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For far too long now, porn has been ballyhooed as somehow culturally inferior, which, aside from the problematics of its sexual politics (and then again, what mainstream media industry doesn’t have widespread sexual politics issues?), has always seemed horribly unjust to us. The porn industry, among other things, is perhaps the most reliable source of [...]

By now, hopefully, you know all about the Three Wolf Moon T-shirt meme (if not, watch this), and if so then you’ll know just how parody-friendly this particular meme is. So much so, in fact, that alternate versions of the original shirt have popped up all over, leading the web culture experts at Urlesque to [...]

Sesame Street was broadcast for the first time 40 years ago today, and has since become as intimately bound to American life as hamburgers and guns. As such, the show has had a perfect vantage to observe and lampoon most of the great cultural milestones of the last 4 decades (most recently, Mad Men) and [...]

We rarely go beyond our Internet bubble to consider lists in non-electronic media, but Creative Review Blog recently alerted us to a helpful new book that we just couldn’t pass up: David O’Doherty, Claudia O’Doherty and Mike Ahern’s pseudo-scientific nature book parody 100 Facts About Pandas. Readers will learn all sorts of fascinating untrue non-facts [...]

One of the most iconic images of modern history is about to celebrate its 20th anniversary: on June 5th, 1989 an unknown man faced down a row of tanks on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, where months of protest had finally ceased when the military removed protesters from the public plaza by force. Nobody ever discovered who [...]

As several past lists have proven, making a decent album cover is about as challenging as making a good album. Even worse, if you make a really good album cover you can make people forget (for a moment) how crappy the music behind it is. Every so often, though, a truly spectacular album and an [...]