
Friday
46 : Lindsay Gone Wilde

47 : Angry Ashton

48 : Changing Chanel

49 : Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea

50 : Danity Diddy

51 : Location location location!

52 : Angry Madonna

53 : Billy Bob Homewrecker?

What do you think? Is Tea Leoni walking on the wild side? Did she ditch X-hunter for X-creature?
54 : Troublesome Threesome

55 : Gay sex is better

56 : Sex vs. Money

We all want money and we all want sex. We envy others who have more money and we envy those who have more sex. It’s often thought that money equals sex, but if you have no money and are having copious amounts of sex, are you more enviable than someone who has money but no sex? Or does money itself automatically equal sex? And which would you rather have, sex or money?
57 : Is Mac the new LV?

Mac’s branding is infallible, engaging and captivating in its area, as is LV’s.
Mac has released a travel computer in the form of the Macbook Air and LV is a travel brand who have just released new global audio guides for their tenth anniversary of their City Guide (www.LouisVuittonSoundwalk.com). Both Mac and LV are renowned in their fields. So, is it a match of the titans or a match made in heaven? Will Mac become the next must-have accessory, and have LV fighting for the consumers dollar? I mean, really, if you had to have the new iPhone or an LV wallet, which would you choose?
58 : Queueing for Q

59 : Hollywood, wake up!

Who would you want to see on the red carpet?
60 : Edison Forever?
Someone mentioned to me the other day that the Edison scandal was just a brilliant ploy to boost him into the international spotlight. Although ruthless, heartless and totally self-serving, I must admit that if this is the case, the guy has more blind ambition than any celeb I’ve ever known! But it made me think… could anyone be so soulless to destroy that many others in the pursuit of their own goals? The guy is obviously a bit of an ego-fetishist to have taken over a thousand photos of different girls, but I find it hard to believe how anyone with a super-ego could submit themselves to extremes of public humiliation on purpose. Then again, the risks would be huge but the gains could be plenty. Already he’s become an international name, landed roles in Hollywood films, and risen to the global status of infamous, a la Paris Hilton. What next? An Edison movie? An apology album? Edison on the cover of American GQ? Edison-Branson Schools of Ruthlessness? Whatever happens it seems that this global boost will keep the dirty-handed lad around for a very long time.
61 : Sellout in the City

The loveable characters were all there with a few fabulous extras like Jennifer Hudson (DreamGirls) but the pitiable brand obsession buzzed in your face incessantly like a pesky bug that won’t take a hint, and dragged everyone down into the gullible realm of sad, shallow and sloppy.
It looked like the same stylist who had wooed us with her brilliant flair throughout the TV show, Patricia Field, had suffered from some complete collapse of judgement, so the only thread left to keep us from walking out was the amazing friendship the woman shared. This the creators obviously knew, because they rounded up the show with even more product placement, but this time, the product was friendship. So, if you want a movie with amazing fashion and a feel-good after-buzz, watch The Devil Wears Prada. If you want reassurance that it’s okay to be a simple self obsessed, brand-hoarding narcissist, then Sex and the City is definitely the movie for you.
62 : Money matters

It does tempt the question that each of us needs ask ourselves: are we merely donkeys chasing carrots, or do we run free busying ourselves with activities that are worth the passing hours of our life? Is money really all that matters?
63 : Silent Noise

Humans are inherently social creatures. If all other humans are communicating via technology, does that make it our new social medium? And if so, then despite the hours spent ‘socialising’ via SMS or msn or email, why are so many of us still so lonely?
64: TopTipsForGirls

65 : God.com

The site raises the question of whether humans just need an anonymous listener to share their load with in order to cope with life. In a modern society so detached and alone in its crowded madness, we all seem to have lost touch with not only each other but ourselves as well.
In using cyberspace as our medium for relief, do we acknowledge only a comfort taken in the unknown, or does it simply highlight that we’re really just looking for friends under guises? I wonder how much of this concept is a support system and how much is a collective cry for help in the insanity of today’s society. If we spent less time in front of our computers and more with our peers, would there be any need for a website such as this?
66 : Secret Selves…

Perhaps we would do better to look at the evidence and address what it is we’re denying about ourselves. Often acknowledging these little issues will create an amazing amount of emotional freedom. And more wardrobe space.
67 : Accidentally cheating on your partner

68 : Who’s your daddy?

