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face-off
It’s my sister’s 17th birthday on Friday, and I, ever the older, wiser, wilder (?) and empowered big sis wanted to get her something that screamed “maturity!” Since I’ve decided until she’s 19 to buy her a nice trinket from Smitten Kitten, I told a friend to pick up the latest issue of Cosmo for me to mail her.
I glanced quickly at the magazine, ( Read more... ) -
Evalutating the Quirk Factor: Carleton does as Princeton does as Society does?
I've been wanting to write about this for some time now, but when I'm actually at school, I find it difficult to draw myself away from my books and papers to, you know, draw my mind out. But now it's summer, so no more.
And what brings me to write is race. How original! Not. Anyway. No, more specifically, finding the hard copy of Michelle Obama's ( Read more... ) -
rocky day for china/planet earth
Dear Geology,
Hey. What's up. Oh, I know. A huge fucking earthquake in China. The biggest in three decades. Three decades! On the Ring of Fire! Huge fucking earthquake!
And what was I doing last night? Giving the discipline of Geology some tender, loving care for my test today. Being real gneiss, if you will ( Read more... ) -
nice try, girlicisious
Well, I did it. I clicked the YouTube sponsored link, ready for my eyes to bleed.
And bleed they did. You see, I'd just witness the craptrostrophe that is this video, for the "hit" (slap in the face) single "Stupid S ( Read more... ) -
another round of tila-- mmhmm I said it.
Tila's bi. Therefore, she can run an entire show based off of gender stereotypes?
I don't want to set my bar too high for MTV-- but was the house split into pink-'n-blue last time? Were girls only regarded as "sensitive and sweet" last time? Maybe I didn't see it so clearly-- but even the gaggle of hot lesbians (hi there, BlueShirt!) couldn't and ( Read more... ) -
mtv petty criticism corner: spring break edition
In the spirit of Bitch's "Jane Petty Criticism Corner," I've got some petty criticism of my own to get to.
Well, first of all, I'll admit I'm slightly ashamed to make this petty criticism, as it means that, yes, I, intelligent, free-willed woman, was voluntarily watching MTV's Spring Break programming. My head is bowed in shame, I'm blushing, etc ( Read more... ) -
papa do parent
Well, folks, I'll be cheering on Cheerios and pampering with Pampers thanks to this recent commercial:
If chipping away at traditional gender-roles is a marketing device, sign me up (granted, personally, I buy generic everything. But were I to choose between, say, Huggies or Pampers, at equal price, you can bet your diapered ass I'd go Team ( Read more... ) -
annie get yer gun
Apparently, guns and hunting are no longer a “way of life,” and we, well no, not “we,” but West Virigina, has decided to fix this oh-so-devastating loss ( Read more... ) -
it is rael scary
It's all about time and place.Back in middle school and even during parts of high school, I had an Israeli pen-pal, though, comically enough, a Gilmore Girls fansite (hey, nothing like being a dramedy dork, at least it was relatively harmless 'passion'). We emailed back-and-forth about our schools, our homework, our "squee!" Gilmore Girls moments, ( Read more... ) -
paging ellen; ellen paging
Melissa Ferrick wasn't mentioned explictly in SNL skit, but she as hell could have. I heard this song for the first time today, and honestly, you could turn a room full of women into Ellen-Page-skit "lesbians." Enjoy:
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