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‘Community’ Tackles Suicidal Thoughts For Their Best Episode Yet
This a tricky one. I’ve loved the show Community since I first caught the pilot, and I think it’s a brilliant comedy. Their latest episode, however, deals with a serious issue in their trademark silly way and (accidentally?) created a *damn*...
“Logging In” is all about “Checking Out”
Social Media has always been and will always be a device to promote the insecurities of a negative body image. From the occasional “pro-ana” and “pro-mia” website featuring ways to amplify malnutrition in a “model’s diet” to the prospect of...
Reflections On An Affair To Forget.
Our comrades in gossip over at Jezebel have posited some thoughts on the nature of the Mistress, and its ongoing allure in the zeitgeist. Movies are made about it. It’s a recurring plot device in TV melodramas. Odds are you know somebody...
In search of a revolution. The shifting tides of democracy.
Well it was bound to happen. You draft an article on a swiftly moving uprising in another land and circumstances make it obsolete before you can even get it written. You cancel flights 48 hours in advance of an...
Love is a Battleground…
Jezebel’s tag line used to be “Celebrity, Sex, Fashion. Without Airbrushing.” Now, it’s “Celebrity Sex, Fashion for Women.” After their latest relationship post, “Twelve Anti-Rule for Love,” I can see why. Love just got airbrushed.
Jezebel is normally one of the smartest sites around - for men...
CALVIN KLEIN: AMERICAN CALIGULA of The Fashionable Elite?
The following piece comes courtesy of Christopher London, whose blog christopherlondonblog.com is a must read.
New York City’s ‘gay and fashionable elite’ came to pay homage and worship at the throne of a nearly seventy (70) year old man’s display of love...
Socialite Karen Cord wants to tell you being a divorced socialite is hard work.
If your ex husband refuses or is unable to pay for your lifestyle does that still make you a socialite?
Oh dear, time for the society scandal of the week. This week's contestants to the nether land of faux pas...
US Hegemony and the crises called Egypt.
If one is to gain an appreciation of the intricacies of world wide politics one ought to pay attention to the way the US government up to now has responded to the crises in Egypt. In many ways the...
Infamous party crasher Priyantha DeSilva arrested.
Society poser Priyantha De Silva pleads guilty for being a scumbag ...
How much trouble would you go through to be part of society?
Priyantha DeSilva has been making the rounds for some time now, attending bon vivant events on the guise that he...
Heaux Confessionals; “Have you ever been with a black man before?”
"I've never been with a black man before."
This is how some of my most grand skankery has come about. Granted, I have heard this often, but it is quite rare that I bring someone new into the black fold....
Death, gloating and the public message boards. Are you ready to be sneered in Cyberspace?
What is it about cyberspace that allows people the comfort to carry on in a way that in most one on one situations they would be loathe to do? This question is resonating in a small town in Indiana subsequently to...
The lynching of American media and Keith Olbermann.
What to say or think? Last night the contentious newsman (or entertainer depending on whom you ask) Keith Olbermann announced his sudden resignation out of thin air on his highly contentious and very highly profile show 'The Countdown.' The...
Cheer the Fxxx Up. A guide.
In his infinite wisdom, my esteemed editor in chief forwarded me a few links this morning to see if I could make heads or tails of them. My options were the prospects of pimping one’s self from the comfort...
Observations on the L train. NYC.
It was once remarked the L train that runs between 8th ave and 14th st Manhattan and as far Canarsie, Brooklyn is a cesspool for all those belligerent enough to believe that they deserve a birth in NYC. At...
Will the world end on May 21st, 2011?
When May 21, 2011 Backfires. Will the world end tomorrow?
According to a California sect by the name of ‘Family Stations,’ led by 89-year-old Harold Camping, who uses “a mathematical system he created to interpret prophecies hidden in the Bible,’...
