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  • If We Were All Brought Up Like Football Players

    If We Were All Brought Up Like Football Players

    We all know by now that it’s football season. At least, if you live in my house you know that it’s football season, becuase of the ESPN, and the fantasy football, and this year, the ringtones. Which means that we (I) wind up watching a lot more football than we … More »

  • Should College Students Select Their Own Roomates?

    Should College Students Select Their Own Roomates?

    When I was in college, I had two experiences with computer-generated roommate selection. The first was my freshman year, and her name was Fran. Fran was neat and clean, and used Bath and BodyWorks raspberry lotion every day, and made me feel bad about the fact that I would never … More »

  • Gallery: Facebookers Say the Darndest Things

    Gallery: Facebookers Say the Darndest Things

    Facebook is a place where we can share our true feelings and thoughts with all our friends and family. We can update when we’re mad, when we’re sad, when we’re in love or when we’re in hate. Even though no one really cares how we feel, they still have to read about it on their news feeds. Unfortunately for some, they haven’t yet discovered the privacy settings and don’t realize they are sharing their innermost, eloquent thoughts with the entire world. Via Openbook, we have gathered some of the most beautifully said words in social networking. … More »

  • 5 More Reasons Your Cocktail Waitress Hates You

    5 More Reasons Your Cocktail Waitress Hates You

    Consumerist has found a reason your cocktail waitress hates you. Namely:
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  • 5 Ways To Get Invited To a Pool This Weekend

    5 Ways To Get Invited To a Pool This Weekend

    Wondering what you’re going to do this weekend? Craving some pool time, but not sure where you’ll go for it?
    Well, fret not! here are 5 ways to get your one friend with a pool to invite you over. They’ll never even know what hit them.

    Invite them over first. Anyone with … More »

  • Gallery: County Fair Foods As Exciting As Fried Beer

    Gallery: County Fair Foods As Exciting As Fried Beer

    Some mornings you say, “fuck you, oatmeal. Fuck you, egg white omelet Marie Claire and Glamour and Vogue said would be a “fun and healthy treat!” I am going to eat some fried beer and a cookie chicken sandwich. And I am going to smear some grease directly into my … More »

  • JWoww Has A Surprisingly Solid Life Plan

    JWoww Has A Surprisingly Solid Life Plan

    While the other girls on Jersey Shore are getting treated like shit by their boyfriends and tanning, JWoww appears to be trying to launch her newfound fame into an actual career. Her website, www.JWoww.com, is pretty good, she’s been interviewed by Rolling Stone and Maxim, and apparently, she’s trying to … More »

  • I'm Totally Getting Married At Target

    I'm Totally Getting Married At Target

    According to Consumerist, there’s a trend going ’round where couples get married at Walmart. Well – it might not be a “trend,” so much as something that one couple did. Whatever. If this is a thing, I’m totally doing it at Target!
    Think about it — you culd get everything you … More »

  • Poll: Would You (Or Did You) Let Your Partner Watch You Give Birth?

    Poll: Would You (Or Did You) Let Your Partner Watch You Give Birth?

    Over at Babble.com, there’s an article about whether or not dads should witness the birth of their kids — as in, watch them come out of their partner’s vagina. The writer begins by saying that she’s anti-her husband watching, but mostly because she has a concern that I imagine many … More »

  • Gallery: People Who Celebrate Their Birthday On 9/02/10

    Gallery: People Who Celebrate Their Birthday On 9/02/10

    Not only is today the sacred day when we pay homage to 90210, there are some lucky souls out there who know this day as “birthday.” Let’s celebrate some of those individuals.

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  • Video: Ryan Seacrest Was On '90210' One Time

    Video: Ryan Seacrest Was On '90210' One Time

    Shockingly, he played a game show host. Art imitating life, people.
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  • The Ladies in Your Box: Oh God, Angelina, Why?

    The Ladies in Your Box: Oh God, Angelina, Why?

    Welcome to The Ladies in Your Box, where we explore the meaning of women you see every day on TV. Today, we look at one of the stars of everyone’s favorite reality show…
    Let me start by saying this — I wouldn’t last a day in the Jersey Shore house. One … More »

  • Elin Nordegren, Divorce, and Single Motherhood

    Elin Nordegren, Divorce, and Single Motherhood

    It should be really easy to hate Elin Nordegren. She’s gorgeous, rich and not falling apart at all. I happen to like my celebrities to be of the trainwreck variety. We’ve been hearing for months that Nordegren went crazy when she found out about her husband’s whorish tendencies. I had great pictures in my head of an angry Barbie doll chasing her husband down the street with one of his beloved golf clubs. We all knew that she would get millions of dollars and settle down in a perfectly blissful life. That crazy lady with the nine iron – that was my kind of celebrity. But now, she’s calm and grieving, sharing her story with People magazine. I expected to flip through the interview, without really reading it, and say, “Poor, poor rich girl. It sucks to be you. Glad that’s over…”

    Except if you actually read Elin’s interview, she seems like a very difficult person to dislike. … More »

  • 5 Reasons Why 'Jersey Shore' Is the Best Thing On Television

    5 Reasons Why 'Jersey Shore' Is the Best Thing On Television

    I’m obsessed with Jersey Shore. I love bad TV, but Jersey Shore has gone from bad TV to extraordinary TV. I don’t know if the second season will be as good as the first, but here are a couple of reasons why this is my favorite show on TV right now.

    •It’s hilarious. Plain and simple. Angelina wearing a black dress and Pauly cracking jokes about how last year she lugged all her stuff in trash bags since she didn’t have suitcases? Brilliant. Pretty much everything out of Snooki’s mouth? Funny. The best part is that many of the funny lines are things they just say casually and don’t even laugh at. Last season, when Pauly was trying to break things off with an Israeli girl who couldn’t take a hint, he yelled “You stalked my entire life!” It wasn’t supposed to be a joke, and that made it even funnier. Even mundane scenes are entertaining – Pauly and JWoww had an entire conversation about sales tax, and I was riveted. I don’t even know if Mad Men could pull that off. … More »

  • Women's Self-Help Book Mad Libs

    Women's Self-Help Book Mad Libs

    Text by Lilit Marcus. Images by Ben Schwartz.

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