Lasagna Cat is King

January 17, 2008 - 12:30 pm , By Josh - UMASS, Lowell

Lasagna Cat

While it’s sure to go over the head of many viewers (due to relevance, not pretentiousness), the Garfield tributes by Lasagna Cat are some of the most absurdly funny videos I’ve seen in years.

Lasagna Cat (the creation of Fatal Farm, an artist based out of L.A.) has created a bizarro world full of wonky live-versions of the Garfield cartoon strips. Each clip starts off with a hackneyed send-up of Jim Davis’s comic, followed by Lasagna Cat’s take on the strip, rife with fanboy inside jokes (dig the Final Fantasy VI episode, one of the best RPG-inspired spoofs ever) and zonked-out graphics influenced by pot-addled epiphanies.

I would’ve had a seizure watching these vids…if I wasn’t laughing so hard.

If you don’t “get it,” don’t worry - nobody does. There’s nothing to grasp beyond pure, unfiltered ridiculousness. I have a feeling Fatal Farm knows that.

It’s irrelevant. It’s not topical in the slightest. It’s exactly what I’m looking for in a YouTube channel.

(Photo and story via Wired)

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The Big Girl Epidemic

November 9, 2007 - 2:50 pm , By Editor

Heidi Montag“Does Your Girlfriend Act Her Age?” tells us that “the women you date should behave—and look—like grown-ups, not characters from High School Musical.” It also explains that with each new episode of The Hills,Gossip Girls and each new tabloid story “chronicling the dysfunction of the Lindsays, Britneys, Nicoles, Heidis, and Laurens” this grown-up type of woman gets harder and harder to find.

I get the feeling that a lot of women are dressing and acting that way because they think that that’s what guys want,” says Jean Twenge, associate professor of psychology at San Diego State University and author of Generation Me, a book about American youth culture. “It’s the same thing as older women getting plastic surgery. The idea is that what men want is a woman who looks 18. Although they don’t usually want a woman who acts 18.” Twenge laughs, then adds, “And that’s where the problem comes in.”

“I’ve been meditating on the question of why women in their twenties seem to be obsessed with all things teen—fashion, slang, gossip, et cetera,” says Anastasia Goodstein, publisher of ypulse.com, a marketing website. “The reality is that teen culture has come to define pop culture.”

As the usual markers of American adulthood—marriage, career, kids—get more and more delayed, the simple-minded distractions of adolescence have extended their grip on the adult brain.
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2007 MTV VMAs: A Conspiracy Theory!

September 9, 2007 - 9:30 pm , By Josh - UMASS, Lowell

Britney Spears 2007 VMAsWhat. Is. Going. On.

This is the sloppiest award show ever, and everybody with respected talent seem to be causing it…purposely!

WHAT DID BRITNEY DO? WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT??

What is happening?

Is this the first death knoll onto pop culture?

Are the VMAs inadvertently exposing the talentless wasteland that is pop music?

This is so awesome! Everybody is wasted! Read More »

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U of Florida Student wins $1,000,000 on New Game Show “Power of 10″

August 9, 2007 - 5:00 pm , By Steve Gebhardt

Jamie Sadler, a 19 year old student at the University of Florida, was not only the first contestant to play for money, but was also the first contestant to net $1,000,000 on the new CBS game show “Power of 10.” The show hosted by Drew Carey features contestants predicting the results of polls of Americans on topics concerning politics and pop culture with the top prize being $10,000,000.

The ratings for the preire show (9.25 million) were very high and I feel it is the best new game show on TV. The questions are relevant to our age bracket and (although I hate to admit it) Drew Carey does a great job as host.

After the jump check out a clip of Jamie Sadler’s $1,000,000 question to get a good idea of what the show is all about. Read More »

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