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- College Confessions: I Hate Getting Dressed With Friends
- Kim Zolciak Is Pregnant In A Bikini -- And Confused About Marriage
- Girl Crush: Lena Dunham Interviews Greta Gerwig For Paper Magazine
- Video: A 17-Year-Old Ashton Kutcher Bet He Could Score A Date With Jennifer Aniston
- Glee Recap: McKinley High's Walk Of Shame
- Real Housewives Of Miami Doll Recap: Miami Fuego Fuego!
- Gallery: Lesbians Who Look The Most Like Justin Bieber, In Honor Of Justin Embracing His Biebians
- Art Crush: The Best 'Twin Peaks' Fan Art
- Video: Oscar The Grouch Gives His Oscar Picks
| College Confessions: I Hate Getting Dressed With Friends Posted: 23 Feb 2011 11:31 AM PST “ Over the past four years, the word “cute” has come to be among my most reviled. “Cute top!” “I love those shorts – soooo cute.” “Oh, those are cute.” Cute is simply a ridiculous word, and I’ve become perpetually bothered by it because it reminds me of one of my most hated pastimes: getting dressed for an evening out in the company of friends. It’s not that I don’t like the input of others, it’s that I think it ends up doing more bad than good: breeding insecurity and body issues, and often making everyone look the same (tight black bandeau skirt and sheer white shirt anyone? We’ve all been there). In high school, my clique of friends used to assemble at one friend’s house for dressing, primping and requisite stealing of her parents alcohol. They would swap tops and shoes, try one one another’s blush and mascara, or discuss the best kind of eyeliner. Our host was known for her plentiful closet, so it made sense that her place was the spot for bag borrowing and “are you sure I don’t look fat?” questions. I usually showed up only for the requisite alcohol stealing. After all, we were seventeen, and her parents had an easy-access liquor cabinet. They continued to primp and prod. I mixed everyone cranberry and vodkas. Upon showing up at college, I signed up for a single dorm room, blissfully knowing I could get dressed in the privacy of my own room, without the groans of other girls around me. In the first few weeks of school, I made close friends who shared a room a few floors above, so when I finished clothing myself before nights out, I’d head up to their room. Usually, they were bantering enough between themselves that they didn’t look much at what I’d put on – but occasionally they’d suggest I switch to a different colored top, or accessorize with a belt, or whatever. Annoyed, I’d sometimes accept an item of theirs, or worse, trek back down to my room and make a sartorial switch. The following year, I moved in with a group of roommates, in a house we’ve now lived in for three years. Predictably, there is a certain degree of running up and down the halls as outfits are chosen – but to an extent, we’ve all settled on closing our doors, getting done up on our own, and assembling in the living room when we’re satisfied. Anyway, I like to blast a mix of Katy Perry and Usher while I do my thing, while my friends prefer slow jams or indie rock. It all works out, but it’s not the societal norm. There are a number of reasons I am not enamored of group dressing, the first of which is individuality. It’s all too easy to see what everyone else is wearing, and deciding your black is too drab, your skirt too conservative, your hair not straight enough. At this point, you head back to your closet, decide you have nothing to wear, and either change six times, or go out feeling like you’re dressed all wrong. In so many groups of young women, “does this make my hips look wide?” and so on, become so much a part of the daily jargon that everyone begins to think their hips really are eternally bad, their hair eternally too frizzy, and themselves eternally less hot than everyone else. It’s not a good thing. Everyone ends up feeling like crap, or sometimes even worse – all dressing exactly the same. Most often, you looked just fine the first time. Post from: Crushable College Confessions: I Hate Getting Dressed With Friends |
| Kim Zolciak Is Pregnant In A Bikini -- And Confused About Marriage Posted: 23 Feb 2011 11:09 AM PST
Also, Kim’s approach to marriage might be the most confusing thing about her.
