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Revisit “Turn-On,” the Innovative TV Show That Got Canceled Right in the...
It may give you pause, at least if you’re past a certain age, to consider the disappearance of the word computerized. Like portable, it has fallen out of use due to the sheer commonness of the concept...
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Watch Rare Videos Showing Steely Dan Performing Live During the Early 1970s
The band performing in the video above is Steely Dan. Yet it doesn’t sound quite like Steely Dan, an impression partially explained by it being a live show rather than the kind of perfectionist studio...
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Black Mirror Predicts Our Technological Dystopia — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture...
https://podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/partiallyexaminedlife/PMP_156_8‑5–23.mp3 Your Pretty Much Pop team Mark Linsenmayer, Lawrence Ware, Sarahlyn Bruck, and Al Baker talk...
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When Salvador Dalí Gave a Lecture at the Sorbonne & Arrived in a Rolls Royce...
Salvador Dalí led a long and eventful life, so much so that certain of its chapters outlandish enough to define anyone else’s existence have by now been almost forgotten. “You’ve done some very...
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When a Young Sofia Coppola & Zoe Cassavetes Made Their Own TV Show: Revisit...
It makes sense that Sofia Coppola and Zoe Cassavetes would be friends. Not only are they both respected filmmakers of Generation X, they’re both daughters of maverick American auteurs, a condition...
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A BBC Science Show Introduces the Moog Synthesizer in 1969
In the fall of 1969, there were still a great many people who’d never heard a synthesizer. And even among those who had, few would have known how its unfamiliar sounds were actually made. Hence the...
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130 Animators Remake an Episode of Frasier, One Frame at a Time
Behold a crowdsourced, collaborative art project where more than 130 animators and filmmakers from 11 different countries joined together and remade a full episode of Frasier. (It’s the finale of...
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Watch the Sesame Street Episode Banned for Being Too Scary, Featuring The...
In 1939, Margaret Hamilton made cinema history as the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz. In 1976, she made television history by reprising the role on a Sesame Street episode that was...
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Watch David Bowie Perform “Starman” on Top of the Pops: Voted the Greatest...
The Beatles were made for black-and-white television, as evidenced by the immediacy with which their 1964 performance on The Ed Sullivan Show launched them into permanent international superstardom....
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RIP Norman Lear: Watch Full Episodes of His Daring 70s Sitcoms, Including All...
On the evening of January 12, 1971, CBS viewers across the United States sat down to a brand new sitcom preceded by a highly unusual disclaimer. The program they were about to see, it declared, “seeks...
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The Origin Story of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: How a 1939 Marketing...
It’s time to forget nearly everything you know about Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer…at least as established by the 1964 Rankin/Bass stop motion animated television special. You can hang onto the...
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Holidays Spent with the Muppets — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #164
https://podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/partiallyexaminedlife/PMP_164_12‑8–23.mp3 For Pretty Much Pop’s annual holiday episode, your hosts Mark Linsenmayer, Lawrence Ware,...
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When The Who (Literally) Blew Up The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in 1967
From 1967 to 1969, Tom and Dick Smothers hosted The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, a politely edgy comedy show that tested the boundaries of mainstream television and the patience of CBS executives....
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Meet Johnny Costa, the Pianist Who Introduced Millions of Mister Rogers Fans...
Jazz pianist and composer Charles Cornell is not alone in his contempt for the sort of dumbed down musical fare typical of children’s programming. The late Johnny Costa, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood’s...
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Isaac Asimov Predicts the Future in 1982: Computers Will Be “at the Center of...
Four decades ago, our civilization seemed to stand on the brink of a great transformation. The Cold War had stoked around 35 years of every-intensifying developments, including but not limited to the...
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The Fictional Brand Archives: Explore a Growing Collection of Iconic But Fake...
Los Pollos Hermanos, Madrigal Electromotive, Mesa Verde Bank and Trust, Davis & Main: Attorneys at Law—all of these brands come from the Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul universe. They also appear in...
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Learn How to Create Your Own Custom AI Assistants Using OpenAI GPTs: A Free...
Last fall, OpenAI started letting users create custom versions of ChatGPT–ones that would let people create AI assistants to complete tasks in their personal or professional lives. In the months that...
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