This Is Just Really.... "Special"

Hulk Hogan's daughter Brooke has a new album out, and the cover is AMAZING. If the music is anywhere near as good as the breathtaking album art, we could have world peace on our hands any minute now.

http://www.brookesworld.com/component/content/article/62-intro-1.html

Yes!

68 years later, Archie picks the brunette. Score one for bitchy (but charming!), high-maintenance women everywhere. (For the record, I still think he'll switch to Betty by part 5. The Girl Next Door always wins. ) But for now... brunettes celebrate!

This Is Just Hard To Believe- There Is Still Something Segregated??

The New York Times ran an incredibly frustrating, heartbreaking piece about a segregated prom in Georgia today, which included an audio slide show wherein students and parents voice their opinions on the segregation and "tradition."

The first student interviewed, a white student named Harley Boone, is quick to point out that the segregated prom isn't racist, in her opinion, it's just "what we know and what our parents have done for so many years." Harley insists that she eats with black students in the cafeteria and that she attends classes with black students, and that the prom is just not a big deal, comparatively. Her mother, Anita Williamson says "this community and this school system is fine the way it is..why change something that has worked, it's not broken?" Kera Nobles, a black student, disagrees, calling the segregation "hurtful," and noting that "I sit beside you at graduation but I can't go to prom with you for one night?"

The prom itself isn't a school sponsored function; the proms are private functions that are thrown by the students. The idea of "it's just the way it's always been" seems to be an overriding theme in why such a backwards tradition is allowed to continue; Terra Fountain, an 18-year-old white student, blames the parents for the continual separation: "Most of the students do want to have a prom together," she says, "But it's the white parents who say no. … They're like, if you're going with the black people, I'm not going to pay for it."

The segregated proms have also forced friends to take a second look at their relationships; many black students feel betrayed by their white friends who have neglected to stand up for them and insist upon an integrated prom. "My best friend is white," one girl tells the New York Times, "She's in there. She's real cool, but I don't understand. If they can be in there, why can't everybody else?" Says another: "You're 18 years old! You're old enough to smoke, drive, do whatever else you want to. Why aren't you able to step up and say, ‘I want to have my senior prom with the people I'm graduating with?'"

"The prom is the least of our problems," says Angel Howard, a black student, "We can't fix the prom until we fix the school. And then when the school comes together and no longer sees color, then the prom can come together and no longer see color."

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/05/24/magazine/dividedproms-audioss/index.html#

http://jezebel.com/5267112/when-tradition-destroys-progress

Is This What We Are Wearing?

Here's a marvelous little video from the 1930's, wherein designers imagine what "Eve" might be wearing in the year 2000. Some of the predictions are spot-on; others are fairly insane.

Now I've Seen It All...

Some bride, in a bid to be the classiest and "different" bride of all time, had a dress made with 300 LEDs sewn into the bottom poofy part. And let me tell you, the applause when she turns it on during her first dance is deafening. And how about that song from Armageddon? I'm not sure if you've seen the movie BUT THEY ALL DIE IN THE END. I'm just sayin', you can't put a price on looking like a Christmas tree at your own wedding.

The Video Game Nerd In Me Needs This

This is a new $18 shirt from Threadless that features Mario buying drugs from his little mushroom-headed dealer. As you can see, one star coin scores three whole shrooms, which is a pretty good deal if you ask me.... but how would I know? ooooh....

http://www.threadless.com/product/1838/Magic_Mushrooms