June 2009

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Feminist Spidey Sense
Would Tina Fey ever blow herself up freebasing? : Women Aren’t Funny
06.22.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

Women can be funny. But a self-destructive woman with a foul mouth and a reliance on pills doesn’t play well in comedy clubs or TV. Maybe because it provokes primitive notions of the fairer sex. Women “on the verge” appear as victims rather than hardened, street-wise misfits. Sure, Sarah, Tina, Amy, whoevs, are all funny [...]
Feminist Spidey Sense
LOVE HER OR HATE HER, BETH DITTO IS TOO BIG TO IGNORE
06.19.09 | Permalink | 8 Comments

What is it about Beth Ditto that makes journalists lose their objectivity faster than virginity on Prom Night? I’m not sure what annoys me more:
The haters, like British GQ’s Alex Bilmes. He sneered and air-quoted his way through an article that called Ditto a “fat lesbian” (”lesbian” obviously being nearly as big a crime as [...]
SRSLY.
DRUG SMUGGLING JUMPS THE SHARK: COCAINE SHARKS!!!!
06.18.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

Earlier this week the Mexican Navy found more than a ton of cocaine hidden inside 112 frozen shark carcases. Well, coked-up sharks would explain this.

Is there that much of a market for frozen shark carcasses; or did these drug smugglers think “You know what no one will ever look inside of? SHARKS.” Either way, they’ve [...]
I have a Bachelor's Degree!
Not Exactly Starry Dynamos: Soap Stars to Play Famous Literary Figures. Casting Updates on ‘Howl’
06.18.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

Ok, so. I’m no longer as apoplectic about James Franco playing Allen Ginsberg as I used to be, mostly because he looks so dashing in these new photos:

Still not quite realistic, but I guess we can always count on Hollywood to make every actor in a bio pic a 9 or a 10 when [...]
Give me cable or give me death
Manic at the Disco: Up Is Down, Black Is White, We Empathize With Reality TV ‘Stars’. ‘OBSESSED’ IS THE SHIT!!
06.17.09 | Permalink | 5 Comments

Move over Intervention, there’s a new reality show (that I will actually watch and enjoy) on A&E! Obsessed is about people with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder who allow themselves to be videotaped and submit to 12 weeks of Cognitive Behavorial Therapy in an effort to get their anxiety down to manageable levels. Meaning, they no longer scrape out their [...]
Everything's Going to be All White
Yes, But Where Will The Youngs Buy Their Autotune Jams?!: The Opposite of a Eulogy for Big Box Music Stores
06.17.09 | Permalink | 32 Comments

The New York Times has gone and laid a faux nostalgia egg on us with its piece lamenting the closing of the last NYC Virgin Megastore. Honestly, there are 10,000 things I feel sadder about than the closing of music stores (like Mad Men spoilers! Booo!). Burn the fuckers down for all I care. Big [...]
Let's Talk Shit!
FUCK YEAH, INSUBSTANTIAL ENTHUSIASM! : REBLOG THIS, IRONY!
06.05.09 | Permalink | 6 Comments

Background fuckyeahsharks, fuckyeahcuteness, fuckyeahneilpatrickharris, fuckyeahmodernism,fuckyeahfatchick, fuckyeahcilantro
Here’s the basic formula:
* Take pretty much anything
* Add Fuck Yeah! to the front of it.
* Now start a tumblr full of related ephemera.
* Adding captions/ scrawling in Impact is also an option.
Now, this may sound daunting.  But the dirty little secret of Fuck Yeah! is that there’s no real obligation to be good.  As a meme, it’s a [...]
Fashion Weak
Are You Ready for this Hand-Stitched Jelly?: Bravo Interns Read Your Nasty Comments and Revamp the ‘Fashion’ Formula
06.03.09 | Permalink | Comment?

GOOD NEWS! The repentant bosses of Bravo’s reality show factory have conspired to right their wrongs! After a messy fight between the network and the creators of Project Runway the Bravodians have picked out almost all of the most common gripes I’ve heard about Project Runway and tried something new to address them. It’s it kinda [...]
News That's Too Serious For MSNBC
Say Hello To the Gods of ‘The Barely Menstrual’: Starlet Roll Call and Cheat Sheet
06.02.09 | Permalink | 18 Comments

Sunday night’s MTV Movie awards, while totally amusing, proved once and for all that MTV is the network of rugrats. The Olds (in the MTV handbook, anyone over 22) are being ignored while the not yet able to drive or menstruate or do their hair properly tween fetuses are the ruling landlords of the pop cultural [...]
Fashion Weak
This Summer’s Slave-Girl Sandal: The Fedora, The Douche Helmet.
06.01.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

The fedora has reached wallet chain proportions/trucker hat proportions, you guys.
I’m super sad about the loss ‘cause I FEEL YOU on the whole Hepcat “I’m really into early reggae” cajun bluesman aesthetic. But now that THEY (ie The Corporations) have started mass producing rigid, pink, fedoras with dainty Jonas Bro’s logos stamped all over ‘em, [...]

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June 2009

The Archives

Feminist Spidey Sense

Would Tina Fey ever blow herself up freebasing? : Women Aren’t Funny

Feminist Spidey Sense

LOVE HER OR HATE HER, BETH DITTO IS TOO BIG TO IGNORE

SRSLY.

DRUG SMUGGLING JUMPS THE SHARK: COCAINE SHARKS!!!!

I have a Bachelor's Degree!

Not Exactly Starry Dynamos: Soap Stars to Play Famous Literary Figures. Casting Updates on ‘Howl’

Give me cable or give me death

Manic at the Disco: Up Is Down, Black Is White, We Empathize With Reality TV ‘Stars’. ‘OBSESSED’ IS THE SHIT!!

Everything's Going to be All White

Yes, But Where Will The Youngs Buy Their Autotune Jams?!: The Opposite of a Eulogy for Big Box Music Stores

Let's Talk Shit!

FUCK YEAH, INSUBSTANTIAL ENTHUSIASM! : REBLOG THIS, IRONY!

Fashion Weak

Are You Ready for this Hand-Stitched Jelly?: Bravo Interns Read Your Nasty Comments and Revamp the ‘Fashion’ Formula

News That's Too Serious For MSNBC

Say Hello To the Gods of ‘The Barely Menstrual’: Starlet Roll Call and Cheat Sheet

Fashion Weak

This Summer’s Slave-Girl Sandal: The Fedora, The Douche Helmet.