Category: Pop Culture

  • Trashwire sits down with Arj Barker at Comedy Works in Denver

    Arj Barker is best known in the USA for his role as Dave on the HBO series Flight of the Conchords, but he has also been doing stand up for over a decade and has a huge following in Australia. He has an animated online series called “Arj and Poopy” that has been described as,…

  • Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009

    There is no way I can string together a sentence that can fittingly express just how much Michael Jackson meant to me or how deeply devastated I am by his death.

  • New documentary paints captivating portrait of Mike Tyson

    Director James Toback’s inventive visual style and complex mixture of original interviews, archival footage and photos combines with the captivating words from Mike Tyson himself to make Tyson one of the most fascinating portraits of a sports figure in years.

  • Bret Michaels knocked in the head at the Tony’s

    There was simply no way I could NOT post this! Also, I like how some of the videos on YouTube are titled: Bret Michaels Beheaded

  • Scraping the bottom of the barrel with ‘I’m a Celebrity… Get Me out of Here!’

    Besides the change in temperature, crappy television also signals the beginning of the summer season where writers save their wit for the fall and actually “go to there” – there being vacation. While the smart people play the suits stray away and we end up with the American revival of I’m a Celebrity… Get Me…

  • The A-List comes out for the White House Correspondents Dinner

    Swine Flu be damned, nobody declined an invite to the White House Correspondents Association Dinner this year. This was Trashiwire’s fourth year of attending the pre-parties at “NerdProm”, as it was dubbed by the Twitterverse and this time, the crowd was overwhelming! CSPAN reported that there were over 3,000 attendees, but it felt like double…

  • Videos from Nerdprom

    Check out some of the video clips we took from the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in Washington, D.C. this past Saturday… Steven Spielberg rolled into the White House Correspondents Assoication Dinner flanked by throngs of people all whispering “No way! Is it really him?!” Seconds later, Glenn Close entered the parties right behind him.…

  • If you like cocaine and iPhones, you’ll love iSnort

    I totally stole this from Wil’s blog.

  • Twitter in Real Life

    See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor. Thanks to Amy (AKA @DigitalRoyalty) for tweeting the link to this video

  • Shaq and Lou Amundson Love the 80s

    Everyone knows I love the Suns and, if you follow me on twitter, you know that I have a recurring theme of tying the Suns to Prince’s outstanding 80s music/movie extravaganza Purple Rain. Never could I imagine that the two things would meet in one place, but now they have… plus a little Michael Jackson,…


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