Miss Anita Manbadly

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Smizing since 1999.

Project Runway Season 9: For The Boids

Style! Fashion! Attitude! Well, scrap the first two. This week, every week, every hour of every day and all the time, it’s all about the ‘tude.

In this week’s episode of As The Head Turns, we join our beloved designers in their Atlas apartments. Notice how errybody is all “they smile in your face, all the time they want to take your place.” Back stabbers! Each and every one of them. As always, there’s spoilers inside, so click atcha own risk! Continue reading

In A World Where Time Is Literally Money

Imagine a world where the aging gene has been isolated and deactivated for everyone on the planet. Everyone ages normally until they turn 25, and then aging simply stops… forever.

In order to prevent a situation like Star Trek’s Mark of Gideon episode, a device is implanted in all citizens to control how long they live. Rich people can buy as much life time as they want, years and years if they so choose, and the poor, well, sometimes they wake up and don’t have enough minutes to last the day. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities.

This is the world that Will Salas (Justin Timberlake) finds himself. Everyone is young, and since it’s Hollywood, most everyone is pretty. Will is a poor young man who is given a fortune of time, though too late to prevent his mother from dying. He ends up on the run from a corrupt police force known as ‘time keepers.’ Continue reading

Time To Start Halloween Planning

According to Moneyland, we Americans are going to collectively spend just a little less than seven billion dollars on Halloween this year. In 2005, planned spending for Halloween was just north of three billion dollars. These figures are courtesy of a survey conducted by the National Retail Federation. Even accounting for inflation, it seems obvious that we, as a country, are addicted to Halloween. Continue reading