Tag: pop culture
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Exciting Announcement
It’s been a minute. My apologies. Let’s catch up. A reminder of who I am, if you needed it. I’m Dom or Dominique. I started Fairly Professional in February 2019. I was a sophomore in high school who always wanted to create a blog. In fact, this was not my first blog. I created two…
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Release Day!
Today is the day. Months of writing, editing, and promotion have all come down to this moment. My first book Living Rent Free In My Head: Essays On Pop Culture is out today! You can purchase the ebook version of the book anywhere you buy books including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Apple Books, Google…
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The ABCs of Living Rent Free In My Head
Consider this the dictionary of my book Living Rent Free In My Head. If a dictionary was a list of movies, TV shows, and books that were referenced in a book. As you probably already know Living Rent Free In My Head is all about pop culture. I thought it would be interesting to make…
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Essays That Didn’t Make It Into My Book: When Are Celebrities Responsible For Their Fans?
Stans and hardcore fans of celebrities are dedicated to their favorite celebrities. To a fault, a lot of the times. Stans will defend their favorite celebrity from any criticism, even if they were clearly in the wrong. In the worst and extreme cases, some stans will take things too far by sending death threats to…
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Essays That Didn’t Make It Into My Book: Everything Is Joke Nowadays
Meme culture has infiltrated its way into pop culture. It is everywhere. Mostly on social media, but it pops up on TV shows, films, comedy shows, etc. It is the basis of online humor now. I believe this is both a positive and negative thing. There’s nothing inherently wrong with meme humor. Just like any…
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How I Titled My Book & How You Can Title Yours
I’ve never been good at naming things. The usernames I’ve created for myself on Twitter and Instagram are basic but straightforward. They’re a shortened version of my name and what I do: write. Simple and to the point. Could they be any more creative? Yes, yes they could. However, that would require more time and…
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