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A couple more:

That's a good distinction, although I accept both definitions.

How big were they?  They were a huge 90s emo act, after the original 80s DC scene and before the 00s wave. Of course emo itself was a much smaller thing back then.

Punk died in 2009 when The Millionaires, Jeffree Star, and BrokeNCYDE played on the Warped Tour.

Honestly, I only give a shit about what teenagers think of this.  Even if it is complete bullshit by any other standard or to any other demographic, if it works for them, it works. And if it doesn't it must be really horrible.

There's nothing more punk than shitting on the grave of punk.

I'm in my 40s.  So now people of good taste love synthpop bands that sound kind of like SSQ, but in the 80s they were frequently derided as pop fluff as opposed to less accessible postpunk bands, or hardcore, goth, industrial, posthardcore, underground metal etc.  By '83 cheerleaders and jocks listened to synthpop.

Spandex Clad Twink Minions would be an awesome name for a series.

I hate to say it, but her songs are way more catchy than Lorde's or the new Gaga.  And when it comes to pop songstresses, isn't that what it's all about?

Another 'casual wear super-powers' franchise in the mold of Chronicle / Push / Jumper / Heroes / Mutant X.  (An under-heralded ancestor of the genre is De Palma's The Fury.  And I guess the original Tomorrow People too, but I never saw it)

I liked Gravity overall - very good as a thrill ride (despite repetitiveness), middling as a movie with plot and characters - but it's become this weird sacred cow the likes of which are rarely seen outside of Nolan, Wes Anderson and Tarantino fandoms.

I'm not too fond of Suspiria, but Phenomena is a kind of insane masterpiece.  It's a surreal fairytale grafted to a B-movie slasher plot, not to mention ahead of its time with forensic entomology.

Followed a link; at first glance I thought this was an Onion fake article rather than the A.V. Club.

There seems to be snowballing backlash in the media against their once-darling, Gladwell, especially in the wake of frauds involving science popularizers and pop-star scientists: Jonah Lehrer, Marc Hauser, that Scandinavian social psychologist…  A ton of journalists and bloggers on the pop science / TEDsphere /

That hole in the cover makes me wonder if Butters stuck his wiener in it.

And now, America's Breaking Bad listicle-based economy collapses.

Even though it overlapped BB by two years Lost already feels like a 'Remember the '00s?' clip, less vital and contemporary than, say, Six Feet Under.  BB will be immortal.

There is nothing interesting nor cool about Boba Fett whatsoever.  The cult only got started because he was the first character from any Star Wars sequel to be publicly revealed, years before Empire Strikes Back appeared in theaters.  The Boba Fett legend snowballed from there.

That shawarma meal was enjoyed on a mass grave.

Cheesier than Nikita meets No Ordinary Family, it's an even bigger misstep for the MCU franchise than Iron Man 2.  SHIELD should have stayed DVD extra shorts.