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Okay, I'll admit, this blog doesn't have much to do with Star Wars or muffins. It's mostly to do with a college student with some time to kill putting her ramblings and observations on the internet. Plus my roommates need a break from hearing me complain about sexist commercials and reality tv shows. A little bit of both, really.
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Project Runway = DramaWell Sweet P finally got eliminated tonight, on the last episode before the Bryant Park finale. She skated by for so long, if she had gotten to the finals I would've seriously doubted the taste levels of the judges, to borrow their phrase. As soon as I saw the final designs I was trying to decide whether it would be Jillian, Christian, and Rami, or Jillian, Christian, and Chris. I was pulling for Rami. His design was pretty predictable and underwhelming, but Chris? Really? His design was nice for a retread of the Avant Garde challenge, but even so, he had already been auf'd and was there but for the grace of Jack's illness. Plus, Rami is so handsome. I like to see him standing. Just.. standing. Unsurprisingly they kept both Rami and Chris, but gave them another hoop to jump through. I'm pretty confident that Rami will win the mini-challenge and beat Chris to Bryant Park. He's always saying he's "passionate about draping," but I hope that he doesn't think that "We are transported to Ancient Greece where thread has not been invented!" is an acceptable theme for a collection. 22:57 0 comments
Why I love Spain, part 58,284,927Broadsheet over at Salon has a nice little story about attempts to standardize women's clothing sizes in Spain, so that more diverse and natural body types will have an easier time finding clothes that fit nicely. I've long wondered why women aren't afforded the courtesy of height-width measurements instead of meaningless numbers while shopping for pants. This study proposes bust, waist, and hip measurements for tops as well. On top of that, the article says that several retailers have agreed to only use mannequins in size 38 (eight to us) or up. Wow, now that is real progress. It reminds me of how much more I liked shopping for shoes in Spain: here, the display shoe is always a ridiculously small five or six, but in Spain display shoes were almost always my size (European 38, American 7-7.5). I loved this because then I didn't have to work up my courage to ask a snotty Sevillana for help finding my size. The one thing I'm concerned about, though, is the sheer amount of different sizes that would be necessary if they go to a bust-waist-hips measurement system. I feel like if this happened in America, they would compensate for the ridiculous array of exacting sizes by only stocking the smallest ones. Either way, I'm interested to see how this will work out. 16:14 1 comments
Oh Sweet, Sweet IronyWatching this commercial for Carson Kressley's new show on Lifetime, "How to Look Good Naked," I thought that the show seems like a good idea. Clearly the show has a message of loving ourselves for who we are, and learning to appreciate and work with what we have been given: It seems that this show is being sponsored by a company called "Weight Loss Surgical Center." It would be humorous enough if the two commercials had simply be shown adjacently, but a show about loving your body being sponsored by a company selling gastric bypasses? And their motto: "Less of you, more of life!" 15:12 0 comments
John Locke LIVESI'm all caught up on Lost, so I'm really excited for the season premiere tomorrow. I can't decide whether I prefer Lost or Heroes. The second season of Heroes was pretty weak. The third season of Lost sucked at first, but I thought it got really good at the end. Time will tell on the fourth season, but based on this trailer.. ... it's gonna rule. After Lost is finished, they should make a multi-volume video game out of the show. I would totally play it. I've basically planned it all out in my head and trust me, it is awesome. 20:58 0 comments
It works so good!There's a commercial on right now for Nutrisystem in which a woman proclaims proudly, "It works so good!" And I know that I can be way more nit-picky than most, but come on, no one working on that commercial thought that sounded a little off? I was watching the commercial with my roommate and I said that it seems to me that the message is meant to be, "Who cares if I'm dumb, at least I'm not fat anymore!" Peter seemed to think I was overreacting slightly. He's probably right, but that doesn't make me not hate stupid grammar mistakes. Also, apparently this website is on stumbleupon now. So if you stumble upon it, enjoy. And support my sponsors. 10:36 0 comments
Reality TV, post 2I was sort of grossed out when I heard that there is actually a channel called Fox Reality now. I was especially grossed out when I saw this clip from one of their new original shows, "Battle of the Bods." In the show, groups of women and men pose in behind two-way mirrors while judges of the opposite sex rate their hotness and ranks them from 1-5. Seriously? Is this where we're at now? The objectified stand to win some money, but still. This goes beyond the realm of mindless entertainment and goes to the side of offensive. And disgusting. And a caustic reinforcement of our society's unrealistic and unnatural idea of beauty. I think I'm going to need to swear off reality TV altogether. Except for the Amazing Race, cause that show is awesome, and hippies always win. 16:09 2 comments
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