Joe Francis is the fellow behind Girls Gone Wild, and shock and awe, he's a dirty little pig. And that's not fair to pigs everywhere ( Read more... )

Surreal moment of the day: channel-surfing before work and stumbling onto an episode of Parental Control on MTV, and seeing your boyhood friend's sister in the role of the girl or boy who has to watch their SO go on dates selected by his/her parents ( Read more... )

If you watch VH1's The Surreal Life at all, you may have noticed the last couple episodes took place in a newsroom ( Read more... )

I swear I just heard Bill Walton compare Suns forward/center Boris Diaw to Beethoven ushering in the Romantic Era with his Symphony in E flat during the Lakers-Suns game on ESPN.

I shit you not.

In other things sports-related, there's a lot of talk about the Duke lacrosse team and the rape accusations. I'd have to agree with this Slate piece -- I ( Read more... )

"Feminism failed me and my successful friends, otherwise we'd all be married by now."This essay is fucked from the get-go because Dowd somehow decided that citing Louise Story's NYT piece on a supposed trend of Ivy League women choosing motherhood over careers was a good thing, despite the fact that Story's article was so badly research and written ( Read more... )

I think this illustrates the reality that there isn't enough diversity of race, class or culture in most newsrooms nowadays better than anything I can think of:

During the 11pm sports segment, our sports guy read a story on the NBA's new dress code. When he came back on camera, he was wearing a baseball cap sideways, sunglasses, and a necklace of ( Read more... )

Ever since I wrote a paper on the adult entertainment industry for a sociology course on Human Sexuality that I took in my sophomore year at Grinnell, I've tried to avoid using the term "pornography" as a blanket for the whole of adult movies, because it's an automatic pejorative.

So, I previously posted about the government's renewed Porn War, ( Read more... )

Seriously, if the New York City public school system is going to take cues for elementary and middle-school respect programs from Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary fame, then Cartman's famous declaration ("It's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippie crap!") has become a reality. The program is called "Don't Laugh at Me," or DLAM for short.

On to ( Read more... )

How nice of them to rip off Ian MacKaye, Minor Threat, and Dischord for an ad campaign.

1) The Gang of Four revival is an interesting thing. None of the bands that clearly owe their musical lives to Entertainment! do anything remotely political lyrically. What's particularly irritating is how the most interesting aspects of post-punk guitar (specifically the styles of GoF's Andy Gill and Public Image, Ltd.'s Keith Levene) don't seem ( Read more... )