directed by Joe Carnahan, who brought audiences Narc (2002), this movie kills, it’s a “gotta see, no doubt” with enough action, suspense and violence to satisfy the entertainment masochist in all of us.
The [...]
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Happy New Year from Pop and Politics!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBa55sDTIiA
I feel blessed that I’m dropping the first blog of the new year (ok technically it’s not the first ever blog of the new year and it’s definitely not January 1 anymore, but something fresh nonetheless). I think 2007 is going to be a different year with many changes [...]
Hunter-gatherer bushmen who had been forced out of Botswana’s Kalahari Desert found their way onto the Web before winning back the right to return to their tribal lands.
Displaced to settlement camps over the last decade, allegedly so Botswana could preserve the land and its wildlife within the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, many of the bushmen [...]
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On Nov. 30, O.J. Simpson will release a fictional account of how he would have killed Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman. How’s he gonna explain that one to his kids? “Now boys, I didn’t kill your mom but if I woulda done it, here’s how I woulda sliced her up…”
I guess he had to [...]
Industry plus food equals serious yuck. But how else do you expect to feed 7 billion people?
The thang still works! Americans went to the polls and voted for change and that’s what we’re getting. The Democrats claimed victories across the country. Then Dick Cheney, believing the American people were handing victory to the terrorists, took cover behind his hair-trigger Perazzi-Brescia over-under 28-gauge shotgun and has yet to shoot anybody. Then this [...]
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Multiple Choice Question: When did VH1 start giving a shit about hip-hop?
a) VH1 was down from the start when it played Public Enemy videos in the late 80s/early 90s to give the burgeoning counterculture movement exposure.
b) VH1 still never started and still doesn’t give a shit about hip-hop, but it does love the money and [...]
Poor Pope Benedict XVI. Like Sammy Hagar to David Lee Roth, he’s having a hell of a time living up to his superpopular predecessor. Pope John Paul II got his own comic books, a flash Popemobile, and calls for canonization. Pope Benedict got the keys to the Vatican and some poorly-made flaming effigies.
Now, Pope John [...]
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While more than 80 million people have watched some guy who spent too many hours dancing in front of a mirror to Vanilla Ice, there are some neglected gems on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKYzG9714js
I first stumbled on this video on Playahata, and then found the guy who made the video’s blogsite. Here’s what he had to say about [...]
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