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Earthquakes: Protecting Your Most Important Assets
My first instinct when I heard about the DC-VA-NYC Earthquake was to text my daughter who is away at college in the eastern part of NY State. The Gospel According to Twitter seemed to indicate that people from North Carolina to Boston were reporting tremors, so it seemed reasonable to check on her. My iPhone […]
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Awkward Photojournalism Part Deux, The Sequel, Back With a Vengeance
I have continued to take pictures of the absurd. The only problem with a recurring kind of blog post is that you can’t use the same title, but what do you call it to kind of keep it together. I considered calling it The Earthquake that Earthquaked an Earthquake, just for blog hits, but that […]
Domestic Violets: Corporate Shenanigans or Literary Legacy
Imagine a fictional son of John Updike (Couples and Rabbit Updike, before he begin living entirely in his own head). Add healthy doses of Dave Barry and Scott Adams and sprinkle with a little hipster. This is Tom Violet, the snarky, mis-employed son of critically acclaimed, womanizing author Curtis Violet. Matthew Norman’s Domestic Violets details […]
It’s Like Wearing a Bra Made of Clouds
Genie Bra – A Review I have seen these infomercials on television and the bras look pretty good, but infomercial products always do. They had a variety of women wearing them all supposedly D cups in varying back sizes and they all looked smooth, lifted and faboo in these bras. I figured I could see […]
It’s Like Wearing a Bra Made of Clouds
Genie Bra – A Review I have seen these infomercials on television and the bras look pretty good, but infomercial products always do. They had a variety of women wearing them all supposedly D cups in varying back sizes and they all looked smooth, lifted and faboo in these bras. I figured I could see […]
Jersey Shore Sullies Abercrombie and Fitch’s Squeaky Clean Image
So Abercrombie and Fitch doesn’t want The Situation from Jersey Shore wearing their clothes anymore. I guess he detracts from their image as purveyors of slutty clothing for excessively cologned teenagers. “Oh, please! Don’t wear our clothes (available at a mall near you).”
Bumping into Things Reading The Help
Even for someone who thinks they know a lot about the civil rights movement, the portrayal of 1963 Mississippi in The Help is astonishing. I was born around this time and can’t comprehend that in the span of my lifetime, the historical equivalent of a blink of an eye, African Americans were thought of as scarcely human. While […]
Shiny Happy Searches
These were some of the most amusing from last week. I love looking at this stuff. why did evil dick leave big brother – SEVEN times twitter feuds Gunnar Deatherage trucker mania ooh shiny shirt something shiny underwear shiny hair ties twitter fueds “whatthetext” project runway and speaking foreign jaws comes home – shark week […]
Gleeks, Geeks and Freaks, But Not Enough Puck
Glee 3D was not exactly the movie I expected, but still really fun. Way too short, actually. It was an in-character concert event with peeks behind the scenes and fan interviews. The only thing that confused me was that I couldn’t tell if the fans being interviewed were actual fans of the show, or actors […]
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