I'm just super creeped-out by hair, alright? It's probably a sign of some kind of deep Freudian dysfunction. I would probably shave my head if I didn't suspect that it was weird-shaped under there.
My favorite part of this, as with all trending topics, is the sober little explanation they stick at the top of the page in case you just stumbled onto the internet and can't figure out what's going on/ are tempted to tweet "LOL WHY IS THAT TRENDING". I like to imagine having that guy's job-- to sift through a bunch of garbled madness and process it into something as bland and not-helpful as "People are tweeting things a good girlfriend or wife would do."
I'm in this situation much, much more often than anybody ever should be because not only do I have a bad habit of assuming guys are gay, I also get mistaken for a lesbian pretty frequently. So no matter who I'm meeting for coffee, there's a pretty good chance I'm actually on a date. At least with the ladies there's also a good chance of coming out of it with a future friend. With the guys (or maybe it's just when I'm the one who's being presumptuous) not so much.
Only in the first photo does Renn appear to be much larger than the other model. So one-size-fits-all = one size fits two people who are both sort of similar in size? I knew it! That's why gloves are always too small for me.
Also, I may be in the minority, but I think the clothes here rock. Especially that last dress.
I cut my own hair (amateurishly at the very best) and it doesn't so much go through disasters and fixes as a slow morph from weird look to weird look. But it's my own and I embrace it. I dread the day I'm out of college and in the professional world, when I can't just look in the mirror and say "I wonder how I'd look with a mullet.*"
*Rad.
When I was a kid I was the ONLY Olivia. Now every time I go to the grocery store someone's yelling "Olivia! Stop climbing on that!" and I have to turn around and wonder what the hell is going on. Damn kids.
@vamvaki_poulaki: This is about my high school. It got us a lot of bad national news coverage. Yeah. Ick.
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@fridaphile: I went googling that because I wasn't sure if it was the installation that's in a museum just a few blocks from where I live (I think he has a bunch of vacuum-based pieces). Google search suggestion: "jeff koons banality." LOL.
As somebody whose high school rebel status was centered in part around the fact that I subscribed to the Economist and not Seventeen, the idea of sexy pop stars in the pages of my venerable newspaper has me feeling a little undermined.
This sounds suspiciously like that King of the Hill episode where Peggy enters a beauty pageant.
Uh, greenpeace? I think you ripped off the wrong Shepard Fairey image.
Seriously, those eyes are ominous.
I think it's sad that the conversation on this comes down to "eh, they could be doing less." Really? I think that most American TV viewers already have the vague perception that people in distant lands are poor and oppressed for, uh, some reason (don't worry about it) and that it's way sad, man, and that if you buy this t-shirt or donate the cost of your cup of coffee or whatever we can... something something, who knows. And people do donate, a little bit, and that helps some people out, a little bit. That's already happening. And until somebody acknowledges that that's band-aid on a huge gaping wound that has deep roots in fucked-up policies that we westerners can hold our own governments accountable for-- it's all that's going to be happening. To parade the victims-without-aggressors heartstrings stuff as groundbreaking efforts against poverty is to be complicit. Same deal when we look at that problem and we're like, "hey, what do you expect from TV?"
@CurtCole: Where the president keeps his beloved blue security blanket?
The song came up on shuffle on my iPod this morning. It's a good start to the day.
You know, I would go to see it, but with my luck I'd shell out a whole $10 at the theater just to have some screaming infant sitting in the row behind me.
Did they have to photoshop out a chunk of her head for that pompadour? I do not believe that that is where most people's skulls stop.
@mrs_weasley: Maybe I just haven't been reading enough internet comments, but I've never heard that used in a way that wasn't totally tongue-in-cheek.
Who's retweeting all these? As a twitter user (I can hear you snickering already) I'll retweet something hilarious or crazy interesting. Not Kim Zolzi-whatsername's dress.
@msridiculous447: I'm glad somebody else has seen that, because I feel like every one else on earth thinks that the opposite must be true and that vegetarians get together to chat about animal rights all day. It kind of reminds me of really self-consciously "pragmatic" democrats, who go on about how they want healthcare but not any of that extremist nutjob single-payer healthcare, ha ha! And I'm like "Hey, wait a minute...."
I agree with you on a lot of that-- I'm in a class right now dealing with food ethics, and the absolute dedication to ignoring wider social problems in that lecture is stunning. However, in a lot of cases the human issues and the environmental issues have the same roots (the federal farm bill, for one) and spring from the same attitude that regulation is bad and cheaper is better and capitalism solves all ills. And if environmental concern is more popular and gets us revising those ideas quicker, super. I'm not saying that we shouldn't be talking about the migrant workers, because I'd love to, but it's not like they're mutually exclusive conversations.
