Daily Archives: October 13, 2011
11 posts
Yep, we’re down to five fine sewtestants. Ok, let’s not sugarcoat it – we have 5 people who can sew and attempt to make good TV. Basically we’re watching for the auf’ings at this point, aren’t we?
Speaking of auf’ings – who’s your choice? As usual, I’m interested in seeing Joshua go down in flames, but I’m pretty sure Barbie has been doused with enough of the Nina haterade to go downhill this time. Who will win? Who will lose? Who will end up drunk by the end of the episode (this girl)? Continue reading
Today Gap announced that they are closing one third of their U.S. stores to focus on international growth. Folks, you might have to get those flat front chinos somewhere else. Or maybe you already are and that’s why they have to close all these stores. Shoppers are abandoning Gap’s classic looks for stores with trendier options. The chain expects to remove nearly one million square feet from its Old Navy stores by the end of fiscal year 2013 as well. No word on whether Gap’s upscale store, Banana Republic, will be affected by store closings. Continue reading
I’m giving a midterm, mofos. Continue reading
Gawker has an article today about three women who were arrested in Zimbabwe for alleged sexual assault and were found to have 31 condoms – “some with semen” – stashed in a boyfriend’s car. The author appears entirely baffled as to the nature of the crime, but her description of the press coverage as “slightly witch-hunty” is more accurate than she may realize.
Ritualistic sexual assault is actually just one particularly disturbing aspect of the larger phenomenon of witchraft and ostensibly magical practices that are commonly referred to as “juju” and remain widespread even in relatively developed and educated nations such as Zimbabwe. According to a recent study, sperm (in addition to blood, hair, and worse things) is collected for ritual purposes, often by force: Continue reading
We’re all friends here, right? Okay, well, I have a problem. I’m a gadget addict. I really don’t know what comes over me. I just have to face facts. I have a certain love of complete, utter, crap.
If you’re going to be buying the iPhone 4S, it’s probably time to evaluate what kind of deal you’re going to get by signing a new contract. With three carriers now, people actually have a choice if they want to get involved with Apple’s baller marketing/demon magic team. Here’s a quick breakdown of the three carriers and who you should go with if you are free to choose. Continue reading
VH1 just released it’s somewhat misguided list of the top songs of the 2000’s and the number one spot was given to “Crazy in Love” by Beyonce. A list of top songs is pretty hard to make without disappointing someone so I figured we’d see what our own lists look like. So what is a good unbiased way to do that? Looking at your own Itunes Top 25, of course.
Herman “Soul Pizza” Cain is a third-rate pizza chain executive who apparently once guest-hosted for one of right wing talk radio’s most popular human-anal cysts. So by the glue vapor logic of the current Republican Party, of course he should also be president of the United States.
But to quote my favorite old white man (Lee Corso): Not so fast, my friends. Continue reading
Here are a few documentaries to get your blood boiling. Who knows, watched all in a row they might make you go out and become an activist. Continue reading