Blog Profile / MamaPop
| URL : | http://www.mamapop.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Entertainment / Pop Culture | |
| Posts on Regator: | 8421 | |
| Posts / Week: | 36.4 | |
| Archived Since: | December 20, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Were We Better Off Without Self-Esteem? A Rebuttal To Joel Stein and TIME Magazine
The May 20th issue of TIME magazine features the cover story “Millennials: The Me Me Me Generation.” In it, author Joel Stein uncovers some pretty shocking details about the generation of millennials (those born between 1980 and 2000). As it turns out, today’s population of young people are narcissistic, selfish, entitled, and cocky. They’re self [...]Show More Summary
An Open Letter To Bethenny Frankel: Please Stop Talking About Your Divorce
Dear Bethenny Frankel, Dude. BETHENNY. It’s a bummer you’re going through a divorce from Jason Hoppy and everything. Totally feel for you on that account. You guys have a baby girl, Brynn, together, and ouch, man. That’s gotta suck some mega lemons. Truly, I have mostly nothing but respect for you in many regards. I [...]Show More Summary
Disney Hints at ‘Star Wars’ Theme Park, I Force-Choke Myself
Exemplifying the kind of ominous desss-ti-nyyy best articulated by heavily cloaked, poorly lit British guys, or people with mouse ears embossed on their business cards, Disney CEO Bob Iger hinted this week that a Star Wars theme park may be in the works. As a Star Wars fan, I think that’s my cue to jump up and [...]Show More Summary
Painted Ladies: Why Do Female Sports Reporters Wear So Much MakeUp?
I was watching SportsCenter on Saturday — as one does during the NHL and NBA playoffs — and there was something that really bothered me. It was about the female anchor. I am not offended by female sports anchors, mind you. In fact, I think they are awesome if they are qualified, and clearly this [...]Show More Summary
We Are All Nerds: My Life As A Geek-Jock [Essay]
A few years ago, I was sent to cover ComicCon in San Diego by a webzine. It was a geek’s dream: not only did I get a very hard-to-obtain ComicCon press pass, not only would I be hobnobbing with the likes of Joss Whedon, George R.R. Martin, and J.J. Abrams, getting to see exclusive footage [...]Show More Summary
Texas High School Student Goes On Rant; A Schoolyard Hero Is Born
Who hasn’t ever wanted to tell a teacher to shove it? Perhaps some of us even did, but I doubt they did it with the same rough eloquence of a Duncanville Texas teen known right now only as “Jeff.” It seems Jeff could not – would not – tolerate even one more minute of the [...]Show More Summary
Abercrombie And Fitch’s New Slogan: “No Fatties”?
Abercrombie and Fitch is arguably one of the top clothing brands the youngsters wear these days. And Abercrombie and Fitch welcomes their business, provided customers can pay the somewhat inflated prices for jeans which look like they’ve already been worn through a rodeo bullfight. So come right on in, people with money and poor taste! [...]Show More Summary
Dating Married Couples, As A Married Couple [Essay]
We are not Game Night people. Maybe that’s why we don’t have a bunch of couples knocking down our door to hang out with us. Honestly, I don’t know anyone who is Game Night People, though, excepting every single Mormon I ever grew up with who is probably in the midst of organizing a party [...]Show More Summary
Google Sells New Mother’s Day Video – Are You Buying?
