mizChartreuse || redefiningSuccess

For all the wonderful experiences of Christmas 2009, it sure ended on a super-dramatic note (including us calling the police and our downstairs neighbor calling Sean “Steve” in a drunken stupor). But let’s back the truth trolley up a little bit before I get too deep into the ridiculousness. Christmas Eve was pretty low-key for [...]

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December, 2009. Reality TV. Two words. Jersey Shore. Whether you’ve watched the MTV “Reality” show or not, you’ve heard SOMETHING about it. Perhaps it’s the fact that a girl got sucker-punched in the face at a bar, or that UNICO National, an organization all for advancing the rights of Italian people, is staunchly opposing the [...]

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My heart raced as I sped down Dundee Rd. from Buffalo Grove to my parents’ home in Palatine. It was early October 2004, and I had just gotten off work at Sam Ash. I was scared that he was following behind me on the road, or at home. I was worried that anyone would be [...]

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Is something wrong with these photos? I take umbrage with a couple things. 1. They remade the poster for the UK, deliberately EXCLUDING the black couple in the movie. Why? “A Universal spokesman said the revised advert aimed ‘to simplify the poster to actors who are most recognisable in international markets’.” 2. In the initial poster, [...]

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By now, everybody has heard about the dramz at MTV’s Video Music Awards show last night. If you live under a rock, MTV awarded 17-year-old Taylor Swift’s “You Belong With Me” the coveted Moon Man for the “Best Female Video” category, beating out Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face,” Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies [Put a Ring on It],” [...]

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