Monday, October 25, 2010

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Gallery: The Many Divorces of Bravo's 'Real Housewives' Franchise

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 11:30 AM PDT

The Real Housewives franchise may be great for Bravo’s ratings, but appearing on the show isn’t always good for the marriages it presents. Over the last few years, some of the housewives featured on the show are no longer married. If about half of marriages end in divorce, Bravo’s wives have a pretty good average so far. But over the last month, it’s come out that appearing on the show is part of the reason some of these couples split.

The current season features the biggest divorce – Camille and Kelsey Grammer were married during filming. And they’re not anymore. Bravo also contributed to Cat Ommanney’s divorce on Real Housewives of DC. And we also recently learned that NeNe Leakes is calling it quits with her husband Greg.  Click through our gallery to see who loved and lost as a result of Bravo’s show.

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Gallery: The Many Divorces of Bravo's 'Real Housewives' Franchise

Video: Is This Kid The Next Bieber?

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 11:20 AM PDT

Or is he the next Greyson Chance? A Colorado high school kid named Graham Stookey who’s like, really, really good at playing guitar uploaded a YouTube video and it’s pretty amazing. In the clip above, Graham sings a five-minute original composition called “Jonah,” and his YouTube page includes covers of “Low,” “Billie Jean” and “Rock Your Body.”

This kid’s like a more palatable, less racist John Mayer. Somebody get him a Twitter account.

(via The Daily What)

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Video: Is This Kid The Next Bieber?

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 10:55 AM PDT

McDonald’s Won’t Make You Fat – According to a new study, your desire to overeat and subsequently become obese has no correlation to the fast food industry. Right…but chances are you aren’t going to find something in your own cupboard that can be super-sized. (Food Beast)

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Video: Can a Kitty Be Sexy?

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 10:40 AM PDT

I’m no Furry apologist. I think people that ascribe sexual adjectives to animals are gross. And yet…there is something about the mellow jazz playing in the background, the seductive swoosh of this kitty’s tail, her laconic paw-dip into the milk glass…

She is the Bettie Page of cats, and a sultry vixen. I don’t care who knows it. This is a sexy cat.

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Video: Can a Kitty Be Sexy?

CMJ Show Report: Care Bears On Fire

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 10:16 AM PDT

Care Bears on Fire have two full length albums and two EPs. They’ve been profiled in Spin and New York Magazine, have played Letterman, been featured in commercials, and have guest-starred on TV. And they aren’t even old enough to drive.

Care Bears are a teen girl trio — Sophie sings and plays guitar, Jena tackles the bass, and Izzy’s the drummer. I saw them on the last night of CMJ at New York’s Bowery Poetry Club, where they played their girl-positive pop punk songs for half an hour. Izzy played barefoot. Her toes were painted and she wore a pair of sequined shorts and a shirt that read “NOT FOR SALE.” She has braces. Sophie sported a cropped haircut a la Selma Blair and wore skinny black jeans. Jena paired a striped long-sleeved tee with tights and black boots. They all looked cute as heck.

My favorite song of the night was called “Barbie Eat a Sandwich,” a smiley tune that summed up the girls’ sweetly tough (or toughly sweet) ethos nicely. (Btw: They also have a song called “Met You On MySpace,” which, well, lol.) These kids can really play, which makes them both a novelty act and a fun way to spend an evening. More Care Bears, please!

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CMJ Show Report: Care Bears On Fire

Is Tampa Deputy Lisa Latimer the New Krystal Ball of Bad Photo Ops?

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 10:28 AM PDT

When racy, dildo-filled Holiday photos of congressional candidate Krystal Ball were uncovered by her opponent earlier this month, we hoped that people in public service positions would learn not to take photos of themselves goofing off, even if it was all in good fun. With the Internet these days, you never know!

And sadly today brings us another example: Florida deputy policewoman Lisa Latimer took some shots (no pun intended) of herself in her cruise car, putting her gun in her mouth and smoking what looks like a joint. Ostensibly, these pics were just for her and her close friends, but that was before she got into a nasty divorce with her husband (which may or may not have involved her taser), who decided to put the images on Facebook. Now she’s suspended from the police force and may lose custody of her kids.

We don’t want to beat you over the head with the lesson here, but once again: Never piss off your ex. Wait, no: Don’t take photographs of yourself playing around with sex toys and/or guns unless your job is an FBI agent undercover stripper.

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Is Tampa Deputy Lisa Latimer the New Krystal Ball of Bad Photo Ops?

