Ryan Menezes

1 week ago | cracked.com | Ryan Menezes

Mad Men took place at an ad agency, which gave the writers a good avenue for digging into a bunch of themes they wanted to address. Advertising was a lens for looking at identity, deception, consumerism, technology, prejudice and more. That means at no point was it essential that the show portray advertising totally accurately.

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Ryan Menezes

1 day agoAlthough it has been some years since the infamous hacker collective Anonymous made headlines, its status as a movement rather than an organized group means there is always the potential for it to pop up occasionally. And pop up it has. Under the banner of Operation DreadNought, which I assume is a …

1 week ago | cracked.com | Ryan Menezes

A couple weeks ago, Brazil announced that I’m Still Here would not be eligible for top honors at that country’s equivalent of the Oscars. The reason was that it’s so significantly better than any other movie in contention, it wouldn’t be fair to force them all to compete with it.

1 week ago | cracked.com | Ryan Menezes

Titanic has faced so much mockery over the years that some of us know the famous nitpicks better than we know the movie itself. For example, there’s the argument over whether Jack and Rose could both fit on that floating door, an argument rendered totally moot by the movie, which shows the platform sinking under their weight when they try getting on together.

1 week ago | cracked.com | Ryan Menezes

Singing is all about expressing emotion, whether you really feel it or not. When you hit that one long note at the end of the bridge, you want your listeners to say, “Wow, I can tell someone broke your heart for real,” even if you really came up with it merely through lots of practice. But it’s not all just emotional pain. Humans experience another kind of pain as well, the kind that happens when you place a part of your body on the counter and then slam at it with a hammer.