Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Your Phone Can Freeze Too
Verizon Wireless has been kind enough to provide some tips for keeping your phone running at full capacity during these frigid winter months. Here are a few:
You can read the whole article (which includes more tips) here.
Hey Baya (from "The Real World: Brooklyn")!
You can't dance. Well professionally at least. You look like you enjoy it, and like you are really having fun with it, but it will NOT become your profession (at least not in NYC). Trust.
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PS - All of the views expressed here are purely opinion, and I don't personally know Baya, but I CAN truly make a determination whether or not she can dance well. However, it's still just entertainment y'all.
PPS - If for any reason Baya does in fact get a dancing gig in NYC while she's on the show, BELIEVE ME, it has been set up by MTV, and is ONLY because she is on the show.
Hey Chet (from "The Real World: Brooklyn")!
You ARE gay (allegedly).
You are right that wearing eyeliner, asking other men about their penis size, saying that other guys are cute, making your own clothes, questioning a gay man about his future plans for a bottle of lubricant, and wearing pink scarves and collars are not automatic indicators of homosexuality. However, when you put ALL of them together, it does (allegedly). And Chet HAS done them all in only the 2 short episodes that have aired so far.
Seriously Chet. I'm only saying this because I'm concerned you are repressed, and only a virgin because your religion prevents you from acting on your true desires. Get it together boy, or else you are going to be living a life of frustrated restraint for the rest of your life.
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PS - All of the views expressed here are purely opinion, and I don't personally know Chet, nor can I truly make a determination whether or not he is gay. It' just entertainment y'all.
PPS - He totally deserves it for the comments he made about my borough BROOOOOOOOKLYN. "Brooklyn is usually spoken of as a place that you don't want to end up, I just don't want to get shot down here." - Chet
Hey Urban Outfitters!
I understand that you are all hipster-like (*gag*), and in line with your fellow "we are so cool with our cheaply-made, slightly sloppy, but SO NYC/LA-looking-ish clothes" clothing store American Apparel, always trying to "push the envelope" with your ads, but this is just pointless:
You think this is a "cool" way to advertise home furnishings? Showing as much as the female naked body as you possible can? Please. First of all, it doesn't look natural. It honestly looks like you specifically told her, "arrange the blankets in a way that you are only covering the parts we can't show because we aren't Playboy". It doesn't look dishelved-ly off-guard and passionately messy (which should've been what you were going for if you were going to go in this direction). Silly Urban Outfitters. Not only that, but if you were trying to exude sexiness, you should've gotten a girl with curves so that the portion of her torso and hips that are showing didn't look blah, boy-ish, and ultimately NOT sexy. (*Sigh*)
PS - I do buy things at UO, and am actually a fan of the basics @ AA (like leggings and tanks and wallet pouches), but the ads sometimes are just laughable.
Don't Eat The Peanut Butter Crackers!!!
The Kellogg Co. is recommending that consumers not eat its peanut butter crackers because they may be tainted with salmonella.
The products affected are Austin- and Keebler-branded:
You can read the rest of the article here.
PS - Doesn't that picture make it look like there are hot dogs in the peanut butter? YUCK!!!!!!! (I HATE HOT DOGS. Gross.)
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Oh Brother... Brandy's Brother That Is
Between multiple seasons of "Flavor of Love", "Rock of Love", "I Love New York", "Real Chance at Love", and "Daisy of Love", people are wondering when VH-1 will stop acting like a D-list celebrity dating channel (yet at the same time they don't want them to stop - lol). Well they ain't done yet!
"For The Love of Ray J" debuts on February 2 (just in time for Valentine's Day), and I'm just wondering if Whitney Houston, Lil Kim, or Kim Kardashian will make cameo appearances begging Ray to come back and videotape them some more (just kidding... maybe). Now THAT would make for some great (trashy) reality (but not really real) TV.
You can check out the details, and the contestants and their nicknames here.
