Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Tonight on Medium Cool, let’s talk baseball!
It’s part of our culture. Is it still America’s favorite pastime?
Baseball movies.
Baseball memories.
Baseball rivalries.
Baseball divisions.
The first pitch.
World Series.
Little League.
Baseball anything.
Who’s gonna throw out he first pitch comment?
Medium Cool is a weekly series related to popular culture, mostly film, TV, and books, with some music and games thrown in. We hope it’s a welcome break from the anger, hate, and idiocy we see almost daily from the other side in the political sphere.
Arguments welcomed, opinions respected, fools un-suffered. We’re here every Sunday at 7 pm.
Oh my gosh, the day got away from me – I just realized it was 7 o’clock and I have nothing planned for tonight.
Maybe this would be a good night to talk about what everybody’s watching or reading?
Medium Cool is a weekly series related to popular culture, mostly film, TV, and books, with some music and games thrown in. We hope it’s a welcome break from the anger, hate, and idiocy we see almost daily from the other side in the political sphere.
Arguments welcomed, opinions respected, fools un-suffered. We’re here every Sunday at 7 pm.
Let’s talk about Maggie Smith. A force of nature. One of a kind.
“Maggie doesn’t just steal a scene; she commits grand larceny.”
Medium Cool – Dame Maggie Smith, One of a KindPost + Comments (51)
Medium Cool is a weekly series related to popular culture, mostly film, TV, and books, with some music and games thrown in. We hope it’s a welcome break from the anger, hate, and idiocy we see almost daily from the other side in the political sphere.
Arguments welcomed, opinions respected, fools un-suffered. We’re here every Sunday at 7 pm.
kalakal dropped an idea for Medium Cool into the comments of an overnight thread.
How about one on song lyrics?
ie where the lyrics have really been meaningful/made an impact/encapsulated feelings, emotions or situation to someone. Could be personal, political or societal.
Seems like a fun idea to me, so let’s try it.
I’ll start. Since it’s Medium Cool, I don’t mind interpreting the topic loosely. I’ll just say that one Ramones album totally captures one period in my life. Not the lyrics so much as the vibe of the music. It was almost entirely a happy-fun period of my life, though it did include the only time my Dad got really mad at me. Ever! The Ramones were inadvertently at the center of it, and I swear my Dad wasn’t the same with me for about 6 months. Shocking for this daddy’s girl to have my Dad mad at me at all, let alone for so long!
Let’s go!
Update: In case it’s helpful in posting lyrics, if you use Shift-RETURN instead of RETURN, you won’t get the black line in between.
Medium Cool is a weekly series related to popular culture, mostly film, TV, and books, with some music and games thrown in. We hope it’s a welcome break from the anger, hate, and idiocy we see almost daily from the other side in the political sphere.
Arguments welcomed, opinions respected, fools un-suffered. We’re here every Sunday at 7 pm.
Let’s talk Music tonight!
Favorite covers? Terrible covers? Covers that are better than the original? Covers that everyone thinks are the originals? Is there someone you would love to see do a cover of a favorite song? Who is it and what is the song?
I don’t think covers can get any better than this! (thanks to Omnes for first linking to this years ago)
Link if you can, but I know that’s a pain from mobile. Or it is for me, anyway!
Let’s go!
Medium Cool – How About Music Tonight? Let’s Talk CoversPost + Comments (261)
Medium Cool is a weekly series related to popular culture, mostly film, TV, and books, with some music and games thrown in. We hope it’s a welcome break from the anger, hate, and idiocy we see almost daily from the other side in the political sphere.
Arguments welcomed, opinions respected, fools un-suffered. We’re here every Sunday at 7 pm.
Tonight let’s talk about movies and shows that are based on characters that originated in comic books.
Love them? Hate them? Should they stay true to character or is it okay if the original stories and characters are jumping off points?
Has anything big as big as Black Panther was 5 years ago?
Speaking of jumping off points, this post is wide open for anything related to comic book characters. Discussion need not be limited to the small bit of framing supplied here. Which is always true of Medium Cool, but particularly so for this one.
Medium Cool is a weekly series related to popular culture, mostly film, TV, and books, with some music and games thrown in. We hope it’s a welcome break from the anger, hate, and idiocy we see almost daily from the other side in the political sphere.
Arguments welcomed, opinions respected, fools un-suffered. We’re here every Sunday at 7 pm.
What do you do to get the feel for the local culture when you are traveling? When I say “traveling”, I don’t care if it’s it’s the state next door, the county next door, or traveling around the world.
Is it the food? Museums? Shops? Cultural events? Wandering through neighborhoods? Talking to random people in the street?
If it’s the food, I hope it doesn’t look like this!
