Tag: pop culture
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Now You Can Own A Sasha Ivanic Jacket
The origin story of the quintessential “Slav” outfit… A True Story Goes to Hollywood Here is another fine article via friends at kommandostore.com- you can find your size and place your order here. In 1995, pilot Scott O’Grady was flying his F-16 on a mission during the Bosnian war, when his aircraft was destroyed by an…
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Dead Media- 3D
I’ve always been fascinated with stereo viewers. Once upon a time, when I was a wee lad, I visited my great-grandmother at her wee home in Jolly Olde England. It turned out that she had the same regard for immersive technology as I did- she had a Victorian era stereograph viewer and a sick collection of antique 3D stereo cards. Steampunk or what? Yes,…
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How You Feel About Money Affects Your Wealth
Although we live in the richest and most advanced society the world has ever known, many of us say we need more money in order to be happy, notes best-selling business book author Doug Vermeeren. “Even some of those in the top percentile of earners often feel like they don’t have enough money,” says Vermeeren,…
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Book Snobbery, Fairy Tales And Reality
“The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.” ― W.H. Auden “In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.” (Frauds on the Fairies, 1853)” ― Charles Dickens, Works of Charles Dickens “If you want your children to be…
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Fictional Vaping Devices For Pop Culture Icons
Have you ever wondered what kind of vaping device fictional characters from the movies would use if they started vaping? Our friends at greyhaze.co.uk have and they sent us this infographic! Below is a selection of some of the most well-known fictional movie characters and how they imagine their vaping device would look. They’ve also added…
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New Coloring Books From Iconic Lifestyle Brand Vera Bradley
While plenty of industries, from sports to pop culture, have entered coloring book licensing partnerships, few have embraced it as much as the fashion world. Now, what could be the most beautiful and fanciest iteration of fashion coloring books has arrived. Vera Bradley is making a grand entrance into the coloring book world with their…
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Hashtag Roundup App reaching 100,000,000 Twitter “Hashtag gamers” weekly
Have you been playing hashtag games on Twitter? Hashtag games are fun and free word games where Twitter users contribute funny or clever responses around a common theme, like #RejectedPrezCampaignSlogans or like #Things20SomethingsSay. Hashtag games can often be found in the “what’s trending” area of Twitter but to discover all of them there’s a new…
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Window Fishing Or The Night We Caught Beatlemania
A Silo Canuck Book Review I’ve never particularly been a Beatle’s fan. I like some of their songs. I like a number of them very much, but if I was asked the now proverbial question, “The Beatles or The Rolling Stones?” I would probably say, Oh, I don’t know, maybe The Who? The body of…
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Real–life Detroit set to receive ten-foot ‘pop culture’ Robocop statue
In the 1987 the Dutch auteur film maker Paul Verhoeven created a movie unlike any other. He called it Robocop and I’m old enough to remember watching this dark comedy sci-fi masterpiece when it was brand spanking new. …