Crushable |
- Shacking Ups And Downs: Resentful Cohabitation Is Not Your Friend
- Thank God Celebrities Are Speaking Out Against Planking, Even If They’re Only Joking
- Danielle Staub Analyzes ‘Real Housewives of New Jersey’ Season 3 Episode 11
- Space Relations: How to Deal With a Changing Roommate
- Justin Bieber Pranks Self, Reminds Us All He’s Only Seventeen
- ‘True Blood Sex Recap’: A Midsummer Night’s Cream
- Gallery: 6 Famous Brunettes Who Resemble Kristen Stewart’s ‘Twilight’ Wig
- First Look: Tom Hardy Looks More Silly Than Scary as Bane in ‘The Dark Knight Rises’
- Artist Sells “Hand Picked” NYC Garbage For A Hundred Bucks A Pop
- Video Gallery: 8 Kids’ Movies Recut as Horror Films
| Shacking Ups And Downs: Resentful Cohabitation Is Not Your Friend Posted: 01 Aug 2011 10:41 AM PDT
How did this happen? Weren’t they college sweethearts? Didn’t they survive through cultural differences, double unemployment and at least one count of infidelity? Well, they probably just couldn’t agree on a color of trashcan for the kitchen, or whether or not to have a rug in the living room. Yep, it’s silly and tragic but couples call it quits all the time over nit-picky little problems. So here are two things you should avoid fighting over, unless you wish to suffer a fate worse than death: resentful cohabitation. And when it comes to squelching the desire to harm your partner in his/her sleep, there are a few key triggers that you should be aware of (and try to avoid). Which Side of the Bed to Sleep On Awesome! Of course, if one partner is continually stressed, both suffer in the long run. So, what to do? It appears the simplest solution is having separate bedrooms. What’s that? You’re both entry-level admin assistants who can barely afford one inflatable mattress? Umm…Never mind. What Kind of Milk to Buy Where to Stash the Mugs Note: All seemingly ridiculous examples are totally fictional and not based on my own real-life events at all… (Photo: Simmons Mattress Gallery) Related posts: Post from: Crushable  |
| Thank God Celebrities Are Speaking Out Against Planking, Even If They’re Only Joking Posted: 01 Aug 2011 10:27 AM PDT Ever since celebrities like Ellen Page and Rosario Dawson have latched on to the planking and owling movements, it’s sort of gotten on our nerves. After all, this was something that normal people started sharing over Twitter, and now stars have co-opted it. It came to a head with Justin Bieber “coneing” — that is, grabbing an ice cream cone by the ice cream. It’s like a bizarre version of the “Celebrities! They’re Just Like Us!” pages of Us and People: For some reason, the Biebers of the world want us to think they’re totally down-to-earth. But not all of young Hollywood has converted to planking. Funny Or Die’s latest video rounded up a bunch of up-and-comers like Kyle Gallner (Red State), David Henrie (Wizards of Waverly Place), and Sara Paxton (New Year’s Eve) — and they’re here to implore you to “stand up” against this dangerous pastime. The faux-PSA is directed more at average folks, but it’s still a refreshing stance from Hollywood. Now, if we actually saw someone like Marielle Jaffe or Nick Corirossi standing in the “straight up” position, that would be cool because it would actually be funny. Related posts: Post from: Crushable  |
| Danielle Staub Analyzes ‘Real Housewives of New Jersey’ Season 3 Episode 11 Posted: 01 Aug 2011 10:10 AM PDT It’s still Christmas in Jersey! The ladies celebrate the same old-fashioned way we all do: with family, food, presents… plus miniature Mercedes for the single-digit-aged set, basement recording studios, Rolex watches on the tree, and a healthy heaping of guilt from Teresa! But far be it for me to judge the way they choose to spend “Jesus’ birthday” (lucky for us, Melissa reminded us all that Christmas is Jesus’ birthday… just in case anyone forgot); let’s get Danielle Staub’s take on the matter! (Photos via Bravo) Disclaimer: Okay, so Danielle didn't really write this post. But it doesn't it totally sound like she did? Related posts: Post from: Crushable  |
| Space Relations: How to Deal With a Changing Roommate Posted: 01 Aug 2011 09:50 AM PDT
Life would be boring without change, and people would be boring if they always stayed the same. Granted, I still watch reruns of shows on the Game Show Network that I loved as a kid, but does that mean I'm still the same person? Decidedly no. (Although occasionally I do miss my hair crimper.) Most things about me now are pretty different from when I was 13, or 18, or even 25 (and I'm 29 now). And while I've mentioned before that my freshman dorm roommate and I are still great friends, I don't actually believe that she and I would be compatible roommates anymore. However, I really wouldn't know because she "broke up" with me before our senior year of college. We'd lived together for three years and had lots of great times. As friends and as roommates, we just worked. Everything was perfect…until she got cancer. After surgery and medication and lots of doctor visits, she wound up being healthy and OK, but something had changed. Or rather, she had changed. She'd gone through a lot and was in need of different scenery. She brought up moving into another house together, but the few houses we looked at weren't any better than the one we already shared. One day, she just laid it all out for me: She wanted to move on. At the time I remember feeling really sad, surprised and confused. We worked so well together! Everything was moving along; we were about to enter our senior year! But for her, it was a necessity for growing up, and she listened to that voice inside of her that said, "It's time for something new." Sometimes when someone else is going through a big change, and you're not, and you live together, things can get complicated. It happened to another friend of mine in college, as well. He met his roommate during freshman year in the dorms, and they decided to live together the next year. But the laid back dude who left for summer break after freshman year came back as a whole new person in the fall. Nothing monumental had happened in his life, except for the fact that he'd become a drug dealer. Related posts: Post from: Crushable  |
