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- Think You Can Do Better? This Site Let's You Know (Lemondrop)
- 'Sarah Palin's Alaska': TLC's Tribute to Glacial Hotness
- Against Four Loko: One Hungover Woman's Harrowing Tale
- Who Is Buying Skymall's $300 'Harry Potter' Broomstick?
- Julie Taymor's 'Spiderman': It's Too Much. But Is That Bad?
| Think You Can Do Better? This Site Let's You Know (Lemondrop) Posted: 15 Nov 2010 10:27 AM PST |
| Posted: 15 Nov 2010 10:15 AM PST Is Justin Bieber Trying to Score Some Ritalin? - The Biebster is now telling reporters that he has Attention Deficit Disorder, along with 99 percent of Americans under 30. Was he officially diagnosed? “No, it’s self-claimed,” announced the tween star. Bieber in 3D was bad enough, now we have to see him all hopped up on Adderall? (via WENN) Post from: Crushable  |
| 'Sarah Palin's Alaska': TLC's Tribute to Glacial Hotness Posted: 15 Nov 2010 09:59 AM PST
Those people should not have worried: After watching TLC’s premiere of Sarah Palin’s Alaska, we’re pretty sure the program is trying harder to sell you on the majestic beauty of both its subjects than any sort of political ideology. Despite one clunky reference to “Momma Grizzlies” (made while actually watching grizzly bears swim dangerously close to their boat), Sarah Palin is perfectly content to be a reality show star, not a political figure. And why blame her? As we see in the premiere, Alaska (at least in the summertime, when the show was filmed), is totally gorgeous. Why would she want to leave her giant house and her homemade studio for punditing with Bill O’Reilly to go live in Washington, D.C.? If she did, the show implies, she wouldn’t be able to spend literally every day rock climbing, ice-fishing, flying in helicopters, and spending time with her mute husband Todd while totally ignoring the budding sexuality of daughter Willow. (In an amazingly telling segment, Sarah puts up a gate on the stairs so Willow’s male friend can’t go up to her room. She then goes and sits by the computer checking her email as the boy steps over the gate. We wonder if this was the same gate meant to keep Levi Johnson out of Bristol’s room.) In fact, why talk about her daughter’s relative attractiveness at all, when Willow obviously doesn’t want to be on camera? “She’s a teenager, so she’s more interested in socialization than work,” Sarah sighs while adjusting her own short-shorts to reveal taut, deeply-tanned thighs. Same goes for her husband: When asking Todd for help before a TV segment, Sarah asks how many people he’d have to let go from his company if these tax cuts go through. “It’s just a roll of the die,” Todd replies with the cryptic wisdom of Buddha, or someone who doesn’t know what numbers are. So no, Sarah Palin’s Alaska is not an insideous show designed to get you to vote for Sarah Palin, because reality show stars rarely make it to the Oval Office. Instead, we are watching an hour long commercial for how beautiful both Sarah Palin and her home state is. And for a former beauty pageant queen, who could ask for anything more? Post from: Crushable 'Sarah Palin's Alaska': TLC's Tribute to Glacial Hotness  |
| Posted: 15 Nov 2010 09:57 AM PST Mel Gibson claimed he slapped, not punched, Oksana – Aw, who says chivalry’s dead? Not Mel, who claims he abused his ex in a different manner that the way she said he abused her. Ugh! (PopEater) Post from: Crushable  |
| Against Four Loko: One Hungover Woman's Harrowing Tale Posted: 15 Nov 2010 09:54 AM PST
Cut to: Me at 2 a.m., on a street corner of Manhattan’s Lower East Side, hunched over a trash can and vomiting a four-hour-old plate of barbacoa tacos (with everything) into a trash can. Sure, a few beers entered my system that night, and there was a red plastic cup filled to the brim with WIld Turkey, but I blame the Four Loko. Because I am a fully grown and reasonably responsible human who has been around the block once or twice inebriating-substance-wise — and that shit messed me up in unprecedented ways. So why did I drink the Four Loko in the first place? Because it is a hilarious and ironic thing to do, of course! Because I am a cultural tastemaker who needs to be up on all the latest trends so that I can mock them mercilessly. Problem is, I didn’t mock Four Loko at all. Because I actually enjoyed the evil stuff. The devil potion was in abundance at a party I attended a few Saturdays ago. In fact, it was sort of the theme of the party — like, “let’s all drink Four Loko while standing around talking about how we’re drinking Four Lokoooo!” My friends and I even recorded a VYou video tribute to the stuff, which I will not link to because it is humiliating. Question: If you drink something called “quadruple-crazy” you know what you’re in for, right? WRONG! Personally, I hate sweet things — I can’t put sugar in my coffee and don’t even like mixed drinks (hence the straight bourbon). So I fully expected to be revolted by my first sip of FL — to force it