Archive for April, 2007
Words are sexy
30 April 2007So this year Houghton Mifflin created — and trademarked — the Define-a-Thon, which is modeled after a spelling bee but instead asks contestants to match words to definitions (and gives them a helpful list of words to choose from). The publisher has dispatched Steve Kleinedler, supervising editor at American Heritage, to hold events across the [...]
‘Drunken Pirate’ sues school
30 April 2007 A woman denied a teaching degree on the eve of graduation because of a MySpace photo has sued the university.
Millersville University instead granted Stacy Snyder a degree in English last year after learning of her Web-published picture, which bore the caption “Drunken Pirate.”
reading is sexy
27 April 2007(via Whitney!)
Since U Been Gone
27 April 2007Kelly Clarkson tickets go on sale May 12.
AAAHHHHHH!!!!!! Ohmygod ohmygod!!!!
This week in pirates
26 April 2007Pirate swimwear!
(via, and Editor Jodi)
Dan plays God
25 April 2007Who shall live and who shall die before their season finale.
paying for your friends
25 April 2007Hi Guys! I totally have issues.
Actually, are they still issues if you acknowledge that, while totally weird, they make you happy and aren’t hurting any puppies or unicorns and are therefore okay? Or how about if you know exactly how they started and the chain of events that got you to where you are today, [...]
linkage
24 April 2007Kids books go to the movies:
Channeling Sara for a moment if I may: OMG OMG Harry Potter & The Order of the Phoneix trailer! Goosebumps.
America Ferrera is being “forced” to negotiate for a second Traveling Pants movie. Is it wrong that my first thought wasn’t “that’s so sad, she should get to do whatever [...]
I had no idea I was so typical to my age group
23 April 2007The Most Trusted 15 brands named by the trendsetters in the survey (age 21-27)were:
Apple
Trader Joe’s
Jet Blue
In-N-Out Burger
Ben & Jerry’s
Whole Foods
Adidas
American Apparel
Target
H & M clothing stores
Levi’s
Volkswagen
Converse
Vitamin Water
Red Stripe Jamaican beer
seriously, it’s time that I learned how to properly punctuate things
23 April 2007Tifaux post on Reality TV:
I’m starting to think that all of the decisions over at the House That Queer Eye Built are based on how many puns they can squeeze out of the show’s theme {Lather, Rinse, Compete! This is your final cut!}, which is a mildly satisfactory reason for casting a hairdresser who refers [...]