SubscribeMonthly Archives: November 2010
Parting Tweet: Vinny Likes To Leave Lady Parts To The Imagination
Meghan: What is he trying to imagine?
Me: A penis…. More »
College Admissions: A Case Against Early Decision Applications
High school students from wealthy families often have a leg up when it comes to getting into college. Many times they live in better districts, can afford lots of SAT prep, essay help and other expert help for the applications. And there’s also an argument that the Early Decision process unfairly favors rich kids.
Christopher Griffin, a high school guidance counselor, has written an essay for DistrictAdministration.com about the college admissions industry. And he has a rather unorthodox solution to fixing its inequities: namely ending the early decision process. More »
Courtney Cox is Laughing Her Ass Of Right Now – Ever wanted to see the failed David Arquette pilot, D.I.R.T.? Of course you did, it involves the Scream 4 actor dressed as a giant squirrel. (Vulture)
Alcoholic Whipped Cream? Yes, Please
And here we thoughts whippits went out of style after high school graduation. But there’s a product that’s got parents worried about dessert toppings again: alcoholic whipped cream.
Companies like Cream and White Lightning are selling canisters filled with 30 proof cream. Which naturally has parents and concerned citizens worried about alcohol poisoning. And us worried about one thing: Where do we get some?
Come on. It’s called White Lightning? These people are just pandering to the Four Loko/Bros Icing Bros crowd. And it will probably work. More »
Very Mary-Kate Presents: The Photo Shoot
There is that time in every young girl’s life when she’s on the cover of Vogue for the 18th time and she just has to ask herself, “Is it like, cold in here?” In this episode of Very Mary-Kate, the answer is always “Angry birds.” More »
Sex On the Wire: Batporn!
• Guess what’s good for you? Drinking, cranking tunes, and shouting your favorite four-letter word. Who knew? (AOL Health)
• You’re a virgin. He’s a stud. can you guys ever be sexually compatible? (Lemondrop)
• The best of porn parodies for nerds! (Buzzfeed)
• Tom Ford and Terry Richardson have make-out time. (The Gloss)
• Real Housewives of Atlanta begs the question: Do purity rings lose their magic after a certain age? (The Frisky) More »
Norwegian company makes menstruating women wear red bracelets – This is a super secret way to let managers know why certain women are going to the bathroom so much, which is apparently a productivity issue in Norway. But what if you period doesn’t go with your outfit? (The Hairpin)
Gallery: ‘Chronicles Of Narnia: Voyage Of The Dawn Treader’ Full Of Bieber Hair, Crystals
We thought we were obsessed with C.S. Lewis‘ Chronicles of Narnia, but we have nothing on the Brits apparently, who brought on their own queen for the Leicester Square World premiere. Check out our gallery below to see all the brilliant examples of Justin Bieber hair and fake crystals from across the pond More »
Poll: Would You Wear Spirys’ Eyelash Jewelry?
Spirys is an Etsy store that sells intricate, vibrant jewelry… for your eyelashes! Weird, right? At first we were a little put off by the idea of gluing beads and feathers to the lids of our peepers, but as we browsed through the photos we came around to the idea. Some of these are pretty rad! And at $11 – $20 a (reusable) pop, they’re completely affordable.
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Johnny Depp Has Sense Of Humor About Pirates of The Caribbean- Besides calling normalcy “weird” in his latest interview, Johnny tells us a story about Michael Eisner hating his portrayal of Captain Jack Sparrow. Depp to lady at Disney: “But didn’t you know that all my characters are gay?” (Vanity Fair)
Hot Shot: Jon Hamm
Jon Hamm is one of those rare guys we prefer seeing with more clothes on rather than off. Given the choice between a naked Jon and a Jon attire in a fitted blazer and scarf, we’d take the outdoors look every time. We guess it just better fits with out fantasy of being pulled aside for a quickie in the Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce bathroom. Because who has time to remove the aviators in a fit of passion like that?
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Crushable Quotable: George W. Bush Speaks Truth To Facebook
George W. Bush and Mark Zuckerberg may seem like an unlikely duo, but when they both assembled before an audience of 7,000 online viewers yesterday (as well as some IRL audience members at the Facebook HQ), we were reminded that the twosome isn’t so different after all. Didn’t they both get movies about them made by overly-ambitious screenwriters? Aren’t they both, um…actually that’s all we could come up with. So why was our former commander-in-chief talking to the world’s second-youngest billionaire and famed entrepeneur? More »
Textual Healing: The Text-lationship And How To Avoid It
If you have dated in the age of text messaging, chances are you have encountered the text-lationship. You know what I mean: there are those guys who you find yourself having hours-long text convos with who never seem to get it together enough to ask you out on a real date. If you try to nail down a time to hang out and get nothing but brush-offs, followed by “What’s up?” texts the next weekend, you’re probably in a text-lationship. And a dead-end one at that. I had experienced this before, to my dismay, but until now I didn’t quite have a name for it. (Thank you, The Frisky.) More »
Video: PS22 Sings with Skeleton of Kylie Minogue
Wow, that was really harsh Thai, but it’s totally true: We are happy that Kylie Minogue had time to climb her way out of Hades and make an appearance with the PS22 chorus, who all know the words to her very popular song “Put Your Hands Up,” but at the same time, that lady needs to un-Madonna-fy herself, fast. She is really scary looking.Kuy More »
Crushable’s Cat Lady: Secret Stalking Is The Best Stalking
Dear Cat Lady,
OMG OMG OMG I just found out that the boy I like can see EVERY TIME that I’ve visited his online dating profile and he wasn’t even supposed to know that I knew about it in the first place because we go to school together and he TOLD ME HE WAS DATING SOMEONE and that was why he couldn’t go out with me and then I found his profile and then I looked at it like every ten… More »
IFP’s Gotham Indie Film Awards Brought Lots Of Black To The Red Carpet
Leighton Meester, Natalie Portman and Hilary Swank? All wore black to last night’s IFP awards. We suppose the moody hue is the uniform of indie film, so we shouldn’t be all that surprised. At least didn’t step out in Chuck Taylors and hoodies with their faces buried behind Final Cut Pro monitors, right? Check out our gallery of darkly attired celebs. More »
Congratulations Krissy, Our Black Friday Giveaway Winner!
Shopping horror stories CAN have happy endings. At least this one does. Crushable reader Krissy won us over with her story of waiting in the rain and getting body checked by a crazy mom on Black Friday. Today, we’re sending her a gift bag full of goodies hand picked from Crushable’s holiday gift guide. More »
Barbie’s Actual Dreamhouse, Now Less Barfable - Lady Gaga‘s makeup artist Darian Darling has turned their entire home into a Barbie-inspired 60s lounge. And its not at all hideous: it’s actually really cool. Way to go, baby monster! (Apartment Therapy)
Poll: Is 14 Too Young To Have Sex?
Khloe Kardashian was on The View yesterday, where she divulged the fact that she first had sex at 14. And she regrets it. More than that, she said it was “not normal.” What do you think, Crushable readers? Is 14 too young to have sex? More »
Interview: ‘Reasoning With Vampires’ Creator Discusses ‘Twilight’ Abuse
Yesterday we were introduced to the most amazing Tumblr to ever come from a book series, Reasoning with Vampires. The author of the site, Dana, has taken on the Herculean task of proof-reading all of Stephanie Meyers‘ books (the Twilight Saga, The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner) and relating back to us all the narrative, grammatical, and yes, even spelling issues that pepper the YA prose.
We emailed Dana and asked her to comment on a couple of her favorite (least favorite) passages, and give her advice for vampire dating etiquette. More »