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Barry Freiman

Barry Freiman (April 3, 1964 - April 30, 2012) was a Chicago based freelance writer who wrote fiction and non-fiction on a wide variety of subjects including issues of interest to the LGBT and HIV communities, and Superman, comic books, and pop culture.

Beauty

Bishōnen refers to males with distinctly feminine features, physical characteristics establishing the standard of beauty in Japan and typically exhibited in their pop culture idols.

Billy Blanks

He later attracted some celebrity clients such as Paula Abdul and the popularity of the workout quickly grew, becoming a pop culture phenomenon after Blanks began releasing mass-marketed videos.

Eisenstein on Disney

It was published much later than most of Leyda's other seminal works on Eisenstein and it presents a unique side of this highly theoretical Soviet film director who is an outsider to American pop culture.

Emma Harrison

Harrison also appeared in many pop culture magazines, eventually making appearances for many designers, including Donna Karan.

Geppi's Entertainment Museum

Geppi's Entertainment Museum is a 16,000-square-foot (1,500 m2) privately owned pop culture museum located at historic Camden Station at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland.

Hypersociability

The principle of hypersociability is most widely used in Japanese pop culture, examples of which include Yu-Gi-Oh! and Pokémon, which used multiplayer games separate from the original media.

I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus

Clem is one of the first "computer hackers" mentioned in pop culture, and his dialog with the fair's computer includes messages found in the DEC PDP-10, a popular mainframe computer at the time.

Joe Queenan

He has written several books, including Balsamic Dreams, a critique of the Baby Boomers, Red Lobster, White Trash, and the Blue Lagoon, a tour of low-brow American pop culture and Imperial Caddy, a fairly scathing view of Dan Quayle and the American Vice-Presidency.

Pervo-Kris

There are also many parodies of pop culture i.e. reality TV shows such as "Date My Mom", "So You Think You Can Dance" etc. and riffs on South Park, Manga, serial killers and more.

Shibuhara Girls

Shibuhara Girls is a MTV Japan/MTV Asia reality mini-series that centers around the lives of a group of young aspiring Japanese women as they seek stardom in the popular pop culture and fashion districts of Tokyo, Japan; Shibuya and Harajuku.

Sleeve garter

Sleeve garters often appear in images representing "Old Timeyness" and can be seen in various pop culture depictions of it.

Snorg Tees

Snorg Tees is an American company based in the US state of Georgia, specialising in T-shirt designs that reference popular culture or make humorous assertions about the wearer.

Spaghetti taco

Spaghetti Tacos were first seen in iCarly (Season 2), spaghetti tacos quickly became a food pop culture phenomenon.

Superfolks

Although the book's pop culture references clearly date it to the 1970s, its influence on the deconstruction of the superhero genre is still felt through Moore's Watchmen, Marvelman, and Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?.

The Duplex

A number of strips is devoted to the current media events (mainly related to the U.S. pop culture, such as American Idol show) or everyday life (such as popularity of Tivo video recorder and universal remotes).

The King and Queen of America

The song's music video showed Lennox and Stewart in a variety of costumes and settings which parodied various aspects of American pop culture, including a game show host and hostess, singing cowboy and cowgirl à la Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, and Ronald and Nancy Reagan.

Yoshitomo Nara

He grew up in a time when Japan was experiencing an inundation of Western pop culture; comic books, Walt Disney animation, and Western rock music are just a few examples.


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99 Cents

A different approach to their apparent aim to expose the superficiality of pop culture, this album is heavily electronic and, with the exception of Tom Tom Club's "Wordy Rappinghood", features completely original material.

An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn

In his entry on Burn Hollywood Burn for his "My Year of Flops" column, pop culture critic Nathan Rabin sarcastically commented that Hiller's decision to use the Alan Smithee credit was "very transparently not a stupid, stupid gimmick to raise interest in a terrible film".

Arena Mexico 57th Anniversary Show

Volador, Jr. came to the ring dressed like the Iron Patriot from the Iron Man 3 movie, continuing his tradition of wearing pop culture, especially super-hero, inspired ring gear.