Gallery: Tompkin Square's Halloween Dog Parade

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 09:31 AM PDT

While in theory we don’t condone the practice of forcing animals into ridiculous outfits and parading them around like they were some cute accessory, in practice it turns out that we love watching cats and dogs dressed up like little people. So sue us. That dog doesn’t know it was dyed pink, so why do you care? Anyway: Tompkin Square Park’s Halloween parade, y’all!

  • Dog as tea tray
  • Dogs as Kit Kat bars
  • Dog as 18th century Parisian aristocrat
  • Dog as Ren Faire princess
  • Dog as a god-damn hippie
  • Transformadog
  • Fairy princess bulldog
  • Dog as extra in Darren Aronofsky's
  • Dog as TRON DOG

(Photos via WENN)

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Gallery: Tompkin Square's Halloween Dog Parade

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 09:05 AM PDT

Jay-Z and Obama Are Now Allowed to Be Public Besties – Now that the 2012 vote is looking more grim, Jay-Z has been tapped by the White House to “re-energize” the youth and minority vote. Well, it’s better than Will.I.Am. But will anyone recognize him? (New York Post)

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Interview: The Hairpin's Edith Zimmerman

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 09:06 AM PDT

The Awl is moving up in the world. The self-funded blog brought to the world by Choire Sicha, Alex Balk and David Cho has been expanding the last two months. In addition to launching comedy site Splitsider recently, the site got the David Carr treatment this weekend in The New York Times, where we learned that the blogs’ editors will not be subsisting on ramen for the interminable future. In fact, it looks like Awl Corp. might earn somewhere in the millions by next year. Even better, today they launched a lady site called The Hairpin, helmed by Liz Colville and Crushable friend Edith Zimmerman.

Last night I caught up with Edith to ask some of the most important questions ever asked in an interview setting. Or so it seemed, right before I fell into a cold medicine induced haze last night. This interview comes to you sponsored by Nyquil (me) and white wine (Edith):

How did you come up with the name Hairpin?
I picked the name because it’s a ladies’ item, but sort of sharp and pointy and useful. Sort of like the site? And a hairpin turn, and I like the word pin! Also it looks nice.

All the Awlites work from home, right? Are you looking forward to that or dreading it?
I’ll actually be working from a desk in Dumbo as of next week (Green Desk buildings). My dollhouse-sized apartment is too small to work from (I don’t have a desk, and I go a little crazy not being around other breathing humans, so that will be nice.) Liz is actually moving to San Francisco next weekend, so we’ll have to be internet girlfriends.

How will you balance the manliness of the other sites?
We’ll balance the manliness by … I don’t know! We’ll just tie a ribbon around the corners of our computers and type with a lot of bracelets.

Do you have a mascot for the site yet, or will Choire’s cat be bicoastal soon?
No mascot yet! Maybe an empty bottle of white wine? Ha. Also, that is what I just created this past hour.

Do you have any big plans for the “low millions” Awl Corp. will be earning in the next 18 months?
No big plans, other than to be the Greatest Site on the Internet that Everyone Loves and No One Hates. Not even when they Talk Privately to Other People.

What are your favorite feminine products?
My favorite feminine products are bobo tampons, pretty underwear, contacts, and foundation.

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Interview: The Hairpin's Edith Zimmerman

Cafeteria Crowding Forces College Students to Pick Between Salad and Starvation

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 08:51 AM PDT

Recently Rutger’s University has been in the news because of the tragic suicide of Tyler Clementi after friends broadcast a homosexual affair on a secret webcam. But besides homophobic bullying, the New Jersey school is facing an even bigger problem: overcrowding on campus has made it really hard for kids to eat at the dining halls this year.

You’d think getting a simple cup of coffee wouldn’t be an issue, but according to one student:

"I went to get some coffee at the Midnight Breakfast before finals last year and I couldn't even get in because there was a line that went all the way outside the dining hall!" she said.

Says another:

"I stand on line for a good night like stir fry, and by the time I get to the front, 45 minutes has passed," she said. Rosenzweig further explains that because it takes forever to get food, many students pass up the hot food and head straight for the salad bar and 'left overs' from the deli line.

It’s been so long since these students tasted a hot meal they may have forgotten that stir fry from the cafeteria sucks as bad as the deli bar, and that most college students subsist off a diet of Ramen noodles and Adderall anyway.

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Cafeteria Crowding Forces College Students to Pick Between Salad and Starvation

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