oh youtube...

a couple of entertaining youtube videos:


and this one is stolen from my friend Jessie's blog. it is just too good to not be posted again!

Jeeealous

This season of ANTM is pretty bland but i love this clip. The best part is Tyra's reaction to Allison's comment. I am glad that in the makeover they made Allison blonde-aka a little less scary. She is actually my favorite right now!

Keep Voting!

Last night I listened to Naomi Wolf speak. She is most known for her book The Beauty Myth-a feminist cornerstone which discussed the effects of beauty in all areas of life. I remember reading that book over and over again during high school. The Beauty Myth inspired me to become more vocal about my feminist beliefs which must have been a universal response to her book since her work ushered in the third-wave of feminism.

Now she in a prominent political activist-for democracy. Her current book- Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries-urges every citizen to use their voice to actively keep in check our democracy. People are lazy about politics-even with the spark ignited by the recent election many people just voted and stopped there. It is imperative to vote in Congressional elections and not be passive in community choices-no matter how small. Keeping checks and balances balanced in our system and democracy alive is an active effort that is too often taken for granted.

So take a moment today and look into your district and see what exactly is going on and how you can influence changes that will impact your everyday life. It would be a waste not to speak up! xoxo*

The Way We Were

I am actually a complete hopeless romantic but i despise most dramatic, romantic movies and won't watch most of them (I haven't even seen The Notebook). However, there are a couple of love movies that i adore, one of which i watched again this past week at the Junior League. The movie is 'The Way We Were'- it is about a complicated relationship between Hubble (played by an omg drop dead gorgeous Robert Redford) and K-K-K-Katie (played by Barbara Streisand). It is completely beautiful but heartbreaking at the same time.

The end of the movie was paralelled in one of my very favorite shows -Sex and the City. Carrie compares her relationship with Big to the one between Hubble and Katie. Mostly stating that there were two types of girls in the world-the Katie girls (the complicated/interesting ones) and the simple girls. Later in the episode Carrie meets up with Big after his engagement party and she re-creates the ending of 'The Way We Were'. (Obviously their relationship ended up differently than Hubble/Katie.) Here are the two clips:

Attack of the 'Models'

Oh Tyra Banks. She's a little-scratch that- completely nutty but i am addicted to America's Next Top Model. Everytime I watch that show i always say that if i was tall i would clearly go on that show and win. It is all part of my 'secret' desire to become a lingerie model. I was thrilled when I discovered that the current casting for ANTM is for 5'6" and under! I was going to drag my ass to the NYC auditions but never made it there this past weekend.

Its a good thing I didn't because well, there was a bit of a stampede.