It’s Sunday, it’s beautiful out, and I just can’t resist. Keep reading »
Profile for Amelia McDonell-Parry
Cupcakes Have Never Been So Rock ‘N’ Roll
Get excited! One of our favorite bakeries in NYC, Babycakes, is coming out with a cookbook! As of May 5th, cupcake lovers everywhere will be able to enjoy Erin McKenna’s delicious recipes. In the meantime, watch this adorable promotional video. It’ll drown out the sound of your growling stomach. Keep reading »
Dating Amelia: The Deal With Chicken Parm
For the last few months I’ve been seeing someone – Chicken Parm, as he’s been referred to a few times already — that I met on the online dating site OK Cupid. I signed up for the site on a whim on New Years Day, as I was recovering from my hangover. New Years Eve was the last in a series of breakup milestones, as it would have been my fifth anniversary with my ex, and the first anniversary of our engagement.
I signed up for online dating because I felt officially ready to date again and what better place to find likeminded men than on an online dating site?! Chicken Parm sent me a message and his profile instantly intrigued me. Of the three adjectives he used to describe himself, one of them was “hungry.” I had wanted to describe myself as hungry too, but balked out of fear that it would imply I was hiding a huge ass beneath my head shot. His taste in music was a mix of artists I loved and stuff I’d never heard of, and a lot of hip-hop, which I adore. He was cute and he tanned well. Reply!
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Give It Up For Iowa! Cornhuskers Shuck Ban On Gay Marriage
“[The Iowa State Supreme Court] reaffirmed that a statute inconsistent with the Iowa constitution must be declared void even though it may be supported by strong and deep-seated traditional beliefs and popular opinion.” [AP]
Poll: What’s Your Ultimate Guilty Pleasure?
Times are tough and we know you’re cutting back. But everyone has their indulgences, the things that they just can’t help themselves from enjoying. What’s yours? Keep reading »
“The Virgin Daughters” Examines The Creepy Purity Movement
“The Virgin Daughters” is a documentary directed by Jane Treays (which aired in the U.K. last year) that follows a group of fathers and daughters as they prepare to attend a Purity Ball in Colorado Springs. I’m not sure if or when it will air in the U.S., but you can watch clips online and feel the creepiness. Apparently, one in six girls in the U.S. makes a pledge to her father to remain a virgin until marriage. In the documentary, Treays interviews a family with five daughters, all of whom have or will make a purity pledge to their dad, who says that strong male figures are at the core of this tradition. Gag. His eldest daughter remained a virgin until marriage, but, get this, she also didn’t kiss or hold hands with her fiance until their wedding day. [Channel4.com] Keep reading »
Quick Pic: These Ginormous Boot Pants Make Heidi Klum Feel Sexy
…or that’s a look of desperation, as she probably cannot walk. [Photoshoot for German Vogue, Los Angeles, 4/1/09] Keep reading »
Sex Positive Feminism Is Killing My Girl Boner
Amanda Hess at the Washington City Paper has a bone to pick with feminism. “If I have to endure another essay on the mysteries of the female orgasm in the name of feminism, I may never have an orgasm again,” she writes in “Why Sex Positivity Is Bad For Feminism.” She writes in reference to the Visions in Feminism conference, an annual feminist symposium held at American University, having picked PhD’d porn star Annie Sprinkle as their keynote speaker. While the conference aims to address a wealth of issues — domestic violence, queer feminism, etc. — it ends on a “sex positive” note. “A sex positive polyamorous pansexual bi-gendered individual who enjoys nothing more than talking about and/or having sex” is doing a workshop, followed by Sprinkle’s presentation. I’m gonna give this a resounding “eww.” Why does sex positivity always sound so ickily intellectual? Way to kill my girl boner. Keep reading »
The Most Disgusting, Heinous Things We Put On Our Skin In The Name Of Beauty
Bird droppings, placenta, snail slime…. It’s not a page from Papa Smurf’s spell-casting playbook, but a list of what could be, should be or is part of your beauty regimen. Plenty of companies synthesize substances—snake venom, human sperm—to put in products, but these six grody ingredients are the real yucky deal. Keep reading »