Avenger Penguins

Pop culture references were found in abundance in many of the episodes and in the characters, Doom himself is patterned on an elderly Orson Welles, Harry Slime (who talks like Peter Lorre) in the meantime is based somewhat on Harry Lime, a character from the movie The Third Man.

Catalina magazine

Its founding publisher, Cathy Areu, is a frequent guest on cable TV news shows, discussing pop culture, politics, women's issues, and US immigration.

Crime family

Although not as powerful as other families, the DeCavalcante family is noted for inspiring the fictional crime family portrayed in the most popular pop culture portrayal of the mob in recent years, the HBO TV series The Sopranos.

Daniel Radosh

In pop-culture circles, Radosh is known for his obsession with tracing Huckapoo's attempts to infiltrate popular consciousness.

Em Stone

Through HACK/Slash storylines, Ms. Stone has drawn numerous pop-culture characters including Reanimator's Herbert West, the Suicide Girls, Milk & Cheese among others.

Franco Bolelli

One of the unique aspects of Bolelli’s writings, that has led to his popularity, is the ability to discuss the most complex philosophical issues in a very down-to-earth style with plenty of references to pop culture.

Garbage Pail Kids

Packs contained randomly inserted chase cards including lenticular Loco Motion, authentic Printing Plates, four levels of Parallels, and hand-drawn Artist Sketches by pop-culture artists including Layron DeJarnette, Brent Engstrom, Dave Gross, Mark Pingitore, Joe Simko, Colin Walton, Fred Wheaton, Jeff Zapata, and veteran GPK artists Tom Bunk and Jay Lynch.

Garfield in Paradise

They meet the tribal chief who explains that the villagers learned English "from watching a lot of beach movies", and that the car was originally owned by the Cruiser, a James Dean/Fonzie-styled legend who drove his car into the village in 1957 and introduced the people to the 1950s pop culture.

Gravemind

More favorably, Aaron Sagers of the newspaper The Morning Call saw Gravemind as a perfect example of a trend in pop culture called a "frenemy".

Gunong

The gunong is one of many bladed weapons portrayed in the "Weapons of Moroland" plaque that has become a common souvenir item and pop culture icon in the Philippines.

Izzo

"-izzle", a slang African American English suffix used in pop-culture hip hop slang

Jason Colavito

In the book, Colavito explores the influences of H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos on the popular works of Erich von Däniken (Chariots of the Gods?) and Graham Hancock, as well as its overall influence on "extraterrestrial pop culture".

Kid Gleason

Gleason has been referenced in pop culture in several books, and is a prominent supporting character in Ring Lardner's 1916 novel You Know Me Al.

Lambda Lambda Lambda

Inspired by movies like Revenge of the Nerds and National Lampoon's Animal House, Lambda Lambda Lambda is a small co-ed social fraternity, unaffiliated with Greek Life, dedicated to the enjoyment and enrichment of pop culture and to the brotherhood of its members.

Lassie Come Home

Lassie Come Home was also cited as a cultural icon in Jane and Michael Stern's 1992 book, Encyclopedia of Pop Culture.

Lundborg

Patrick Lundborg (born 1967), writer on pop culture and author of the book The Acid Archives

Marlbrough s'en va-t-en guerre

In pop culture it is sung by Rasputine in Hugo Pratt's "The Golden House of Samarkand" Corto Maltese adventure, first issued in 1980 (French and Italian version).

Masters of Doom

Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture is a book by David Kushner about id Software and its influence on popular culture, focusing chiefly on the company's co-founders John D. Carmack and John Romero.

Muzan-e

While just as bloody and disturbing as the collection it is based on, Bloody Ukiyo-e also show cases a higher degree of full frontal nudity, sexual perversion and includes pop-culture references and modern real life events, such as painting a gun wielding Marc Bolan as a mercenary or the suicide of Adolf Hitler.

Pedro Álvarez Castelló

Much of his work utilized a juxtaposition of pop culture references, such as clippings from The Simpsons comic books, against traditional Cuban images, such as 19th century peasants and troubadours.

Retro City Rampage

The game also pays tribute to "cheesy" one-liners, television shows and pop culture, as well as cameos including Phil Fish (creator of Fez), Billy Campbell, and Phil Guerrero (of YTV fame) with permission.

