Popular culture isn't a freeze-frame; it is images zapping by in rapid-fire succession, which is why collage is such an effective way of representing contemporary life. The blur between images creates a kind of motion in the mind.

Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night.

I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

People constantly make pop-culture references. That's why it's called popular culture, because people are aware of it and reference it constantly.

They were unironic enthusiasts for all the mass pleasures the culture offered: television, NASCAR, cruises, Disney World, sports, celebrity gossip, and local politics. Szabo often wished that he could be as well adjusted as Melinda's family, but he would have had to be medicated to pursue her list of pleasures.