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- What’s Your Problem with Joe Biden?
- Dirty Rubles: An Introduction to Trump/Russia (My New Book)
- Youth for the President
- A Summary of the Conspiracy Against the United States
- Trump: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Part 3)
- Postcards from the Resistance, Vol. 8: Mother of All
- From Lance Armstrong to Trump: The Rise & Fall of the Deified Narcissist
- Reading Malcolm X in Texas
- Playing the Donald Trump Game
- President Rapist: Women Under Trump
- An Open Letter to My Fellow Liberals
- The Democrats Can’t Win If They Won’t Fight
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Category Archives: Popular Culture
In Defense of Disco
At its height, the “Disco Sucks” movement drew fifty-nine thousand people to a Chicago stadium to watch a shock jock explode LPs, inciting a full-on riot of mostly white dudes. WTF? Our Robert Burke Warren, who became enamored of disco in the lusty confines of a Catholic school broom closet, writes about the music that arrived at the same time as his teens, and how it inspired him. Continue reading
Posted in Cinema, Memoir, Monday Rock City, Music, Philosophy, Popped Culture, Popular Culture, Religion, Sex, The Weeklings, Uncategorized
Tagged Atlanta, Bee Gees, catholic school, catholicism, Disco, disco demolition night, disco sucks, homophobia, Madonna, memoir, queer, racism, robert burke warren, saturday night fever, travolta
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Beauty is not Truth, Truth is not Beauty
Melissa Rayworth on the impossible standards of female beauty. Continue reading
Posted in Popular Culture
Tagged aging, beauty, Cate Blanchett, diane keaton, Photoshop, plastic surgery, Renne Zellweger
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Take A Sad Song and Make It Better
Though it seems long ago and far away, high summer in the post-Watergate Deep South did, in fact, exist. The Beatles were six years gone, but still potent enough to change the lives of kids and adults alike, almost as potent as a stoned girl answering her door clad only in a sheet. memoir from our own Robert Burke Warren. Continue reading
An Incomplete List of Things on #SCANDAL that are Too Impossible to Believe (and Why I’ll Watch it Anyway)
SCANDAL returns! Greg Olear on white hats, Vermont jam, B-613, and all the rest of the nonsense. Continue reading
Posted in Popular Culture, The Arts
Tagged #TGIT, ABC, B-613, Fitz, jake Ballard, Olivia Pope, ridiculous premises, Scandal, Shonda Rimes, TV
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Elvis Presley’s Shining Moment: the ’68 Comeback Special
Although most folks don’t know it, Black Leather Elvis was the best Elvis, and Robert Burke Warren explains why. Black Leather Elvis, who rose briefly in 1968 before drugs and despair ruined him, will steal your rock and roll heart. Continue reading
Some That You Recognize, Some That You’ve Hardly Even Heard Of
James D. Irwin on the strange parallels of Veronica Lake, Preston Sturges, and reclusive Simpsons writer John Swartzwelder. Continue reading