69 : Game of Fools

The book has been a global bestseller, highlighting how many tepid and clueless men there really are out there. But behind the psychologically juvenile methods and strange sad stories recounted, there is some pretty amazing writing. Neil Strauss guides you through the full bodied recollection of a traveled vein with the hand of a master, deft and confident. Though some people revere this book as the ‘bible of picking up club sluts’, I argue that the real mastery in this book lays in the art of penmanship, not physical prowess.
70 : MuffinTops

Don’t get me wrong, it’s fine to be full figured and curvaceous; we totally adore fatties Crystal Renn, Nigella Lawson and Sophie Dahl- I’m a happy size 12 myself, but I am quite aware that society seems to be embracing fatness with arms a little too widely open. It’s worrying that people are accepting being a bigger size when they are NOT NATURALLY THAT SIZE… if you eat more vegetables than anything else, eat only as much as you need and get out of breath exercising three times a week and you are still a size twelve then congratulations, that’s your natural size. If you are sitting on your lazy ass, placing your job before your health and eating deep fried food all over the place, then you’re just a disgusting lazy fat ass who doesn’t deserve the right to complain about your size. We need to remember that while no size is ‘bad’ or ‘good’,it is wrong to lie to ourselves about our true size and it is right to treat our bodies as they deserve to be treated, no matter what size.
71 : Ugly in the City

Now SJP has earned the title of “Unsexiest Actresses” and once again oscillated annoyingly; she admirably quips; “I never thought I was sexy, either” and then later has a pathetic whine about the judgement and how traumatic it was. You can only wonder when or if she’ll ever figure out that a two-faced public image is probably a large part of what earned her the title in the first place.
72 : Olsen Twins for Playboy?

73 : Condolences for Corrine

74 : Marvellous Mads

75 : Offensive Oklahoma

She stated in a video posted on the internet that “The homosexual agenda is destroying this nation; it’s just a fact. I honestly think it’s the biggest threat our nation has, even more so than terrorism or Islam.”
In 2006 this biased bigot tried to pass a law that let parents decide if they wanted to allow their children access to homosexual or sexually explicit books in the library, which would be implemented by having all such books segregated obviously from the rest of the library. In the same year she tried to pass a law that allowed teachers to question and ‘teach a range of scientific views on the theory of evolution’. What ‘range’ are we talking about exactly?? Is it really up for debate whether we actually sprouted from plants instead of mammals? The most alarming thing about people like this is that they actually get into governments and make choices for the population. I can’t decide if it reminds me more of the movie Lions for Lambs, or Idiocracy.
Thursday
76 : Celebrity Role Model

It’s great to see celebrities donating their time and money to worthy causes.
Reese Witherspoon (Legally Blonde, Walk The Line) has launched a global United Nations campaign to end violence against women and Drew Barrymore (E.T, Charlies Angels) has recently donated USD$1 million to the World Food Program to help feed children in Africa. Angelina Jolie reportedly gives 30% of her earnings to charity, which is just amazing. When we think about how much money these celebrities make, it seems due that they’d give something back, but many selfish messed up cases like Britney and Winehouse are too concerned with their own issues to give a crap about anyone else’s more dire circumstances. So, it doesn’t seem to matter how much money we have- we can choose to care about others or take the route of self obsession. The choice is entirely ours.
What we have to wonder is this: which of those celebrities are we more like?
77 : Fergiemisfit

This seems more like a cry for love and attention than a statement of any worth. Admitting that you battle the urge to take drugs and then commending a method of treatment that’s obviously not squelched your habit is just daft.
If hypnotherapy really worked for her, she wouldn’t still be battling the urge. If she was really a role model to be looked up to, as opposed to just some poster child chanteuse, she should be smart enough to release a slightly more intelligent and less conflicting statement on her narcotic affair.
78 : School of failure

79 : What aren’t our parents telling us?

