hotlyrics.net: only the finest artists allowed

internet ads that give me nightmares

firefox privacy: as fashionable as a masked ball

pendulum of cuteness; choose your own adventure

Reenactment in paraphrase: a Choose Your Own Adventure of my parents' subtle advice on me having children.

molly: Babies are so cute!
a--my mother: Puppies are also cute!
b--my father: Think of all the shopping you can do if you never have to spend money on children!

Truth: "Samoyed puppy" is currently my favorite Google image search. Looking forward to buying and raising one with all that future disposable income.

stop the madness: glamorizing drug use

After the 1:20 montage of a coke binge in hot tub and a monkey, Whitney Houston and LaToya Jackson make ironic appearances, David Hasselhoff speaks via a portrait frame, Hogwarts style (but only after the magic drug dealer returns to his closet dwelling, more like Sabrina, the Teenage Witch), Nancy Reagan lip synchs, and Arnold Schwarzenegger is a beaming garbage man with seemingly no affiliation with this cause, since he doesn't sing or dance or anything.

crewcuts looks vaguely mormon

I'm normally all for J.Crew and the precociously hot (too far?) young models for their crewcuts line, and I'm also for Mormans (kind of), but isn't this just weird? After my initial creep-out, I began to think of Chloë Sevigny's character on Big Love--the second of three sister wives, who came from a fundamentalist, cult compound and is the most stereotypical mormon within a contemporary polygamist family--from the braids to the cardigans. Even the way the hair is intertwined on little girls could be symbolic of sealing, in a bit of a stretched way. (I mean, I know I jumped the gun here on the whole Mormon theme, and that J.Crew is probably drawing more closely from quaint upper-middle class Swiss countryside children than the Church of Latter-Day Saints.)

I remember when Big Love first came out, and one article mentioned, "...but don't call [the characters] Mormon!" Which I think is silly. Yes, I understand that the Church of Latter-Day Saints does not condone polygamy, but I see it in the same light as Cafeteria Catholics being condemned from Roman Catholicism by some--they're still Catholic in core belief, just not up to all the rituals and standards of the Vatican. Although, I guess when fundamental polygamists get out of hand it kind of sucks to share a name with that image:

[fundamentalists, busted]

Here's a bonus picture of Christopher Walken I found when I was searching for FLDS braids:

looks more like ivory magazine to me

Really? This is the image of "one of the most well known Black American magazines in the United States" that is supposed to convince me to subscribe? The one in which Alicia Keys looks, well, whitewashed?



I just don't get it.

And here I thought we already had a consensus on too light delving into a little bit nutso territory.

[john singer sargent's career-crushing portrait of madame x; michael jackson]

Sidenote: what I would give to be tan right now, after all the grey summer skies lately...

(I guess the effort on the other end of the spectrum isn't much better.)

[g. hamilton & l. grubman]