Compare your height to famous people!

Click on this link for a seriously important pop culture resource that lets you compare your height to the heights of different celebrities. It's really fun. Uma Thurman is taller than me, but I've got Halle and Gwyneth beat. Woohoo! (via Boing Boing

I must be "Trippin"'

Pop culture and environmental stuff together on one TV show? I always thought I'd be the only person to watch a show that combined those interests, but MTV seems to think that Pop culture + the environment + Cameron Diaz = something people will actually watch. I hope they're right. And I hope I have cable while it's airing, because my friends probably have no interest in watching one of Charlie's Angels trying to save cute animals and stop pollution.

Watch cancelled Fox shows online

I just read that Fox is planning to make unaired episodes of My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss and Playing it Straight available to watch online (for a fee, of course). I don't care about either of those shows in the slightest, but I hope they'll start doing this for all the shows they cancel.

Tropical Night in December

Several years ago, I spent six months of my life obsessed with a soap opera on the Spanish channel. I thought I was over this addiction to foreign language drama, but tonight I discovered that KSCI (Channel 18) is showing the conclusion of something that Yahoo's TV listings call simply "Korean Miniseries Drama." I checked out KSCI's website for more info and found this description:

"Tropical Night in December: In Korean with English subtitles - It's a story about a perfect homemaker and mother/wife/daughter-in-law who falls in love with a man who is terminally ill. She leaves her family for him but it turns out that he was just playing a "game" with her. It was a bet at her expense to fall in love with him b/c he was dying anyway."

That description is terrible, but the show is really good. There must be something in my brain that just loves the combination of foreign language and soap operas. One minute the young guy is on top of a giant hill yelling at God about how he's only 27 and he has a brain tumor, and then a few minutes later he's trying to convince this woman that they should die together because he's afraid to die alone. Oh, no, I thought it was ending, but then it got all slow-motiony as the young guy and her husband were fighting in a river, and I saw those dreadful words, "To be continued..."

Rockin' out on Teen TV

Here's a neat little AP article about how musicians like Death Cab for Cutie and Rooney have benefitted from appearances (or even just being mentioned) on shows like The O.C.

Wanna see Hello Kitty's skull?

If you've ever wondered what a cartoon character's skeleton might look like, check out this guy's drawings. The Charlie Brown ones are my favorite.