I'm a standup comic in Chicago, I write for Cracked and you can find my writing scattered all around the Internet. If you want, get to me at kamal.nate@gmail.com
Pop culture history can be a little light on the 'history' part -- and if you revisit the 'official' versions of a few of these cultural milestones, you might find a few very big parts of the story missing.
Pop culture quotes give us the means to express ourselves when we're too dumb or lazy to come up with our own mouth-sounds. And even then we can't get it right.
In an ideal universe, trained educators and/or leading experts in their field would exclusively write self-help books. We do not live in an ideal universe.
Sure, writers and directors know a little something about 'art,' but studios knew a little something about 'making a movie that people would actually watch.'
