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Uat50

Rencently, AARP ran a contentest for those in their 20's to make a YouTube video of what they thought life would be like in their 50's. The winner got $5,000, and the one I am linking you to remarkably did not win. However, when shown to a room full of ad execs and marketing folks, it got a standing ovation. It gave me chills, and is good for anyone who needs some insight into the twenty something mentality. Takes about a minute and a half.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42E2fAWM6rA

Heath Ledger/MK Olsen

Interesting notation in Cindy Adam's column today from Page Six in the New York Post:

"Now, my last go-round relative to Mary-Kate Olsen's private security. About them particularly, as I've already said, I don't know. But here's what I know. Many big-time celebrities have access to these "cleanup crews," who know to respond quickly and destroy or remove drugs, guns, underage living beings, whatever shouldn't be there in the first place. They flush powders down toilets, grab stuff that isn't prescribed, do what needs to be done and get out before authorities arrive. If not enough time to scram, they "cooperate" then leave with whatever they managed to stuff down their clothes or in their ears or you-name-it and they'll-stick-it."

EMO?

So the last time I was at my salon, the adorable and waifish dark hired young woman who works there was bantering with her boss - she was being told she looked "awfully EMO" that day. She joked back, saying she had seen a great bumper sticker that said "I wish my grass was EMO so it could cut itself."

Of course, this caught my attention. I was familiar with the term EMO as it applied to bands, like Fall Out Boy, and one I like, My Chemical Romance. I had assumed it to be kind of an "emotional punk rock" sort of hybrid, there for the term EMO (short for emotional). But I wasn't getting the joke.

So I had to have it explained to me that this is sort of a teen culture that can be characterized by waifishness, extremely dark colored hair, spiky and short hair, piercings, extreme sensitivity to the real world, and some times the cutting thing. Hence the bumper sticker.

So I came home and asked DH about it - he likes to pretend that he is GenX and he was not even familiar with it as a musical genre, much less a hybrid goth/punk kind of thing. Are we that out of it? Anyone out there have a handle on this? Have to admit, I kind of like the word and I have been using it...my dog was EMO this morning...

What's Wong with this Picture?

http://us.video.aol.com/video.index.adp?mode=1&pmmsid=1844266

Crocodile tears: check

Paid for interview: check

REALLY bad acting: check

I am beginning to think he may really have killed them both. I am swearing off ET until they are done with this series. Even I have my limits!

Disturbing Trend of the Day

Men in leggings

Walking the catwalk in Itlay

Can you picture your DH in leggings???!!!

Class of 2010

From the

Beloit

College

Mindset List

Class of 2010 (entered college this fall)

Most eighteen year old students grew up with a computer mouse in one hand and a computer screen as part of their world view. The learned to surf the internet as they learned to read.  They were in their cribs when the Berlin Wall came down.

This is a generation that has always been “connected” and is used to things happening in “real time.”

1. Billy Carter, Lucille Ball, Gilda Radner, Billy Martin, Andy Gibb, and Secretariat have always been dead
2. The

   Soviet Union

   has never existed
3. They have known only two presidents
4. There has always been only one

   Germany

5. They have never actually heard anyone “ring it up” on a cash register
6. They are wireless, yet always connected
7. A coffee has always taken longer to make than a milkshake
8. They grew up with and have outgrown faxing as a form of communication
9. “Google” has always been a verb
10. Text messaging is their email
11. Bar codes have always been on everything from library cards and snail mail to retail items
12. Carbon copies are oddities found in their grandparents’ attics
13. They grew up in mini-vans
14. They have always known that “In the criminal justice system the people have been represented by two separate yet equally important groups”
15. They have rarely mailed anything using a stamp
16. Small white holiday lights have always been in style
17. There have always been live organ donors
18. They have never put their money in a “Savings and Loan”
19. They never saw Bernard Shaw on CNN
20. Television stations have never concluded the broadcast day with the national anthem

The Power of MySpace & Pugs

http://www.wtvr.com/Global/story.asp?S=5425531

This is now an international media story.

The student may fail the class, but do you think he will get a job?

Here's a link to the blog: http://ask-oscar.blogspot.com/

Blame Angelina

Have you seen your Vanity Fair advertising supplement?