You know when you’re a kid and you always dream of writing the ultimate Encyclopaedia Britannica entry? OK, maybe we didn’t share the same childhood ambitions — but you can nevertheless understand why PopPolitics is proud to announce that we have begun publishing over at Britannica’s dynamic blog.

Bernie’s first entry is a “Heard ‘Round the Web” digest of recent cultural news and criticism. This pop culture round-up is a new bi-monthly feature for Britannica. We’ll also periodically chime in with original analysis.

We are proud to be part of very impressive group of bloggers at Britannica — academics, journalists and authors whom we have long admired. The correct pop culture allusion at this point would be the quote Garth: “We are not worthy!” But we are going to do our best to pretend we are.