Teaching the tasteless everywhere
if one more magazine this spring tells me that i have to buy a pair of butt ugly gladiator sandals, i’m going to puke. while some may mistake stylish with trendy, that is just NOT the case, man. trendy has negative connotations if you ask me… sometimes i feel like designers are playing a […]
Posted on March 24th, 2008 by skim
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note: when susan talks about movies she tends to use ALL CAPS A LOT
so mikey insisted that i only do fashion but fuck that. i’m a huge movie buff and i’m going to talk about some movies that i’ve seen recently… ergo it’s SUSAN’S MOVIE REVIEW TIME! for those of you that do not read […]
Posted on March 21st, 2008 by skim
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So my friends and I were huge fans of the original Rainbow Six: Vegas. A game that had possibly the best multiplayer available for the xbox 360. We would get online almost every night for some attack and defend or terrorist hunt. I say this because I want people to understand we […]
Posted on March 21st, 2008 by phaedrus
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A quickie. Comcast is trying to make Orwell’s vision of 1984 come true. They would like to put a camera in your cable box that would recognize your face. If it see’s you in the room you’d get target advertising tailored specifically for you. If it see’s a child it would […]
Posted on March 19th, 2008 by phaedrus
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There’s a dangerous enemy masquerading as good taste. That’s hype. Manufactured to make you believe that what you like is actually good, but really it’s just you going along w/ the consensus. Often times a movie or videogame is really good but can’t hope to match the hype it generates. Other […]
Posted on March 18th, 2008 by phaedrus
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A few weeks ago a friend of mine said that he wanted to treat me to “the best steak you’ll ever have in LA, hands down.” He raved on and on about how since I was a “food snob,” I would appreciate Mastro’s Steakhouse. “They heat the plate in a 400 degree oven! The […]
Posted on March 13th, 2008 by slappy
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So, I’ve been a windows PC guy for almost my entire life. I did use a macintosh briefly at school and my first job, but my home PC has always been windows based. About 2 years ago I got an apple macbook pro from work to use at home. Slowly all of […]
Posted on March 10th, 2008 by phaedrus
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Let me begin this review with a confession. I absolutely love documentaries. I know i’m in the minority there, but I find them interesting, informative, and entertaining at the same time. To date my favorite Michael Moore film has been ‘Bowling for Columbine‘. I felt Farenheit 9/11 was interesting, but […]
Posted on March 8th, 2008 by phaedrus
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Almost everybody has heard of social networking by now. The basic idea is that you list your friends and they list theirs. All together you make a giant network of first, second, and third tier friends. It’s supposed to let you keep in touch with each other, but lets be frank. […]
Posted on March 7th, 2008 by phaedrus
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special edition post: project runway recap!!!
sooo of course i was right - and mikey was wrong, you should know better by now that the leader is always right. christian siriano, my fav from the get-go, won last night… WOOHOO! (mikey thought it was gonna be jillian, who i liked too since she hails from STRONG […]
Posted on March 6th, 2008 by skim
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