Tween Clique books link popularity/boys with brand name items. Prepare for disappointment, 7th graders of America! • Texas graverobbing teens and one adult make bong out of child's skull. • Professional British wedding planner doesn't believe in marriage. • People spend almost $2,000 a year on "pissed-off purchases," one women suggest couples kiss instead. Uh, okay. • Columnist Kathleen Parker says we should "save the males," oooh because they can lift heavy things? • Reporters without Borders asks Iran nicely to stop harassing "cyber-feminists." • Meanwhile in the Mid-East, Saudi women campaign against inconvenient late-night weddings. • Pro women's boxing comes to Japan. • An antidepressant may help teens with IBS. • Being breast-fed may lower a woman's breast cancer risk. • Penelope Cruz is set to become a stunning blonde. • Mary J. Blige starts foundation to help girls with careers and self-confidence.
Cliques Push Brand-Obsessed Teens • Queen Of Hip Hop Soul Starts Foundation For Girls
5:40 PM on Fri May 9 2008
By Maria Mercedes Lara
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M J B YEEEAH. Just tell those ladies to listen to "Deep Inside".
That grave robbing to make a bong story makes me want to throw up. And I don't care if Willie Simms died in 1921. Using his skull for a bong is just all sorts of wrong.
If I had to deal with as many insane brides as I'm sure the average wedding planner does, I wouldn't believe in marriage either. I actually probably wouldn't believe in humanity.
The best part of The Clique books is that the Regina George character is named Massie Block (that's one letter off from being Massive Block...her parents could have easily set her up for a lifetime of ridicule with that moniker if she wasn't such a cntrolling bitch who somehow makes it work) and she refers to herself asn an "alpha." At least the series knows how absurd it is.
I tried to read my sister's "the clique" book and I wanted to die, and to kill the author. Those books are disgusting, twelve year olds shouldn't be reading about the importance of cashmere or Yves Saint Laurent lip gloss. Nobody should be reading about that shit.
@sanibelly: ot that whole "mary" album! and "no more drama". that's my theme song.
yeah i just saw almodóvar on TVE talkin' bout his new film. Penélope kinda reminds me of Natalie Portman in that one movie with the pink wig. That is all.
Haha! I think I'll live with IBS if the only solution is to start taking antidepressants.
@nodoubt9203 [in cali we sez besh plz!]: i should've specified, penélope in a wig
I agree with that wedding planner, eliminate all weddings.
And since this is Leftovers, I gotta ask: who here said they didn't like Muse? That's just messed up.
Those graverobbing potheads oughta be horsewhipped, as they'd say in my family. I'm already in Texas, I volunteer.
On a 6-hour car ride with my friend and her little sister one time, I was forced to read Clique books to keep myself occupied.
They were not just awful, it was like a 100-page commercial.
"Maddie climbed into the Range Rover. Jessie gave her the Moschino top she'd been coveting. Jessie ripped the tag off: $750, and gave the top to Maddie. 'Thanks,' said Maddie. 'Oh, no problem," said Jessie, 'I used my Mom's Black Amex.'"
Ummm.... 12 year olds using their mom's credit card to buy their friend a $750 top is NOT NORMAL.
@misssgolightly: Do you know what they call Clique Books for Adults? Lucky Magazine.
@kookla: That's silly, Lucky is unassuming, yet so lux.
I call B.S. at the 2,000 average pissed off purchases. When I'm upset I buy a donut and some nail polish. Even my mom and her wealthy partner don't buy more than a pair of shoes when they're pissed at each other.
@haguenite: going on Prozac for my IBS and anxiety issues as literally changed my life. I totally was against it for the longest time, thinking it ridiculous and probably a last resort. After 10 years of controlling my diet, taking anti-spasmotics, all manner of herbal supplements (from acidophilis to peppermint oil to acacia powder), and even gut-directed hypotherapy (which actually helped a lot), Prozac has nearly completely reversed my symptoms. For many women, it really is just a bowel dysfunction, but for others like me, it stems from anxiety and panic.
@LuckyEmmie: I understand that there are a lot of serotonin receptors actually in the gut, so even for people who don't have related depression or anxiety may find it helpful.
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