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In Case You Missed It...BGN Podcast 12/1/13 Cartoonmania Part 2

Did you love our Cartoonmania podcast? We talked about Robotech, Samurai Pizza Cats, and Pinky & The Brain! We've decided to do a part 2! We will chat about all of our favorite nostalgic ca…

"The Best Man Holiday"...Grab the Tissue...

Prepare to break out the tissues for this one, because the floodgates of tears will soon follow… It has been 15 years since The Best Man (1999) debuted on the Hollywood screen and the reunion could n…

Trailer Trash

I once ran a couple of film blogs and had a weekly recurring series called Trailer Trash.  It comprised of film clips from my favorite movies recut into completely different genres!  For example, the…

In Case You Missed It...BGN Podcast 9/22/13 Comedienne Rebecca O'Neal

Rebecca O'Neal is a Chicago based writer/editor and stand up comedian whose work can be read on/in Vanity Fair Magazine, Gawker.tv, Spli.tsider.com, The Rumpus, and more. She is also a regular gu…

SNL Doesn’t Care About Black Comediennes

In the words of Kanye, I am echoing his disdain by stating that Saturday Night Live, commonly abbreviated as SNL, doesn’t care about Black Comediennes. Well kinda. I only watch SNL for one reason; …

$#*! My Parents Didn’t Say

I really hope you can’t relate to what I’m going to talk about in this post. That would mean you probably had a well adjusted childhood, a decent adolescent stage, and are now a happily functioning a…

In Case You Missed It...The Decepticomics 8/25/13

The DeceptiComics are five malevolent comedians, brutal, merciless, and hilarious. Their purpose,to conquer and destroy audiences with brutal wit and deadly punchlines. They are driven by a single un…

BGN Girl: Rebecca O'Neal

Rebecca O'Neal is a Chicago based writer/editor and stand up comedian whose work can be read on/in Vanity Fair Magazine, Gawker.tv , Splitsider.com , The Rumpus, and more. She is also a regular …

Confessions of a Puppeteer: Scotty Swan

My journey into the crazy world of puppetry began when I was a wee little blerd. Jim Henson is to blame for my sick obsession with puppets.  Religiously watching Sesame Street and the Muppets ( I s…

Movie Review: Sometimes Slow and Steady Wins the Race..."Turbo"

Who does not like an underdog story???  When it’s all said and done…sometimes slow and steady really does win the race!! Here is another movie that was totally not on my radar, but ended up being a f…

5 Types of Nerdy Girls (Part 4)

This popular series has arrived once again and it’s time to highlight 5 more types of nerdy girls.  Do any of these types represent you?  Or are you an amalgam of all five? The Horror Nerd She’s obse…

In Case You Missed It...BGN Podcast 6/23/13 Shequeta Smith Director of The Takeover

Shequeta Smith is the director of the YouTube hit about an interracial body swap between two women who spend a day in each other's shoes. A lighthearted comedy that speaks to the serious issue o…

Motherhood means lots of love and never pottying alone

There’s a belief that you don’t really appreciate your mom until you’ve become a mother. Well, I disagree. I always appreciated my mom and admired her! But I developed a new found respect for the ins…

Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic

We’ll never know what it was like to be Richard Pryor. The brilliant and troubled comedian was a lot of things. He was a husband seven times over -- because he married two of his ex-wives twice. He w…

Sista’s Are Doin’ It For Themselves!

I don’t know my father. I know his name, I know he looks like me and I know we share the same taste in music. Outside of that I’m clueless. Now, before you start jumping to conclusions that this is o…
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