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50 years ago, it was hip to say that Bugs Bunny was queer (cross-dresses, kisses Elmer Fudd). Now we hear that he’s Black. There’s a whole list of Black cartoon characters, but it doesn’t include my totemic hero, Wile E. Coyote. I guess he’s Native American.

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Pop culture in pictograms

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TIME discovers fanfic.

Thanx to Making Light.

Amanda Marcotte on the kind of people who think they can make the intellectual elite cry by having the wrong person win on Dancing with the Stars

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Play it again, Sam.

Come wiz me to ze casbah

Judy, Judy, Judy

Beam me up, Scotty

Why do we remember so many movie and TV lines that weren't actually said? Tony Curtis just died, and I expect at least half the obituaries to quote, "Yonda lies da castle a my fodda." He did not say that in a movie. In his autobiography, American Prince, he reports that the quote was made up by an actress (name justly lost to history, or at least he mentioned it and I didn't recognize it) to mock the inherently ridiculous idea of a Jewish sex idol.