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| Thursday Mar 18, 2004 | Who needs Michel Gondry and a studio budget to make your offbeat techno music video when you've got Japanese pop culture and Flash?
to Music by lampbane |
| Tuesday Jan 21, 2003 | For 40 years the X-Men have protected a world that hates and fears them, sought peace between homo sapiens sapiens and homo sapiens superior, only to have their own publisher sell out their humanity for lower tariff rates. to Comics by lampbane |
| Thursday Aug 22, 2002 | The days of pads falling out of
bags and broken tampons
are over - every woman's dirty little secret can now travel in style.
to Health by lampbane |
| Wednesday Jun 12, 2002 | Fresh off his appearance with Triumph the Insult Comic Dog and those Star Wars geeks on the Conan O'Brien show, Blackwolf the Dragonmaster makes his web presence known. Watch for him on a city street or a Renaissance Faire near you.
to Wackos by lampbane |
| Sunday Apr 28, 2002 | First ProgressQuest gave us an RPG without any gameplay. Now Boru Irish Vodka will give you an RPG-like experience without an actual game. to Beverages by lampbane |
| Tuesday Mar 26, 2002 | Great Teacher Onizuka is the touching story of a 22 year old virginal street hoodlum who decides to become a high school teacher... so he can sleep with all the pretty Japanese schoolgirls. Immoral? Sure. Unethical? Certainly. Illegal? Not exactly. to Comics by lampbane |
| Tuesday Jan 8, 2002 | Maybe this summer I'll go to Scap... err, that convention for the show with the living ship and that guy and the blue lady... oh wait, she isn't on it anymore. to Entertainment by lampbane |
| Sunday Jan 6, 2002 | The New York Times and Japan don't seem to get along very well, do they?
to News by lampbane |
| Tuesday Jan 1, 2002 | Cartoon Orbit: Crack for the Pokémon generation. to Entertainment by lampbane |
| Tuesday Nov 6, 2001 | Ever been possessed by the desire to grab a business card from every place you visit and every person you meet? Intimidated by the ever growing stack on your desk? Fascinated by their texture, lettering, or overall design? Know what a Drogin is? You are not alone. to Business by lampbane |
| Saturday Oct 20, 2001 | The smart-mouthed canine shamus and hyperkinetic rabbity thing are back for more. to Games by lampbane |
| Wednesday Oct 10, 2001 | Coming soon to a museum near you: giant inflatable pink bunnies. to Art by lampbane |
| Friday Sep 7, 2001 | Can't wait for Buffy and Angel to premiere in a few weeks? Don't want to resort to writing fan fiction for your fix? Try pondering over the moral ambiguities and ethical quandries of the Buffyverse. to Television by lampbane |
| Tuesday Aug 21, 2001 | Teenage pregnancy is down in the United States. But don't worry, the kids in Britain are picking up the slack.
to Health by lampbane |
| Wednesday Aug 1, 2001 | Stormwatch begat the Authority which begat the Monarchy. And let's not forget Planetary. Oh, and coming soon: the Establishment.
to Comics by lampbane |
| Thursday Jul 12, 2001 | As if people weren't wussy enough, they've found a way to completely ruin the satisfying experience of smooshing bugs. to Gadgets by lampbane |
| Monday Jul 2, 2001 | Why wait until you're old enough to buy booze? Make your own, Viking style! to Beer by lampbane |
| Friday Jun 29, 2001 | Poor Scott McCloud. Everyone keeps picking on him. Good for them. to Comics by lampbane |
| Tuesday Jun 19, 2001 | Looking through the list of Classic Arcade Game Locations in New York one may notice the absence of the Chinatown Arcade, an L-shaped block of space usually crammed to the gills with imports, classics, Asian kids, body heat, and Dance Dance Revolution. It's a shame they neglected to include it on the list, because who knows how many curious businessmen might want to skip work to challenge all the kids cutting school to a good game of Galaga or Golden Axe?
