So I was calmly sitting in class gazing at my watch when the cleaner cleared his throat and announced the arrival of our new P.E. teacher. I payed him an uninterested look. He seemed quite nice, with a thick mustache and lots of wrinkles all around his eyes. I went back to gazing at my watch. I was hungry…
“Good morning, guys!” He said with a deep, phonily cheerful voice: “I’d like to get to know you all better! I will call your names and you will tell me something about yourselves!” Great, I thought sarcastically, while starting to make up some idiocy I could say, that would avoid him getting started on the usual stupid questions teachers ask foreign students: “And was it hard moving to a new country? How did …
The other day I was listening to a radio interview with Ingrid Michaelson and it occurred to me that she is the perfect candidate for SWAS. She’s funny, intelligent, real and an amazing artist. So this Sunday is for Ingrid.
With her piano-fueled songwriting, witty wordplay, and slight vocal vibrato, Ingrid Michaelson carries the tradition of the female singer/songwriter into the 21st century. Befitting a musician of the digital age, Michaelson first gained wide exposure through spots on TV soundtracks, including Grey’s Anatomy and One Tree Hill. Born and raised on New York’s Staten Island to an artist mother and classical composer father, she began exploring music through piano lessons at the age of four. After college, she toured with a national theater troupe and spent her free time writing …
In discussing the decline of quality in contemporary film, the conversation often focuses on easy targets such as remakes, sequels, and poor public taste. Yet these complaints are by no means unique to the current cinematic climate. The near complete lack of films featuring female protagonists by male directors in recent years indicates a far more disconcerting trend. Though excellent work this year from Jane Campion and Kathryn Bigelow proves that the fairer sex retains a strong voice in modern cinema, women are virtually absent from the recent opuses of The Coen Brothers, P.T. Anderson, and the other auteurs du jour. While talented in crafting their female characters, Quentin Tarantino and Lars von Trier too often toe the line of misogyny, no matter how much either denies it.
When I should be doing homework, I browse the web for videos. And then I share them with you. Here we go.
“Chris Brown: The Interview” airs this Friday at 6 pm on MTV. Should be interesting (by which I mean upsetting and angering) to hear some more of his lame ass excuses. To think that teenage girls were actually blaming Rihanna for that whole incident makes me seriously sick. I’ve talked about the Chris Brown / Rihanna dating abuse before, when the reports first came out…at the very least this interview will give us some more details.
Scared of how you smell “down there?” Not satisfied with your oral sex life or foreplay? The makers of Linger, “Internal Feminine Flavoring,” have found a “solution” for this problem: Linger Internal Feminine Flavor, according to their website, flavors the secretions of a woman when she is sexually aroused. What? Flavored secretions? Let’s pause for a moment and think about the name of the product itself: INTERNAL FEMININE FLAVORING.
Ok, let’s get real: Linger isn’t feminine flavor. IT’S MINT.
In describing the origins of their new “sweet tasting sex mint,” the Linger website weaves a tantalizing, exoticized, eroticized, and semi-pornographic tale of desire and what they paint as a ubiquitous fear of cunnilingus. When the woman in the story (presumably the creator of Linger), expresses fear when her lover with …
Go Daddy.com has been known for its risque and sexist commercials, generally about busty women who’s tank top straps break in inappropriate places. The one commercial that really made me sick was shown during the 2009 Superbowl featuring Danica Patrick. Danica, in case you didn’t know, is the first female to win an Indy car race, as well as being a supermodel and a “Go Daddy Girl.” In this particular commercial, Danica is shown taking a shower under the control of three male college students (who, by the way, are a pretty bad representation for guys; come on guys, we know you aren’t really sloppy horndogs who get off on male supremacy…well…).
By the way, this degrading commercial has pretty much nothing to do with selling internet domain names. I decided to email GoDaddy’s support team, asking if their domain names can really give you the gift of mind control. Their first response?
Billboard of aborted fetuses outside Phoenix high school
A few weeks ago, this 22-foot billboard truck, showing a first trimester aborted fetus, circled a Phoenix area high school. The billboards were sponsored by The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform (CBR) [Warning: Graphic Site], who chose Camelback High School because of their “innovative and proactive ‘school choice’ campaign.”
The Regional Director for CBR, John Walsh, defended his actions, saying, “High school students are sexually active and often resort to having an abortion in order to escape from the unintended consequences of their promiscuity. They need to be educated about what abortion looks like before they commit to such a course of action.”
I’m sorry…this is education? There is nothing educational about this billboard. And insinuating that an abortion is the easy way out? Yes, we all know …