Google posted a new Mother’s Day video on its official blog. Upbeat song, heart-warming clips. Pregnant moms and lesbian moms and older moms and sons coming out to mom. Moms with chubby new babies and goofy moms and moms of all shapes and sizes and moms of color and moms home from the military. It’s all [...]Show More Summary
NBC’s ‘Community’ Might Be Kaput – Let’s Grieve Together And Review The Show’s Top 5 Episodes
I have lousy news for all of my fellow Greendaliens, Human Beings and Delta Cubes. Tomorrow is the season finale of season four of Community. Normally, the end of a season is something TV fans can handle. Plot lines for one season get closed up and hints of what may be coming in the future are [...]Show More Summary
Power Ranking the Ladies of ‘Game of Thrones’ by How Badly I Want Their Hair
While watching Game of Thrones on Sunday, I started absentmindedly braiding my hair. I do this a lot with that show, because there are SO MANY BRAIDS. And I start feeling the overwhelming need for more braids in my own life. This week, I was all about trying to look like Ygritte, who really did [...]Show More Summary
Why The Amanda Berry Kidnapping Case Shouldn’t Scare Us [Essay]
I woke up this morning to news about three women in Cleveland Ohio. Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight were held captive for over a decade since being kidnapped when they were young women, one of whom was taken while only 14 years old. My own 14 year old daughter came into the kitchen [...]Show More Summary
Mothers Overreact to Disney’s Makeover Of Brave’s Merida
I’ll never forget Disney’s movie Brave. Sure it was a good flick, empowering for women, and yadda yadda yadda. But mostly it’s so memorable because I took my two boys to see it in the theater when they were 5 and 3 and subsequently spent half of the film in the lobby with my youngest [...]Show More Summary
New Study: Telling Teens Not To Text While Driving Doesn’t Really Help
I will preface this post about the widespread problem of teens texting while driving by saying that I’m of the current Get Off My Lawn generation. Back in my day, we didn’t have “cell phones” and we couldn’t send “text messages” while driving to our “friends”. Of course, I went to high school in the [...]Show More Summary
Why Won’t Anyone Do Anything About Amanda Bynes?
Alone in every paparazzi photo sold and published. Alone in every strange and uncomfortable photo she uploads to Twitter. Alone in every story you hear or read about, showcasing her latest bizarre behavior. The latest antic making the internet rounds is Amanda’s admission that she got plastic surgery to remove the “webbing” between her eyes. [...]Show More Summary
Denise Richards Takes Custody Of Charlie Sheen’s Kids By Brooke Mueller. So, WINNING?
I have always liked Denise Richards. I can’t even say why; there’s just something about her I find inherently sweet. Normally I don’t like sweet people, or people in general. And now Denise has gone and done something which completely validates my thoughts about her by taking custody of the children of her ex-husband Charlie [...]Show More Summary
Katy Perry’s Dad Calls Her A ‘Devil Child,’ Asks For Money For Swiss Vay-Cay
In news that is bound to make you feel better about your parenting skills this fine Friday morning, reports are a-swirlin’ that Katy Perry‘s Bible-thumping father, Keith Perry, referred to his daughter as a “devil child” during a sermon in Sante Fe Springs, California. He allegedly referenced his attendance of one of her concerts where [...]Show More Summary
Your Eating Disorder Makes You A Big Fat Bore [Essay]
When I first started blogging, I would read “Trigger Warning” and, inevitably, this would happen in my head: I remember, plain as day, when I recognized that “Trigger Warning” was a device meant to protect readers who may be sent into an emotional tailspin over references to sexual assault, abuse, eating disorders, and so on. [...]Show More Summary
Lindsay Lohan Re-Hires Old Lawyer And Goes Back To Betty Ford Center; Godspeed, Betty Ford Center Staffers
It’s been a busy couple of days for Lindsay Lohan. First, the rehab center recommended to the judge by her lawyer Mark Heller had it’s license revoked. But no one told her lawyer this information or he just didn’t care, because he stood up in court on Thursday to assure the judge his client was [...]Show More Summary
Kanye West Can’t Open A Door For Kim Kardashian, Wins Douche Daddy Of The Year Award
Kanye West needs to win an award for being a Douche Daddy Of The Year, doesn’t he? I mean, it’s time. Do we have to go through the litany of Kanye Douchiness again? No? Good. Because we’ve talked about it and it’s well documented that Kanye takes Needy to a whole other level. I mean, [...]Show More Summary