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Blinking Sam
Blinking Sam is the 1775 Joshua Reynolds oil portrait of Samuel Johnson reading at close range, painted for Henry Thrale, now at the Huntington Library, named for Johnson's protest against it.
Blinkit
Blinkit (formerly Grofers) is India's largest quick-commerce platform, delivering groceries and essentials in about 10 minutes via dark stores. Founded 2013 in Gurugram, rebranded December 2021, acquired by Zomato in 2022; parent is now Eternal Ltd.
Blippi
Blippi: American live-action preschool educational brand and character created by Stevin John in 2014, known for field-trip videos; owned by Moonbug Entertainment (Candle Media) since 2020, with hosts Clayton Grimm and Ben Mayer, spin-offs, and 25M+ YouTube subscribers.
Bliss (2021 film)
Bliss (2021 film), Mike Cahill's sci-fi romance drama starring Owen Wilson and Salma Hayek, released February 5, 2021 on Amazon Prime Video; Greg and Isabel move between simulated realities using crystals; 27% on Rotten Tomatoes. Distinct from Henrika Kull's German film Glück (Bliss).
BLiSS (musician)
BLiSS is the psytrance project of Israeli producer Yonatan Marcow, known for full-on power trance with live electric guitar, active since the mid-2000s and collaborating with Infected Mushroom.
Bliss (The Powerpuff Girls)
Bliss, full name Blisstina Francesca Francia Mariam Alicia Utonium, is the fourth Powerpuff Girl and older sister added to the 2016 reboot in the 2017 "Power of Four" special, created with Chemical W, voiced regionally by Olivia Olson, Toya Delazy, and others.
Blissfully Yours (สุดเสน่หา)
Blissfully Yours (สุดเสน่หา) is Apichatpong Weerasethakul's 2002 Thai-French romantic drama, his second feature, about a Thai woman and her illegal Burmese immigrant lover; it won the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes 2002.
Blister in the Sun
"Blister in the Sun" is a 1983 song by Violent Femmes, written by teenage Gordon Gano in Milwaukee and opening their self-titled debut. Known for its acoustic bass riff, snare blasts, 1997 single release, and the 2007 Wendy's licensing dispute.
Blithe Spirit (1945 film)
Blithe Spirit (1945) is David Lean's Technicolor film of Noël Coward's 1941 stage hit, starring Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond, and Margaret Rutherford; a séance summons a dead first wife, and the film won an Oscar for visual effects.
Blithe Spirit (2020 film)
Blithe Spirit (2020 film), Edward Hall's feature debut, adapts Noël Coward's 1941 play with Dan Stevens, Leslie Mann, Isla Fisher, and Judi Dench; released on Sky Cinema in 2021, it earned 28% on Rotten Tomatoes and a Metascore of 26.
Blithe Spirit (play)
Blithe Spirit is Noël Coward's 1941 three-act farce, subtitled An Improbable Farce, in which a séance summons novelist Charles Condomine's dead first wife Elvira; premiered at the Piccadilly Theatre and adapted to film by David Lean in 1945.
Blitz (2024 film)
Blitz (2024) is a British WWII drama written and directed by Steve McQueen for Apple TV+, starring Saoirse Ronan and Elliott Heffernan as a mother and son separated during the London Blitz; 81% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Blitzkrieg Bop
Blitzkrieg Bop: 1976 Ramones punk song written mainly by drummer Tommy Ramone with Dee Dee Ramone (originally 'Animal Hop'), the band's debut single from the album Ramones, known for the 'Hey ho, let's go' chant inspired by the Bay City Rollers' Saturday Night.
Blixa Bargeld
Blixa Bargeld (Christian Emmerich, born 1959, West Berlin), German experimental musician; co-founder and frontman of Einstürzende Neubauten (1980) and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds guitarist 1984–2003; early crowdfunding pioneer.
Bliz-aard Ball Sale
The Bliz-aard Ball Sale is an unannounced 1983 street action by David Hammons, who sold snowballs of graduated sizes at Cooper Square in Lower Manhattan.
