I find myself getting increasingly annoyed by the It Gets Better project. It is completely tragic that three young people killed themselves. I don’t think it is any MORE tragic because they are gay. I think it’s always tragic when a young person dies and it’s always sad when someone commits suicide.

I forget who tweeted this now so I can't credit ( Read more... )

So we’ll ruin the bank
And we’ll cripple the courts
And we’ll take on the world
For America’s sake
We’ll take all the land
And we’ll take back the country
We’ll take and we’ll take
And we’ll take and we’ll take
-“The Saddest Song,” Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson

I’ve been working on this entry for a while, but today seemed like a good day to finish it, it ( Read more... )

"They just like him because he's hot." This is a sentence I've uttered before, probably many times, with disdain. I loathe superficiality. It goes against my strict moral code. While I'm open about my own boy craziness, I also pride myself on (a) not letting lust or infatuation cloud my judgment, (b) using ten-dollar words to make people believe I ( Read more... )

Everybody loves a bad boy. It has something to do with danger and adrenaline, or being drawn to the dark side. Chuck Bass became instantly iconic as a bad boy of the new millennium. There is no question that Chuck is BAD. We were first introduced to him as being some sort of serial rapist. Yet Chuck had friends who accepted him even though Chuck’s ( Read more... )

Lately I’ve been questioning a lot of things we just naturally accept.  I read this book Ishmael a little while ago and it really blew my mind. I hope this doesn’t come off too cultish. I say it changed my mind but it didn’t brain-wash me. I truly view everything with a critical eye and a healthy sense of skepticism. Just because something is ( Read more... )

Man, John Mayer is a perfect post-modern celebrity. He plays guitar like a dervish, he writes sensitive songs, he sleeps with fans, he sleeps with other celebrities, he says things that are funny, he says things that are offensive. In trying to please everyone, trying to appeal to every quadrant, he has alienated everyone. Everything you could ever ( Read more... )

Disclaimer: I know how annoying it is that I cannot stop talking or writing about this subject. If it bothers you, I'm actually sorry and I would like you to know that I am really trying to stop. The good news is that American Idol starts again in a little over a month and I will have a whole slew of new people to obsess over!

I read this great ( Read more... )

Robert Downey Jr. is on the cover of Esquire so I bit the bullet and bought it even though I am supposed to be quitting magazines. He is sitting on top of some curious box, part of some kind of "Augmented Reality" thing that Esquire is launching which is sort of like making a 3-D magazine. Or a 4-D magazine? Like the magazine turns into a video if ( Read more... )

Everybody loves a villain. They're dark and complicated and infinitely more interesting than heroes. Villains are plentiful on TV. And even more plentiful are antiheroes: heroes and villains in one, they're protagonists who get to behave badly. In other words, they're real people: bad boys and girls who still force the plot. We can have our cake ( Read more... )

It's so weird to be alive right now. This is the first really HUGE pop culture death in my lifetime. Yes, I was alive when Kurt Cobain died, but I was nine years old. I am fairly confident that I had no idea who Kurt Cobain was and I don't remember a thing about his death. I'm not going to pretend like I do. And even if I did, this is bigger than ( Read more... )