popular culture

The Art of Norman Rockwell show is currently at the Detroit Institute of Arts. My girl friend mis-read a billboard advertising it, from which we get the thread title. I think it's more fun that way. Non-Americans may not get much out of this thread, buy anyway. First, you can't fault N...

Robert Krulwich for Radio Lab gives an outstanding commencement address to the 2008 graduating class of the California Institute of Technology. I personally found it very compelling. http://blogs.wnyc.org/radiolab/2008/07/29/tell-me-a-story/

Only -- and I can't emphasise that enough -- because I happen to know slightly one of the contestants this year (somthing that seems increasingly likely as the show lurches into its 9 millionth series), I had the misfortune to see Big Brother's Friday show. It plunged me into deep depression...