Chart Chat
This week's top 20 albums:
1. TAYLOR SWIFT "FEARLESS" 71,527 units sold
2. NICKELBACK "DARK HORSE" 52,529 units sold
3. KANYE WEST "808s & HEARTBREAK" 50,486 units sold
4. BEYONCE "I AM...SASHA FIERCE" 49,365 units sold
5. TWILIGHT "SOUNDTRACK" 42,888 units sold
6. BRITNEY SPEARS "CIRCUS" 40,256 units sold
7. KEYSHIA COLE "DIFFERENT ME" 36,875 units sold
8. JAMIE FOXX "INTUITION" 33,666 units sold
9. VARIOUS "NOW 29" 29,871 units sold
10. AKON "FREEDOM" 26,881 units sold
11. MAMMA MIA "SOUNDTRACK" 25,758 units sold
12. PINK "FUNHOUSE" 23,758 units sold
13. T.I. "PAPER TRAIL" 22,359 units sold
14. LADY GAGA "FAME" 21,225 units sold
15. KATY PERRY "ONE OF THE BOYS" 19,847 units sold
16. TOTAL CLUB HITS "VOL. 2 - TOTAL CLUB HITS" 19,722 units sold
17. KINGS OF LEON "ONLY BY THE NIGHT" 19,402 units sold
18. DAVID COOK "DAVID COOK" 19,394 units sold
19. RIHANNA "GOOD GIRL GONE BAD" 19,340 units sold
20. LUDACRIS "THEATER OF THE MIND" 18,852 units sold
* That Taylor Swift man. She is kicking ASS. I think her songs are cute, and lil girls can relate to them everywhere so more power to her (not to mention the fact that she's pretty and can actually play an instrument).
* Kanye's clearly on a comeback. Just when it looked like "808s" would be a flop, it's started to crawl back up the charts, and has now sold over a million copies. Interestingly enough, "Heartless" is the track that is causing most people to sit up and take notice of this vocoder-laced album. "Love Lockdown" was much better in my opinion, but that lead single didn't drive as many people to the stores. Hmm.
* Beyonce and Britney are both still doing their thing (with over a million in sales for each of them). Hopefully, Brit can release another strong single from that disc (the song "Circus" is just alright in my opinion), and then she may even have a chance to go double platinum with this one.
* Keyshia and Jamie are still holding it down for R&B. In a world where it's hard to sell anything, much less a record you can probably find online for free, it's a big deal for artists to go Gold (500K sold). Thankfully for both of these singers, they've accomplished that feat in a month. Both of their last albums did really well, and so you would assume that these would be no-brainers BUT I don't feel like there was enough press for either release. Good for them that their fans still stuck by their side and purchased the new efforts regardless of the no-show in marketing.
* The entire 200 album chart COMBINED only sold 1,751,563 albums this week. That's sad. Just sad. GO BUY AN ALBUM PEOPLE AND STOP ILLEGALLY DOWNLOADING 'EM!!!
PUT YOUR PHONE (OR FACEBOOK) DOWN!!!!!!!!!
Ok, here's the thing. I'm kinda addicted to my phone, texting, electronic communication, and computers. HOWEVER, I am not like one of those out-of-control peeps who sit through dinners, meetings, and time with friends and family w/o so much as a glance at the person they are with because their eyes and fingers are glued to their phone/blackberry/sidekick the whole time. I will check my phone when I get a message, and I may even write back. But I will not hold on a conversation with someone else ("uh huh", "yeah", "right", "mm hmm"); while typing the entire time to someone else. But unfortunately, this is the wave of the future, and this is what our youth feels is acceptable.
This leads us to this lil nugget of news on a California teen who sent 14,000 messages in one month. Yep. It comes out to like 500 messages a day. A DAY. The bill her Dad received was apparently FOUR HUNDRED PAGES LONG. WTF?!?!?!?!
You can read all about that gem of a child here.
Now that's just stupid. There's really no other way to put it. STU-PID. I do get a ton of texts, but I don't answer them all. I also know when to STOP a conversation that's getting too long on an electronic device. In other words, we can go back and forth on something like 5-7 times, and then that's a WRAP. There is nothing else to say. Good night. If I EVER realized that my back and forth texting was taking up HOURS of my time during the day, I would put a stop to that PRONTO. You know why "losers out there who think that is fine"??? Because at that point, you are no longer LIVING. Life is about interaction, reading books, talking to people, moving around, watching TV, making phone calls, eating, laughing, going to work, learning in school, dancing, etc. You can NOT truly do all those things while staring at a small electronic screen and typing away on your soon-to-be-ravaged-with-carpal-tunnel-syndrome fingers every chance you get.
