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Everyone Googles Sometimes

Yes it would appear that everyone Google sometime and they are looking for the most import parts of popular culture. If they Google it enough it might even end up with more than its fifteen minutes of fame. The 1963 hit Surfin Bird by The Trashmen is certainly a song that has had more than its share of fame and is currently topping the Google Top 100. From The Trashmen we move on to Iceland and their economy which is the the trash just as much as ours. Maybe Bjork should hold a benefit concert for the government. I would pay good money assuming I actually had any to see The Sugarcubes.

Moving on from one musical form to a musical family, we find the Cyrus family in the news. Trace tops the ticker for google, but Miley Cyrus aka Destiny Cyrus is never far behind. I have not yet heard anything by Trace Cyrus of Metro Station but I am going to guess that it is overproduced crap with so much spin and polish that it will sell just on name affiliation alone. Speaking of names I just have figured out the naming scheme yet for Billy Ray Cyrus. He appears to suffer the same sort of complex as Sarah Palin, but just not as bad. Maybe the Appalachian form of WTF isn’t as bad as the Alaskan strain. You decide is Track, Bristol, Willow, Piper, and Trig better or worse that Trace, Brandi, Christopher Cody, Destiny Hope (aka Miley), Braison Hope, and Noah Lindsey. What the hell kind of name for a girl is Noah. Read more

Tuesday’s With Bradley

What would your Tuesday with Brad be without a little perspective from Google?

As we get closer to wrapping up American Idol for the season and probably forever, William Hung has hit the Top 100 searches again. So where is William Hung? At the moment the ex-Idol hopeful is working on a Math degree and UC Northridge with hopes of becoming a math teacher.

With no big surprise mystery illnesses on House last night nothing jumps out of the Google Trends page from there. I am going through the entries never the less and find is Courtney Henggeler is currently rated in the “Volcanic” for hotness on Google. Of course after “Bog Creatures” it is surprising no one tossed this hottie in a volcano.

We all knew Roger Clemens was a rock star of baseball.No one realized just how much like a rock star the seven time Cy Young winner really was though. First it is found out that he had an affair with Mindy McCready which started when she was fifteen. Now we find out he had another mistress named Angela Moyer. This is on top of his already hot wife, Debbie Clemens. Drug use, hot wife, and extra girls on the side screams rock star to me. However unlike rockstars I don’t think being dead would have been a good career move for him as a baseball player.

In one moment of farewell we say goodbye to Mildred Loving. As the black woman who challenged Virginia’s ban on inter-racial marriage and won, pop culture has much to say thank you to her for. It wasn’t just blacks who couldn’t marry whites it was every race in many places. So take a moment to think about Mildred as you think about some of the great interracial pop icons. From Kidada Jones and Halle Berry to Tiger Woods and Jessica Alba to Norah Jones and Mariah Carey our culture has gained much from a woman who didn’t want to be a hero, just a bride.

Don’t Worry, Google Will Let You Know What’s Popular!

If it is on TV it is popular on Google. I check my Google trends almost every morning to see what is hot and what is not and how I can profit from that just like any good blogger. What I have found out this morning is neurosyphilis, which was this week’s featured but wrong diagnosis on House sits in the number two slot, right behind Harvey Dent and just ahead of grand theft auto 4 cheats.

I am not sure what it means when the cheats for a new game rank well above the rating for the new game itself. I sometimes long for the days of simple video games that required a quarter slug to cheat. The fact is I just don’t the point of a lot of new video games. I love first person shooter games like Halo or Ghost Recon, but I think that goes with having extra helping of testosterone. Kill! Kill! Kill! I never got that kind of satisfaction out of pacman. Read more