March 2010
4 posts
Another week, another affair
The stories published in tabloid magazines are basically always the same, usually involving the same extended cast of characters. When an unexpected celebrity or “celebrity” is thrown into the mix it is usually because they are unexpectedly in the limelight- i.e. Tiger Woods’ 2am Thanksgiving car crash make people realize that he is not just some sort of golf robot. Also, it...
NYT on John Mayer's Playboy Interview and, uh, his... →
February 2010
13 posts
Right after I posted that I saw this: "Paparazzi... →
Another folk legend turned celebrity
Oh this is a little bit sad.
In the summer of 2006 I had this great idea to go to LA for no reason at all. It may sound like no big deal, but at the time I was still living in Prague and had only experienced New York and Florida in the US. I had spent the last year living (=wasting time) studying abroad in the UK in order to be closer to my boyfriend so when we broke up in the spring I put...
"Shit My Dad Says"- I could probably make an... →
Calvin Klein Front Row
This afternoon I was fortunate enough to have a front row seat at the Calvin Klein show, actually right next to the door the celebrities came through to make their entrance. Funnily enough of the few who were there I had already interacted with two of them: I met Kate Bosworth at Le Deux when I was living out in LA and Kerry Washington at a press junket when I was interning for Entertainment...
Semi-retired supermodels are still awesome
Last night I attended a Maybelline event at the Crosby Hotel where Christy Turlington premiered a teaser for her documentary No Woman, No Cry, which brings attention to maternal health and mortality. This is actually a topic that doesn’t receive too much attention in the United States so it’s great to see her channeling her celebrity into a good cause- especially the fact that she took...
Marc Jacobs' Celebrity-Free Front Row →
Kardashians for Bebe
This morning I braved the snow to attend the Kardashian for Bebe fashion show. I was actually kind of excited given that my work out was made ten times more entertaining (and longer) yesterday by a 2-hour Keeping Up With the Kardashians special, chronicling the three weeks (okay, 2 1/2 weeks) between Khloe K. and Lamar Odom meeting each other and getting married. As a side note, this was...
Valentines Day (the movie)
From the I read about Valentines Day (or saw photos of Ashton Kutcher filming in a pink shirt at LAX), I had an inkling this movie was going to suck. When I saw the trailer my inkling was confirmed: not only would this movie suck, but I would undoubtedly see it ias some sort of act of self-flagellation (that horrificly catchy Black Eyed Peas song didn’t help either). So despite all the...
I'm done procrastinating, now
After a pro-longed procrastination I have decided to stop being lazy (let’s be honest, stop downloading an episode of The Sopranos a day) and start posting again, what with Fashion Week underway and everything. I am aware that I’ve already missed the opportunity to comment on Franken-Heidi’s new face and much of the Jersey Shore hysteria, but I am sure there is much more headline...
January 2010
1 post
Not everything is bigger & better in the USA
Night-time snack at Gray’s Papaya, NYC
Night-time snack at random snack stand, Prague
With the exception of the size of their sausages, however, after ten days Prague is already starting to feel a bit small.
December 2009
16 posts
Of course some other entertainment-related scandal would soon drive us away from Tiger Woods… Just a shame that it had to be a death. Since the reason for Brittany Murphy’s cardiac arrest is unknown, the media will get to cover this story up at least until the toxicology reports are done in a few weeks. Until then, we’re going to be bombarded with what celebrities are tweeting...
Bye Thesis Proposal, see you next year!
For the last 10 days I have living my thesis proposal and review of literature. I have brought in everyone from Roland Barthes to Clifford Geertz to my analysis of the self-representations of Britney Spears (yes, somehow Geertz’s article about Balinese cockfights fits into this). I am actually quite proud of the finished product, what with all my fancy “see figure 1“‘s and...
The other new Herzog film
I wish I had more time to write about this, but I should at least sneak in a few sentences in between annotations for my thesis proposal. On Friday night we went to see Herzog’s new film My Son, My Son What Have Ye Done and the director was there in person to introduce it. Yes, that is a “big deal” and it was the first time in my life that a old German man made me feel as giddy...
Thank you, BBC
For the last week Tiger Woods and his bevy of mistresses have been giving the true kings of cyberspace- porn and cute animals- a run for their money. Here is a link to a video devoted to the latter: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8409188.stm?ls
Thank you, BBC, for returning to what matters. It is sad, though, that even albino hedgehogs are being pressured to lose weight, during the holiday...
"Branding" at Men's Health
So today the EIC of Men’s Health is claiming that the cover lines debacle is an “intentional” part of a “branding strategy.” Umm, what? Branding yourselves as careless dummies? I’m not a man, but I think I can speak for the opposite gender when I say that I don’t want to read recycled stories from October 2007. I don’t know if the stories are...
Just got back from a taping of the Daily Show, which, in it’s 30 minute or so entirety was a lot of fun. Then entire ordeal itself, however, was slightly uncomfortable and anxiety inducing. As I’ve learned over the last few weeks, in the US, if you have tickets for something it does not in anyway guarantee your entrance. For example, the day after Thanksgiving Conall and I bought...
Dear Thesis Proposal: I hate you
Things I do to procrastinate:
Take photos of the Christmas decorations on my stairwell (i.e. Santa making the peace sign)
Wonder if taking a picture of yourself using Photo Booth invariably makes you look like a slut (yes).
Look at photos of things that make me laugh out loud alone in my apartment.
Internally debate whether I’m really related to this man…
Read about the...
Tiger Woods' media reign continues
Last night I went out with my friend for his 34th birthday (I’m writing his age under the assumption that people over thirty have their priorities in order and have accumulated a significantly larger amount of wisdom than me in their extra 6+ years on earth). This is a friend who also claimed to never have heard of Timbaland the summer that Shock Value everywhere. My friend is a DJ who...
Ninjas: 1 Doomsday: 0
$12.50 is an awful lot to pay for a movie ticket, especially when I’m an honest patron and buy my ridiculously priced soda at the concessions stand and not at the Duane Reade across the street. That’s part of the reason that Conall and I decided to make it a double feature last night with 2012 and Ninja Assassin.
I’m sorry, but if I had known what I know now, you...
Apparently Tiger Woods is the most famous athlete...
Which is why, I suppose, there is this hyper-interest surrounding his little car crash over the weekend. Funnily enough, while standing in line at Walmart at 5am Friday morning we skimmed through a National Enquirer where I remember noticing some blurb about an Ashley Dupree lookalike having an illicit affair with the athlete. It stands out because I thought, “Wow. The National Enquirer must...
November 2009
3 posts
WatchProof that Twilight fans are crazier than Black Friday shoppers
As a sort of warm-up to the Black Friday expedition, I somehow managed to convince Jane that we should go see New Moon opening weekend- in Times Square. That turned out to be some real insanity that could have easily resulted in someone being trampled to death. Unfortunately I only had my little digital camera to record the scene...
WatchAfter the mess that the media reported last year, we decided to check out Black Friday for ourselves…At Walmart. What we found was a shopping experience like we had never seen before and would prefer to never see again.
Giving Thanks
This Thursday marked my first time celebrating Thanksgiving in America- at least in a traditional sense. Last year I volunteered at the Bowery and spent the rest of the night hiding from a mouse in my apartment and the year before that I ate deep fried Turkey at a friend’s place in Arizona before attending my (also first-ever) football game. Yesterday Conall and I took the bus to...