These are my top ten Valentine’s Day cards you can give while maintaining your self-respect and general contempt for this dumb ass holiday.
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These are my top ten Valentine’s Day cards you can give while maintaining your self-respect and general contempt for this dumb ass holiday.
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Seems like these days a woman can barely start a scholarly discussion about self-objectification and Leia’s metal bikini without a slew of other women accusing her of slut shaming.
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When I pay attention, sometimes I learn things. These are my top five things I’ve learned with Pink Raygun since launching in 2007. Why, yes, there ARE zombies.
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I want to go to this place where everything is turquoise and there are metal skeleton horses, robot dogs and robot teddy bears.
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Including the end of the world, which I expect to be about as anti-climactic and lame as Y2K, Harold Camping, and Roland Emmerich’s 2012.
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Tackling it one show at a time like I did made me feel pretty hopeful. More wrinkles! Lower concentrations of white people! Hooray! HOWEVER….Looking at them all at once shows something different.
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Having looked at female characters on network (young, mostly white) and cable television (less young, less white), let us now turn our attention to women in 2011;s biggest movie releases.
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For a bit more diversity in age, ethnicity, and overall look, cable is the place. Maybe they’re smaller audiences mean they don’t have to automatically default to “teen to mid-twenties, white”.
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Our yearly Power 100 list, while fun, hasn’t really given me the opportunity to look more critically at what’s going on currently. So, I wanted to take a look at 2011 on its own. Who were the women on our screens? What are they like? How did they behave? Is there a common pattern among them?
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I went years without cable because watching a staticky picture was OK with me, even when my leg formed part of the antenna. Now, I’m headed back there.
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Some red flags should have gone up for someone when the Muppet I most related to was Boober from Fraggle Rock.
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At FAO Schwartz, you can turn yourself into a Muppet. Or you can just create your own wackadoo Muppet, but it’s way more fun to Muppetize yourself and the ones you love.
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Haven’t we invaded countries for this sort of thing? And this is going on in Manhattan? Does that make Mayor Bloomberg the leader of a rogue state, now? It’s like he’s been watching Flash Gordon and taking notes on how Ming the Merciless runs things.
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Lately, I’ve had to be like Ghostbusters. I’ve had to be like Ellen Ripley. Now, I’m being Samwise Gamgee.
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Sometimes, inspirational words aren’t enough. Sometimes you just have to cross the streams and hope for the best. Hopefully, someone will bring marshmallows.
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I know your dilemma, guys. You want to pay homage to your favorite geek stuff with your Halloween costume, but you want to be sexy, too. I see you there gazing at the wall of masks on the comic shop, wondering, “Can I be sexy and still be a geek?”
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