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Lady Gaga's 'Edge of Glory' Interpreted by a Justin Bieber Doppelganger

Lady Gaga’s ‘Edge of Glory’ Interpreted by a Justin Bieber Doppelganger

Oh Lord. There’s something hauntingly beautiful, creepy, and child pageant-like about this video of Britain’s Got Talent star, Ronan Parke singing an acoustic version of Gaga’s latest SHABLAM!-worthy club anthem. This performance looks like it took place on lo-fi public access talk show — like something I would host: The more I watch it, the...

Inhabitants of Chictopia flock to New York Fashion Week

The San Francisco-based website strategically sartorial social networking, Chictopia will be heading to New York Fashion Week again – but this time they are hosting a whole summit at New York Fashion Week from Feb. 12-13! Appropriately called Chictopia 10, the summit “will bring online tastemakers, fashion and retail executives, brands and media together in...

Twitter account of the moment: @munidiaries

I get really excited when people retweet my posts on Twitter. So you couldn’t imagine how excited I was when I checked my Twitter feed and saw this: munidiaries RT @DinoRay: Smells like sour diarrhea on Muni at midnight. They basically take tweets from people about their experiences on Muni, the wondrous take on bus...

A ‘Julia and Julia’ afterword

Consider this a sidebar for my interview with Julie Powell. In case you’re wondering about Julie Powell’s original blog, here’s the web address for it: blogs.salon.com/0001399. Her last entry is from 2004 and by now, her blog can be considered a “contemporary artifact” – or something like that.

I’m a Filipino ‘Mad Man’

Even though I have yet to catch up on Mad Men, I still have until August 16 to do so. That way, I can be up to speed with all the boozin’, corruptin’, smokin’ and pocket squarin’ at Sterling Cooper. More than that, I can reacquaint myself with Peggy’s bangs. That said, I found the...

A Craigslist ‘missed connection’ showdown!

I LOVE it when people get into arguments on Craigslist! And it’s even better when it’s on the m4m missed connection portion – it’s so catty! In this particular public argument, two people go at it with such fervor: dear asshole checkout boy at rainbow grocery. – m4m (mission district) i waited the extra 10...

Painting with your genitals

I love to look through the missed connections on Craigslist; not only in hopes to have a serendipitous storybook romance that only happens in movies, but to also be thoroughly entertained. Today I found this one: Question: What does “dickpainter” mean? – m4m (castro / upper market) Someone called me a dickpainter the other night....

Things that FACEBOOK needs to include

Why does Facebook insist on changing their layout every three months? It’s quite annoying. I am all for change, but when it starts to look like Twitbook, (in case you didn’t catch it, that’s a combo of Twitter and Facebook) it’s just plain lame. …but alas, I am a lowly writer and the big wigs...

Facebook status of the moment: Gina Cayabyab

Gina wore one black square tip boot on da left and brown pointy tip boot on the right and didn’t notice til the end of the day. Omg!!

The Facebook slambook-esque ‘Notes’ continue

Part of me says that this whole “fill out this list” trend on Facebook is growing on me. Then there’s the bitchy and cynical (bynical, if you will) part of me that dismisses them with a pretentious eye roll. You’ve already read my whole rant about that 25 Random Things post that someone started. And...

Has Facebook jumped the shark?

I enjoy Facebook, but when someone started this whole 25 Random Things… stuff, I started to get a little iffy. I thought to myself, “Is Facebook starting to travel down that road?” and by that road, I am referring to a path of Xanga-centric self-promotion and tacky questionnaires that make people LOL and cause a...

I got a new gig!

I am officially a Blogatorial Board Member on StyleHive.com! Check out my snazzy pic on their blogger page by clicking here! And for the record, that picture they used is not posed at all. It is TOTALLY candid. It’s just another gig to add to my grocery list of gigs! How exciting is that? Check...