to Games by lampbane |
| Thursday Jun 7, 2001 | This fall cable subscribers everywhere will be treated to a new television series version of the Neverending Story. Presumably it will consist of totally new stories, if only because the producers would want to milk the cash-cow as long as possible. Meanwhile, fans of the original movie can content themselves with the musings of loyal fans across the globe. to Movies by lampbane |
| Wednesday May 30, 2001 | All across the net there are geeks dedicated to chronicling and analyzing the object of their obsession. Their mission is to ensure that no stone goes unturned, no land uncharted, no in-joke unreferenced. Heroes, or simply people with way too much time on their hands? to Media by lampbane |
| Wednesday May 23, 2001 | I always figured there was a sinister motive behind the nauseating pinkness of the Barbie aisle in every Toys 'R' Us. to Toys by lampbane |
| Wednesday May 16, 2001 | Today Marvel Comics announced they are dropping the 50-year old dinosaur known as the Comics Code in favor of in-house guidelines. The villagers rejoiced. to Comics by lampbane |
| Sunday May 13, 2001 | It's Smintman and his sidekick Xylitol Boy! Well, not really but it's still a cool little candy. From the makers of Chupa Chups. Suck on that. to Food by lampbane |
| Humans are not the center of all life in the universe, money and sex will always be important, and every good fleet needs massive scary warships. Andromeda is the anti-Star Trek. to Television by lampbane |
| Wednesday May 9, 2001 | We are the Space Robots. We are here to protect you. We are here to protect you from the Terrible Secret of Space. Do you have stairs in your house? to Culture by lampbane |
| Friday May 4, 2001 | What the world needs now are more songs about Star Trek and superheroes. And monkeys too. to Music by lampbane |
| Sunday Apr 29, 2001 | Those with fond memories of the original Final Fantasy might be amused to see Black Mage and Fighter take on giants, ninjas, and pop cultural phenomenons. to Games by lampbane |
| Wednesday Apr 25, 2001 | SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: Quitting Smoking Now Greatly Reduces Serious Risks to Your Health but may hamper your Gothic social life. So smoke up! Because death is cool. to Tobacco by lampbane |
| Tuesday Apr 24, 2001 | Wanna send some motherfuckers to the hospital? Then behold the magnificence of my unstoppable fighting and filing techniques. You dare to laugh? Then I will have to engage you in another round of good old-fashioned ass-kicking. Or filing alphabetically. to Comics by lampbane |
| Wednesday Apr 18, 2001 | Divorced, beheaded, died - Divorced, beheaded, survived. Intermarriage & infidelity certainly make a royal geneology interesting. to History by lampbane |
| Sunday Apr 15, 2001 | For someone with molded-on underwear and no nipples, Barbie certainly has an active sex life.
to Sex by lampbane |
| Wednesday Apr 11, 2001 | Some children take good care of their toys... and then there are those who like to take things apart. We could psychoanalyze these people all day and speculate on why the educators wait until high school to let people dissect small animals, but hey, I think we all have our own destructive urges to fulfill. to Toys by lampbane |
| Saturday Apr 7, 2001 | When Pop Culture Comebacks Collide: All Your Base Are Belong To Us... Fool.
to Culture by lampbane |
| Wednesday Apr 4, 2001 | We are the Peeps. You will incorporate us into all your biological components. Resistance is futile. to Food by lampbane |
| Wednesday Mar 28, 2001 | House of Leaves is what Blair Witch 2 could have been and should have been. If you're a promiscuous tattoo artist with a mother in the nuthouse. Or your sister is Poe. Welcome to the House of Leaves.
to Literature by lampbane |
| Tuesday Mar 27, 2001 | Despite what Nelvana would have you believe, most of the characters on CardCaptors are probably gay. Or engaged in pedophilic relationships. Watch the uncensored Japanese version instead. to Television by lampbane |
| Wednesday Mar 21, 2001 | So Alicia finally got booted off the continent and all of the couples stayed together. But the real question is, which Contender will die first? to Movies by lampbane |
| Tuesday Mar 20, 2001 | Every time I take the NYC subway I see ads for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus that read, "No one ever said they wanted to run away and join a video game." But isn't that what Captain N: The Game Master was all about? to Television by lampbane |
| Monday Mar 19, 2001 | Bugs Bunny is a cross-dresser, the Smurfs are communist, and Scrappy Doo is a human/dog hybrid. Maybe we really should stop watching cartoons after puberty. to Television by lampbane |
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