| Justin Bieber Pranks Self, Reminds Us All He’s Only Seventeen Posted: 01 Aug 2011 09:45 AM PDT Did you know that “coneing” is the new planking? Justin Bieber seems to think so, therefore it is true. As visual non sequitur memes go, it’s fairly advanced, as it involves a video recording device, at least one other person, and a lack of squeamishness about getting ice cream on one’s hands and car. Young Mr. Bieber demonstrates it pretty well in the above video, but basically, coneing occurs when one takes the ice cream by the ice cream instead of the cone, acting perfectly nonchalant about it all the while. In addition to the coneing move, which I heartily endorse as it brings joy to the dull workdays of those paid minimum wage to hawk poisonous amalgamations of fats, sugars, and chemicals, Bieber messes with the Burger King guy by trying to return a milkshake he purchased at Wendy’s. This is slightly more obnoxious, as the target of the prank is said minimum wage employee, but it doesn’t go on for very long, so I’ll forgive him. The main takeaway from all this is that despite being an international sex symbol (ew), Justin Bieber is really fucking young, and likes to do obnoxious young boy things. Either that, or he’s trying desperately to hold onto some semblance of normal adolescence by engaging in stereotypical young boy activities. Either way, it’s a decent reminder that Bieber is but a child, and unless you are too, you should maybe consider keeping him out of the spank bank for now. (Not that I think he’s in there to begin with! But, you know, it’s a reminder just in case.) Sexy dreams don’t count, obviously. Related posts: Post from: Crushable  |
| ‘True Blood Sex Recap’: A Midsummer Night’s Cream Posted: 01 Aug 2011 09:20 AM PDT
So let's talk about the other couples first. Naomi finally decided to check out Bon Temps and visit the woman formerly known as Toni. She and Tara get reacquainted in an awkward scene that involved Naomi shoving Tara down on the ground, and shouting, "I should kick your fucking ass." Because, you know, the one thing True Blood needs more of is domestic violence. It's OK, though—moments after the throwdown, the two began kissing passionately. I've gotta say, it looks like Tara uses way too much tongue. (When you're an expert kisser, you pick up on these things.) True Blood hasn't really given us a lot to go on when it comes to Tara and Naomi. They look good together, sure, but there's not much chemistry, and the are-we-gonna-fight-or-fuck thing is totally played out. I hope Pam eats Naomi and dates Tara instead. Ooh, putting that on my vision board! Meanwhile, there's something going on between Jessica and Jason, who has apparently moved on from his horrific gang rape. (I said I'd stop talking about it, and I will, but are we just never going to deal with this again?) I like the idea that Jess and Jason are linked because she gave him her blood—mostly because it's nice to see a female vampire in charge. But why is Jessica suddenly smitten? Her bloodlust aside, wasn't she happy with Hoyt? Why the sudden hankering for his best friend? But then, True Blood doesn't traffic in logic and consistent characterization. It's kind of like Glee with a lot more fucking: the characters decide to date or sleep with each other whenever the plot finds it convenient. The Jason/Jessica storyline creates conflict between Jason and Hoyt, so I guess that's something. But unless they resolve this with a wacky threesome, I'm not interested. Finally, we have Sam and Luna. Or, I guess, Tommy and Luna. I doubt True Blood will acknowledge it given its recent track record, but what happened between them? That's rape. Without getting all preachy about it, Luna did not consent to have sex with Tommy—she consented to sex with Sam. Having sex with someone by pretending to be someone else is completely horrifying, and I hope Tommy faces some consequences other than a stomach ache. Look, I'm not trying to be the morality police. I mostly think sex is a beautiful thing, but it needs to be consensual, and True Blood has had an awful hard time with that concept. At least "I Wish I Was the Moon" gave us one truly great sex scene—and by "great," I mean delightfully absurd. Sookie and Eric's forest floor rendezvous under the moonlight was the kind of fluffy naked nonsense I tune into this show floor. I was almost a little surprised faeries didn't dance around the fornicating couple while some friendly nymph played the lute. Hey, there's always next week. Seriously, though, there was something really satisfying about the climactic (LOL) scene. Eric's bare ass. Sookie's boobs. A Neko Case song. After all the awful sexual violence and trauma of the past few weeks, it was so pleasant to return to the silly kind of awful. Wouldn't it have been more comfortable for Sookie and Eric to return home and do it in the comfort of her bed? Yes, but this is True Blood: I want sex that's stupidly magical—and magically stupid. Related posts: Post from: Crushable  |
