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DISGRASIAN OF THE WEAK! Taylor Momsen
We know the bar is low for both teenagers and actresses when it comes to awareness of global events and having brains larger than peas and all, but we were still stunned when we read little Taylor Momsen’s response to OK! Magazine’s inquiry about her thoughts on the Haiti earthquake fallout.
Yeah, she's 16.
From OK!
“Um, right now I’m trying to just finish my record and getting through the last season of Gossip Girl for right now. So not so much thinking about that.”
Added Taylor, “But it’s awesome that everyone is ya know working towards a good cause.”
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Filed under: 7.0 Earthquake In Haiti, Actresses, Haiti, Haiti Earthquake, Huh?, Idiots, Nonsense, People That Must Live In A Fucking Cave, People That Should Never Be Considered Role Models, Resenting the Young, Shock, Taylor Momsen, Teenagers, Wacktresses, WTF?, Young Hollywood
H1N1 for Dummies
It’s easy to get worried about stuff, especially swine flu, also known as the H1N1 virus, a virus, that’s facing the world, and has been for long time. Swine flu, a virus, also known as the H1N1 virus, is scary, and bad. We don’t know a lot about swine flu, that is, H1N1, but swine flu is a bad virus, and most people do not want to get it, so it seems. It’s important that Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN’s doctor, is investigating this flu, so that we know more things about it, and find different ways to not get it, and HOLY CRAP DOES ANYBODY PROOFREAD CNN’S FRONT PAGE BLURBS FOR EXCESSIVE COMMAS AND CLUNKY, SIMPLETON, RUN-ON SENTENCES?
[CNN: Dr. Gupta Offers Advice to Parents on H1N1]
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Thanks, Maris and KP!
Filed under: CNN, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Huh?, Is The Recession Causing CNN Online To Hire Second Graders?, Quality Control, Rambling, The Creative Commas, Who Writes This Drivel?, Wow... So Many Questions
Typhoon Palin Expected to Make Landfall in Hong Kong This Month
Take cover, Hong Kong. Typhoon Palin’s about to hit your shores.
CNN reports that Sarah Palin will be the keynote speaker at Hong Kong-brokerage firm CLSA’s Investors conference on September 23 (past speakers have included Al Gore, Bill Clinton, and Alan Greenspan). It will be the first trip to Asia for the 45 year-old, ex-Alaskan governor, who famously bragged during the presidential campaign that Alaska’s proximity to Russia gave her foreign policy street cred.
The Atlantic Monthly wondered what Palin will have to say in Hong Kong, and beyond “bless your hearts,” “maverick,” “hockey mom,” “um, um, well, um,” and “real women obliterate wolves from planes,” we were wondering the same thing ourselves.
[The Atlantic: Palin Goes to Hong Kong...What Will She Say?]
[UPDATE: Business Insider suspects this speaking engagement may be a practical joke. On Palin.]
Filed under: Aerial Wolf Hunting, Articulate People, Hockey Moms, Hong Kong, Hot Messes, Huh?, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin to Hong Kong, STFU, Well-Traveled People
Let’s Get Non-Rowdy
We’re not surprised that writer Cintra Wilson, shopping for the NY Times Style section last week, felt out of place during her visit to Derek Lam’s flagship house of luxe on Crosby Street in NYC’s SoHo. After all, let’s be honest. Few would.
But we’ve been struggling for days to figure out why Wilson, while characterizing Lam’s high-cotton world (and rather resentfully so), also took this sideways potshot at his “Eastern” demographic:
“Mr. Lam’s flagship is his version of that genteel world where the rich are still as spoiled and sheltered as they ever were; his customer is a precious orchid, lovingly tended and exhibited under his enormous acrylic bell.This recipe for femininity looks, to me, as if it is aimed toward a stereotypical Hong Kong billionaire’s wife. The clothes evoke a demure, under-control, decidedly non-rowdy (read: non-Western) type of woman who appreciates her role as an ornament of great value, and sits prettily and quietly in Gulfstream jets.”
Funnily enough, Jen and I are actually quite familiar with a Hong Kong billionaire woman or two. And let me tell y’all, those bitchez iz crazay! They’re not demure, nor under-control, nor “decidedly non-rowdy” (gosh, the more I think about it, the more Wilson’s description seems fitting of Kate Gosselin).
…So does that make them, um, Western?
[NY Times: Critical Shopper - Luxury in a Bell Jar]
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Thanks, Livia!
Filed under: Cintra Wilson, Crosby Street, Death to Luxury, derek lam, Eastern vs. Western, Elitism, Flagship Stores, High Class Problems, Huh?, NYC, Ornamentals, Snark, The New York Times, This is Bullshit
Things That Make You Go Hmm…
Topless sunbathing photos of Zhang Ziyi and her BF Vivi Nevo in St. Barts surfaced this week, with lots of fanfare made about Miz Zhang’s perky lil A-cups and her BF’s gift for ass-kissing.