I wish my parents had warned me about credit cards; how they’re addictive, dangerous for debt and should be stayed away from at all costs. How the banks are never really on your side. I wish they’d taught me about stocks and bonds, investing and property buying; about makeup and fashion tragedies; proper eating and exercise. I wish my parents had taught me a lot of basic things about life that I’ve had to learn on my own, and have then passed down to my sisters. Why didn’t our parents do that? Write us a little book with some of their experiences and say “Here, just in case you need it?” A guidebook to life, if you will? And why, oh why, aren’t these guidebooks passed out in schools? They’re things we all need to know? So why isn’t anyone teaching them?
80 : Mixed nuts will rule the world

81 : Psycho Pet Lovers Unite

Psycho pet lovers unite…
Being invited to another pet birthday party has me wondering if I have a sign on my forehead that reads, “I am a sociologically challenged dog obsessed weirdie.”
Although my partner confirms that I do not have this tattooed on any part of me, I still get invited to these strange animal orgies, where the humans sit chatting about their dogs all evening, who are humping, fighting, or rolling in poop under the table. I find it so bizarre that these people think of themselves as ‘parents’ of these canines and have mad parties for them, but don’t train or discipline them in any way whatsoever; allowing their beloved creatures to become spoilt, fat, unfit and ruined.
How am I supposed to believe that these people would make anything but terrible parents of human babies?
Do you think how you raise your animal a direct correlation to how you’ll raise your children?
Saturday
82 : Less Cheese, Please!

February 17th, 2008 Posted in Raven Hanson
Raven Says: I only just watched the movie Enchanted, starring Amy Adams and Patrick Dempsey last week, and as cute as it was, I wondered about the female protagonist’s insistence that you can only show someone you love them with a song.



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Friday
83 : Gimme gimme more

Gimme Gimme More
February 12th, 2008 Posted in Raven Hanson
Raven Says: Okay, Valentine’s Day is on 14 Feb. So let’s talk about love. But can you give your partner too much love?
I mean, as women we all know about self-sacrifice and wanting to make our mate happy, but where do we draw the line? Is it when friends and family start asking about our relationship, with concerns that it’s ‘one sided’? Is it when you realise that they’ve made an effort to change but still stay out way too late when you’ve already made dinner? Or is it merely a bad joke while out at a nice restaurant together?

At the end of the day, we must acknowledge and remember that to spoil someone is exactly that- spoiling the person that we fell in love with by drowning them in affection; like a fruit left to soak in water over time.

Tell Us: Is it possible to love someone too much? When is it just enough or when does it become excessive? Has it happened to you before?
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Monday
84 : Slackjawed : for TNPpostwoman.com


Sunday
85 : God, and other friends

God, and other friends.
Life can be lonely. For most of us, at some point or another, we realize that despite our friends and family, we often do feel very alone. With the internet further isolating us from physical contact, it seems that our worlds are becoming duller, sadder and more lonely.
Friends have their own lives, family lives a short drive away; there’s usually someone we can call but there’s not always someone to turn to in that moment when we need them the most.
I realized that this is why many people turn to religion. With religion, anywhere you go and anything you do, you’ve got a friend by your side, in your head and always looking out for your best interests. All you need do is ask.


86 : Parent Trap : for TNPpostwoman.com
Parent trap
I have a friend who never answers calls from her mother. She says that she’s scared to. I have another friend who only ever fights with his father when they meet. He says it’s the only thing they know how to do together.
Now my mother is coming to town and we’ve never spent much quality time together. My fairytale childhood was spent surrounded by friends, classmates and cousins while on trips to the park, parties and Disneyland.
My mother was always silently in the background, the engine under the hood, making all these amazing experiences appear out of thin air. I took, she gave and I never spent much time talking with her about it. I never asked her why she did it or whether she liked it. We never talked about anything really.
So I’ve finally woken up. I realize how much of my amazing life was orchestrated entirely by her hand and am determined to find out more about this remarkable person; the good, the bad, the wonderful. I don’t know if it will be easy, and I don’t expect it to be, but I wonder how many of us have to make the effort to find out about the people we call parents? Is it natural to be distant from your parents, or is it natural to be close? And why will some of us never accept or forgive our parents for how they are?
I have a friend who never answers calls from her mother. She says that she’s scared to. I have another friend who only ever fights with his father when they meet. He says it’s the only thing they know how to do together.



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