mizChartreuse || redefiningSuccess

Television is not the truth. Television’s a goddamn amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers, and football players. We’re in the boredom-killing business. So if you want the Truth, go to God. Go to your gurus. Go to yourselves! Because that’s the only place you’re ever [...]

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Since the beginning of the year, I have become SO much more natural-hair conscious. I notice us more in commercials and TV shows, in magazines and on the streets. AND I LOVE IT. This is SO awesome. I found this commercial/trailer on the fabulous blog, The Black Bot, and it’s a great promotion for the [...]

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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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Brittany Murphy, a beloved Hollywood actress, died this morning of full cardiac arrest at the age of 32. Brittany Murphy was also an inspiration to me at one point–but probably not in the way you’d initially think. Clueless was a staple of my childhood. Cute, innocent girls livin’ the dream in Cali. When we were younger, [...]

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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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