http://popfessor.com Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:46:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As we are flooded with images of the recent Gulf oil disaster, there are some who worry about the future of our planet and its wildlife, while others are concerned with who is to blame in this epic botch job. Before anyone arrives to these concerns, however, they are reminded ... http://popfessor.com/2010/06/15/there-will-be-bell-saved-by-the-bell-and-the-oil-crisis/ Well, here we are folks. End of the line. Avid readers of popfessor.com will tell you that I've been haphazardly been documenting the history of The Beach Boys since December last year. Actually, that's the only time period I worked on that. Anyways, I ended on part 3 without ever ... http://popfessor.com/2010/06/10/a-brief-and-somewhat-inaccurate-history-of-the-beach-boys-the-final-chapter/ When a celebrity passes, we are often shown the same images in the news cycle over and over: Dennis Hopper on a motorcycle, Michael Jackson moonwalking, that famous Farrah Fawcett poster. Sure, they’re iconic and all, and necessary for those who have absolutely no idea who the departed is, but ... http://popfessor.com/2010/06/03/in-honor-of-the-departed-the-gary-coleman-show/ After years and years of hearing what a lost treasure MTV's The State was, I was finally granted access through it's recent addition to Netflix's Instant Stream feature. It more than lived up to its reputation, especially when compared to it's lazy older brother, Saturday Night Live. Sketches on The ... http://popfessor.com/2010/06/02/the-states-louie-character-puts-snl-to-shame/ See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor. The audition process can be a harrowing and embarrassing experience for any young actor, but at least young unknowns don’t have to worry about some botched tryouts leaking to the web. And then there’s poor Chris Klein. Always the bridesmaid, never the ... http://popfessor.com/2010/05/27/chris-kleins-awful-mama-mia-audition-and-more/ I love Biography. I'll watch pretty much anyone's. The photo is shitty half because I took a picture of the TV, and half because film just looked pretty shitty in the seventies, or whenever this was made. I'm pretty sure it's somewhere between Mary Tyler Moore and Golden Girls, and ... http://popfessor.com/2010/05/25/actual-screen-cap-from-biography-betty-white/ Don't read if you're not caught up. Some four seasons ago, a young(er) James Ford sat on the beach of a shipwrecked island, passing the time by reading an unpublished manuscript he had found among the strewn about luggage. The manuscript, Bad Twin, was written by fellow Oceanic passenger Gary Troup. ... http://popfessor.com/2010/05/17/book-retort-bad-twin-tie-in-lost-novel/ The above photo comes from the cover of Freakonomics, a bestselling book that I very much enjoyed (although I'm not an economics major or anything, and I hear criticisms. Anyone care to share?). I get the feeling that other books are trying to ride Freakonomicseses ' coattails by subtly making ... http://popfessor.com/2010/05/14/hey-book-publishers-get-a-new-layout-ya-jerks/ In the wake of Lost, ABC has been blatantly scrambling to fill the mystery show void with transparent clones: Flash Forward, Happy Town, and V. Despite aping all the superficial qualities of their predecessor, none of these posers have managed to muster the quality or following of the real McCoy. ... http://popfessor.com/2010/05/11/the-soup-lost-vs-v/ Iron Man 2 doesn't come out until May 7, but Tony Stark's alter ego is already showing up in some unexpected places. Some aspiring animator has developed a dead on 3D model of Iron Man, and he's putting him to good use by injecting some testosterone into more femme-friendly fare. ... http://popfessor.com/2010/04/27/insert-iron-man-here/