In poor taste

April 02, 2008

This Thing is A Lot Like That Thing: Strike a Pose!
By Sharon Steel
Tee hee! We're all a-titter over this week's Observer cover, although we can imagine Anna Wintour has an enormous bee buzzing in her bonnet right about now. Oh my!

Here is this April's cover of Vogue, featuring LeBron James and Gisele Bundchen. It was shot by Annie Leibovitz: click for what might have been her "inspiration."

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artsy fartsy, beat downs, Celebrity

March 31, 2008

The Stupidest Bike Lane
By Will Spitz
Last week, Slate's video editor Andy Bowers posted a video of his self-nominated "Stupidest Bike Lane in America," a lane in Western Los Angeles that runs a mere 275 feet before disappearing suddenly and completely amidst busy LA traffic - sort of a "Fuck off" to bikers from LA road officials. The video:

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film, i love my bike, In poor taste

March 27, 2008

Flashbacks: Press under fire, pro-wrestling as a window onto the Zeitgeist, and the Boston-based followers of a Kid Guru
By Ian Sands

PRESS UNDER FIREce:office" />

5 years ago
March 28, 2003 | Dan Kennedy talked to UVA professor Larry Sabato about the drawbacks of embedded reporting during the Iraq War.

" 'I suppose the embedding is useful overall, and occasionally...it has resulted in on-the-spot coverage of hard news,’ says.

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Flashbacks, From the archives, Humps

March 12, 2008

SPITZER IMAGE
By Clif Garboden
We dont' really want to encourage just any old T-shirt opportunist, but -- totally without endorsement -- we have to share this limited offer.
And on an unrelated, but equally exploitive note, our inside informants report that coming soon to a bar in Allston -- it's Obama Beer. Not the Kenyan brand; that's old news; but a domestic brew straight out of Brooklyn.

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booze, In poor taste, Lame Politicians

March 03, 2008

The Plus Side of Being a Model?
By Sharon Steel

I'm delighted that the Telegraph decided to feature Crystal Renn, an extraordinarily successful plus-size model, in a feature today. But here's what I don't get. This is how writer Judy Rumbold opens her piece:

To be honest, I expected Crystal Renn to be bigger. All right then, fatter. In the mind's eye, the term 'plus-size model' is liberally coated in doughnut batter, and I had her down as a gloriously buxom woman-mountain.

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beat downs, Fashion, Gimme a break

December 20, 2007

Oh crap (Spears content).
By Carly Carioli

Ellee spread the word over on Slop earlier (complete with a fantastically crafted illustration - Ellee, you are a Photoshop genius), but Pat Lyons*, over at the NYT's Lede blog, considers a entirely different aspect to the story:

"The father of the child is variously reported to be 18 or 19 years of age, and she is 16.

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Bald Britney, breaking the law, Celebrity

December 11, 2007

Tackiest headline/lede combo for a story ever?
By Ryan Stewart
This headline was on E! today:

Alex Trebek Jeopardized by Heart Attack

Then, to compound matters, here's the first paragraph:
The category? Cardiac events. The clue? Alex Trebek.

For those wondering, Trebek is okay. But the Phoenix staff was inspired to come up with some other possible future headlines to describe tragic events in the lives of other noteworthy gameshow hosts.

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In poor taste

November 27, 2007

Bindi Irwin Raps about Grizzly Bears; Has Gay Back-Up Enviro-Bitch Dancers
By Sharon Steel

Playing catch up on Jezebel, I caught this horrifying freakshow of Bindi Irwin rapping about the jungle book, grizzlies, and orangutans on Today. The fact that her mother let this happen makes me want to hurt someone. This girl needs a Degrassi marathon and some pants that aren't pedal-pushers. More importantly, therapy.

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Celebrity, Freak show, In poor taste

October 09, 2007

The abstinence only campaign, OR how to get an education, a family, and happiness
By Caitlin E. Curran

My favorite blog of the moment, Feministing, reports today on the Bush administration’s national abstinence campaign, which is apparently in full swing, despite heaps of evidence proving that abstinence-only education doesn’t work. From a related entry on ThinkProgress:

"...this 'information' is not grounded in science.

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Politics, government-sponsored crappy commercials, In poor taste

August 22, 2007

Going for the throat: Herald sets record for vampire puns
By Carly Carioli

The Weekly World News may be dead -- long live the Weekly World News -- but who needs it when we've got Boston Herald covers like this one? We were reminded today that the WWN -- bless its putrid, beautiful soul -- perished not because its niche shrank, but precisely because the opposite happened: its practice of fabulism, shameless hyperbole, and proud, profound disdain of anything so mundane as "the facts" metastasized into general practice for the mainstream media.

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Criminals, In poor taste, Old News

August 09, 2007

Breadfan vs. Bedfan
By Carly Carioli

Breadfan.

Bread-fucking-fan.

Bedfan.

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Awesomeness, In poor taste, Internet

July 31, 2007

Vindicated!
By Nina MacLaughlin

Yesterday was a day of triumph for Tom Lehrer. "It just takes a smidgen’ to poison a pigeon," the Harvard-educated comedian gleefully sang in 1959. "When they see us coming, the pigeons all try an’ hide, but they still go for peanuts when coated with cyanide." In his strained rhyme, Lehrer satirically worried about the response of the Audubon Society, but, as it turns out, his methods have finally earned the approval of animal-rights activists.

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music, In poor taste, Questionable motives

July 16, 2007

Croc-ed out
By Caitlin E. Curran

In a way, Crocs and Paris Hilton have a lot in common: both are plastic-y and make unreasonable amounts of money; people are obsessed with them (or rather obsessed with talking about them), and no one can really figure out why. The ugly croslite gardening clogs have been the subject of newspaper trend and business stories for well over a year now - we first spotted the apparently widespread fad in its early stages, via Allstonian hipster feet in and around the Harvard Ave area two summers ago - and now they’re experiencing a media resurgence, due mainly to the facts that business is still booming for the Crocs company, and, more importantly, George W.

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Politics, Celebrity, crocs

May 17, 2007

When Irony Attacks...
By Ian Sands

You know shit's fucked when your anti-kidnapping chief is kidnapped. (thanks Ben)

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In poor taste, Things we never expected to see

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This Thing is A Lot Like That Thing: Strike a Pose!
Published 4/2/2008 by Sharon Steel
Tee hee! We're all a-titter over this week's Observer cover, although we can imagine Anna Wintour has an enormous bee buzzing in her bonnet right...

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The Stupidest Bike Lane
Published 3/31/2008 by Will Spitz
Last week, Slate's video editor Andy Bowers posted a video of his self-nominated "Stupidest Bike Lane in America," a lane in Western Los Angeles that...

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