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The Hollywood Ingenue.
According to Wikipedia the definition of Ingénue is thus: The ingénue is beautiful, gentle, sweet, virginal, and often naïve, in mental or emotional danger,...
Observations of a Sleep Deprived Blogger.
One of the kids who writes with me at this journal/blog started laughing when I commented that at ten am on a Monday morning...
Philadelphia: Not the Smartest town on the Map.
What’s a Big City Without a Newspaper?
“Philadelphia will be the first major U.S. city to not have it’s own newspaper…”
To be honest,...
Everyone wants to be a ‘Rock Star.’
Whether you were once the type of child who grooved and sang atop their family fireplace for anyone who might watch or the type...
My dalliance with a Sugar Daddy…
Of the most lethal things one can wrap their mind around, it is -sex and money. At once desirable and at the same time...
Notes on a Dandy: Grounded on the principles of leisure, performance, and good taste...
Elegant, fashion-forward, and constantly in the know about the latest designer, Kimball Hastings is averse to the term ‘dandy’. At 28, Hastings is the...
Observations of a Wall st Trader.
The stock is already down seventeen percent and the vultures are starting to pounce every which way. Some of them smell blood, but most...
Twitter or Narcissism?
Reality shows are the new visual medium. Facebook the ‘tell all’ syndrome and picture perfect version of your supposed ‘real’ life. Twittering on the...
Tim Westergren- ‘Pandora’s,’ bearer of hope and curiosity..?
Tim Westergren has been instrumental in the way we understand and consume music today. Founder of Pandora.com, a portable loading internet radio station three...
Media Obsessed Starvation, and other myths.
Anorexia: Media Obsessed Starvation amongst celebrity and idealized images of contemporary women to the detriment of health.
We have models to turn to for beauty.
There...
Rejection Letter From Columbia University’s Handsome Boys Film Academy.
The facts are as follows: Recently one of our most esteemed writers and admittedly untoward writers- Cyrano de Bulgerac applied for admittance to “Columbia...
American Scandal- Paula Abdul throws herself off the ‘Idol’ Boat.
One would never assume, in a time of heavy recession with humanitarianism at a full blown high, that the New York Times’ most popular article...
Guy Jacobson out to stop ‘human trafficking.’
Guy Jacobson, film producer and human rights advocate is, first and foremost, a businessman endowed with the patina of a collegial professor. More than...
Marginalization. You, me, them, and the ‘beautiful’ outcast.
In essence marginalization is like standing at the gas pump alongside with everyone else but because you have been deemed in perpetuity to be...
Little Blackberry of Boys.
What Lola wants. Lola gets.
It also means she gets what she does not want... Call it the unintentional coquette meets the nice girl. The...