down and move sheepishly on with my night (like, three steps to left, where that bottle of Turkey beckoned from the counter.) But — to my absolute surprise– the festering elixir was delicious. It was like this fizzy liquid candy with a mean tartness to balance out any excess sugar. So I just kept on drinking and drinking, injecting my heart with 8 billion mg of energy like some pre-teen junkie headed for a featured role on Intervention. The facts: Four Loko has been called “liquid cocaine,” and while that’s an exaggeration in many ways, not least of which is the sheer ability for the substance to, like, kill you, there’s some logic in the sentiment. Drinking all that caffeine along with your alcohol makes you feel much more sober than you actually are — which just leads to you getting way drunker later. It’s the absolute worst of both worlds! Another way the merciless malt isn’t dissimilar to drugs of an illegal classification is that it wages civil war against your internal organs. It speeds up your heart, messes with your liver and burns the lining of your stomach — outright attacking you until you’re hunched over that trash can praying you’d never heard the words “ironic cultural tastemaker.” Bottom line is, I’m a 25-year-old grown-up who manages to hold down a job, and although I spend more time in bars than pleases my free time and bank account, my days of passing out on trains and publicly humiliating myself are (probably definitely) behind me. But that night I was tricked into getting way, way more trashed than I’d realized, and that is simply not cool. Like, not even ironically. Good riddance, Four Loko. See you in hell. Post from: Crushable Against Four Loko: One Hungover Woman's Harrowing Tale  |
| Who Is Buying Skymall's $300 'Harry Potter' Broomstick? Posted: 15 Nov 2010 09:24 AM PST
But as ridiculous as the products are, the magazine still continues to exist, meaning that someone out there is buying this crap. And with the introduction of the $300 Firebolt Broom Replica from the Harry Potter collection that a friend found online today, we realized that the intended audience might be us. Because for only $295 (plus tax), our very own “Finely detailed, hand-painted authentic prop replica, as featured in the Harry Potter film series” could be waiting for us when we land at home. Think of the jealous looks our friends would give us, as we proudly displayed our broom – the most expensive item in our home – on a pedestal that we’d also need to buy. “How did you get your hands on an actual magic broom from Harry Potter?” they’d ask, through gritted teeth. And we’d smile and shake our heads, knowing that the price was well worth it. But in case brooms aren’t your thing, don’t worry, SkyMall has a lot more Harry Potter action for you. You can buy Dumbledore’s wand set for $145, or your very own TriWizard Cup for $125 (and that’s without having to play one game of Quidditch!). The more you look at these items, the more sensible they seem as an investment. After all, if there is one thing SkyMall really does well, it’s convincing you at very high altitudes that you won’t regret spending $200 for a Dobby pewter paperweight once you descen from the clouds. Post from: Crushable Who Is Buying Skymall's $300 'Harry Potter' Broomstick?  |
| Posted: 15 Nov 2010 09:10 AM PST Want to win Grey’s Anatomy’s complete Season 6 DVD? — One lucky fan of Crushable on Facebook is going to win a Grey’s DVD set, plus a prize pack worth over $100. Click here and hit the “Like” button before 5 p.m. EST on Sunday, November 21 to enter to win, or watch this six-part Grey’s Anatomy web series and leave a review here. Post from: Crushable  |
| Julie Taymor's 'Spiderman': It's Too Much. But Is That Bad? Posted: 15 Nov 2010 08:56 AM PST
Also, Bono and The Edge are doing the score. And you know what that means? Mixed U2 metaphors for the next year, at least! Fun times. Taymor’s the Tony Award winning director and choreographer behind Disney’s The Lion King, and has inspired many a whole slew of massive Broadway productions since bringing that cartoon to life on stage. If Spiderman can hold it together long enough to premiere, it stands to be over the top fantastic. Says Taymor:
The musical will have a cast of 41 and over 37 scene changes. As you can see from Vogue’s photos, lack of ambition is clearly not the problem. This quote from Taymor is priceless:
Even better? This production will give critics everywhere the opportunity to use all the U2 metaphors they’ve been saving up all these years. Exhibit one:
Check out the full piece at Vogue. Post from: Crushable Julie Taymor's 'Spiderman': It's Too Much. But Is That Bad?  |
| Posted: 15 Nov 2010 08:56 AM PST Sebastian Bach bites. Skid Row singer Sebastian Bach got into an altercation with a Canadian bar owner and decided to bite him. The issue? The guy wouldn’t let him take his wine To Go. It’s good to have principles. (TMZ) Post from: Crushable  |
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