Timely! Naturally, the gossip mag asked Kim if the couple is thinking about marriage. But apparently they’re not ready:
Since when do couples have all their babies before getting married? It sounds like Kim might be working on a third single: Babies First, Vows Later. Post from: Crushable Kim Zolciak Is Pregnant In A Bikini -- And Confused About Marriage |
| Girl Crush: Lena Dunham Interviews Greta Gerwig For Paper Magazine Posted: 23 Feb 2011 10:27 AM PST
This week, two of our favorite film-type ladies got together to do an interview for Paper Mag, and the result is very interesting. Like filmmaker Lena Dunham, I would totally use my fame to interview my friends and take pretty pictures of them, which is what she did with mumblecore maven Greta Gerwig:
Also, almost by accident, they had a really interesting conversation about the perceptions of different kinds of women in film. The whole interview is worth a read, but this part stood out to me. It’s great that the cinematic careers of women like Lena and Greta are beginning to pick up steam (as compared to say a Megan Fox), it’s also interesting to see that Hollywood doesn’t quite know what to do with them:
The discussion is especially interesting when you think about Greta’s first major film role, in the Ben Stiller film Greenberg. She had to gain weight for the role, and it was her first major mainstream film. That’s probably not the optimal way that a woman would want to be introduced to the country. I’m still curious to hear her thoughts on that, because it must have been a double edged sword — which she kind of touches on here:
Also, I’m just glad that they both have a soft spot for cheesy girlie movies. (It sounds like both of them would like our Chick Flick Check Lists):
Girl crush renewed! (Photo: PaperMag) Post from: Crushable Girl Crush: Lena Dunham Interviews Greta Gerwig For Paper Magazine |
| Video: A 17-Year-Old Ashton Kutcher Bet He Could Score A Date With Jennifer Aniston Posted: 23 Feb 2011 10:15 AM PST When we were 17, we were betting our friends that we could eat an entire packet of wasabi without crying. Over on his farm in Iowa, Ashton Kutcher was making $1000 bets that one day he’d go on a date with Jennifer Aniston. Ashton tells the story on The Graham Norton Show, and it includes the tale of how Jen’s husband-at-the-time Brad Pitt tells the young stud to go for it. Bonus: Some English chap tells a hilarious sex story involving his grandfather. (via) Post from: Crushable Video: A 17-Year-Old Ashton Kutcher Bet He Could Score A Date With Jennifer Aniston |
| Glee Recap: McKinley High's Walk Of Shame Posted: 23 Feb 2011 10:08 AM PST
There's trouble afoot at McKinley High, and no, it's not the fact that Sue Sylvester now tends to fly into a child-throwing rampage any time anything doesn't go her demonic way. No, according to Principal Figgins, the problem is giggle juice, the wet devil, ol' lady hooch and the teen drunks Figgins finds staggering down the halls of his very own school. Since glee club is the least socially respected group in school, why not have them perform an anti-drinking song at the Alcohol Awareness rally? Other than the fact that sweet, life-giving booze is the only thing standing in between most people and a life of dull drudgery, of course. That's what I got from the episode, anyway. Seriously, every scene except one made my mouth water for a sip of some of the hard stuff. As his divorce, Emma's marriage, and his general lack of any identity other than the New Directions finally hits him, Schue found himself ready to turn to the bottom himself. Also…Sue basically admitted to murdering the Oral Fixations coach to steal his job, right? Or rather grievously injuring him by throwing him down two flights of stairs? Since teaching glee is "a sucky job for losers," Sue explains, she was able to swoop in and snatch the position like a trembling hamster in her talons. With her gay dads off on a Rosie O'Donnell cruise (seriously, how have we never seen them? They sound amazing), and her life experience so sparse she writes a song about her hairbands, Rachel agrees to throw a slobbedy, bobbedy glee club booze-fest. So begins The Rachel Berry Trainwreck Extravaganza! While the party starts out at a snail's pace with wine coolers and drink tickets and Rachel's tragic Carole King knock-off nightgown dress, Puck quickly convinces her to let them raid her dad's liquor cabinet. New Directions then proceed to have the most fun party of all time. Seriously, who wouldn't want to take slow-motion shots to "Like a G6" while Britney dances on the washing machine in a pink bra and Artie makes it rain? No one, that's who. "It tastes like pink!" a delightfully sloshed Rachel screams as she chugs another wine cooler. Kurt (dressed as a member of Kraftwerk), and Blaine are also in attendance, if only to let Blaine hit on Finn. Kurt's distress blink across his face, and the plans for future devastation are laid. When Rachel came to shmoop on Finn's shoulder about not loving her anymore, he snarls that she's being a needy drunk. Seriously, can we get a break from this guy's meaty good looks and quizzically furrowed brow for one episode? Quinn is also moping around now that Sam is locking huge, pillow lips with Santana, despite the fact that she was getting all up on Finn's face just last episode. Could it be more time for a round of spin the bottle? I had actually forgotten rumors of Blaine's bisexuality until he leaned forward to kiss Rachel, a super long and tender smooch that causes Kurt’s tiny puppy heart to explode into a million pieces. No! my brain screamed. Not in front of the boy! Blaine and Rachel proceed to duet on "Don't You Want Me" by the Human League. If you're going to go there Rachel, you might as well just have sex with him on the coffee table, as far as Kurt's heart is concerned.
