HeyJaredBimbo Summit: A Pop Culture Study
If culture is a reflection of society's soul, then this substack is an exorcism.
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Won’t Somebody Think of the Predators? (opens the original)
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This review contains spoilers for Lance Oppenheim’s Primetime, including its ending, so if you’re planning to watch it, do that first. It also discusses child sexual abuse and exploitation, grooming, statutory rape and attempted statutory rape, Jeffrey Epstein and Virginia Giuffre’s accounts of abuse and trafficking, as well as suicide, including the suicides of both an accused sexual offender depicted in Primetime and Giuffre. Nothing is described graphically, but these subjects are central to
Taylor Swift’s Shrinking World (opens the original)
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At 11:00 pm last night, like a lot of women in CST, I walked around my kitchen listening to the four new encore tracks on Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl. Some I like, one I was surprised by, and one I detest (more on that in a sec). What strikes me most about these songs is how thoroughly they continue the album’s trajectory—which is to say, how little that trajectory ultimately seems to have to do with the life of a showgirl. For an album ostensibly about fame, performance, celebrity, an
Babygirl in control, I feel like Nicole (opens the original)
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I originally published this essay in April 2025, when Nicole Kidman’s Getty Images archive was having a moment on Instagram. A year and a half later, Kidman is having another resurgence—not so much as a celebrity, exactly, but as a kind of pop-cultural language unto herself.On September 4, pop star Adéla released her debut album, Prima, featuring a song titled, simply, “Nicole Kidman.” The music video, released the same day, casts Adéla as Kidman across a series of instantly recognizable roles a
Sluts 4 Slasher: Ready or Not (opens the original)
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There are spoilers in this post! I personally enjoy reading a critique of a film before I see, but if you don’t please go watch Ready or Not. It’s awesome!This new Pangram AI detection is killing me. My writing is not AI assisted but this post in particular has triggered Pangram. I’ve disable the feature and, in full transparency, have bolded all of the lines Pangram has flagged as AI. My only guess is that academic writing and historical summary are “flags” and this post contains a lot of both.
The Limits of Disenchantment, or, WTF was the Summer of 2026? (opens the original)
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I’ve spent most of the summer of 2026 answering the question, “How are you?” with “I feel like the skin of reality is peeling off. Does that make sense?”As I write, a crew of workers who blew a waterline to my home late last Friday afternoon are digging enormous holes in my beautiful prairie landscaped rose garden. They have turned my water off. From th… Read more
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