Archive for February, 2009
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
PeeWeeSA
This is amazing, but I’d like to know who decided the Pee Wee Herman audience was the demographic that needed to be targeted with an anti-cocaine ad. I’m sure if I’d caught a glimpse of this I would have found it more educational than cautionary.
I think Pee Wee actually does a great job here, but [...]
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Thursday, February 12th, 2009
Spring Cladding
I really need a new spring/fall coat. The get up I’ve been getting away with during the recent spat of warm weather (and all through last fall) is a not-so-swell fitting hoodie from H&M (which, due to its speckled pattern, constantly causes people to ask me if it’s raining out) under a red vest that [...]
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Sunday, February 8th, 2009
Gone to pot
Will the media please stop prattling on about that picture of Michael Phelps smoking a bong?
I’ve never smoked pot, it’s something that just never appealed to me. But for the love of god, so many people freaking out about bad influences and poor role models, and no one seems to contemplate the fact that if [...]
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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Groundhog Day
I can’t be the only one who’s totally bemused that the bizarre tradition of groundhog day persists in our culture. I don’t have anything against it (and maybe that’s the secret of its success – it’s the only holiday nobody gets up in arms about, because everybody agrees that it makes no fucking sense) it’s just [...]