Jezebel Saturday, February 16, 2008

• The Postmarks Sing About Balloons On <i>Yo, Gabba Gabba!</i> [Clips]
  newVideoPlayer("yogabgababaloons_jez.flv", 463, 387,"");It may be intended for children, but Nick Jr.'s Yo Gabba Gabba! is suuuuuch a good show. It's supposed to be educational for kids, but it's... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• Natalie Portman Steps Out With Beefcake; Wellingtons [Snap Judgment]
  [Berlin, Germany; February 14. Image via Flynet] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• Dark Matter, Light Reading! [News Roundup]
  "'Please leave me alone. ... This is a very hard time for me,'" he said as he threw his arms up and wept. WSJ] Dark Matter, a Meryl Streep movie about an Asian campus shooter delayed following the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• Indian secretary of education, Rina Ray, ... [Ad Nauseam]
  Indian secretary of education, Rina Ray, is speaking out against a ad she finds offensive to women. It's a commercial for life insurance, and, according to the Times of India, "it "features a father... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• This Week We Choo-Choo-Chose Polyamory, The Cosby Kids, Mariah Carey And Cunts [The Week That Was]
  Love was in the air this week, especially for these gorillas who were doing it missionary. From now on, missionary sex will be referred to as "gorilla style." Maybe they should have bought condoms... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• Pete Doherty + Pimple = Proceed At Own Peril [Snap Judgment]
  [Scotland, February 14. Image via Bauer-Griffin] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• Friendship On The Rocks? Let Jezebel Be Your Therapist! [Call For Submissions]
  Ever felt like you were on the verge of a breakup with a former bestie? Like maybe you were inseparable in high school, but somewhere along the line she became one of those people who reads Suze... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• Loose Lips []
  Jane Fonda thinks that her use of the cunt word on Today was no big whoop. "I'm sorry if I offended anybody ... I think it's pretty silly," Barbarella said. • Woa, Rachael Ray said something that... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• 33% Of Boys Are Okay With Breaking Up Over Email [I Can Has Break Up?]
  No wonder there are so many crap emails from dudes! A survey just released by Nielsen Online says that only one-seventh of women think that breaking up via email is acceptable, while one-third of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• Modern Love [Sex Ed]
  Valentine's Day may be over, but there's still romance in the air: Just read the interview with Coco, the buxom wife of rapper/actor Ice T, over on Playboy.com. Some revelations from the 28-year-old:... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• <i>Harper's Bazaar</i>'s Nefarious Scheme To Talk To Your Kids [Consumer Kiddie Porn]
  What the hell is up with Harper's Bazaar and its incessantly kooky fashion spreads? Sure, getting the Simpsons cartoonists to draw Karl Lagerfeld is fun for me, but I didn't see the appeal to someone... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• Is This Freakin' Day Over Yet? [Snap Judgment]
  [Image via Getty.] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• Alyssa Milano, Big Feet & Pubic Hair: That's What Little Boys Are Afraid Of [Missdemeanors]
  Welcome back to Missdemeanors, where we issue virtual wrist-slaps to popular gossip bloggers for Crimes Against Womanity. This week was pretty slow, but there was some smack-talk about Britney's... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• Reader Roundup []
  Best Comment of the Day, in response to Mane Attraction: "Wouldn't "ponies" be the best safe word ever?" We say: totally. Especially if you're dating Ginuwine! • Worst, in response to You've Got... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• "Elizabeth And James" Sure Does Look Like Mary-Kate & Ashley [Fashion Show]
  Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's "contemporary" (aka - "less expensive" than The Row but still pretty damn expensive) collection Elizabeth and James has just rolled out its Spring/Summer 2008 designs --... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• Fashion Show [Fashion Show]
  Ah, Vivienne Westwood! She's like the crazy English aunt we always wanted and never had, what with her flaming red hair and her manifestos riling against the evils of consumerism and its effects on... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• Is There Ever A "Too Young" To Start Masturbating? [Party Of One]
  That totally disturbing story yesterday about parents masturbating their kids got me to thinking: What age do most kids begin doing the deed themselves? Although my relationship with my vibrator is... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• Todd Oldham, "Designer" Dog Look Out For Oncoming Traffic [Snap Judgment]
  [New York, February 15. Image via INFDaily] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• Why Are Newspaper Newsrooms So Sexist? I Ask Veteran Newspaper Reporter "Moi" [When I Had A Real Job]
  Here's something we can all agree on: Boy's clubs = bad! An angry editor at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette just resigned with an awesome if not entirely coherent screed subject-headed "Fuck The... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• Lindsay Lohan: Back In Black [Snap Judgment]
  [Hollywood, February 14. Image via x17.] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• <i>The Witch of Blackbird Pond</i>: Colonies, Slit-Sleeves And Stocks, Oh My! [Fine Lines]