| Gallery: 6 Famous Brunettes Who Resemble Kristen Stewart’s ‘Twilight’ Wig Posted: 01 Aug 2011 09:03 AM PDT You asked for it, and we answered: A gallery dedicated to Kristen Stewart‘s hilariously bad wig from the Twilight movies. Because as bad as Ashley Greene‘s pixie cut wig was, at least we knew it wasn’t supposed to be real. Kristen wore a wig while filming Eclipse because of the awful hack-job her real hair had become for her Runaways role. Not only does every hair unnaturally stay in place, but depending on the angle and the scene (making out, fighting off Bryce Dallas Howard), Kristen-as-Bella channels a new dark-haired celebrity. Related posts: Post from: Crushable  |
| First Look: Tom Hardy Looks More Silly Than Scary as Bane in ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Posted: 01 Aug 2011 08:22 AM PDT Aww, Tom Hardy‘s covered up his pretty face in order to play the new villain in Christopher Nolan‘s third and final Batman film. Add the shaved head (or skull cap), and he’s virtually unrecognizable as Bane, a prisoner injected with a serum that makes him ultra-strong and driven mad with vengeance. But even though this set photo was released over the weekend, I’m not really feeling Bane yet. It wasn’t until I Googled the comic-book version of Bane that I realized how much he scared me. Consider the bulging muscles and — the creepiest part — the tubes pumping Venom into his body. It was his utter unnaturalness that made Bane so scary. But in the photo above, Hardy’s covered in a coat that more resembles Battlefield Earth. To be fair, the photo comes from an outdoor shoot set in the winter. So fingers crossed that other scenes will have Hardy in less clothing and not looking like he’s about to sneeze. (Note the tissue he’s clutching.) Related posts: Post from: Crushable  |
| Artist Sells “Hand Picked” NYC Garbage For A Hundred Bucks A Pop Posted: 01 Aug 2011 08:30 AM PDT New York artist Justin Gignac believes in the power of packaging. He believes in it so much, in fact, that he made a bet with a co-worker at an ad agency that he could sell people garbage if he packaged it right, and he won. Dude picks select garbage up from the streets of New York, encases it in a signed and numbered lucite cube, and sells it to people all over the world. Special “limited edition” garbage cubes include trash from Obama’s Inauguration (for which he traveled outside NYC, ‘natch) and the Yankees parade. The shiny packaging must be working on me, because I think this is kind of cool. You can tell a lot about people from what trash they leave behind. For instance: New Yorkers love Coca Cola and that calorie-less sludge you buy at Pinkberry. If I had the chance to examine trash from Tokyo or some other foreign place I was interested in, I’m pretty sure I would be excited to do so. Provided, of course, it was inside a shiny, helpfully labeled, smell-proof cube. What is it they say? One man’s trash is another man’s nifty desk ornament. (Via Laughing Squid) Related posts: Post from: Crushable  |
| Video Gallery: 8 Kids’ Movies Recut as Horror Films Posted: 01 Aug 2011 08:05 AM PDT Despite Dumbo being sold and produced as a movie for children, I was so terrified of that movie that it took years for me to able to look at elephants without freaking out. Turns out that other people agree with me about the potential fear factor of kids’ movies, and plenty of YouTubers have recut trailers for movies like Mary Poppins and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory to play up the eerie elements, adding some scary music for effect. Here are a few of my favorites. Mary Poppins The Lion King Related posts: Post from: Crushable  |
We’ve all heard the story. A cute couple moves in together. They settle in quickly, have a lovely house-warming party, and start riding their tandem bike to work every single morning. All seems well for the first two months. Then, suddenly, they’re sleeping in separate beds, fighting over who the cat loves more and counting down the seconds till their lease expires.
One thing that can be hard about living with roommates is that change is inevitable. People change, jobs change, friendships change, and anything is possible when you're young and sharing a home with other young people. Those are arguably the days and years you change the most, which can be great in terms of growth and independence but not so great in terms of how it can impact your household.
It took a few weeks, but Sunday night's episode of True Blood finally delivered full-on naked forest sex. And as with all of the series' vampire-on-human action, it was equal parts ridiculous and erotic. Of course, this is True Blood—and we're in the middle of what I will boldly call the worst season yet—so there was plenty of bullshit to wade through before Sookie and Eric got down with their bad selves.
| You are subscribed to email updates from Crushable To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
| Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610 | |
No comments:
Post a Comment