I had said that the thing I hate most about this time of year were the TOp XXXXX List’s you’ll see appearing everywhere. But I neglected to mention there is an exception to that: Time’s Top 10 Lists. There are so many to choose from! They have list for the Top 10 Albums to the Top 10 Worst Business Deals. I LOVE Time magazine’s lists, even the few they do during the course of the year.
I think for the next few weeks I’m going to highlight a few of these lists, starting with Today’s Top 10 T-Shirt Worthy Slogans. After all, who doesn’t love a mildly politically and socially amusing Tee??
Kanye’s MTV debacle isn’t going to die anytime soon. It’s just not. It’s going to be funny for a long time. Deal with it!
Tiger just made the 2009 lists. He is definitely having the quickest fall from grace. Is this Golf’s biggest scandal ever??
I can imagine this to be true!
For the rest of the Top 10 T-Shirt Worthy Slogans check them out HERE. I am coming back tomorrow with another list. What should it be? Top 10 Albums or Top 10 Tweets. I’m kind of gearing towards the Top 10 Tweets!
I want to try out a new thing. Pictures are worth 1000 words, right?
Why are Catholics so obsessed with abortion? I really can’t get with it. Choice. It’s all about Choice. Same religion that doesn’t let grown men get married and ignores all the news stories about Priests molesting little boys. #organizedreligionisacrock.
To keep you from the Monday blues I have some fun stuff for you to check out. Enjoy, I sure did!
OMG I want these tights that Fergie is rocking @ the AMA performance!!
1. Models + High End Fashion Brands? <<— UM!! What?? talk about branding! I felt like I was going to get in trouble for seeing these NUDE models! But this is nudity without raunchy. Oh, and if that is the site owner in the header graphic .. I need more of that in my life.
I think as we sink deeper and deeper into the “recession” people just find more ways to get creative with their crimes and blame their stupidity on the “recession.”
Latest Act of WTF — HOlding someone up with you MACHETE for some Tacos.. Really though? You just were walking down the street with a Machete and no one noticed???
But right.. where the hell were you at that 16 tacos cost you $41? At Taco Bell 16 tacos is only cost you like $25 bucks. And like the crazed knife weilding criminal ran out of a building, stole your tacos, and drove away? Why wouldn’t he take the tacos back inside, because obviously he was hungry. The logic of some people will never be right to me. This is just bananas. Watch you back on your late night drive thru runs, I’m just saying!
Since I’ve been able to vote I’ve been exteremely aware of my elected officials. I’ve voted in every election that I was able to and always encouraged my friends to do the same. Yesterday was the NJ gubernatorial race, and the two candidates (because independents don’t reeaaaalllllyyy count) were John Corzine (the incumbent) and Chris Christie. Well, I cast my vote proudly for John Corzine on my lunch break.
I don’t really check the polls until they are all tallied, and after the tally, Christie was elected the next Governor of my great state. Frankly, I’m definitely disappointed in the low voter turnout in NJ, when so many people claim to be upset with the Status Quo. If you have a problem, use your voice! This is what the nay-sayers have done. They used their voice and voted for whom they thought was right. Unfortunately, I don’t feel that Christie is the right candidate and it has nothing to do with his political party!
He makes claims that he wants to fix the state budget and he has a problem with unions, like the Teachers Union. So pretty much, he will fix the budget on the backs of our teachers, seniors programs and children. And everyone is up in arms about property taxes going up during Corzine’s term: NEWSFLASH- Governors aren’t responsible for your property taxes, thats your county government. Another election you people have skipped out on!
If people can remember the last Christie in NJ politics, also a republican, you’d remember that she put us into a giant Hole. She never funded the State workers Pension Fund. She left this State in Shambles. she single-handedly did more fiscal harm to NJ than any other NJ Governor When Corzine was elected, he was in a hole so deep that he had to cut 5 Billion out of the State Budget. He also removed 50% of the tolls on the Garden State Parkway. People are saying they want a change in NJ, the Soprano state, well you’re definitely going to go in a different direction, but it won’t be good.
I think I feel this election more seriously, having close ties with a major state school, and seeing how Corzine rallied for protecting jobs there. Joblessness in NJ is high, around 9%, but it still less than other states battling the same problems. For state employees, pay freezes and Furloughs have saved many jobs, including my own. We’ll see whats ahead in the years to come, but I definitely don’t see this as being easy.
One more thing people keep doing that is annoying. Stop trying to relate this failure back the President Obama. Seriously?? Corzines failure is his, not the presidents.
