a dapper (and sometimes disgruntled) take on popular culture
Posted in Entertainment, Music, Pop Culture, Random, San Francisco on Aug 24th, 2010
I like how you can add “-pocalypse” to anything and it becomes a revelatory Armageddon-like crisis. For example, remember when there were heaps of snow on the East Coast in February and they called it “Snowpocalypse”? That was kind of cool — but not as cool as the term, “douchepocalypse” which I think originated from [...]
Posted in Fashion, Pop Culture, Random, Style on Jun 14th, 2010
I don’t know if it’s just in the zeitgeist or if it is a glossy trend, but the crotch area of a female has been the it thing as of late. First there was the whole vajazzle thing; then there is that new jam “Woo-hoo” by Christina Aguilera with a rhyme spitting Nicki Minaj talking [...]
Posted in Culture, Pictures, Random, Traveling, Vacation on May 18th, 2010
It was a year ago to the day that I took a quaint little tour of Europe starting with Paris. Along with my travel buddies, Janet and Bertha, we explored Paris for four days.
Me at the Eiffel Tower
On this day in 2009, we already went to mass at Notre Dame, ate ice cream at [...]
Posted in Celebrities, Entertainment, News, Pop Culture, Random, Television, Video on May 3rd, 2010
Did everyone see the in-depth interview with Conan O’Brien on 60 Minutes on Sunday? If not, you can watch it on CBSNews.com.
But that’s beside the point.
The most important thing that came from that segment was the shot of Conan and friends in a room that had black Ikea area rugs marked with little squiggly [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Pop Culture, Random, Video on Apr 5th, 2010
The First Blog O’ the Morning is courtesy of Bertha via my Facebook feed.
This young gentleman’s speech was so clever, insightful and humorous that if I were guaranteed a speech like this after my completion of higher education, I would do it all over again.
OK. Not really – but it is a pretty damn good [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Music, Pictures, Random on Mar 25th, 2010
Spotted at Dizzy Rooster on 6th Street during SXSW. It’s quite a vision, right? It’s like low budget production of Coyote Ugly.
I wonder if they have daddy issues.
Posted in Pop Culture, Random on Mar 3rd, 2010
me: i dont like using LOL
i can never type that out
zaid: yeah, its not convenient to type
i keep typing lolo
naturally..
me: i think LOL is just filler
it fills in space in a conversation
zaid: why not just say…ha or haha
me: ike if someone even says something REMOTELY funny ppl immediately go [...]
Posted in Photos, Random, San Francisco, Street Photos on Feb 17th, 2010
I tend to take random pictures on my Blackberry and never know what the hell to do with them. Then it donned on me, “Why don’t I just post them on my blog as enjoyable filler?”
Waiting for FELA! at New York City’s Eugene O’Neill Theatre.
Backstage make-up area for the Academy of Art University show at [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Fashion, Pop Culture, Random, Uncategorized on Feb 17th, 2010
I went to New York for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week (which would explain my absence) – but I wasn’t necessarily there in the “fashion journalist” capacity. In the past, I went there to cover the shows and be a spazz jumping around from tent to tent; venue to venue – but now that I am reppin’ [...]
Posted in Actors, Celebrities, Entertainment, Film, Movies, Pop Culture, Random on Feb 2nd, 2010
Last week, when I interviewed Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried for Dear John, something rather flattering (and quite interesting) happened during my roundtable with Miss Seyfried.
While answering a question, she caught a whiff of something and, well….just have a listen:
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Amanda likes Chanel
I was sitting quite far from her and she smelled my [...]