Archive for August 21st, 2006

9/11: hollywood vs. real life

In World Trade Center, one of the movies based on 9/11, PFC Dave Thomas is a hero who, after hearing news of the terrorist attack, takes it upon himself to strap into his military gear and head to ground zero to help out, starting a search and rescue mission with Sgt. Dave Kearnes. The movie [...]

American Apparel Apparently Assholes

I don’t have beef with American Apparel’s ads. You can call me a perv if you want to but that amateur porny dirty roach motel bed series looks kinda hot, and at least it’s better than fake-boobied airbrushed models, and it’s no worse than other ads.
The problem with AA, it seems, is their violations of [...]

marion jones diaries

Marion Jones may well be a doper, but let’s face it, she’s the right kind of doper. Floyd Landis, by contrast seems sad– broken and crumpled and, well, just not camera-ready. Jones, though, is so damn charismatic and pretty, her story so full of triumph and tragedy that in america there will always be a [...]

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