tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-117364312009-12-18T12:08:28.545-05:00Professional people-watching as a respectable career goalkatie bnoreply@blogger.comBlogger548125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11736431.post-5231228713378248932007-02-04T10:42:00.000-05:002007-02-04T10:46:32.693-05:00

Sometimes these things write themselves. I'm going to let this one do just that. Using lavender and tea tree oil products can cause young boys to develop breast tissue, a study finds. Gynaecomastia is rare, and there is often no obvious cause. But US specialists report in the New England Journal of Medicine that three boys developed the condition after using the oils.I just lost my urge

TotesFawkwardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11736431.post-1179079447285774252007-02-02T18:52:00.000-05:002007-02-02T18:53:05.167-05:00

Woah, Microsoft, simmer down! According to the Associated Press, the computer company has begun hiring people to edit Wikipedia articles. As in that's their only job: sit in an office and make sure that Microsoft looks good on Wikipedia. Great work, guys.I guess this has become ever important as people realize that their software sucks, but my poor Wikipedia! You're supposed to be for the people

TotesFawkwardnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11736431.post-10848927958377310772007-02-02T13:23:00.000-05:002007-02-02T13:26:13.114-05:00

So I just received this email from American Apparel. Apparently they trademarked "pantytime".Honestly, I'm surprised it hasn't been done.Boxer-briefytime,Justin

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They (and by "they" I mean, of course, the media elite) always complain about how January is a movie graveyard. All the good movies have come out in December in time for Oscar consideration, we're a long few months from summer blockbusters, and anyone who isn't bothering to catch up with all the Oscar nominees will probably see anything that costs 12 bucks and is on a big screen. Or at least, so

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Before we begin looking at the full list of nominees this year, let's take a look at the track record of one Mr. Martin Scorsese.Yes, the eyebrows are real, and they're fabulous.1980: Nominated for Best Director for Raging Bull. Loses to pretty boy Robert Redford (Ordinary People), who, to be fair, looks great in pinstripes.Dysfunctional Chicago family > washed-up boxer1988: Nominated for Best

Kateyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06602654660381174664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11736431.post-58159531202042640992007-01-23T21:31:00.000-05:002007-01-24T07:55:03.188-05:00

You know you've finally found the right job when your boss shows up at your desk with three sheets of paper and gleefully announces "Oscar nominations! And no Dreamgirls!" and you reply "Already seen it. What about Children of Men, huh?"So, yes. First of all let us all shed a single tear for our friends in Dreamgirls.Better luck... uh... never, ladies.As much as I legitimately enjoyed Dreamgirls,

Kateyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06602654660381174664noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11736431.post-65637152106154365732007-01-21T21:08:00.000-05:002007-01-21T21:38:42.015-05:00

I know this is getting into that iffy realm of "politics" rather than "totally relevant pop culture," but you may have noticed this weekend that Hillary is in! What does this have to do with pop culture, you ask?That's right-- the Clintons have the best connections in Hollywood this side of Heidi Fleiss. Not since Bruce Springsteen played at a rally for John Kerry have we seen the kind of

Kateyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06602654660381174664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11736431.post-8770986852310634282007-01-20T18:20:00.000-05:002007-01-20T18:26:35.305-05:00

What kind of world do we live in when the number one most shoplifted item is meat? No, seriously.Every supermarket detective—or "loss-prevention specialist," as many prefer to be called—has an offbeat meatlifting story to share. There's the one about the lady who seemingly defied the laws of physics by stuffing an entire HoneyBaked Ham in her purse, the man discovered with a trove of filet

TotesFawkwardnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11736431.post-29400138969822376242007-01-20T14:27:00.000-05:002007-01-20T14:17:56.846-05:00

And now for part two of the O'Reilly-Colbert mash-up: O'Reilly on The Report.I love the allusion to sexual devience. Score, Colbert! And don't forget to read the commentary on Slate.Time to loofah!Justin

TotesFawkwardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11736431.post-38183335807430477352007-01-20T11:15:00.000-05:002007-01-20T11:33:13.763-05:00

Look at this picture:Paris "Left Eye" HiltonNotice anything? SHE HAS A LAZY EYE! Better yet she apparently wasn't born this way. According to Celebitchy, her cray-cray left eye is the result of a screwed up eye lift. She's also wearing colored contacts for a role, which is not helping the sitch.See! Celebs: they're physically deformed just like us! Oh, and supposedly Paris hates Britney now?

TotesFawkwardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11736431.post-73126436163717157052007-01-19T12:05:00.000-05:002007-01-19T12:14:07.534-05:00

Boy howdy! You need to see this: Colbert on The Factor!! Talk about Awkies.I hope you caught the strange message at the end. I didn't make it! I swear!Why all the yelling?Justin

TotesFawkwardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11736431.post-66762804117323655402007-01-19T11:44:00.000-05:002007-01-19T12:02:36.936-05:00

Remember the iPhone? Well, people in Vermont do, and they're enraged by it. This is because after all the excitement and hype surrounding the phone in the past few weeks, Green Mounties have realized that they can't have it. Not a single one.Hands off, VermontThe reason being that Cingular (the exclusive carrier of Apple's yet to be released cell-wonder) doesn't operate a single cell tower in the

TotesFawkwardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11736431.post-26702378244147676692007-01-18T14:30:00.000-05:002007-01-18T14:45:32.297-05:00

I should have posted this earlier, but whatever. Last week, a woman died trying to win a Nintendo Wii from a radio station. The morning show on Sacramento's KDND FM held a contest titled Hold Your Wee For A Wii. Clever. Cute. Until someone died!!!! The game went something like this: players drank eight ounces of water every fifteen minutes for 90 minutes. After the 90 minutes were up, players

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Hott damn! This is so horrible that it's actually hilarious. The other day a 17 year-old in Singapore was sentenced to 18 months of probation, which includes an internet ban, for stealing WiFi. No joke! Apparently Singapore recently enacted (and is enforcing!) a Computer Misuse Act.Hope you're not in SingaporeThank goodness I live in America, a country where we're free to steal anyone who's too

TotesFawkwardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11736431.post-13922810019986488112007-01-17T20:55:00.000-05:002007-01-17T22:18:15.340-05:00

Sorry for the delay. I slipped into a coma following the Golden Globes, which, to be fair, was the best sleep I've gotten in weeks.I've always been kinda obnoxiously proud of being able to predict awards winners, even when I'm waaaaay off (see Brokeback, my dark-horse hopes for In the Bedroom a few years back). But when I'm pretty sure about who's going to win Best Actor in a miniseries, when

Kateyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06602654660381174664noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11736431.post-13831313387749712632007-01-17T17:45:00.000-05:002007-01-17T17:59:09.966-05:00

I swear, Brangelina try the hardest of any Hollywood couple. Perhaps too hard? After adopting the entire cast of One World, the couple is moving the troops down South....to New Orleans? But it's sinking, you say! Will it support the weight of Angelina's lips? We'll soon find out.Kidz, we're moving to N'w Orlenz!Because they just bought a $3.5 million mansion in the French Quarter. PARTAAAAY!!!!

TotesFawkwardnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11736431.post-39955320986301699032007-01-17T15:29:00.000-05:002007-01-17T15:50:17.106-05:00

For some consistency, I've decided to make my tunes portion a special "hump day" treat. So get your humpty-hump on to these lovely tunes while you're shaking your humps. Hump.KELE LE ROC f/ MISTA MILL- My LoveDid J. Timberlake steal his chorus from this UK singer? Did Timbaland steal his beat from some random Finnish guy? Finnish him! (read more)BEDTIME FOR TOYS- Say BOOMIf you don't like

JJS IIInoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11736431.post-61241385990304824422007-01-17T09:04:00.000-05:002007-01-17T09:04:39.777-05:00

