Television, the movie industry, and the fashion corps tells us that Kate Moss's skin-and-bones look is beautiful. They make Cindy Crawford and Naomi Campbell, Halle Berry, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sandra Bullock, Julia Roberts, Ally McBeal the entire cast of Friends and Beverly Hills 90210 the standard of beauty. We look at them, and the message that comes through loud and clear is that we need to be thinner, yet bigger-breasted, that we need to flatten our stomaches, lighten our skin, and fill our lips with collagen. We need shorter/longer hair and less of this and more of that. These women are beautiful, but they shouldn't be anyone's standard.
You are the only standard you need. You shouldn't want to look like anybody but you. God made you. And as my mother always told me, "God don't make junk."
"I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporarily out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs."
I never even heard about this awful, awful crime until this afternoon.
I can't comment on it, I'm too disgusted right now. Here are some links to those who can (including news articles):
http://www.somethingwithin.com/blog/?p=132
http://thecurvature.com/2008/03/24/al-sharpton-and-the-naacp-support-dunbar-village-rapists/
http://dunbarvillage.blogspot.com/
http://whataboutourdaughters.blogspot.com/2007/08/dunbar-villiage-raze-it-to-ground-and.html
http://www.wptv.com/mostpopular/story.aspx?content_id=d38eaab5-d429-4f9c-95b0-5410a41ed4c2
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/sayitloud/weathersbee319
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/local_news/special_reports/dunbar_village/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar_Village_Housing_Projects
Notes on the 2008 Academy Awards:
- I swear Johnny Depp wears the same suit every time he attends the Oscars. He has the same hairstyle/goatee/glasses too.
- Colin Farrell AND Daniel Day-Lewis both wore earrings. Earrings as in one in each ear, for a total of four earrings and four ears. You boys who wear one earring in only one ear can go suck it.
- Harrison Ford looks so old.
- Did Diablo Cody ask, "What is going on?" when she went up on stage? Because I was wondering that as well. Diablo Cody wins an Oscar for writing insipid dialogue and far, far worse than that, she has the gall to win it in a shit stain of a dress. She must think she's still working at the strip joint. This the Academy Awards, Cody; wear something that you didn't buy from an online lingerie store.
OMG, I really am a total bitch.
- But! Credit must go where it's due. Jon Stewart looked a ton more comfortable on the stage performing hosting duties than last year and was therefore way funnier. Yay, Jon! And yay, Steve Carell!
At the time, I heard rumors that MC's album was to be entitled That Chick (it ended up being a track title), which I thought was a very un-Mariahish title. A Mariah Carey studio album almost always has a single word for a title, and it must be a noun with overwhelmingly feminine connotations, e.g. Glitter and Emotions. Even Charmbracelet, normally two words, is oddly conflated into one. An exception to the one-word rule is Music Box, though, as with the previous examples, it adequately meets the girly quotient. The other exception is if the album includes her name in some way, e.g. her eponymous debut and The Emancipation of Mimi. Mariah Carey cannot be contained in one word. Mariah Carey cannot be properly expressed in a thousand words, but Mariah Carey doesn't know a thousand words, so she'll settle for two or four. "But, Leslie, what about her holiday album, Merry Christmas? That one breaks both rules!" True! For you see, the only thing as important as Mariah Carey herself is our Lord and Savior, who, strangely enough, is not Mariah Carey.
E=MC2, however, is the first formula to make it as a Mariah Carey title. Congratulations on breaking the rules! I'm looking forward to a release that also includes a track called "Lovin' You Long Time." Neat!
I read Beowulf some years ago (Seamy's [that's right, I call Seamus Heaney "Seamy"] and another translation whose author I don't remember) and though it's not one of my favorite epic poems (I'm not big on poetry, let alone epic ones), the toxic reviews for Robert Zemeckis' new film adaptation make me want to see it if only to witness the non-nude nude fight scenes. I love the Penguin Blog's review because it expresses exactly how I feel about film adaptations and reinterpretations:
Stories aren't set in stone. They were told orally in the first days and at present we put them on paper or up on screens. They are retold and they are adapted. They evolve. That is how they survive.
Yesh.
"... we are all killers, on land and on sea..."
Then again, it began thin and stale. "A - Asskicking" could have kicked ass harder if it focused a bit more on kicking actual ass and not on non-assential parts such as the nuts or the vulva. Maybe I'm just too literal, but headbutting a woman in her womany area isn't that painful anyway. Do it the right way and it's kind of pleasant.
Good stuff.
