What A Slore! How We Perceive Celebrities Who Cheat

As an adoring public, we have always taken sides when it comes to our favorite celebrities and the battles they face publicly. Their larger than life lives are in our faces 24/7, so it’s no wonder we relate to them as if we know them and their entire story.

Most recently, I have been seeing a lot of support for Robert Pattinson in the wake of his girlfriend, Kristen Stewart’s cheating scandal, but Stewart seems to be facing the brunt of the blame. She has kept a low profile and pulled out of a flick she was to star in. I won’t get into what the Twi-hard fans are saying about her disgrace. What I’m wondering is, why? Why does Kristen Stewart have to walk about with the “Scarlet A” burned upon her resume now? Continue reading →

Project Runway Season 10 Episode 5 Liveblog

Welcome, Crasstestants, to Episode 5 of our weekly fashion extravaganza. Last week our challenge was for the Woman-On-The-Go. One woman contestant  took it literally and escaped under the cover of night. Not to be outdone, Male Gilly – our hair model – decided he wanted to go his own way as well.

So, what’s up on the docket for this week? Another exciting team challenge! Cue ensuing bedlam. Nina Garcia is going to have her hand in this one so let’s see if anyone incurs her wrath. Continue reading →

Should You Try Cinnabon’s New Pizzabon?

Ha-ha! These are serious questions that we ask in 2012. Whenever a fast food empire releases a new meal item, despite our initial revulsion at seeing that it looks like something a dog coughed up and then spread on bread, or put in a taco shell, or slapped between two fried pieces of chicken, some insane part of us wonders, if even fleetingly, “What the hell could THAT taste like?” We wonder this as our minds conjure every variation of awful pseudo-food we’ve ever microwaved and eaten in college. Continue reading →

The Daily Sausage – Thursday Edition

Romney’s tax rate, mixed messages, lying liars and the lies they tell, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal, the Tea Party roundup, “We haven’t run the numbers”, the student loan crisis continues, Judges for sale, endangered WASPs, the FRC shooting and the conservative response, Generation X and Paul Ryan, and Bankers Gone Wild. Also appearing: Dana Milbank and E.J. Dionne Jr.! Continue reading →

Celebrating 100 Years and the Time Julia Child Made Me Lunch

Julia Child, the woman who almost single-handedly led Americans out of the hell of soggy green beans and Jello molds and into the Paradise of perfectly roasted chicken with butter-enriched pan sauce, would have been 100 today. She deserves every accolade she gets.

Without Julia Child, I might never have learned to cook. I was a Modern Young Woman, hungry to make my way in the great wide world and determined never to serve in any man’s kitchen. Cooking was the last thing I ever intended to do. But when I saw Julia make cream puffs on TV, I thought, “I love cream puffs. If it’s really that easy…” It was that easy, and they tasted like nothing I had ever imagined, tender and yeasty and totally unlike the leathery shells in the bakery window. The world of food opened up to me and Julia Child had me in the palm of her open, competent hand. Continue reading →