I don't understand how Tara Reid still has a career. Oh, wait her brother's a director. Anyway, she's set to star in an upcoming "indie" (their word, not mine) romantic comedy titled Honestly. Here's the synopsis:Reid will play a hard-boiled private eye who works as a temptress to test the fidelity of philandering husbands. Then she meets her ultimate job challenge: Instead of entrapping her

TotesFawkwardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11736431.post-43368034492714202322007-01-16T22:56:00.000-05:002007-01-16T22:56:58.462-05:00

This could be interesting: Kanye is going to remix a track from the upcoming Fall Out Boy album, Infinity On High. Oh, but here's the kicker: in a I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine move, Fall Out Boy will then remix one of Kanye's tracks. Best budsThe band already has a track with Jay-Z on their upcoming album (in stores 5 February), so either they've got jungle fever or they're

TotesFawkwardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11736431.post-71560187022195161792007-01-16T19:19:00.000-05:002007-01-16T19:19:52.143-05:00

Let's have fun with GoogleMaps, shall we? While perusing GoogleMaps Mania, my favorite (and the only?) GoogleMaps blog, I came across some of the greatest GoogleMaps hybrid sites. Here's a few:MappyHour : Find the closest happy hour in most major cities!Jargol : Once you're good and sauced, use Jargol to find the hippest indy boutique. Unfortch, there's no Atlanta option, but no bother. After

TotesFawkwardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11736431.post-34419709287491842382007-01-16T16:45:00.000-05:002007-01-16T16:45:53.691-05:00

The producers of he hit ABC drama "Lost" are looking to figure out how everything is going to wrap-up:"It's time for us now to find an end point for this show," Cuse explained. "It's always been discussed that the show would have a beginning, middle and end." He added that the finale of “Lost” would wipe any concerns among fans of the complex show that the mystery is actually as mysterious to

TotesFawkwardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11736431.post-75667726558611750242007-01-16T11:43:00.000-05:002007-01-16T11:55:52.244-05:00

In the future, Naomi Campbell will plead guilty to assault. Actually it's just already tomorrow in Australia, where that article is from. Blows your mind, don't it?! Times zones scare me. Anyway, she pleaded guilty to third degree assault (ie: throwing phones at assistants) and was fined a whopping $363.32. I don't know how one of the world's most [in]famous Super Models is going to pay such a

TotesFawkwardnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11736431.post-54564327478454239862007-01-15T19:17:00.000-05:002007-01-15T19:54:01.275-05:00

Well, this is awkward.I left you all months ago, on for bigger and better things in the big city. Here I am, in fact in the big city, but mostly being a lower-level editorial assistant at a no-name film magazine. No, honestly. You've never heard of it.But I'm here to talk to you about more important things, namely, the drunkest of all the big awards shows. That's right: it's finally time for the

Kateyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06602654660381174664noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11736431.post-26641217658147943582007-01-15T11:31:00.000-05:002007-01-15T11:51:56.330-05:00

The Olsen twins are at it again, this time fighting about fashion icons. "Fighting" is a strong word. They are in disagreement. While Mary-Kate is a big fan of Johnny Depp's "scruffy rock look" (the evolution of hobo chic?), Ashley looks to classical fashion muses such as Audrey Hepburn for inspiration. Who would you choose?I mean, Depp does have an interesting style, but as

TotesFawkwardnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11736431.post-35788360158246658632007-01-13T23:07:00.000-05:002007-01-13T23:23:19.031-05:00

Oh, no! Colbert gave Apple's iPhone the "dreaded double wag".Out of loveI know that I was hard all afternoon on Tuesday! We're you? Come on! I know that wasn't an iPhone in your pocket, and no one's ever that happy to see me. Nerd.Calling all angels,JustinPS: Current Verizon customers looking to jump ship for Cingular AT&T (Katey), fret not. Verizon is supposedly planning on increasing its test

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