Posts tagged pop culture

November and December: Idol Chatterin’

Dec 17th

Posted by Esther in Blogging with Esther

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When it comes to the intersection between pop culture and spirituality (which sometimes means Judaism, specifically), my posts at Idol Chatter on Beliefnet run the gamut: from TV to music, from books to movies, from the Holocaust to the Family Guy to ABBA. Seriously. After my making a case in October for Don Draper being

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Celebrity Obituaries: John Hughes, Patrick Swayze

Oct 14th

Posted by Esther in Blogging with Esther

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Over the past few months, pop culturistas like me lost pieces of our cultural childhoods one at a time, each one adding to the devastation: no sooner were we moving past Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson, that we lost writer/director John Hughes and dancer/actor/not putting Baby in a cornerer Patrick Swayze. Hughes and Swayze, were

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