Dearly beloved reader, I’m afraid my fascination with the Edward Cullen/Twilight phenomenon is far from over, and I loved the following review so much that I felt compelled to share some of it with you. Twilight, the flim, is actually … good? By Darren Mercer I could barely tear my eyes and ears away from… Read More It wouldn’t be an obsession were I to stop looking into it
Ah, the joy of the Holiday Season. Shopping mall mania, credit cards maxing, relatives coming, receipts to keep track of… Well, I am always willing to help, so if you have a Twilight fan on your shopping list in need of perfume, find some great suggestions here. And… Good luck!
In need of a mid-afternoon pick-up? Check this out: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SkOzCcVK7U&e] For a little bit of background and a little more amusement, go here. Enjoy 😉 PS: Yes, it’s snowing on Sahar’s blog.
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined,and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
Something disturbing is yet again happening in Zimbabwe, and I don’t know how to help – at least, not directly. UK PM: Zimbabwe cholera outbreak is ‘an international emergency’ (CNN) — UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has branded the cholera crisis in Zimbabwe “an international emergency” and called on the world community to confront President… Read More Zimbabwe: the new international let-down scandal?
It seems like the month of December isn’t just ushering in cold winds from the North (can’t Santa stop being so generous and keep those winds for himself?), but also a whole slew of obsessions. From the avid Twilight fans that seem to wait for me at every street corner to my personal obsession with… Read More The resurgence of an old obsession: Welcome back, Harry!
Something interesting found its way into my inbox today. A lovely Sahar’s blog reader saw a preview to a show called ‘True Beauty’ and knew I’d find it interesting, so he sent it to me (thank you honey). Here is an excerpt of the official press release from ABC, taken from The Futon Critic: Executive… Read More Trying to make a Self-Centred and Superficial Country go beyond looks: True Beauty, the reality show
American industry is doing just fine outside of Detroit. We should be getting used to the depressing spectacle of once-great corporations begging for assistance from Washington. Yet perhaps nothing is more painful than to see General Motors and other big U.S.-based car companies–once exemplars of both American economic supremacy and middle-class aspirations–fall to such an… Read More Forbes Commentary: Help Mississippi, Not Michigan
In the eternal debate of what is chick lit is, it would be interesting to take a look at the other side of the coin, i.e. at what Stephen King calls “Manfiction”. If you catch publishing types in a ”don’t quote me” mood, they’ll tell you the male audience for fiction is disappearing. Agents and… Read More Stephen King: Who Says Real Men Don’t Read?
‘Koobface’ Virus Attacks Facebook Attention new viewers: those 5000 “friends” you have on Facebook? They might not actually be your friends. In fact, some of them might be scammers trying to infect your computer with a new virus dubbed “Koobface”. Koobface, which already made the rounds on MySpace, is now worming its way through Facebook.… Read More Wired.com: ‘Koobface’ Virus Attacks Facebook