Happy Election Day! I hope everyone went out to vote in their local elections! These are the MOST important, and many fail to realize that!
Happy Quarter Century to my BFF forever!! Love you sister girl!
And now on with the flow!
Prelude: Chris, baby, What are you wearing.. I hope this is a rough sketch. Don’t be a part of the skinny jeans epidemic!!Or even so, I could get over that, but this album cover has no cohesiveness. You can’t have the punk rocker guitar skinny jean look, spraying those little bugs with that little can of RAID. The graffiti should be bigger & bolder, and lose the shades!!
1. AHH!! The epidemic of hysteria regarding Swine Flu totally has flown right over my head. I don’t get hysteric about too much of anything, and this is one of them. I have never had a flu shot, nor do I really plan to get one now. Swine or otherwise. And frankly, I’m tired of hearing about it. I loved this blog on it! Check out Kimmie!
2. Seriously? Rihanna is Woman of the Year? What has she done beside walk around dressed like a hooker enjoying the sympathy given to her by the people who think she was “victim” of domestic violence. Her style? Credit her stylist. Her songs- credit Ne-Yo and the Dream. What a waste of page space. Seriously Glamour – Do Better. (via egotisticegotism)
3.I too LOVE Tim Burton. Him & Johnny Depp make sweet melodies I always enjoy. They do no wrong to me! I’d never seen any of this stuff though. I feel like I just got my Christmas Gift!
4. This was dope. Boys 12 as young as 12 saying they don’t like black girls really. The situation isn’t dope, but her experience and relating to it was great. A long, but worthwhile read if you as me. Part 1 | Part 2
I have a few more things I might save for later, I need to read it over a little more thoroughly! Hope you enjoy!
I’m being very informative this week! I guess with all the things going on, you can never have enough knowledge on how to make your life simpler by avoid money problems! Today’s topic:
Credit Cards!
The bane of your existence if your under 30 and got those cards while you were in college. I know that I sometimes regret the day that I signed on that dotted line! Or better yet, that I had been better advised on credit card etiquette.
Yahoo! Finance had this great article on how bad are your credit card mistakes, you know what mistakes I mean: paying late or the bare minimum, missing a payment, or just having a slew of cards for no reason. They rated all these bloopers on a scale of 1-10 to give you an idea of how bad your doing! Now, some of these are no-brainers, but others are kind of shocking!
Most Shocking:
Debt Settlement Plans – they rank at 9.5 on the BBAADD scale! Did you know that while yes, this helps you pay less back to your debt, you also take a tax hit? Apparently, it counts as income during that tax year AND you credit will be tarnished! According to yahoo, next to bankruptcy debt settlement is the most negative thing you can do to your credit score! WOWZERS!
Cash Advances – these rank at an 8. I have yet to take a cash advance on a card, and from the looks of this, I won’t be anytime soon! What always scared me was the alarming higher interest rate on them, but apparently you also have NO grace period.
Not so shocking:
Maxing out your CC – HELLO! that isn’t rocket science. Every one knows that! On this scale it ranks a 7. This impacts your credit score, apparently pretty heavily because 30% of your score is based on “credit utilization” — the amount of credit you’ve used relative to the amount you have available!
Having too Many Cards – Guilty as charged! AT one point I had to get rid of a few because they left too much room for me to act up! While this doesn’t really affect your credit score from what the article says, it does say that it isn’t worth your wild to have all those cards because 1. you’re not getting enough value from the card to make it worth the high interest rates. 2. additional complications from additional bills and junk cluttering your inbox and 3. You’re likelihood of missing a payment is higher and the potential for identity theft!
There are a few more on this list, so I definitely think this is worth the read! Check it!
Newest Scam for college kids: being target for “illegal downloads. ” An apparently bogus collections agency that sent out letters to Bucknell students demanding $500 to settle the students’ alleged illegal downloads. Seriously! That’s crazy. Imagine that 10 people actually paid that $500. That’s an easy 5k for some scammer. TAX FREE!!! And who is really going to contest that email they get about illegally downloading something?
Scam!! It’s a scary word and a scary practice. Scammers are ruthless, they don’t care how they get you, as long as they get you. And as time goes on, those scams just get more elaborate.
Other scams for college Student’s are pretty common: Fake scholarship promises, crazy student loans, diploma mills, and other websites that sell you cheating supplies (which is just stupid!) Why would you spend THOUSANDS of dollars on education, just to spend more money faking it through? This is why the value of a college education is dropping, and most jobs require Masters Degrees now. Value your education people.