I can understand periodic status messages on services like Facebook (they can be cute, and informative, and amusing to some IF they are not sent out 44 times a day), but the point of portals like Twitter are to literally update your friends and network with every little thing you are doing ALL DAMN DAY. Honestly. No one is that important. I really don't care what you're doing every half hour (and many people even update it more often). I mean really. The only thing you can say to those sorts of people is ....... GET A LIFE. 
Even on Facebook, there are those who update their status WAY too often, and it's not even with jokes and news items. This one goes out especially to the stay-at-home Moms. Do NOT let me see you posting a play-by-play like "9am: baby's asleep, catching up on laundry", "9:30am: watching a Baby Einstein DVD", "10am: doing some dusting, baby playing with blocks", "10:30am: trying to figure out what I can make for dinner", "11am: baby just smiled!", "11:30am: changing diapers sux", "12pm: should I make chicken for dinner?", etc. Let me tell you something. If that's how your status screen looks, you are NOT a good mother. Seriously. Write me a nasty response letter if you'd like, but it's the truth. Raising a child in this crazy world is a tall order. It's honorable and it's fulfilling... IF you do it right. Being able to stay at home with your child is a blessing, and should not be boring and Facebook-oriented... IF you do it right. Sure, you can check your FB a few times a day, and sure you might want to breeze through some photos and statuses of friends when your child is asleep, but when the updates and FB activity reaches almost "constant" proportions, then you aren't really enjoying or watching your child. Your poor kid is going to grow up thinking that your computer is more important than him/her. You deserve a break, sure. But that break should be when you check your FB, NOT when you play with your baby because you are taking a break from Facebook. Think about it. 
In the end, this instantaneous, automatic gratification, constantly communicating, kinda world has a lot of us addicted. But there's a light at the end of the tunnel. You just have to be the first one to detach yourself from the keys. So do it.
Oprah Had No "Doubt"?
Oprah is claiming that she campaigned for the role eventually given to Golden Globe-nominated actress Viola Davis in the Meryl Streep/Philip Seymour Hoffman film, "Doubt". Hmm...
Oprah says that she could relate to the role (since she has been pretty open about admitting a sexually-abused past herself), but the director wasn't sold. Either way, Viola's gotten rave reviews for her take, so I'm glad she got it. As for Op, I know she was great in "The Color Purple", but I kinda feel like that was a fluke. I'm not sure I look at her as a great actress at all. A philanthropist, a talk show host, a businesswoman, and a brand? Yes. But not an "actress". Sorry there Harpo.
You can read more about it at UsMagazine.com, here.
Bored & Love "The Girls Next Door"?
Then hit up Eonline.com, and take a stab at the "Girls Next Door" crossword puzzle! It's cute and fun, and of course Miss TLC got them all right in no time! :)
Check it out here:
TGND Crossword Puzzle
Saturday, January 10, 2009
To Answer Your Question (Housewives' Lynne's age)...
I've received many questions about a certain housewive's age on "The Real Housewives of Orange County"... yep, you guessed it. It's the "obsessed with being young", "wears spandex as much as possible", "butta-face", "who seems to have a real issue with her age" - Lynne.
You always know you can come to Miss TLC with queries, and I will put on my Diva Detective hat for you.
So how old is Lynne Curtin from "The Real Housewives of Orange County"?
Lynne is 52.
(And no, she should NOT be acting the way she does, ESPECIALLY around her daughters at that age. She needs to grow up.)
Hey Lynne (if you ever read this): That dress you lent your daughter WAS a trashy stripper dress, and you should be ashamed of yourself for not finding anything wrong with letting your FIFTEEN YEAR OLD daughter wear it (I don't care how much it cost).
Friday, January 09, 2009
Where Have I Seen You Before? - Jessica Alba on "Beverly Hills 90210" Edition
As I was flipping through the channels early last Saturday morning, I came across an old episode of "Beverly Hills 90210" on SoapNet. What made me stop wasn't that Kelly Taylor was trying to counsel a pregnant teen in the medical clinic where she worked (because really, who cares, and get over it Kelly, you are not Mother Teresa, and you and Brandon can't singlehandedly solve ALL the world's problems), it was who was playing the pregnant teen.
*** To view past editions of "Where Have I Seen You Before?" search for it by entering the title in quotes in the white search box at the top of this blog. Feel free to do the same with the name of any of our other recurring features. Search is your friend. :) ***
Sexy New Product Alert!
