Pop Waffle: pop culture commentary... in crayon!

Hey guy! If you're gonna stalk a celebrity, at least stalk a good one.

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:46:18 -0500

Hey guy! If you're gonna stalk a celebrity, at least stalk a good one.

sometimes i feel like this.

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:11:32 -0400

sometimes i feel like this.

My favorite moment from last Sunday’s Emmy’s. I...

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:06:01 -0400

My favorite moment from last Sunday’s Emmy’s. I shouted at the screen “I BET THAT’S TABITHA AND NAPOLEON!” Sure enough I was right. Even though it feels like we just crowned our SYTYCD winner minutes ago, I’m already psyched to see what NappyTabs has up their sleeve for this season.

Saw this yesterday while driving and pulled my car over to take...

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:59:54 -0400

Saw this yesterday while driving and pulled my car over to take a picture with my phone because it reminded me so much of this

As if you needed another reason to envy love Mad Men’s...

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:02:00 -0400

As if you needed another reason to ~~envy~~ love Mad Men’s Christina Hendricks, she’s getting married to the voice of Charles ”Upchuck” Ruttheimer III from the late great Daria.

So let me see it’s pretty much Knocked Up the tv show? I...

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:37:35 -0400

So let me see it’s pretty much Knocked Up the tv show?

I love that she’s biting her nail coyly like “Oops we forgot to use birth control” and the bro looks like Spencer Pratt.

Yeah I don’t need to see this show.

I will be the first to tell you that I cannot cook to save my...

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:22:00 -0400

I will be the first to tell you that I cannot cook to save my life. Yes, really. If a life or death situation came up and my only means of survival was to make spaghetti and tomato sauce, I hope ya’ll throw me a lovely funeral and play Q-feels’s “Dancing in Heaven” at my ceremony.

Having said all that, I can confidently tell you that I would still make it to the semi-finals of Top Chef. Why? Because the formula of making it to another round once you’re in the bottom three is simple:

BE HUMBLE AND ADMIT THAT YOU WERE WRONG.

That’s it.

“Tom, Padma, Crankyface I know why I’m here. You’re right. I will use this critique moving forward. I’m better than this. I knew my dish would land me in the bottom 3. I know I deserve to be in the bottom 3, but I deserve to be on this show.”

It doesn’t matter if you think your dish was the greatest thing you have ever tasted in your entire life. Just take a breath and say, “You’re right.”

Cause if it’s between you and someone with an even worse and equally inedible dish and they admit their wrongdoings the argument Tom always makes is: But at least they KNEW they were doing something wrong.

Admit defeat. Apologize. Keep your knives and stay.

Oh, and lay off the ceviche.

Psst guys…Wanna know a secret about women? It’s a...

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:55:21 -0400

Psst guys…Wanna know a secret about women?

It’s a pretty safe bet that just about every chick you know has cry/sung this song at the top of her lungs while driving in her car. She might not admit it, but she has.

**above from the Fling Chocolate website Why am I so bothered...

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:20:57 -0400

**above from the Fling Chocolate website

Why am I so bothered by Fling Chocolate, the new low calorie chocolate bar from Mars?
Is it the hot pink wrapping? The cursive fun flirty font? The fact that it looks like it should be included inside a Sex and the City DVD box sets? The fact that Fling plays into women’s guilt about indulging (or dare I say it ENJOYING) casual snacking and casual sex?

No, I think it’s the fact that we really haven’t come a long way from the cheesy Patio commercial (and ad pitches) I laughed at and shrugged off recently on Mad Men. I imagine the late into the night meetings where the Don Draper’s and Pete Campbell’s ignored the Peggy Olson as they tried to come up with a name for their new low cal snack for their 20-34 single women’s demo.

“You know we’ve done really well with selling Yoplait yogurt as the yogurt that helps you lose weight for the co-habitating woman. But we’re ignoring the fact that single women need snacks to. What could we name this that single (and wishing they were single) women everywhere will know it’s for them?”

“High heels?”
“DSW (Delicious Snack Wafer)”
“Snacks in the City?”
“The Brad Pitt”
“Gossip”
“Lifetime The Chocolate Bar for Women”
“Sassy”
“Project Snackway”
“Gay Bar”
“The Chocolate Whisperer”
“Lipgloss”
“Mani/Pedis”

I’m sure it’s a great candy bar. But on principle, I refuse to ever purchase one.

Well 9/9/09 is finally here and so is Beatles Rock Band. While...

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:23:00 -0400

Well 9/9/09 is finally here and so is Beatles Rock Band.

While our parents’ generation wanted a “Revolution” our generation is content to simply learn how to play “Revolution” on fake plastic guitars (instead of spending tonight watching Obama’s speech on health care whatevs).

In honor of the day “Generation i” will look back on as the day that separated the men from the boys (those who have Beatles Rock Band and those that don’t) and friends from enemies (people you know who will let you come over and play Beatles Rock Band and those who won’t), I’m posting a link to a great episode of This American Life entitled “My Big Break”.

There’s a wonderful story in the first act of TAL about husband and wife comedy duo Brill and McCall who finally landed their first “big break” on TV. The date: February 9, 1964. The program: The Ed Sullivan Show. I’ll let you figure out the rest.

Enjoy. I’m about to make some phone calls to find out who’s letting me be their Ringo tonight.

La Roux - Bulletproof Been there done that messed...