Butt really…forget all that. What’s important here is homegirl’s tanning strategy:
Who tans only the top of their ass crack?
I’m so confused.
Filed under: Ass Crack, Bizarre Tanning Strategies, Huh?, Tanned Ass Cracks, Vivi Nevo, Zhang Ziyi, Zhang Ziyi Topless Sunbathing Photos
File Under Weird Chinese Behavior
Saddam lives! And he likes his chicken wings spicy!
A Shenyang, China restaurant uses Saddam’s mug to hock their food, because there’s nothing like the image of a dead despised dictator to whet the appetite.
Yummmmmm!
[via BuzzFeed]
Filed under: Dickheads, Dicktators, Huh?, Saddam Chinese Chicken Wings, Saddam Hussein, Spicy Stuff, Weird Chinese Behavior
Love Animasian
We learned via TechCrunch that the newest Interwebs sensation in Japan is a social networking/virtual dating site called Webkare (“web boyfriend”). The site is geared exclusively towards girls and, to participate, they compete and collaborate with other members to win the heart of one four desirable cartoon boys on the site.
Let’s ignore the details of the competition for now. From a glance at the boys, I can admit that they are among the, um, prettiest virtual people I’ve ever seen. But until somebody looks like my boyfriend Teppei Teranishi…
…I’m not playing.
Filed under: A New Take On Internet Dating, Boyfriends, Cartoon Love, Computers Don't Snuggle, Huh?, Stuff We Don't Understand, Teppei Teranishi, Viral Internet Trends, Weird Japanese Behavior, Yum
Hey (Hey!) You (You!), We Don’t Think You’re Sexy
In what has become a grand tradition of trying to make immodest musical performers (like Gwen and Beyonce) bow down in fully-clothed, booty-not-shakin’ fashion, the Islamic opposition party of Malaysia has turned its efforts towards banning an Avril Lavigne performance set for August 29 in Kuala Lumpur.
MTV.com reports:
“‘It is considered too sexy for us. … It’s not good for viewers in Malaysia,’ party official Kamarulzaman Mohamed said. ‘We don’t want our people, our teenagers, influenced by their performance. We want clean artists, artists that are good role models.’ Kamarulzaman sent protest letters to the Culture, Arts and Heritage Ministry and Kuala Lumpur’s mayor last week, calling for the concert to be canceled.”
We’ve banned Ms. Lavigne–from, well, our lives, basically–for a number of reasons:
1) Her Mandarin sucks
2) Too short
3) Diana hates poseurs more than hippies (which is saying something)
4) Homegirl is probably a plagiarist
5) “Skater” is not spelled, “sk8ter” in our book, which is the only book we care about
6) She’s really, super, creepily short
7) Stupid eyeliner
Dear God is she little
Anyway, NONE OF THESE ITEMS involve her being too sexy.
We just. Don’t. See it. We just don’t.
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Thanks, Jasmine!
Filed under: Avril Lavigne, Avril Lavigne Malaysia, Beyonce Knowles, Gwen Stefani, Huh?, Midgets, Muslasians Hate Avril, She's Too Sexy For Her Kohl Eyeliner and Clothing Line?, Weird Malaysian Behavior
As You Wish?
CNN.com recently aired a piece on a new concept-based cafe that allows Tokyo women to be “princesses”–that is, wear fake tiaras and dine on sweets and teas–while being waited on men.
Or, to be more clear, “Western” dudes.
According to the CNN report, female cafe owner Yuki Hirohata came up with the concept by walking the streets of Tokyo’s Shibuya ward. Two hundred women told her that they wanted a cafe where the waiters were all “male, good looking, treated them nice, but most importantly, were Western.”
“‘Being a gentleman is embarrassing for Japanese men,’ says cafe owner Yuki Hirohata. ‘Our culture isn’t like that.’ Hirohata says women are exhausted by the rules of Japanese society, unyielding in its expectations of a woman’s role in maintaining a career, home, husband, and family.
‘We’re tired from our daily lives,’ says [a] customer. ‘These guys are different from Japanese men. They’re smoother, and make me feel special.’“
Um, what the hell is going on? First of all, everybody knows the whole “princess” thing is tired and requires far more than a cheap tiara and some tea (get me DIAMONDS! AND GOWNS! AND SOME PEACOCKS!) to be properly executed.
Moreover, are we gonna sit back and let a bunch of sleazy expats take all the credit for gentlemanly behavior? COME ON, bros! Time to step it up! Let’s (you) open some doors, and pull out some chairs, and pour some champagne, and put some caviar on blini with some creme fraiche and egg whites! And how about some sexy tunes? And how about taking the dog out while we’re (you’re) at it?
