October 22, 2008
Okay, not to be all Andy Rooney, but when I was a kid we weren't even allowed to celebrate Halloween, we had a "fall festival" where we dressed up as Bible characters and sang "El Shaddai" and ate S'mores while the unanswered doorbell tolled incessantly as a constant reminder of our exclusion from every kid's favorite holiday. But that story isn't even messed up anymore, now that the phenomenon of little girls wanting to dress like sluts for Halloween is apparently such a huge deal that they had to have an entire segment on CBS This Morning about how to force your daughter to keep her goddamn clothes on until she's old enough to be a real stripper, which, if you need this advice, she will be:
Continue reading How To Keep Your Little Girl From Being A "Sexy Bumblebee" For Halloween...
Posted by Lindsay at 5:45 PM in ,
Tags: Halloween
latest by caringiscool
April 22, 2008
"That's Your Boyfriend" is a game that children and adult bloggers play in malls. A couple of months ago, my friend Stephanie and I brought TYB to the internet, and from time to time Gabe and I will be pointing out your boyfriend, just in case you miss him. Egalitarians, never fear, there will be "That's Your Girlfriend"s, too. Anyway...
According to the comments on this clip from Dutch TV of a television host kissing and, there's really no other word, fondling a singing little boy, we all have dirty minds for calling it creepy and if we just "learned Dutch" it wouldn't be so wrong as to elicit shrieks and screams from everyone I've IMd it to, but I'm sad to say that this guy is definitely your boyfriend:
Continue reading That's Your Boyfriend: "Creepy Dutch Pedophile Singer"...
Posted by Lindsay at 2:14 PM in ,
Tags: Dutch Singer
latest by traquitraqui
April 16, 2008
Barry Sonnenfeld, director of the Men in Black series, is terrified of the internet, and said so in a speech to the National Association of Broadcasters. From Reuters:
Sonnenfeld fears that children today will grow up with "no concept of the right to privacy and in fact not understand the need for it. Because the Facebook generation is not concerned with what people know about them . . . they will have no problem with additional governmental supervision, spying and intervention. They will be thrilled that the Internet will be able to follow their every move.
"I suspect," he said, "we are probably looking at the last generation of Americans that exist in a democracy. Totalitarianism is not far in our future, and the next generation will go down that road happily."
Sure. Sure, Barry Sonnenfeld. There are definitely some questionable aspects about youthful exhibitionism on-line. Mostly, though, I just like to imagine that everything Sonnenfeld says is true, and that the incoming totalitarian regime results in the near annihilation of human civilization, and then the few survivors, huddled around mud fires in their trash huts, tell each other myths of the Prophet Sonnenfeld, and the few remaining histories humans have to remind them of where they came from.
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Tags: Barry Sonnenfeld | Men In Black | Youth Culture