Sofia Coppola and her fam have been in the wine business for a while now. But considering that Sofia's a girl, and has her own endeavors as a businesswoman, it is fitting that she recently launched her own girly, sexy, pretty line of Sofia Minis. I recently received a 4-pack of these "effervescent" mini-cans of sparkling wine with a straw attached to the side, and I must say I truly enjoyed it. For that reason, I am posting some pics, and a link to the Sofia Mini site below for your enjoyment. Sofia Minis are officially endorsed by Miss TLC, since they are frilly, luxurious, sexy, and refined (which are ALL Miss TLC traits). ;)
The case:
Top of the case:
The back of the case which features cutouts of champagne-ish "bubbles":
The can which features sexy words like "effervescent", "poetic", and "fragrant":
And lastly, the front of the can:
Check out the site here, and pick some up now!
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Great Pic Kelly!
MISS TLC SAYS: Now before you go saying that this is disgraceful, because Clive Davis is clearly making her look and act like every other pop tart, in order to get attention and sell this time around, because her last album flopped when she had more creative control and did things her way (take a deep breathe)... I only think you're half right. Yes, it's true that this is definitely being pushed to grab media attention and make her look more pop tart-ish BUT Kelly can really sing. The girl IS truly talented, and making her look pop-y won't take that away.
I am definitely against girls acting like pathetic sluts just to get attention ESPECIALLY when they are only mediocre in the talent department. I am also against bikini-wearing, bending over, covering yourself in anything wet, and/or showing over the top skin for ladies in the music industry. Those are OBVIOUS reaches, and only objectify the female in question (yes, Miss TLC is actually saying something AGAINST sexy-ness). See, the thing is, that's not sexy. In case you aren't aware, here's a quick checklist:
Kelly is not showing too much skin, or reaching too hard with this cover. There's no harm in looking girly, pretty, pushing the sexual innuendo envelope (when you are old enough), and/or showing another side of yourself. All too often, female artists tend to believe that they have to buck that trend in its entirety in order to be taken seriously as an artist. This is not true. You can still let yourself be photographed in sex kitten-ish positions if it's not ALL you are about, and you have that real talent to back you up. So for that, I say Go Kelly. I hope you are at least pleased with this cover, and perhaps it even put you in touch with your sex-a-licious side for once.
UPDATE: You can listen to Kelly's new single here.
Congratulations Mississippi!!!
You have the highest teen pregnancy rate in the country (and apparently you had to work hard to dethrone Texas and New Mexico for the title)!
Here's an excerpt from the article posted on Yahoo.com:
The lowest teen birth rates continue to be in New England, where three states have rates at roughly half the national average, which is 42 births per 1,000 teen women.
It's not clear why Mississippi, with 68 births per 1,000, surged into first place. The state's one-year increase of nearly 1,000 teen births could be a statistical blip, said Ron Cossman, a Mississippi State University researcher who focuses on children's health statistics.
The New Mexico rate was 64 per 1,000; Texas was 63. New Hampshire, with a rate of 19 per 1,000, was the nation's lowest.
What a disgrace. Really people. It's really hard being a teen Mom, and even harder to be a single teen Mom (which you mostttttt likely will end up becoming - sorry, but it's true). You have all the time in the world to have children... when you are older... and more responsible... and settled... and have a job bringing in some real money, as opposed to sitting in high school. Don't do it yourself, your families, and most importantly, your future child. Do your research. Use your brain. And most importantly, use protection CORRECTLY.
Swallow That Gum!
Apparently there is such a problem with chewing gum on the streets of Mexico City that the government is telling people to just shut up and swallow it (Insert drum riff punchline sound effect - pa dum pum ching!). But seriously. They want their citizens to put it in a piece of paper and dispose of it in a trash receptacle or swallow it (Insert drum riff punchline sound effect - pa dum pum ching!).
Hmmm... but I thought we were always told as kids that gum sits in your stomach forever, and can't be digested, and is therefore dangerous to swallow (Insert drum riff punchline sound effect - pa dum pum ching!)??? [Ok, I'll stop. LOL.]
But as it turns out, it's not dangerous at all. Here's a response from Mayo Clinic:
(And no, I'm not Julia from Malaysia.)
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