Monthly Archives: July 2009

even emmy voters don’t watch fright night lights

By Mike Sadowski | Published: July 16, 2009 | Comments closed
Two days without links is too much — then I realized Emmy nominations came out today. So here’s five observations on the Emmys then we can get to the links. You’re getting a super-sized PopRox today. Love for Damages. Why? Wwwwwhhhhhhyyyyyyy?!?!?! Glenn Close, yeah, I guess that’s valid. Best Drama, OK, I get it.  But Rose Byrne [...]
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movie music beatdown vol. 3: OH YEAH

By Mike Sadowski | Published: July 15, 2009 | Comments closed
Week 3 of the WEDNESDAY MOVIE MUSIC BEATDOWN brings us closer to a song we all know, but didn’t know it until it showed up in a movie. Now it’s been copied about 1,000 times, but the first two times it showed up in pop culture are the ones we’re taking a look at today. In [...]
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here’s the winners

By Mike Sadowski | Published: July 13, 2009 | Comments closed
Mike note: Sorry, I won’t have time to post something today. I’ll be back tomorrow with the WEDNESDAY MOVIE MUSIC BEATDOWN, vote in the poll if you want to see your choice broken down. I’m going to try to have some new candidates up to vote on for the next round. Gotta apologize that I left [...]
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we found our winners

By Mike Sadowski | Published: July 11, 2009 | Comments closed
I should have posted this yesterday, but forgot. Oops. We got our two winners for the Rascal Flatts tickets, sorry if you didn’t win. But cheer up, we had such great response with the contest I’ll see what I can do to find some more tickets sometime. Keep checking back here or keep an eye on the [...]
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the wonderment that is bruno

By Mike Sadowski | Published: July 10, 2009 | Comments closed
MIKE NOTE: We got our two winners in the Rascal Flatts contest. I’ll name them Monday, but they know who they are. Congrats! We’ll try to get some more giveaways around these parts soon, so keep checking back. We had great response to this contest, so thanks everyone! Only a couple more hours to enter for [...]
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what are you doing sunday?

By Mike Sadowski | Published: July 9, 2009 | Comments closed
Before we get to today’s links, first the reason why a lot of you are here — Rascal Flatts tickets. Thanks to Hershey for setting PopRox up with two pair of tickets to give away for Sunday’s concert at Montage. You can also find information about the contest at the PopRox Facebook page. We’re going to [...]
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movie music beatdown, vol. 2: TEQUILA

By Mike Sadowski | Published: July 8, 2009 | Comments closed
No Michael Jackson here today, we all watched the funeral, so you don’t need me droning on about it. Instead, every Wednesday for the rest of the summer we devote this space to out WEDNESDAY MOVIE MUSIC BEATDOWN, where we discuss two movies that used the same song and decide which one used it better, scoring [...]
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biggest. funeral. ever.

By Mike Sadowski | Published: July 7, 2009 | Comments closed
If you have a TV, computer, or even just an ear, you won’t be able to avoid the Michael Jackson coverage today. So instead of ignoring it under the claim “stupid is as stupid does” let’s embrace the morbid-y goodness with uplifting stories like the fact that there will be 11 elephants at the Jacko [...]
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the new status of "hit"

By Mike Sadowski | Published: July 6, 2009 | Comments closed
Figures. In what could be the last meaningful box office fight of a summer slate of movies pretty cut-and-dry, the preliminary numbers are out and . . . drum roll! . . . it’s a tie. Whoop dee freakin’ do. Tranny 2 and Ice Age both grabbed $42.5 million, a number and box office decision that will change later today when [...]
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all-american box office battle

By Mike Sadowski | Published: July 2, 2009 | Comments closed
Proof that the recession is hitting Hollywood: This is our last real box office battle of the summer. Geez, already? There was a legitimate fight just about every week the last two summers. Now? The next time we’ll see anything close to a fight is Aug. 7, when GI Joe and Julie and Julia come out. Whoa, the gloves are [...]
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