  Welcome to 'Fine Lines', the Friday feature in which we give a sentimental, sometimes-critical, far more wrinkled look at the children's and YA books we loved in our youth. This week,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• Daily (Hate) Mail []
  Wow, the Daily Mail is officially off its fucking nut. Novelist/Mail writer Fay Weldon is advising England to "sterilize teenage girls ... temporarily at least." Oh, temporarily! That makes it... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• <i>The Return Of Jezebel James</i>: Possibly Disappointing [Clips]
  newVideoPlayer("Jezebel_Jane_Clip_2.flv", 463, 387,"");So there's this new Fox show called The Return Of Jezebel James, written and produced by Amy Sherman of Gilmore Girls fame. Sounds great, right?... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• Halle Berry: Still Pregnant, Still Hot [Snap Judgment]
  [Hollywood, February 14. Image via INFDaily.com] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• British Bloke Takes Issue With Writer's Men = Eggs Analogy [She Said/he Said]
  "Men are like eggs: They must hatch or go bad." So began a story by writer Laura Nolan in the Times of London earlier this month, titled "Where Have All The Men Gone?" "We have an overload of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• Announcements [Meetup]
  Los Angeles Jezebels! There is a drinky thingy tonight: 8pm, Weiland Brewery Underground, 505 S. Flower St., between 5th &6th Streets. Happy hour is from 10pm-2am. Enjoy, and report back, please!... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• Do Women Grieve For Their Pets Differently Than Men? [Clips]
  newVideoPlayer("pet_death.flv", 463, 387,"");A Today Show segment about dealing with the loss of a pet struck me as a bit curious, if only because all those interviewed were women. (Yeah, I know:... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• Jessica Alba's Purple Purse & Belly Bump [Snap Judgment]
  [West Hollywood, February 14. Image via Bauer-Griffin.] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• What Can We Learn From Men Who Claim They Have "Learned"? (Hint: "That They Need To Be Schooled" Is Not That Off) [Dick Lit]
  A few weeks ago, a talented writer named Emily Gould submitted a review of a "lad lit" anthology called Things I've Learned From Women Who've Dumped Me. The editor of the book is Daily Show/Colbert... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• Mane Attraction [It's Pony Time]
  Hasbro's My Little Pony brand is twenty-five years old, and celebrating all year long: The company started a program called "The My Little Pony Project: 25 Ponies for 25 Years," which invites... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• <i>Definitely, Maybe</i>: Creative '90s Nostalgia Or Bland '08 Romantic Comedy? [Critical Mass]
  The newest romantic dramedy Definitely, Maybe may have enough Gen-X references to make fans of I Love the '90s happy -- a Clinton-staffer making a remark about Clinton "getting" women? How ironic! --... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• Ryan Reynolds, Wrapped Up & Ready To Go [Snap Judgment]
  [New York, February 13. Image via INFDaily.com.] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• Gary Coleman: Now Married, Still A Virgin [Clips]
  newVideoPlayer("garycoleman_jezebel.flv", 463, 387,"");Gary Coleman is a 40-year-old virgin, and he doesn't care what anybody thinks because it's his business and no one else's. (The world learned... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• Nearly one-third of women had C-sections ... [Knocked Up]
  Nearly one-third of women had C-sections in 2005, a major jump from the number in 1995, when only one-fifth of women delivered babies by Caesarean. The study was done by the U.S. Department of Health... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• Stars Rock The Red Carpet At NAACP Image Awards [The Good, The Bad & The Ugly]
  Last nights' NAACP Image Awards honored members of the African-American community (Aretha, Stevie) for various achievements, but one of the great unspoken achievements of the evening was the red... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• Bret Michaels: Hat Holding On The Bandanna Holding On The Wig [Snap Judgment]
  [LAX, Feb. 14. Image via Bauer-Griffin.] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• Campus Shooter Was Off His Meds [Cycles Of Violence]
  "There were no red flags. He was an outstanding student. He was someone who was revered by the faculty and students alike," the Northern Illinois University police chief is saying of the 27-year-old... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• Loose Lips []
  Hayden Panettiere had a Valentine's Day dinner with her little brother Jansen, her momager Lesley and her dad, Alan. BF Milo Ventimiglia was nowhere to be found! Curious! • More barely legal... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• Michael Kors: #1 "Wannabe" Fan [Rag Trade]
  "Of course I am a Spice Girls fan. I love everything that teenage girls love. I am the oldest teenage girl." That's Michael Kors, who went to see the Spice Girls when they performed in the New York... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• Even after his tearful testimony (there ... [Bobby Cutts]
  Even after his tearful testimony (there were no tears that we could see), ex-cop Bobby Cutts has been found guilty of the murder of both girlfriend Jessie Davis and their unborn child. However, he... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• Lily Allen Paints The Town Red [Snap Judgment]
  [London, February 14. Image via Splash.] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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