Even world-famous entertainers need diversified income streams. — For many pop stars, most of their revenue comes from concert tours, album sales, and song streams. Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, for instance, is estimated to have brought in $2.2 billion in ticket sales just in North America alone. Bad Bunny’s 2022 album Un Verano Sin Ti sold 3.398 million…

My experience making a “Power Red” donation to the Red Cross. — As I’ve written before, I’m a life-long Red Cross blood donor, first starting at age 17 during a blood drive in my high school. Initially, I gave out of a desire to cure my needle-phobia (which worked, btw). But after seeing the kind of strong impact you can have on…

Or maybe 23? Examining a popular Red Pill narrative. — Man, she’s beautiful. Oh, wait, she’s 24? Sorry, hideous is what I meant. You know, Red Pillers — these supposed experts on gender relations and female psychology — tend to speak of women like they are the scientist dudes in a cheesy 1950s sci-fi movie talking about the monster. Attack…

A good creepy film with a solid cast. — Talk to Me was a movie I instantly wanted to see immediately after catching that freaky AF trailer. It gave me Hellraiser and It Follows vibes. Plus it’s nice to see an independent horror that’s not associated with the The Conjuring universe. A24 — the Nike swoosh of the indy…

And God only knows what she could be doing to Travis Kelce. — Taylor Swift is a woman of many talents. A global pop queen and beauty icon, serial boyfriend dumper, and one of the OG YouTube success stories. With her massively successful Eras Tour now in its international leg, and her docu-concert movie premiering in theaters this week, Taylor Swift is well…

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A rant about a so-called “restaurant.” — So, about a year ago I was driving across country somewhere in the Midwest and I had to pull in to a travel plaza for some gas. It was one of those stops on the highway that has a fast food restaurant attached. This one, as I’m sure you’ve guessed…

The ‘Barbie’ company is about to blast its toy box all over the silver screen. Are you ready for this Cambrian explosion of cinema? — With the super successful Barbie movie likely on its way to the billion dollar club at the box office, Mattel is ready to unleash the rest of its numerous branded toys into theaters. It all started in 2018, when new CEO Ynon Kreiz, faced with declining toy sales, decided to…

The real theme is cynical and darkly hilarious. So, a while back, I caught a video on good ol’ YouTube titled “Ghostbusters: A Movie About Nothing.” Basically, the video essay posits that the 1984 comedy classic lack a unifying theme. If you scroll down through the comment section, there are…