Pussycats do girl power... in their underwear

One of my guilty pleasures is definitely "The Pussycat Dolls". Not them, but it is their producer, because damn that guy can make mad beats. So from songs like "dontcha", "beep" and "buttons" that fulfilled their burlesque background, their new single is "I don't need a man". These girls are not of the same brand of Girl Power that the Spice Girls promoted (the pussycats don't even have bankable personalities, so it's far from the hay day of the 90s Spice) but at frist listen I thought this song was finally a positive message for all those teenage girls. After watching the video, I realised I was wrong. It's another cheap burlesque show in 3 mins, complete with a different set of lingerie than the other videos and wet dream inducing dance sequence.
If they really want to be positive role models, and not just role models for strippers, then they should have messages about how to practice safe sex in their videos. *this is how to put on a condom* *always use one, so you don't have to end up dancing for $ like we do to support our children and pay for our boob jobs!*

They make me miss the Spice Girls. :(

Blogging for idiots

Eventho I have been blogging for a number of years now (and on a side note, i am somewhat amused that it now all the cool kids are doing it) I can't figure out how to link properly in my sidebar.

I need techie help!

Learning to reject someone like an adult

Somehow the guy on Monday thought that things went well. I guess it was because I didn't say much of anything. So he called me today.
I recognised that even people who I don't like might possibly have feelings, so after he proposed we go to see a movie I said : "Honestly, I didn't think we had much in common".

At this point I have been on enough bad first dates to know when to give them a second chance and when not too. Leading anyone on is cowardly. And a waste of time for all those involved.

So maybe, for the first time in a long time, I did the right thing when it came to dating.

capentry for beginners and a bad date

Monday night was rather eventful. SO eventful that I already thought it was Wednesday already.

As an umemployed person I decided to pursue other goals i have had lingering in my mind for quite some time. One of these was to follow's JC's steps and learn about carpentry. Starting yesterday and continuing for the next 9 weeks, on Mondays from 6:30 - 9:30 I will be participating in a woodworking for beginners class. My first project : a shoe rack. No joke.

I also managed to go on a date after said class. I really know how to pick 'em y'all. Mind you, this dude picked ME. I was out having drinks with Shrad at Milestones and he was our waiter. He didn't look 32 when he asked for my number and gave me his. He didn't look like a failed comic, or something who ran away at 17 to hitchhike in California. He didn't look like someone who was in LA during the Rodney King riots, or someone who had gone to their first concert two weeks ago. OR someone who, at 18, went to the Czech Repuclic without a visa and was subsiquently spend 3 months in a small German town because he had run out of money (after being kicked off the train to Prague). Oh, and he is in his 2nd year of university. He is also an "author"
Some girls might find that attrative that he followed his wanderlust and travelled so much. I wasn't one of those girls. I thought he was an absolute idiot. And if anyone hasn't noticed I appreciate those around me to be relatively ambitious and smart people. This guy wasn't one of them. And for someone who was a "comic" for 4 years, he wasn't even funny. I'm funnier than this guy.
The best part was when he dropped me off at St. Clair Station and i dodged his failed attempt at a kiss. I left him with a "sure, you can call me" and walked into the station. There I was met by two punks (late teens?) who started to laugh their heads off.
Me: Why you laughing?
Punks: Dude, that was straight out of blind date!! His face FELL when you didn't kiss him!!!
Me: Oh yeah?
Punks: Were you on a blind date?
Me: Pretty much, he was my waiter a little while ago.
Punks: So, you going to go out with him again?
I made the thumbs down sign and we all laughed.
After a rather dismal two hours those punks at St Clair really made my night!!


I love bad dates, they make such great stories!

Telenovellas take over TV

This is something that I have been considering for a while since watching all the new shows that have sprung up on network TV. Back in the good old days of Giles Hall, I did watch latin american telenovellas in Spanish - and tried to pass it off as Spanish "homework". Vimla did this as well, and this is how we learnt words like "putana di madre" and all those other things that Sr. Vera forgot to include in her lesson plans. Watching the drama unfold and watching almost everyone in the cast sleep with each other was riveting. That and the story followed a plot of some type so that the saga continued from week to week.
Suppodily, that is what we like to call a "soap opera" here in North America.

In this post- "Friends", "Fraiser" and "Seinfeld" world we are now bound to our TVs ever week to watch our shows, otherwise, we'll no longer understand the contrived story line. Examples are my old faves "Grey's Anatomy" and "Desperate Housewives" and newbies "Six Degrees" and "Dexter". "Lost" and "24" are other examples of these serial shows that demand the weekly attention of its viewers, but I didn't watch the first season of either so I have no idea what is going on in either show at this point.

I am not saying that "Friends", "Fraiser" and "Seinfeld" lacked a plot. There was always something ridiculous going on that captivated your attention for all of 22 minutes. There was some connection from week to week, but ultimately all you had to have little knowledge of was the characters, and it was their interaction that made the show entertaining. This is why these shows have become very popular in reruns, it doens't matter what order you watch them in, as they remain endless entertaining (well, atleast to me!) And as addictive as the serial based/ telenovella like TV shows are... I don't see them living forever in syndication on TV land. Like, who watches reruns of 90210 or Melrose's Place? Some, but not as many as other shows that I mentioned before (oh! and I almost forgot Sex and the City!).

What I was aiming to write about was the inflitration of the telenovella approach to TV in recent years and wondering if this was based on California's exponentially growing hispanic population.

I guess it ended up more about the possible future of Grey's/Housewives/Lost/24 once they are off the air... which is probably continued success thanks to DVD sets. Oh, and downloading episodes on the internet.