Blizzard of Ozz
Blizzard of Ozz (The Blizzard of Ozz) is Ozzy Osbourne's 1980 Jet Records debut solo album, recorded at Ridge Farm with Randy Rhoads, Bob Daisley, and Lee Kerslake; US No. 21, RIAA 5x Platinum, featuring "Crazy Train" and "Mr. Crowley."
Bloat (film)
Bloat is a 2025 screenlife horror film, also known by the German title Fluch aus der Tiefe, directed by Pablo Absento and produced by Timur Bekmambetov (Searching, Unfriended). Ben McKenzie plays a Marine whose son is possessed by a Kappa after nearly drowning in Japan; released March 7, 2025 by Lionsgate, it earned 29% on Rotten Tomatoes and $13,026 worldwide.
Bloc Party
Bloc Party are an English indie rock band formed in London in 1999 by Kele Okereke and Russell Lissack, key figures of the 2000s post-punk revival. Known for Silent Alarm (2005) and seven studio albums through Anatomy of a Brief Romance (2026).
BlocBoy JB
BlocBoy JB (James Baker, born 1996) is a Memphis rapper behind the 2017 viral "Shoot" dance and the Drake collaboration "Look Alive," a Billboard top-five hit with over a billion Spotify streams.
Block B (블락비)
Block B (블락비, short for Blockbuster) is a seven-member South Korean hip-hop boy group formed in 2011 by Cho PD, known for Zico's self-produced hits Very Good and H.E.R, the Blooming Period EP, and the Bastarz sub-unit.
Blockade Diary
A blockade diary (блокадный дневник) is a journal kept by a resident of Leningrad during the 1941 to 1944 siege, recording daily life under bombardment and starvation.
Blockbuster (entertainment)
Blockbuster (entertainment): the Hollywood term for an exceptionally successful, big-budget, heavily marketed film, from WWII bomb slang; defined by Jaws (1975), saturation releases, and the franchise era.
Blockbuster (TV series)
Blockbuster is a 2022 Netflix workplace sitcom created by Vanessa Ramos, starring Randall Park and Melissa Fumero as staff of the last Blockbuster Video store; 10 episodes, cancelled after one season.
Blockers (film)
Blockers is a 2018 American teen sex comedy, Kay Cannon's directorial debut, written by Brian and Jim Kehoe. Three parents (Leslie Mann, John Cena, Ike Barinholtz) try to stop their daughters' prom-night virginity pact; Universal released it April 6, 2018, grossing $59.8M in the US.
Blocking (textile arts)
Blocking (textile arts), also called wet, steam, or spray blocking, is the finishing step that wets or steams finished knitting or crochet and pins it to shape while drying, evening stitches, opening lace, and setting final measurements by fiber type.
Blog rock
Blog rock: early-2000s indie rock microgenre promoted through MP3 blogs, also called blog-rock. Animal Collective, Grizzly Bear, Voxtrot; peaked mid-2000s with the Hype Machine, faded by decade's end.
Bloghouse
Bloghouse (blog house, bloghaus) was a mid-to-late 2000s electronic music scene and era, roughly 2006-2011, defined by MP3 blogs, Hype Machine, and MySpace discovery rather than a single sound, spanning Justice, Uffie, Ed Banger, and electroclash-derived distorted house.
Bloke Modisane
Bloke Modisane, born William Modisane (1923–1986), was a South African journalist, writer, and actor of the 1950s Drum generation, known for the autobiography Blame Me on History.
Blolo bian
A blolo bian is a carved wooden figure made by the Baule people of Côte d'Ivoire representing the male spirit spouse a person left behind in the other world at birth.
Blond Ambition World Tour
Madonna's third world tour (April 13 to August 5, 1990), originally titled the Like A Prayer World Tour; 57 shows in 10 countries supporting Like a Prayer and I'm Breathless, with Jean Paul Gaultier costumes and themed theatrical acts.