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:35:00 -0400

La Roux - Bulletproof

Been there done that messed around

I’m havin’ fun don’t put me down

I’ll never let you sweep me off my feet

I might be the last person on Earth to hop on the La Roux bandwagon, so be it. This song is super fun and catchy and the perfect for your new gym/dance party mix.

Will it ever replace Rilo Kiley’s “Bulletproof” as #1 in my heart? NEVER!

My sister and I like to think of FiberOne bars as...

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:58:00 -0400

My sister and I like to think of FiberOne bars as super-yummy-chewy-chocolate-chip granola bars that just HAPPEN to have 35% of your daily fiber intake because they’re made up of FiberOne cereal. FiberOne on the other hand likes to tell you that they’re a super-high-fiber-pooping-made-easier granola bar that just HAPPENS to taste good.

Which brings me to my point, watching this commercial of a man donning silly disguises to get more free samples of FiberOne Bars makes it impossible not to think of the shot just after this commercial where “Sneaky Free Samples” Guy has to jump out of the check out line and race home to use the bathroom where in he’ll realize what a bad idea it is to wear lederhosen on a day when you’re about to have violent diarrhea…ya know because he just ate 140% of his daily fiber intake in about 90 seconds.

Tom Paxton - Forest Lawn In honor of Michael Jackson’s...

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:33:26 -0400

Tom Paxton - Forest Lawn

In honor of Michael Jackson’s burial today, please enjoy this charming folksy tune.

I want to go simply when I go

And they’ll give me a simple funeral there, I know.

With a casket lined with fleece

And fireworks spelling out “Rest. In. Peace.”

Oh take me when I’m gone

to Forest Lawn

Remember when this was the sound of the modern feminist woman?

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:46:50 -0400

Remember when this was the sound of the modern feminist woman?

Go Fresh by Yelle (Dove Marketing Campaign) Umm, has Peggy Olson...

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:56:02 -0400

Go Fresh by Yelle (Dove Marketing Campaign)

Umm, has Peggy Olson time travelled to 2009 moved to France and set up her own advertising agency? Because this French Dove ad/music video is sheer brilliance. Granted I would buy pretty much anything sold in a commercial to Yelle’s super fun girlie electro poppy beats, but nothing has made me want to “campaign for real beauty” more than this commercial.

This is where I would say “bravo” in French, but I don’t know how. So Bravo, Dove!

Seeing promos and ads for ABC’s Flashfoward, saddens me....

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:05:37 -0400

Seeing promos and ads for ABC’s Flashfoward, saddens me. First, It makes me think of Disney’s Flash Forward and I get all excited. ”New episodes of Flash Forward that’s awesome!” But, then I remember it’s for a new show about blah-blah-blah-high concept-something, and I get bummed. I seriously doubt I’ll tune in, it will only make me wish I was watching the version with the space between Flash and Forward.

If you’ve never seen it, I believe Flash Forward is Ben Foster’s first acting role. It’s definitely worth trying to track down on Netflix and popping in before conking out after a long day of work. It’s the perfect mid-90s awkward tween show.

Enjoy the opening credits above

Every time I see a billboard or bus ad for Tyler Perry’s...

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:05:00 -0400

Every time I see a billboard or bus ad for Tyler Perry’s new movie I Can Do Bad All By Myself I hear the echoing of the lyric from early 00’s hit “No More” by 3LW.

Am I alone in this?

In case you’ve missed it, THERE’S A NEW POP...

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:45:00 -0400

In case you’ve missed it,

THERE’S A NEW POP WAFFLE!!!

Okay, FOX promos ya got me. I’m totally excited for Glee...

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:42:00 -0400

Okay, FOX promos ya got me. I’m totally excited for Glee this fall. But just so you know, in my head I’ll be imaginining that they’re a bunch of misfits and outcasts who have bonded together over their love of 90s hip hop dance so that I can better relate to the show.

I can’t believe this summer is nearly over. I have...

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:01:50 -0400

I can’t believe this summer is nearly over. I have decided to dub Summer of 2009 The Summer of Surprises (instead of what most people are calling it: The Summer of Death). I don’t know about you, but my longest days of the year have been full of ‘em. Some surprises indescribably great and some that nearly knocked the wind out of me.

But now it’s back to school time for most of you which I’m sure is kind of a bummer, but the good news is there’s still time to enter Kmart’s “Be A Schoolebrity” contest.

Here are the details:

“BE A SCHOOLEBRITY” SWEEPSTAKES
Enter for a chance to win in the “Be A Schoolebrity” sweepstakes!

One Grand Prize Winner will receive a visit at their school from a Nickelodeon® celebrity and the ultimate shopping spree PLUS a trip for 4 to LA for the true star treatment and a tour of Nick on Sunset studios!

One 1st Prize winner will receive a trip for 4 to Nickelodeon® Universe @ the Mall of America®, 200 2nd Prize winners will receive a gift bag full of Nickelodeon® goodies (each valued at $160.00) and 20 3rd Prize winners will receive a $100.00 Kmart gift card!

Be sure to pick up an entry form at any Kmart store and mail it in, or go to www.kmart.com/schoolebrityrocks to enter today!

(No Kmart didn’t pay me to say this. Though I wish they had since I buy a ton of Pop Waffle & Pop Waffle shirt supplies there:)

Good luck! And if you win email me when you get to LA!