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Pop Culture
If you like Broad City, then you’ll love Pen15.
In a similar fashion to a lot of people in 2014 I fell in love with the T.V. show Broad City. At first I wasn’t quite sure what exactly drew me to the show, but like a moth to light I didn’t care, I just knew I needed it. Ilana and Abbi’s chaotically wonderful friendship came to me in a particularly poignant time in my life. I was graduating high school, going to college and I wanted more female friends. I had girlfriends and best friends but I never had that. By that, I mean the hedonistic, coming of age, sloppily bare it all, “chiquitita tell me what’s wrong” relationship with another woman.
By Morgan Dupart5 years ago in FYI
Now VS. Then
Recalling those high school days we all know the feeling of when EVERYTHING was so earth-shatteringly important, and yet so fleeting at the same. Whether you despised high school or would die to live those days again we all have a palpable memory from that time.
By Tia Thingss5 years ago in FYI
Space Westerns and Genre-Bending, WandaVision and The Mandalorian
In this age of streaming, the ways we now consume our media have changed. Between Covid and being locked out of cinemas, new premium TV shows are the new hottest trend. As the major networks and channels all jostle for their thirty seconds of your time, it can be harder and harder to find just what to watch. I know I’m guilty of scrolling through the Netflix menu for ages, before finally just giving up and re-watching an old favourite (for me that’s lots of Steven Universe). So come and gather round, and I’ll take you on a taste-testing journey, and hopefully find you some new favourites you’ll love too.
By Erin A. Sayers5 years ago in FYI
Three Movies and a Box of Tissues
The first time I saw “Somewhere in Time”, I was beguiled by the story, the characters and the actors who portrayed them. It’s a dated movie, from 1980, so the viewer is transported back twice in time to days when cell phones, PC’s and the onslaught of technology did not exist. It's a magical place to begin a movie journey that has been honed over the years for those interested in romances that are challenged by separations in time.
By Joann Amoroso5 years ago in FYI
Dromana Drive In
Unleashing yourself on your deepest imaginings is easy when you're single. It's not a place that's foreign to me and I often take refuge there from the emptiness of not going through sharing in life with your best buddy, learning about each-other and the evolving union that is your shared life. I've even written a song about hovering in that space of being attracted to someone and lingering between the not knowing and knowing about their significant other, 'main squeeze', partner, girlfriend, wife or indeed their boyfriend, perhaps husband as the case may be.
By Mary Jo Hanly5 years ago in FYI
'Bewitched' television series 10 little known facts
1.Inspired by the big screen Bewitched was a television series that ran for 8 seasons on ABC from 1964 until 1972. Sol Saks the creator admitted in several interviews, that his script for the pilot episode was inspired by two films: Bell Book and Candle, and I Married a Witch. Both movies were owned by Columbia Pictures, which also owned Screen Gems, the company that produced Bewitched. This is why Saks was not worried about there being problems from his obtaining his plot from the two movies.
By Cheryl E Preston5 years ago in FYI
Fairytale Obsessionists, This one is for you.
Admit it. You wish you had your own fairy godmother, and problems resolved with the wave of a wand. You wish that, in the end, life follows the perfectly linear path of: oblivion, problem, problem solved, happily ever after. In a world so keenly aware of flaws, we tend to get lost in the idea of perfection. We’ve grown up beside this fairy-tale idealism, in our love lives, in our careers, and in our personal growth. This was simultaneously shattered and strengthened when media infiltrated our every thought, our every move. We were no longer blinded by perfection, we just started to hate ourselves. We hate ourselves for working that 9-5 when we promised our 5-year-old self that we’d follow our dream of being a ballerina. But we’d hate ourselves just as much if we followed our dream and forced ourselves into a decade or two or three of feeling like an absolute failure. Then we’d hate ourselves for hating ourselves. We hate the idea that life doesn’t turn out how we want, and we fear how life doesn’t turn out how we expect. In the film La La Land, directed by the brilliant Damien Chazelle, we come to understand just how much life can change before we even know it, we learn that love isn’t so fairy-tale easy, and we learn that life really does go up and down.
By Nicole Ngo5 years ago in FYI
If you like Sons of Anarchy, you may like....
One of my all-time favorite shows is Sons of Anarchy. The characters are well developed, but all are flawed in some way. Family is important to all of them and the motorcycle club is the family they chose. The club tries to take care of their members with money-making businesses, but they walk on the wrong side of the law. They sell guns, drugs, and create pornographic movies. They all end up doing prison time, but the club bands together to make sure their wives and children are taken care of during their incarceration.
By Michelle McShane5 years ago in FYI
Skeuomorphs.
I always purchased books online, probably more than I should. In the last year, as with most of us, online shopping has been my saviour. Packages of pleasure arrive at the front door, usually within a day—just the right amount of time before I become impatient. There is always exciting as the little package arrives bundled with the joy of unwrapping. Pue, simple pleasure and regular dopamine hit. I highly recommend it.
By Charles Leon5 years ago in FYI
