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This Week: Those of you expecting another fight are out of luck. But you will hear the exciting conclusion to the Ben versus Rich epic! Hint: mud-wrestling. Also, we discuss NBC’s Kings, casual video-game Peggle, and the death of print. Also, we list our Top 5 Favorite Pop Culture Sources! (links to those sources, in no particular order so as not to spoil the fun, after the break)
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Rich and Ben’s Favorite Pop-Culture Sources
Arts and Letters Daily
CNN.com
Facebook
Metacritic
Slate.com
The “Smart” Gaming Blogs – Brainy Gamer, Pixel Vixen, Versus Clu Clu Land, Insult Sword Fighting, Hit Self Destruct
The Smart Set
Pop Culture is everywhere. We just acknowledge it. Christ and Pop Culture is an attempt to discuss and think rightly about the common knowledge of our age. 
There are, essentially, a small handful of places I look as pop-culture sources.
First and foremost, PopURLs. PopURLs functions as an aggregator for aggregators. It’s frontpage holds about 25 items from each of Digg, Reddit (which has seen better days), Delicious (same there too), MeFi, Flikr, youTube, Technoratie, Google News, NY Times (stupid sub-service), Wired, Slashdot, etc. Everyday holds a mine of information that one couldn’t possibly have the time to sift through. Still, despite the fact that it skews based on popularity from netizens, I find it a good source for the things that pop in our culture.
Other than that, I seek specific sites for particular interests.
For comics news, I read The Beat (and Comics Should Be Good). For videogames, I read The Escapist (and whatever Tycho’s saying every other day). I don’t keep up with film, tv, music, or lit news anymore so much.
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As far as Y: The Last Man? Rich, you should read it. I reviewed it here and you can read the first chapter online for free on Vertigo/DC’s site. This is one of a small handful of comics stories I give people to show them what rad comics are all about.
Read that first chapter and tell me the book doesn’t sound fascinating.
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p.s. The Monk thinks this is the best image for any of your articles.
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– The Cult of Personality Podcast.
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