The kids show up to school Monday STILL HUNG-OVER, which, damn! Good thing Artie brought a thermos of Bloody Marys, the smooth tangy taste of which is just perfect for rolling down the hall to "Blame it on the Alcohol" by Jamie Foxx, which segues into a hot little black sequin/red spotlight dance number that made me want a drink like few things in recent memory have. Not exactly ideal for the anti-alcohol rally, Mr. Schue points out, but the kids are so drunk at rehearsal, and therefore so over it. Over lunch with Coach Beast (who's meal is a rotisserie chicken)(flawless), Schue admits that maybe the Gleeks are right. He used to get black-out drunk as a teen, and he turned out just fine: a divorced high school Spanish teacher with no social life, an unrequited crush on a colleague and a homicidal cheerleader coach plotting his demise. Beast invites him to her favorite honky-tonk bar, planting the seed in my mind that these two might totally hook up. You never know! I mean, Puck and Lauren Zizes are inching toward love (though a drunk spin-the-bottle seems like a missed opportunity for them to consummate their love); why not Curly and the Beast? Post from: Crushable Glee Recap: McKinley High's Walk Of Shame |
| Real Housewives Of Miami Doll Recap: Miami Fuego Fuego! Posted: 23 Feb 2011 09:58 AM PST
Welcome To Miami! Where the clothes are tiny and neon, the boobs are huge, and everyone has a boat in their backyard like it's a riding mowers. After meeting our new cast, Miami also seems to have the worst and most obvious plastic surgeries. Marysol Patton, the successful professional who owns her own PR company, coyly tells the camera how entering her forties has open up a whole new world of younger men. One would wonder, then, why Marysol is demanding her face age-regress back to her late teens, which mixed results. Lea Black, the eldest of the housewives, is also suffering from a little over-stretching. Married to lawyer Roy Black, Lea chirps that she "collected" other housewife Adriana after her divorce, which seems like a mean thing to say about your friend, though she is a personal friend of Dennis Rodman and Rick Ross. We cannot argue with that. She also collected a ginormous painting of her adolescent son only to reject it for its over-sized depiction of his feet. We'd suggest your kid grow into his gangliness before capturing him forever in oils, but then again, we don't really know that much about art.  I wasn't lying about those adorable kids. Which leads me to the housewife with the Cutest Kids In The World. Larsa Pippen, bride of Scottie, seems to be the most with-in wife, managing the family's finances, hanging out in a gun range, and generally acting as type-A power mom as possible. In addition to being a superior athlete, Scottie Pippen also produces the most adorable children on the face of the planet. You will squeal outloud when you see the Precious Moments superstar that is their toddler daughter. The man has baby-making skillz! Also mother to an adorable little brace-face of a tween, Adriana De Moura is a Brazilian art dealer with a sense of fun. With her dark hair, older fiancé and lust for life, watching Adriana eat breakfast on the patio in perfect degree weather before taking a trip on the good sloop "The Mojo" is the exact escape promised by sunny Florida in these frigid winter months. If only we could stay on the lanai forever, but unfortunately there are more insane mansions to see. Housewife Alexia Echevarria calls herself the "Cuban Barbie." Based on the amount of hair dye soaking her long hair, she is committed to the persona. Alexia is under the impression her two kids think of her as hip and young, which is a common delusion among parents, but probably more so in such a cosmetic surgery megalopolis. My gay friend watching the show with me literally gasped out loud when we meet Alexia's 17-yead-old son Peter, which is ILLEGAL, but yeah, if this show stays on the air long enough for him to become legal, plan on a lot of road trips to the Sunshine State including a coincidental detour past his bedroom window.  He is seventeen, people! Get your minds out of the gutter. Post from: Crushable Real Housewives Of Miami Doll Recap: Miami Fuego Fuego! |
| Gallery: Lesbians Who Look The Most Like Justin Bieber, In Honor Of Justin Embracing His Biebians Posted: 23 Feb 2011 10:16 AM PST
Hey, remember yesterday when Justin Bieber cut his hair?! Somehow the world still continues to spin on its axis! Earlier today, Biebs stopped by The Ellen DeGeneres Show (the ep will air this afternoon), where he claimed that his new ‘do was inspired by Ellen’s own. This comes just a week after Justin admitted being familiar with the amazing blog Lesbians Who Look Like Justin Bieber, which he called “funny” in an interview with Chelsea Handler. Three cheers to Justin for jumping on board with his lesbian fan contingent! Here’s a gallery of some of most doppelgangery Biebians around. Post from: Crushable Gallery: Lesbians Who Look The Most Like Justin Bieber, In Honor Of Justin Embracing His Biebians |
| Art Crush: The Best 'Twin Peaks' Fan Art Posted: 23 Feb 2011 09:41 AM PST
You guys! Yesterday we thought we saw Bob from Twin Peaks on the train and we totally had a panic attack. Have you all seen this show? Because it’s legitimately the best thing ever. We were inspired to look around for some fan art inspired by David Lynch’s series, and we’ve got to say, it’s some pretty special stuff. Like really above and beyond — and if there’s one thing we know it’s fan art. (main photo via) Post from: Crushable Art Crush: The Best 'Twin Peaks' Fan Art |
| Video: Oscar The Grouch Gives His Oscar Picks Posted: 23 Feb 2011 08:26 AM PST Great, it isn’t even noon and already our heart has melted into a giant puddle of swoon and aww. Oscar the Grouch, why can’t more of Hollywood be like you? Post from: Crushable Video: Oscar The Grouch Gives His Oscar Picks |
| Posted: 23 Feb 2011 08:08 AM PST |
Does this look cute?!”
Pregnancy is bliss for Real Housewife of Atlanta Kim Zolciak. Most especially because she gets to pose for even more tabloid covers. Like 
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