For more reads on the 6 scams that target most college students check it out!
With every new phenomenon in social networking, researchers are always trying to figure out, or categorize the users and dynamics of why and how it works. The latest internet craze, Twitter is no exception. Friends, who are not users, are always asking me, “What is the point?” or “How does it work?” and I always find it hard to explain. Twitter is something you have to use to understand and see why people like it. This study, done by Professors Naaman and Boase of Rutgers University (RU Rah Rah!!) did a study that revealed their are 2 types of Twitter users: Meformers or Informers.
It’s obvious what an Informer is: They use their tweets to post messages that contain information, like news links. Meformers post what they call “me now” messages. These messages update a users followers about what their thoughts, location, or immediate situation. Sometimes these random thoughts are hilarious. I in fact, love a good random thought!
Meformers typically have less followers than informers. And Informers tend to be active in social awareness streams, and interact more than Meformers. Not all Informers though, sometimes you get news networks or companies that don’t respond (ahem *cough*) But some places are great, l ike @Zappos!
Other info I found interesting in the article:
# Informers have more friends and followers on Twitter than meformers (Informers had a median 131 friends and 112 followers compare to meformers median figures of 61 friends and 43 followers.)
# Females were more likely to post “me now” messages than males. (Forty-five percent of females’ messages were “me now” compared to 37 percent of males’.)
# Posts from mobile devices were more likely to be “me now” messages than posts from non-mobile applications. (Fifty-one percent of mobile-posted messages were “me now” compared to 37 percent of non-mobile messages.)
# Informers mention others in their messages more often.
What am I?
I think I’m a combination of both. I don’t typically share things that I find are already being spread by others, people hate redundancy. I do share info I find new, exciting, or just plain strange! I do go a bit personal sometimes, but I don’t want to seem like a drone while tweeting.
What are you?
I guess Anita Tedaldi never thought she’d have her name spewed across the internet news pages. But when she decided to write about giving up her adopted son to a new home after 18 months, she opened that door.
Short Story Short: Anita has 5 kids, a husband in the military, and decided to adopt a child. She said she’d always wanted to adopt, and didn’t go into it blindly. She became the proud mother of “Baby D” when he was just under a year old. After 18 months with D. she found that she could no longer be his mom because they were having “bonding” issues.
After reading her blog about the ordeal, I get the sense that she did really care for him. I don’t think it was about race, as some have claimed.I think her family (read, her biological kids & husband) didn’t bond with him, and that influenced her decision. On D.’s last day, her daughters barely waved goodbye,
My daughters were watching SpongeBob and said goodbye to their brother almost nonchalantly, as if he was just going out for a bit and would soon be back.
And her & husband fought over this issue. I think its sad that this situation happened to that poor child, but he is still much better off than many other children in his situation. He was adopted by a different family and hopefully he will be treated fairly and with love there.
I gave myself a one week deadline to have this post ready and boy am I cutting it close. I wish I had more pictures of the actual event, but of course in my haste to be on time, I left it. Next Time there will be more event photos!
Kitty Bradshaw, Gap Brand Enthusiast
I am so happy to say that on Wednesday August 12th, I was fortunate enough to celebrate with the Ms. Kitty Bradshaw, Gap Brand Enthusiast for her 1 year Blogiversary! This was my first,of hopefully many, blogger event. In case you haven’t been over to www.Kittybradshaw.com I suggest you do so immediately. Kitty gives us her New York Life from her California perspective. Being that I’m from Jersey, being hip to things in NYC is a must have. She also does reviews, shoes, and so much more. And we all know how much I love shoes.
Gap Jeans and South Pole flats
Kitty and I went shoe shopping together a few months ago, and that was DANGEROUS!! We were bbaaddd for each other!! My pockets are still recovering! Which is why I want to do it again! I loovvveee a fun shopping buddy. Kitty has also been a mentor to me in this blog world. She gives me great advice on how to make my site a success. I <3 Kitty.
