Tag: media
Britney can do whatever, forever.
(a second point of view on a previous Predator story)
Britney Spears' fans seem to be a tad bit upset by the fact that she is lip-syncing her way through her Circus tour down under in Australia. Reportedly,...
Hiding from the lights: What life as a vampire is really like for Robert Pattinson.
Poor old Robert Pattinson. He's learning what life is like when you can't go out in the day time for fear of being recognized for what you really are - the world's favorite teenage vampire.
No, really, I actually do...
Don’t Ask, don’t Tell. A sensational nightmare.
There is a perverse logic that sends willing able men to a foreign country in order to stand in harm's way but declines to know about his sexual orientation because knowing such things might aggravate the preferred belief that...
Lindsay Lohan a complete loser and Bomb in Paris.
Lilo humiliates Ungaro and the designer is left wringing its head in shame.
Don’t act as if you didn’t see this coming but Lilo (who is famous at this stage in her life for being America’s highest paid public...
Comcast thinks it’s finally killed Hulu and free TV.
When the internet is now suddenly no longer going to be free…
There’s one thing that worries the bejesus out of big corporate entities and that’s smaller entities giving away content for free that itself is trying to peddle for...
Time to use people as political pawns again…
Ahmadinejad and Katie Couric each go for the jugular.
There has to be something a little sinister, even cynical when a tv interview between the head of a state and that of a media conglomerate start pulling out pictures of...
The Khloe Kardashian feeding frenzy nearly causes Ok magazine to throw up.
When the paparazzi can’t throw enough money at an American enigma.
What is the fascination with the Kardashian family and why are media companies willing to throw stupid amounts of money at the family who just keep laughing all the...
Roman Polanski arrested in Switzerland. Thinks you should let him go because he’s famous and a celebrity.
Famed and acclaimed director Roman Polanski invited by the Swiss to a function served to honor him was arrested by authorities as he was set to attend said function in Switzerland on outstanding charges of having sex with...
GOOD GIRLS GO TO HEAVEN; BAD GIRLS GO EVERYWHERE.
In school, the good girls always made first place, but it’s what happened after school that I always found intriguing…
Just recalling the neatly primped hair, fruity lip balm and freshly pressed blouses is enough to extract a cringe from...
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 I had yet to have gone to sleep. His instant text sneered “that’s like a...
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, I did not read more than the first couple paragraphs of this New York Times...
Chloe Madeley- England’s version of Lindsay Lohan.
When bad behavior and fame become an Atlantic fascination.
Welcome to the life of Chloe Madeley resident bad girl of London who from time likes to visit NY, get completely hammered and make a scene (kind of like Lilo when...
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 other hand is the next satellite station roaming freely and amply around your ego- an...
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 they walk, long legged, ravishing, adored. Here we sit, gawking, envious, infatuated.
For years, media trends...
The Fashion Victim: Ideas, Notes, and Ephemera.
The quickened pace of consumer culture could make fashion victims of us all. As television and the internet have made everyone into a sartorial expert, high end fashion houses (Commes de Garcons, Chanel) must choose between competing with their...
