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French fries causing all sorts of drama
This past week has seen an unusual amount of french fry-related incidents resulting in arrest. Perhaps people are just getting a bit tense under the pressure of meeting (or not meeting) new year’s resolutions? * Thursday evening at a Florida McDonald’s, 75-year-old grandmother Jean Merola was arrested for disorderly conduct following an altercation with a…
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Goldfrapp debuts video, marketers control the world
The video for deliciously avant-garde Alison Goldfrapp’s new single ‘A&E’ from her band’s forthcoming album, Seventh Tree, was released yesterday on the Mute Channel’s Freshly Squeezed. The video is abstract and strange, as can be expected from Goldfrapp, and even if the single is a bit more on the pop side than previous efforts, I…
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Chew your way to a skinny new you!
Time to add one more thing to the ever-growing list of things that Europeans do better than Westerners. Now — just below fashion design, filmmaking and cooking — is the latest addition: Weight loss. According to an article published in the January 12 issue of the British Medical Journal, a 21-year-old woman and 46-year-old man…
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Designers, dykes and tigers, oh my!
As much as I’ve enjoyed the beginnings of Project Runway Season Four, which sports perhaps the queerest cast ever, I often catch myself reminiscing upon the days of my personal favorite season of the show to this point — season two. Particularly the dreamy, though underfed Daniel Vosovic. Based on an interview published earlier this…
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Alive and kickin’
This blog has seen a long hiatus, due to the ending stresses of my second-last semester at UW and a week spent at home for the holidays with family. Far too many calories and one more 4.0 semester GPA later, I am returning to near-daily updates to this blog over the coming weeks. The time…
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