January 19th, 2012 
Pop Culted We all love a good game show fail, right? Usually it’s the contestant making us bust a gut. Here the host — Jim Perry — breaks out a little old school racism. The good news here is that we’ve come a long way from this type of thing, but you’ve got to admit — Perry seems generally overjoyed that he finally met an Oriental person from Atlanta.
The bad news? Card Sharks was a real show. And the guy didn’t win. Still, he may have been the first documented Asian in Atlanta.
January 19th, 2012 Pop Culted Former home run slugger and ‘Flintstones Vitamin’ user (mm yeah, okay) Sammy Sosa continues to get whiter by the day. If they ever do a ‘Munsters’ movie, Sammy will surely get the part of Eddie Munster. Assuming it’s done in Spanish. Or is he going for one of the 18 Twilight movies that are coming out? Not sure. Anyway, here’s what he looks like.
Hat tip to CSNChicago’s Chuck Garfien for the TwitPic.
January 17th, 2012 Pop Culted If you don’t know what this phrase means, I dare you to look it up. It will also make this clip from ‘Jeopardy!’ a whole lot funnier.
January 12th, 2012 Pop Culted Hmmm…wonder what he was thinking about this morning?
Listen, buddy — a huge snowfall is on the way! Get your head out of the gutter and into the atmosphere! Actually he was just goofing with this graphic, but it’s still pretty funny. I can’t believe they let him air this, even as a gag.
January 10th, 2012 Pop Culted Check out this incredible Ron Paul mural that was found on a sidewalk in Manchester, New Hampshire. Made on primary day, it is done entirely in chalk. And it is glorious. Please don’t rain…please don’t rain…
h/t: Twitter/Tim Lussier
December 28th, 2011 Pop Culted 
If this doesn’t immediately make you think of the famous “To-To-Today, Junior” line from Billy Madison then you are completely insane, and I award you no points. This is a classic sportscaster fail, courtesy of Damany Lewis, who I think handled it with aplomb.
To the video tape…
For comparison:
December 13th, 2011 Pop Culted 
If you don’t think these are the five best movies about gambling, we will raise and then re-raise you, take all your money with our 3-9 rags and then rub two cookies together and…well, eat them. In no particular order, here is our list.
Norton. Damon. Turturro. Landau. The cookie-eating John Malkovich. Hotties Gretchen Mol and Famke Janssen. Great nicknames like Knish, KGB and Worm. Add in some of the most realistic and intense scenes of
poker playing and you have one of the best poker movies ever. You could say that Malkovich’s Teddy “KGB” character was completely over the top. I will say that it’s completely awesome. Some have opined that this film was partly responsible for the boom of poker rooms.
You may know Phillip Seymour Hoffman as the actor that nailed the role of Truman Capote in ‘Capote’. Maybe you first saw him as Scottie in ‘Boogie Nights’. But you better make sure you see him playing gambling addict Dan Mahowny in the 2003 film ‘Owning Mahowny’. The skinny: Hoffman’s character is a bank manager that continually pilfers money from accounts, takes it to AC and usually loses it all. The casinos love him. You’ll love the film.
The late, great Steve McQueen plays Eric “The Kid” Stoner in 1965′s ‘The Cincinnati Kid’. The cast is amazing. Joining McQueen are the vivacious Ann Margret, Karl Malden, Rip Torn, Cab Calloway and the legendary Edward G. Robinson. Stoner loves to play poker, mainly because he’s taking other players money left and right. But the payoff in this film is as good as the rest of it, and you just have to see how the last hand goes down.
The reason you don’t hear more about ‘Casino’? Because most of the same players were in ‘Goodfellas’, which is one of the greatest films of this generation. But ‘Casino’, or ‘Goodfellas Vegas’ as some called it, has some brilliant cinematography to match the outstanding acting done by Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Sharon Stone. Stone won a Golden Globe for her performance, and also received an Oscar nomination. Roger Ebert said, “Like “The Godfather,” it makes us feel like eavesdroppers in a secret place.” He nailed it.
Robert Redford. Paul Newman. I could stop there and you could discern that ‘The Sting’ is probably an excellent film. I can also prove it: 10 Oscar nominations with 7 wins, including Best Picture and Best Director. It also features one of the most memorable film scores of all-time, with Marvin Hamlisch’s adaptation of Scott Joplin’s “The Entertainer”. Con men, high-stakes poker, horse racing — it’s all here.
November 30th, 2011 Pop Culted 
Sigh. I suppose all good things must come to an end, and “Dexter” has been one of TV’s finest shows for a long time.
But if it hasn’t jumped the shark yet, it’s certainly suspended in mid-leap high above the big fella, just waiting to come down on the other side. Why? I thought you’d ask that. Let me explain.
The first reason is Deb and her new reliance on this shrink. Riveting conversation not seen since the likes of The Sopranos (not) is something we could do without. Such mind-blowing revelations about how she can’t change her brother — he’s a chair, you guys — and other boring dialogue kill any momentum the show builds until those scenes. No one cares — or wants — Deb to see a shrink. Besides, isn’t the ‘character seeing a shrink’ a bit played out?
Then there’s this whole Gellar mess. They didn’t just go all ‘Sixth Sense’ on us in the last episode did they? Did they? They sure did. If the ‘character seeing a shrink’ plot line is uninspired, then how do you describe the ‘he was dead all along!”? I have no words to describe my disappointment that they went that route.
If there were TV betting like there is sports betting, than I would bet that next season of Dexter will be the last. That assumes that Michael C. Hall and Showtime come to a contract agreement. If not, then this season could be the end.
And there would be nothing wrong with that. Dexter will certainly go down as one of the best TV shows in history, and you can’t fault the writers for the current dearth of ideas. I wrote about how Dexter should end a while back, so maybe they could go that route. It’s never too late for laughs, right?
EDIT: The fine folks at Reddit and a commenter here pointed out that I missed some facts while penning this. First is that Hall and Showtime have agreed to a deal and the show will run for 2 more seasons. I hope they are better than this one.
November 23rd, 2011 Pop Culted If you’re looking for things to be thankful for, here’s a bit of awesome sauce for you: David Gilmour and Tom Jones rocking out Prince’s Purple Rain. This is fantastic, and Tom Jones is still hot. Yeah, I said it.
Oh, and here’s a pic of Jones that just screams awesomeness.
Thankful now? You betcha!
