Some folks go crazy over the Academy Awards. Some folks go nuts over the Super Bowl. For me, unless a New York City team is in the World Series or Super Bowl, my most exciting pop culture event has to be the Grammy Awards. It intrigued me as a kid-it was probably the first award show I ever saw. I believe it was the 1980 ceremony, and all I remember is that The Doobie Brothers were performing, I was watching […]
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Popblerd! Presents: Your 2011 Grammy Awards Live Blog (& Drinking Game)!
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Blerd Radio Episode 1: Livin' La Vida Loca
While MisenPOPic Radio is on hiatus (congrats to my homie and co-host Mikey Hersh on the birth of his daughter), I decided to come up with my own podcast. It’s a little looser and I decided to go with the host-and-two-guests format rather than just the two co-hosts. Thus, Blerd Radio was born. While me and my boy GG did a quickie test episode last week, “Livin’ La Vida Loca” is the first real episode, and it again features GG as well as my girl […]
Dear Ricky…
So, Ricky Martin came out of the closet the other day via a letter on his website. When you break it all down, it’s one of the more eloquent self-outings in recent memory-not only because Ricky didn’t decide to do it in exchange for a magazine cover but also because it wasn’t attached to scandal. The Latin pop heartthrob essentially said he was tired of publicly living a lie and was being publicly honest for his own personal freedom and […]