Month: January 2010

  • 5 Trends that Should NOT Come Back

    1) Headbands! No, not the ones that go OVER your head, the ones that come around. I know it’s supposed to be that “hippie look” but it’s not working for me.

  • The Cold War Of The Community Cliques

    It is a natural instinct to surround yourself with like-minded people, who can agree with you and make you feel good about the decisions you’ve made in life. This is called a clique and we see it all the way from high school to the day we die. The only time we don’t usually see cliques is with young children. Children have the most amazing sense of acceptance and tolerance. Children from all walks of life, can come together and talk and laugh, and be best friends within minutes. Call it ignorance, call it naivety, but children should be an example to the world. Unfortunately we haven’t learned our lesson.

  • 10 Things That Need to be Put to Death in 2010

    It may be cold of me to say this, but try to be objective here. There is no reason to tread lighty here. It’s best to be blunt and to the point. In the words of Sam Jackson, “YES THEY DESERVE TO DIE, AND I HOPE THEY BURN IN HELL!”

    10 Things That Need to be Put to Death in 2010

  • I Game, Therefore I Sweat

    If most people were asked, “Can you sweat from playing video games?” the response would probably be, “Maybe, if you play a Wii.” And yes, in a sense, they’d be right. The Wii definitely has the potential to make you sweaty, especially if you’re doing some Wii Sports boxing. I’m perspiring just thinking about it!

    Flailing with the Nunchuk aside, there are those gamers who sweat with a regular console controller in their hands. Such as myself. 

  • Carpe Die(m)?

    Growing up, I was (mostly) the kid that every parent wanted:

    -involved in school activities/sports/clubs: check
    -do (fairly) well in school: check
    -don’t get involved with drugs: check
    -don’t smoke: check
    -practice piano at least 2 hours a day (I’m a korean girl): check
    -keep out of any trouble (for the most part): check

    HOWEVER. Lately I’ve been feeling like I’m running out of time. Let me backtrack. So while I was in a car, I looked over to my right and saw an elderly gentleman driving a Honda S2000 with the top down. The air was breezing through his hairless head. And yes, he was wearing a leather jacket with Ray Bans (you know the one that everyone is wearing) and I couldn’t help but realize how sad that looked. And then I started realizing that there were many things that I wanted to do but couldn’t anymore because I was getting “too old” for it.

    For example, I’ve always wanted a belly button ring while I was growing up. I think it was mainly because of Britney Spears…but I never got it for two main reasons:

  • Six-word memoirs by Xangans: can you describe your life in six words?

    In November 2006, Smith Magazine challenged readers to write their memoirs in six words–no more, no less.Their editors printed one thousand of the submissions in a book: “Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure.” Here is a sampling of six-word memoirs from the book to provide inspiration.

    Some writers tell their stories with humor and self-deprecation:

    >> Woman Seeks Men–High Pain Threshold.
    >> My first concert: Zappa. Explains everything.
    >> Aging late bloomer yearns for do-over.

    As you would expect, there are many bitter or bittersweet references to relationships gone bad:

  • I Love “As Seen on TV” Products!

    Ok, I admit it- I’m totally a sucker for infomercial products. Or as the late, great Billy Mays would call them, products marketed in direct-response TV ads. Even before becoming addicted to Pitchmen, I had been a sucker for products marketed in paid programming. I remember watching infomercials until 5 am with my friends in college- we were so convinced that a tiny little blender where you blended right in the mug (that came with color coded rings to cover the threads!) was absolutely essential to any kitchen. 

    I’ve bought a lot of these products, and have only really been disappointed by one (I’m looking at you Shamwow).  My heels are softer now, my bra straps don’t show when I wear a racerback tank, and I sit on the couch and work on knitting my scarf without being cold thanks to my Snuggie (I really do knit with my Snuggie on). And now, I don’t have a really terrible draft coming in off my balcony door anymore since I got a Twin Draft Guard.

  • The Loss of Innocence

    When did you lose your innocence? Was it because you were a certain age, or was it a situation that caused it? Had you a clue to what was real or was the fantasy woven around you so ingrained that you didn’t know the reality would be so different?

  • Bigotry…Hate.and MLK

    You would think that we would have moved somewhere from 1963 when  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said these words…

    “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”

    We claim that we are a sophisticated society where racial driven altitudes form a small portion of the population. Why are we kidding ourselves?

  • 10 Reasons Why Women Rock

    1. It’s Biblical. Adam got sad and lonely and so God made him a partner, enter WOMAN!! She completed man and brought forth children onto the earth, which brings me to my next point…

    2. Not a SINGLE ONE OF US would be here if it weren’t for a woman. You don’t even really need to have a man present to have a kid anymore. Science has given us the ability to replace that part of the equation, but they have yet to replace the best damned incubator on the face of the planet… us.