Kitty Bradshaw's sponsors
Ok, so enough about Kitty, on with the party!! Th e party was held at Nightengale Lounge in East Village in NYC. Nightengale is on the corner of 13th and 2nd Ave, just a few blocks from the 14th St. PATH station. It was cute, quaint, and best of all cheap! They had happy hour drink specials which included my $5 cosmo and my $4 well drink (bay breeze w/ vodka)! (For those that don’t know what a well drink is, its house vodka or rum mixed with a juice or soda). Kitty gave out some great gift bags, featuring Gap Jeans & South Pole shoes. My bag also included some Almond Cookie lotion from Carol’s Daughter, a soy candle from Yum Yum Candles, and Sprite Green
Kitty's Born to Fit Gift Bag
In addition to racking up on some HOT goodies, I also met some cool new people! I met some of the guys who work at Cake Man Raven (infamous for their Red Velvet Cake), I met Serious Bok of LuxeKultur.com, Tamina of TheMinaScope.com, and Jamilah from TheBeautifulStruggler.com. If you get a chance to check them out, please do! I didn’t get a chance to meet every blogger there, but I am working my way down the reference sheet and checking their sites out.
Maybe one day soon we’ll be having an equally FAB celebration for Cleo Sunshine!!
And last but not least on our Fashion Friday roll call we have this Hot hot hot, FIERCE, SEXY trench coat.
Viktor & Rolf
Ignore the weird painted WHITE (we’re not even going to go into that here, today. but I was all up in arms about the subliminal messages all up and through there) face of the model in the runway show and focus on the sexy ness of that trench. OOoohhhh I want this. I thought I was baaadd in my red trench, but this is mmmm.. yeah .. DOPE!
Imagine this crazy dope, expensive, coat paired with the Frederick’s of Hollywood boots below. Instant Fashion YES!
This cop is a STRAIGHT asshole!! I love how he’s not a racist, but the most recent incident he can remember was in 19 fucking 93!! Anyone who can say “oh I helped a black person then” or “i’m not racist I’ve got a black friend” is seriously some what of a racist. UGGGGHHH!!! arsehole! OH, and he said he will NEVER apologize
I’ve been away for the past few days, so I’m just now getting to discuss the arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. Does everyone know who he is? If you don’t I’m going to suggest you use your Google function quickly! Skip over the recent news articles and find a quick bio, ok!
I don’t really need to get into what happened because most people know by now that Professor Gates was arrested at home after a cop reported to his home for a possible burglary. I think it’s a sad shame that we really don’t live in a post racial US, but to anyone who that’s a surprise to, they need a wake up call.
Gates was arrested for disorderly conduct — what the arresting officer described as “loud and tumultuous behavior in a public space.” I’m sorry, I thought home was private? Since when did someone’s home become a public space? And why did the cop feel the need to arrest him after he showed ID that that was indeed his home? What was the point of continuing questioning after you had verifiable proof that this was the homeowner? This is why so many people share the epitome that cops suck. They really do. They go on serious power trips. They make the few good cops look bad.
Gates was quoted as saying
“We depend on the police-I’m glad that this lady called 911. I hope right now if someone is breaking into my house she’s calling 911 and the police will come! I just don’t want to be arrested for being black at home! I think this was a bit of an extreme reaction.”
The cop refused to show his identification and escalated a hostile situation. He got arrogant and Gates got defensive. It happens many many times with cops. It really sucks that the cop won’t even apologize. I despise people who can’t admit their wrongs. It’s so unattractive. Just admit officer, your a po po in the well known racist area surrounding Cambridge, Massachusetts. You saw an opportunity to exercise the power of the blue shield & used it. UGH.. lemme go on..
I think I’m more upset about some of the comments and things I’ve read on sites like Detroit Free Press and others. Some posters wonder why you would ever question or get snarky with a cop (I didn’t know cops had the right to be bastards???). One poster said he hopes his home really does get robbed, things of that nature. His case is up opening up dialogues about racial profiling and affirmative action. I love to hear dialogue about subjects like this from knowledgeable sources. But when people begin to make blanket statements like “there’s money for blacks to go to college just for being black” I want to jump through my computer screen and smack that person. I hate when people say that black people are given jobs just because of AA. What fucking world do people live in?
Right now the biggest people profiting from Affirmative action are Hispanics. I really do see it AND believe it. Many under barely qualified people are getting jobs just because they can speak two languages. I’m a firm believer that to survive in America you need to speak English. Im sick of getting sent 2 copies of every damn document because people refuse to learn it. It may sound crude or whatever, but hey it’s how I feel.
Back on track, if blacks were given priority then why do they have the highest rates of being being laid off in these “hard economic times?” I don’t believe any person of minority – of any minority- who says they’ve never been stereotyped. It does still happen. I witness it more often than I’d like. I don’t even have to time address this foolishness. I’m going to go watch my recorded Black in America 2 w/ Soledad O’Brien.
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I can imagine this to be true!