Retrocrush

Known for its popular Halloween and scary movie content, galleries of "retro babes" (popular female personalities from the 1970s–early 1990s), and thorough coverage of pop culture from many eras of American history, it carries the slogan "The World's Greatest Pop Culture Site".

Robert Kaplow

For National Public Radio's Morning Edition, Mr. Kaplow created "Moe Moskowitz and the Punsters," a series of musical and satirical pop-culture parodies.

Seapunk

The popular Sega Genesis character Ecco the Dolphin is viewed as one of the many '90s pop culture influences on the style based movement as seen in its re-aggregation on popular social network sites like Tumblr or Facebook.

Shelley Niro

Her 1992 photographic series, This Land Is Mime Land and 500 Year Itch employ humorous pop culture references, such as Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe.

Snakes and Ladders

There have also been many pop culture versions of the game produced in recent years, with graphics featuring such characters as Dora the Explorer and SpongeBob SquarePants.

SpaceCollective

Inspired by thinkers like Carl Sagan, Gene Roddenberry, Marshall McLuhan and Timothy Leary, who helped articulate the future by adopting a pop culture vernacular, they wanted to "use the online platform to do something similar for our times in a radically different interactive medium".

Steve Kornacki

He co-hosted The Cycle on MSNBC with political strategist Krystal Ball, pop-culture commentator Touré, and conservative columnist S.E. Cupp from the program's inception through March 20, 2013.

Superfund Group

Superfund promotes its funds by sponsoring cultural institutions like the Viennese Symphony Orchestra and the American Ballet Theatre, sports teams and personalities like Austrian soccer team Kapfenberger SV and World Cup overall champion alpine skier Bode Miller, and some other pop-culture events such as the Women's World Awards.

Susann Cokal

The range of her interests can be seen in her contributions to the St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture on abortion, supermodels, Kate Moss, and zoos.

Tadanori Yokoo

Because his work was so attuned to 1960s pop culture, he has often been (unfairly) described as the "Japanese Andy Warhol" or likened to psychedelic poster artist Peter Max, but Yokoo's complex and multi-layered imagery is intensely autobiographical and entirely original.

Taylor Parkes

He is currently writing for the football magazine When Saturday Comes and The Quietus, a music and pop culture website, and presents a monthly feature for the radio programme Jarvis Cocker's Sunday Service on BBC 6 Music.

The 9 on Yahoo!

The show, hosted by Maria Sansone, followed a similar format to other pop culture list shows on cable TV and the internet, such as VH1's Best Week Ever, Bub.blicio.us's Tech Soup, and E!'s The Soup.

The Cult of Alien Gods: H. P. Lovecraft and Extraterrestrial Pop Culture

The Cult of Alien Gods: H. P. Lovecraft and Extraterrestrial Pop Culture is a 2005 book by Jason Colavito, a contributor to Skeptic magazine, and published by Prometheus Books.

The Jenny McCarthy Show

Originally, Michelle Buteau from VH1's Best Week Ever delivered pop culture news via Skype but she has since essentially joined as a co-host and appears with guests in the studio.

The Nylon Curtain

Pop-culture journalist Chuck Klosterman praised songs from the album, specifically "Laura" and "Where's the Orchestra?," in his book Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs.

Todrick Hall

In October 2013, Hall partnered with Scary Movie franchise co-creator Marlon Wayans to produce 30 short films, fairytale and pop culture parodies for What The Funny.

Womango

The content on the back cover of the book describes it as: "Part poet, part lollipop punk. And all woman. Grace Chia's post-modern, pop culture influenced poetry merges themes of consumption, race, nationality, sexuality with femininity. Helping to fan the flames of her fiery imagination are female figures such as Sylvia Plath, Tori Amos, the late Bonny Hicks, Little Red Riding Hood, Little Mermaid, Cinderella, Mother Nature and Eve."

Zachary Oberzan

Having bizarrely overdosed on the anxiety drug Xanax at approximately the same time and under similar circumstances as Whitney Houston, the multimedia piece resurrects Amelia Earhart, Serge Gainsbourg, Bruce Lee, Buddy Holly, and a host of others to examine, through pop culture, timeless existential quandaries.