The Origin of Species

E and M here. We wanted to write a “starter post” if you will, to kick off our much anticipated (well, by us and a few of our awesomeness savvy friends) foray into to the land of Blog. We got here by way of the Intelligent Design vs. Big Bang discussion, during which we concluded that sometimes two things that seem like they can’t hang out together actually can and really, they should, for everyone’s sake. Things like Kurt Vonnegut and Project Runway. Or maybe Virginia Woolf and Sex in the City. It almost makes you nervous just to imagine, right? But really, we are all about the undeniable truth that pop is culture and intellectual snobbery or cool kids playing dumb is just so cliché...



Do you ever play that game where you say “This person is like if so-and-so and so-and-so had a baby?" We do, and our favorite one, for the record, is if Marcia Cross and Gwen Stefani had a baby it would be Holly from the Girls Next Door. See? Fun!

If “Intelligent Design” and “Big Bang” had a baby, that would be weird. It could be named Intelligent Bang, but probably have a lot of issues, mostly controversial.

So that awesome name goes to our baby instead, who is both popular and smart. She is also delightfully innocent and uncorrupted, with a hint of sexual innuendo. This love child of pop culture and intellectualism has been developing for a long time, but the parents couldn’t really meet in public and most people didn’t acknowledge the relationship. Like in that movie A Walk to Remember, only instead of the cool kid falling for the religious nerd and feeling embarassed about it, we are smart people who like to watch E! and read magazines, and we have a blog instead of cancer.

The whole concept that if more than 100 people like something it no longer has value is narrow minded and boring. We are about relevance, in all its forms. Intelligent Bang will be raised in an environment that allows someone to love East of Eden and The O.C. as both are brilliant in their own (entirely different) ways. Also, things being awesome are accepted whether they were intelligently designed to be so or if a big bang of inspiration allowed sort of coincidental awesomeness, like Harry Potter or um, chocolate chip cookies. It’s kind of a liberal household.

Congratulations pop culture and intellectualism! Your baby totally looks like both of you.