All of this is not hard and I know there are gentlemen among you…so step it up and hold on to our ladies! This is a matter of pride.
Ick.…Especially cuz, er, the bar for chivalry actually seems pretttttty low.
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Thanks, Maris!
Filed under: Butlers Cafe, Chivalry, Diamonds, Ex-Pats, Huh?, Princess themes are Wack, Theme Cafes, Threats to Manhood, Weird Japanese Behavior
Such Great Heights
News outlets are alive with yesterday’s word that “Professor Splash,” (aka Darren Taylor) a professional high-diver, broke his own Guinness World Record for highest shallow water dive at Colorado hotspot, Hyland Hills Water World.
Even though we don’t think he’s an actual professor (like Jen’s dad), we have to give Taylor props for accomplishing this lifelong pursuit of a world record! Our parents have always wanted us to break some kind of world record–most lives saved, most consecutive perfect gymnastics scores, least amount of time needed to find a disease cure–and we’ve never been able to do it.
But Taylor is a world champion! And more than that, a man who has reached his lifelong goal!
…of um, diving 35 feet, 4 inches. Into a kiddie pool. Filled with 12 inches of iced water.
Er… congratulasians? The competition must have been very stiff.
Filed under: Belly Flopps, Bizarre Ambitions, Congratulasians, Dubious Achievements, High-Dives, Huh?, Professor Impersonators, Professor Splash
Graydon Carter Must Be On Vacasian…
…cuz in Vanity Fair’s phantasmagorical, bizarro best blog world, Michelle Malkin is kickin’ it real close to our pal Arianna, and DISGRASIAN is nowhere to be found!
Filed under: Arianna Huffington, Bests, Bloggers, Dumb Graphic Ideas, GFY Rules, Graydon Carter, Huh?, Michelle Malkin, Stuff White People Like Is A Hit, Unlikely Bedfellows, Vanity Fair, Where The Heck Are We?
Only Time Will Tell
A Historical Timeline of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Progress, 1860-2008:
1860. German activist Karl Heinrich Ulrichs “pioneers” the LGBT rights movement, by coming out publicly and writing books about boy-boy and girl-girl lurve as well as gender variance. He fancies himself “a female psyche in a male body,” which makes him kinda DISGRASIAN’s 19th century soul sista!
1898. German doctor and scribe Magnus Hirschfeld forms the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee to combat the “Paragraph 175″ Law, which makes sex between men illegal.
1940s. The homophile (focused on love more than sex) movement begins with groups in the Netherlands and Denmark, and continue throughout the 1950s and 1960s with groups in Sweden, Norway, the United States, France, Britain and elsewhere. ONE, Inc. is the first public homosexual organization in the United States.
1969. After the Stonewall riots, in which a group of transgender, lesbian and gay male patrons at a New York bar resist a police raid, the Gay Liberation movement rallies and fluorishes. Organizations like the Gay Liberation Front and Gay Activists’ Alliance are born, bringing together hundreds of people that are loud, proud, queer, here, and damned sure to make people used to it.
1978. The International Lesbian and Gay Association forms and continues to campaign for gay and lesbian human rights with the United Nations and country governments.
1990. Queer Nation is founded by AIDS activists from the group ACT UP. Outraged at growing anti-gay and lesbian violence on the streets and prejudice in the media, they start using confrontational tactics and slogans to show that they are a formidable foe.
2004. Massachusetts recognizes gay marriage as legal. Connecticut, Vermont, New Jersey, and New York create unions for same-sex partnerships that aren’t marriages, explicitly defined as offering all the rights and responsibilities of marriage under state (though not federal) law to same-sex couples. Maine, Hawaii, District of Clumbia, Oregon, and Washington create legal unions for same-sex couples that offer varying subsets of the rights and responsibilities of marriage under the laws of those jurisdictions.
2008. The Caliornia Supreme Court rules that excluding same-sex couples from marriage is unconstitutional. Effectively, gay marriage becomes legal in California. DISGRASIAN drinks multiple glasses of rose champagne to celebrate!
2008. Reality star Tila Tequila takes credit for the good news in California: ““It is because of me. I definitely think (my show) has helped the movement… Before it came out, everyone was still a little apprehensive about (same sex relationships), then they realized, ‘Wow, everyone is really into this stuff, and it is fine.’ The next thing you know, (gay marriage) is legal.”
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Thanks, jRu!
Filed under: Assholes, Fuck Off, Give Me a Freakin' Break, Huh?, Nonsense, Progress, Same-Sex Marriage, Taking Credit Where Credit Is Undue, This is Bullshit, Tila Tequila, Uh...WHAT?
