Pop Culture
January 30, 2020
Optimism Renewed
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Middle East peace, sneezing with your eyes open, the return of the VHS tape as a viable media format. Literally anything is possible. Someone has financed and produced a stage production of the Golden Girls featuring only puppets. Never, ever, let your dreams die.
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November 28, 2010
The Burden of Being Aquaman
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It's a big ocean. You can't be everywhere at once.
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September 25, 2010
Anthropomorphic Identity Crisis
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Child malapropisms. They're one of the few true joys of parenthood.
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January 9, 2009
Pocket Full of Kryptonite
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When I was a freshman in college I specifically remembering going to see a Spin Doctors cover group perform at a local house party. What I don’t remember (for a variety of reasons) is exactly what that jam band played after they covered both “Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong” and “Two Princes.” It didn’t seem […]
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December 11, 2008
Right Downturn Clyde
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When we face the darkest of economic times, it takes a special breed of entertainer to lift our spirits as a nation. Entertainers who can set aside their own personal fears to help the masses forget theirs. Entertainers who can break down long-standing taboos thereby changing the direction of an entire industry. Entertainers who can […]
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October 27, 2008
Halloween Week on Ranzino.com
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It’s Halloween season here on Ranzino.com and we’ll be celebrating this manufactured non-holiday by posting some extra-spooky content here every day this week. Yes that’s right, you heard it here first. Daily content. Prepare for the reckoning. What better way to kick things off than having some random French guy sing in a capella 64 […]
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October 10, 2008
Life Got You Down?
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In these uncertain times of financial and political turmoil, it may be time for Americans to finally heed the call of sacrifice and once again give back to this nation that has given us so much. Much like our grandparents did during the days of the last great rift in economic and international relations, it’s […]
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July 26, 2008
Lost in Translation
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Lost in Translation, originally uploaded by ranzino. “No, I have no idea what he’s talking about. He keeps babbling on about something called ‘The Claw.’ Copy that, I’ll just throw him in the Jawa burn pile”
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June 2, 2008
Fedora Lost
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If 10 years ago, you would have suggested to me a movie directed by the fat guy from Swingers starring Robert Downey Jr. posing as a second-tier Marvel Comics character would beat the pants off a Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Harrison Ford collaboration, I probably would have called you a damn dirty liar. If you […]
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March 31, 2008
SOYLENT PINK IS PEOPLE!
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SOYLENT PINK IS PEOPLE!, originally uploaded by ranzino. I’m willing to accept many things about the anthropomorphic animal residents of Richard Scarry’s Busytown at face value. For instance, I can overlook the fact that the only townsperson to wear a shoe is also the only one to not have any feet on to which he […]
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