Hey, lady. You, lady. Beloved celebrity of my generation, icon with a career spanning decades. I saw a story about you today and I was excited, because I’ve always been your fan. Then I looked at it. And I just want to know one thing. Girl, what the eff have you done to your face?I’ve tried to ignore it. I’ve tried not to say anything. Not just to you, today, but to lots of female celebrities, for years. I want to believe that if you were to go out and get a tattoo that said “I LOVE CHEESE” across your forehead, I would support your right to do whatever makes you happy. And as someone who keeps a stock of hair color in her closet in case there’s ever a Feriapocalypse, and who doesn’t own an item of makeup or moisturizer that doesn’t boldly feature the word “youth” on the packaging, I’m not one to espouse growing older gracefully. I’d never sell anybody on the nobility of looking like you just stepped out of a Dorothea Lange photograph.Continue Reading… … Read More
Dear famous actresses: Your looks scare me
Hey, lady. You, lady. Beloved celebrity of my generation, icon with a career spanning decades. I saw a story about you today and I was excited, because I’ve always been your fan. Then I looked at it. And I just want to know one thing. Girl, what the eff have you done to your face?I’ve tried to ignore it. I’ve tried not to say anything. Not just to you, today, but to lots of female celebrities, for years. I want to believe that if you were to go out and get a tattoo that said “I LOVE CHEESE” across your forehead, I would support your right to do whatever makes you happy. And as someone who keeps a stock of hair color in her closet in case there’s ever a Feriapocalypse, and who doesn’t own an item of makeup or moisturizer that doesn’t boldly feature the word “youth” on the packaging, I’m not one to espouse growing older gracefully. I’d never sell anybody on the nobility of looking like you just stepped out of a Dorothea Lange photograph.Continue Reading… … Read More
Demonstrators in New York rage over US ban on French cheese mites
AFP - Around 40 protesters took to the streets of New York on Saturday to demonstrate against a US ban on mimolette that has angered lovers of the distinctive French cheese. Since March, several hundred pounds of the bright orange cheese have been held up by US customs because of a warning by the…
15 Ways to Prep with Holiday Leftovers
Instead of eating endless meals of leftovers until you never want to see another slice of ham as long as you live, try preserving those leftovers and adding them to your preps. … Read More
Classic Philly cheesesteak joint drops racial slur from name
A classic Philadelphia cheesesteak restaurant is changing its name after almost seven decades from “Chink’s” because of fear of causing racial offense. Chink’s Steaks has been renowned for its girth-busting meat and melted cheese sandwiches since it was opened by Samuel…
Aaron Sorkin hopes to address Sandy Hook shooting in next season of “The Newsroom”
At a Q&A session at Sunday night’s PaleyFest in Los Angeles, Aaron Sorkin announced the charged subjects that his most recent drama, “The Newsroom,” will cover in its upcoming coming season: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Trayvon Martin, the Affordable Care Act and drones, to name a few. But Sorkin also wants to address the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting that left 26 dead in 2012. He’s just not sure how to do it, yet. “Obviously Newtown is something that was an important moment to all of us and the last thing you want to do is handle it poorly,” he said.”That’s a tough thing to write about without minimizing it or exploiting it or just spreading cheese wiz all over it,” he told the audience. “You could stop before Sandy Hook. That is the only way you could do it. On the other hand, there are so many land mines to step on. You want to make sure you don’t do a disservice to the story that is very important to all of us.”“So at the moment, I am sort of looking down the calendar at Sandy Hook and that is my fear there.” Although “I am not a hundred percent sure,” he added, “(But) I bet we do.” ;Continue Reading… … Read More
Several houses in Florida have been evacuated as man-swallowing sinkhole grows
Several Faithway Drive houses were determined by investigatorsto be in danger, as the authorities warned the sinkhole wasunstable and could grow.”We are still delineating the edge of the sinkhole. We don’tknow if it has changed,” newspaper The Tampa Tribune quoted thePresident of an engineering company, Larry Madrid, who also addedthat heavy equipment ‘should arrive on the scene later today orSunday’.“I cannot tell you why it has not collapsed yet,” AP hasquoted, Bill Bracken, the owner of another engineering companycalled to assess the sinkhole. He described the earth below as a“very large, very fluid mass.”Florida is highly prone to sinkholes because of the undergroundprevalence of limestone, a porous rock that easily dissolves inwater, creating caverns.“You can almost envision a piece of Swiss cheese. Any housein Florida could be in that same situation,” sinkhole expertTaylor Yarkosky told AP.On Saturday rescuers ended their effort to find Bush, who hadvanished under the earth, sucked in into a sinkhole that suddenlyopened under his bedroom in a suburban Tampa home.After lowering listening devices and cameras into the holerescuers did not detect any signs of his body. Officials said forsafety reasons they are now planning to demolish the whole houseinto the hole.The hole, estimated to be 20 feet across and 20 feet deep,literally swallowed the 37-year-old man, along with his bed,television and dresser into the ground as it broke through theconcrete floor of his bedroom on Thursday.As Bush was presumed dead on Friday, his brother described as hejumped in to try to save his sibling that he “heard himhollering my name to help him,” said Jeremy Bush.Six people, including a 2-year-old child, were inside the houseat the time of the incident.“I feel in my heart he didn’t make it,” Bush told TampaTV station WFTS. “There were six of us in the house, five gotout.”When the emergency team got to the scene “all they could seewas a part of a mattress sticking out of the hole,” saidHillsborough County Fire Rescue Chief Ron Rogers.County administrator Mike Merrill described the home as“seriously unstable,” warning that more lives could be lostif people continue to occupy the house.A 400-foot sinkhole near Orlando in 1981 swallowed up fivesports cars, two businesses and a three-bedroom house. More than500 sinkholes have been reported in Hillsborough County since1954. … Read More
