Randomosity – sort of
Sep 29, 2008 Randomosity
I usually publish a collection of my random thoughts on Mondays, but I haven’t had time to collect them – my family has been out of town for the past five days and I’ve done almost nothing other than clean, organize, and put together giant pieces of IKEA furniture all by myself. Oh, and I broke my toe. It’s a very pretty purple and it hurts like hell.
I’ll be back on my normal schedule in a few days. If there’s one thing that family is good for, it’s keeping up the routine. Without other people’s schedules to regulate mine, I’m up until four in the morning, not going outside unless absolutely necessary, and eating like complete crap. But at least I’m getting a lot done!
Originally posted on Selfish Mom
Tags: IKEA
Photoshop your way to perfection
Sep 24, 2008 What's Going On
I came across a site recently that shows just how easy it is to make a perfectly attractive girl look like what we’ve come to expect from a cover girl: perfect skin, big boobs, and great hair. You go here and click on the magazine cover, and can see bit by bit how photoshopping transforms people from what they are to what we think they should be.
I don’t want to see ugly people on fashion and celebrity magazine covers. I have no desire to live in Harrison Bergeron‘s world. But I do want to know that what I’m looking at on a cover is more or less real. Make-up can do great things, and I think that’s fair. And if the cover model has a giant zit on the day of the shoot, I can understand zapping that out. But actually digitally enhancing someone’s breasts, or changing their eye color, or making them thinner, is just fraud, plain and simple. If they can’t recreate the look walking down the street, then it shouldn’t be on the cover.
I really have to hand it to some actresses and models out there who are fighting back against this trend. Jamie Lee Curtis did the unthinkable some years back and put it all out there in More magazine, showing the world what she looks like without a team of people to glam up her hair and squeeze her muffin top into a tight dress. “It’s such a fraud. And I’m the one perpetuating it.”
Keira Knightley revealed in an interview a couple years ago how her breasts were enhanced on magazine covers and movie posters. She was told that her flat chest was a turn off. She said that she OKd having her boobs blown up for the “King Arthur” posters, claiming she didn’t “give a shit.” But perhaps she has gained more perspective in the past couple years because she recently refused to have her breasts enhanced for “The Duchess” posters.
I’ll love Tyra Banks forever for fighting back against the people who called her “America’s Next Top Waddle” and “Tyra Porkchop” after unflattering pictures were splashed all over the place of her in a bathing suit. My weight has gone up and down and all around almost 60lbs in the past 7 years. And sometimes it seems like other people care about it more than I do. I like weighing less, and would like to lose about 40 pounds more. I feel better when I weigh less, and it’s more fun shopping for clothes, and I know The Ass likes me better thinner. But it’s not as big a deal as the rest of the world makes it out to be. And the weight didn’t start coming off until I finally started feeling comfortable in my own skin.
Originally posted on Selfish Mom
Tags: Harrison Bergeron, Jamie Lee Curtis, Keira Knightly, More Magazine, The Duchess, Tyra Banks
This Week’s Time Sucker: Help a Drunk Walk it Off
Sep 24, 2008 Time Sucker
This game, called Home Run, is deceptively simple: You help a drunk walk home by countering his movements. If he leans right, you move your mouse left. If he stumbles left, you move right. But do it too fast, or don’t do it enough, and he falls down.
Apparently, the record is something like 500 meters, but I can’t seem to get past about 40. Maybe it’s because I’ve never been drunk.
Go here and then scroll down to “Play Home Run 2004″. Even on a fast connection it takes about 15 seconds to load, but that’s probably just to force you to watch the pop-up commercial.
Click on “start” and our drunk guy starts walking. Move your mouse and see how far you get.
There may be more to it than that, but since I don’t speak German I have no idea what the instructions say. Thank goodness “Start” was in English.
Every time he falls down I say I’m not going to play again, but then I start thinking that it’s really not that hard and I’m sure I’ll get the hang of it this time! Arrrrggggggghhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Originally posted on Selfish Mom
Tags: Home Run Game
