Category: reality check
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The Hills Are Alive. But Just Barely.
I can’t believe I haven’t yet had time to talk to you about the return of The Hills. I’m sure you’ve been concerned about what’s happening on the show now that Lauren Conrad has gone off to pick trash up off the beach, write YA novels, and design clothes for Kohl’s. I have been too.…
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Why We Can’t Help But Love Lauren Conrad
It’s Lauren Conrad’s last season on The Hills, they’re saying, and it seems to me a good opportunity to self-examine why I can’t seem to feel anything but love for her. She’s pretty much everything we should hate: fabulously rich, dubiously famous, amazingly beautiful, and accepting hand-over-first the extraordinary opportunities presented to her. But despite…
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Alexander Chee posted this on Facebook: a capitalist response to the #amazonfail debacle. Yes, taking gay books—or any books—off the rankings list seriously limits how many will sell, but isn’t it up to the bookseller to decide what the market wants, what it will sell and how it will sell it? (More behind the link.)…
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French New Wave Cinema, Meet Top Chef
I was catching up with my old lover TiVo last night, having been occupied every night for the past week and a half (by the end of this busy stretch, I’ll have had daily & nightly obligations for a solid two weeks). Top priorities: America’s Next Top Model and Top Chef. Top Chef‘s episode of…
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