Pop Culture Roundup

Pop Culture Roundup

World’s Oldest Romance Writer Passes Away at Age 105
And she so doesn’t fit into your stereotypes. (Unless your stereotype is of someone who was supposedly conceived during an affair with a Russian duke…
DiGiorno pizza gets good response to Sound of Music tweets
So last week lots folks “hate watched” and tweeted snark about NBC’s live broadcast of “The Sound of Music” with country star Carrie Underwood in the Julie Andrews role. (Best tweet of the night? @andishehnouraee‘s #VonTrappNado.) But DiGiorno Pizza’s social media team is credited with winning the night with a spontaneous night of snarky tweets that still avoid offense while talking about Nazis and nuns.
How do you create buzz with social media storytelling?
The folks behind Sharknado and Defiance show how it’s done.
And finally… Why the Grinch won’t win a libel suit.
While these statements are unkind, and while it is probably theoretically possible to establish that you are, in fact, more cuddly than a cactus according to a physicist’s or linguist’s definition of cuddliness (softness, lack of thorns, etc.), there are additional elements of cuddliness that we believe it would be difficult to convince a fact-finder were not ultimately subjective.