As anyone must be who follows pop entertainment, I’m a keen observer of trend cycles. Culture is a marketplace, and there are all kinds of practical reasons to keep an…
How Bad Can It Be?
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Jack Feerick
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Pity poor Steven Seagal, the Forgotten Man of action movies. His fellow redneck / kung-fu badass Chuck Norris becomes popcult meme thanks to ”facts” like Lightning never strikes in the…
Jack Feerick
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In the abstract, Neil Diamond seems like somebody I should dig. Smart dude; good work ethic, fairly self-aware, tries a lot of different things. Steeped in the classics of pre-rock…
Jack Feerick
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Comedienne Kathy Griffin takes as her great subject the foibles of Hollywood celebrity culture. Part of the kick of Griffin’s TV show Life on the D-List and her stand-up routine…
Jack Feerick
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W.A.S.P. frontman Blackie Lawless was infamous for raunchy lyrics and an outrageous stage show. Now the onetime shock-rocker has got religion — and a new album. Jack Feerick wonders: How bad can it be?
Jack Feerick
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Surprise! Ed Asner is still alive, and his latest project — the political drama It’s Up to Us Alone — has Jack Feerick asking How Bad Can It Be?
Jack Feerick
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Believe it or not, this week’s column finds Jack Feerick giving something an unabashedly positive review!
Jack Feerick
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Michael BublÁ©’s music might sound like a boring mishmash of adult contemporary tropes, but it’s just a front — he has a dark secret, and Jack Feerick knows what it is.
Jack Feerick
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Jack Feerick has the deadline blues this week, leading him to publish his first flashback column — a previously unpublished look at “The Biggest Loser.”
Jack Feerick
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As I write this, the Dow-Jones is breaking 10,000, and the economy looks to be coming out of a slump — even though nobody’s hiring just yet. Most folks who…
Jack Feerick
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Braving untold depths of epic spiritual misery, Jack Feerick has ventured into the fetid hole that is Dragonball: Evolution. Dear God, how bad can it be?
Jack Feerick
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What is noetic science, why is everyone talking about it, and how does it relate to some of the most obnoxious new age hooey to separate people from their paychecks this decade? Jack Feerick knows, and he isn’t afraid to tell us.
Jack Feerick
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Dan Brown is the best-selling author in history, and has millions of fans. If you are one of them, do yourself a favor; donÁ¢€™t read this weekÁ¢€™s How Bad Can It Be?, because it will only make you sad.
Jack Feerick
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Singer-songwriter pop aimed squarely at adults meets animation geared to the Playhouse Disney demographic. Yeah, nothing could possibly go wrong with this one.
Jack Feerick
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It’s one of the biggest film flops of all time. But Jack Feerick wanted to know — really, how bad can it be?
Jack Feerick
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Indie rock royalty Joe Pernice has released his debut novel, and the first thing Jack Feerick wants to know is — you guessed it — How Bad Can It Be?
Jack Feerick
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Jack Feerick has just returned from a pulse-pounding adventure with the world’s most famous Christian vegetables!
Jack Feerick
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Ashley Tisdale’s new album is called Guilty Pleasure, and in his latest How Bad Can It Be?, Jack Feerick explores the levels of irony in its title.
Jack Feerick
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Happy Friday, Trekkies! It’s time for another installment of How Bad Can It Be? — and this time, Jack Feerick is taking a leak all over Star Trek: The Animated Series.
Jack Feerick
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Who the heck is Livan, and where does he get off describing his sound as “Nine Inch Nails meets the Clash”? Jack Feerick investigates in this week’s edition of How Bad Can It Be?
Jack Feerick
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There’s a tradition in sports of retiring jersey numbers. It’s a way of proclaiming that a player’s achievements are unmatchable. No member of the Boston Red Sox, for instance, will…
Jack Feerick
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Rock ‘n’ roll, of course, is all about The Kids. No matter what the makeup of its actual audience — and evidence suggests that it varies widely — there’s an…
Jack Feerick
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When you think about it, there’s no earthly reason why movies based on video games should, as a class, be so atrocious. For one thing, the games themselves are largely…
Jack Feerick
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The point of a column like this is not to be a consumer guide, or to give “thumbs up”/”thumbs down” to the latest media product (which is just as well…
Jack Feerick
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Since I’ve joined the staff for this site, I’ve learned so many things just by virtue of being on the official Popdose e-mail list. For instance, d’you remember that high-larious…
Jack Feerick
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In the pantheon of queer models of femininity, Barbra Streisand looms large — just below the holy trinity of Judy and Liza and Liz, perhaps. For many gay men of…
Jack Feerick
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If it’s Friday, it must be How Bad Can It Be? — and this time, Jack Feerick is leafing through the pages of Jack Kirby’s Devil Dinosaur Omnibus.
Jack Feerick
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The Dio-era lineup of Black Sabbath is back together and rockin’ again with a new album. They’re calling themselves Heaven & Hell, and in his latest How Bad Can It Be?, Jack Feerick discovers which side wins out.
Jack Feerick
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Jack Feerick’s latest How Bad Can It Be? takes him deep into the heart of darkness — the fifth volume of “Hannah Montana” on DVD.
Jack Feerick
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Take a mid-list British actor — not a character actor exactly, but not traditional leading-man material either. Slap him with a permanently sour expression and a four-day beard, then cast…
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