Tag: Italy
The Super Mario Bros. Movie: Why Is This Damaging Italian Stereotype Still “Okay” in 2023?
Despite the phenomenon of so-called woke culture coming for everything under the sun with regard to accusations of being offensive, the one glaring ethnicity that [Read More…]
Jared Leto Being “Teargassed” In Rome: Karmic Retribution for House of Gucci?
Truth be told, a lot of casual passersby have been “teargassed” in their day. Shit, if you were in any French city at the height [Read More…]
Raffaella non è la tua bambarella: On The World’s First Feminist Pop Star
Some icons are made, and others are born. Raffaella Carrà seemed to fall into the latter category. Like she was shot out of her mother’s [Read More…]
Europe and An Inherent Non-Predilection for “Sanitization”
Europe has so long been associated with words like “earthy” and “real” (otherwise known as: life outside of America), that it’s difficult to imagine it [Read More…]
The Pervasiveness of the Vaccine in America Has Merely Confirmed the Country’s Belief That Suffering (“Too Long”) is For Suckers
It’s among the many ironies of the U.S. that the “American work ethic” is one punctuated by long hours but little actual output (or much [Read More…]
Mondo Bullshittio #27: Giving the Vatican Shit For Its Psychedelic, Space-Oriented Nativity
In a series called Mondo Bullshittio, let’s talk about some of the most glaring hypocrisies and faux pas in pop culture… and all that it [Read More…]
Charlie Kaufman’s Wet Dream Fashion Show, Or: Wait, Models Weren’t Puppets Already?
It almost seems more than slightly tinged with shade (whether “unwitting” or not) that Jeremy Scott should choose to wield puppets as his models for [Read More…]
Art For Art’s Sake Don’t Pay the Bills: The Burnt Orange Heresy
As though director Giuseppe Capotondi and screenwriter Scott B. Smith unwittingly took a key kernel of a driving plot point in Tenet, The Burnt Orange [Read More…]
Diego Maradona: Napoli’s Twentieth Century Folk Hero & The Shakespearean Tragedy of His Game Against the Very City He Helped Reinvigorate
“My only pleasure this afternoon was in discovering the Italians in Milan have stopped being racists: today, for the first time, they supported the Africans.” [Read More…]
Mondo Bullshittio #2: People (Americans) Getting Upset Over Coachella’s Postponement–POSTPONEMENT, Not Even Cancellation
In a new series called Mondo Bullshittio, let’s talk about some of the most glaring hypocrisies in pop culture… and all that it affects. It [Read More…]
