The Rawness

I’ve done another guest post over at political blog Alarming News. You can read and comment on it over here.

Next week it’ll be business as usual back here, starting with a response to a reader letter I recently received.

I made a guest post today over at the political blog Alarming News. Click here to read it and make comments.

Based on this series of posts, you can tell I really liked Michael Jackson.

Based on this post, you can tell I’m not a fan of Ed Hardy.

So you can just imagine how I feel about this:

I was planning to discuss this Mad Men article about why women love Don Draper, but Karol over at Alarming News did such a good, concise job at it I’ll just direct you over to her post instead.

This is hilarious, and the life lesson #1 at the end about the perils of dating passionate people is so true. I learned that lesson from times I dated Eastern European women.

This video has become such a phenomenon that it’s even spawned a new term, The Europe Test.

It reminds me of a story that happened to a friend of mine. He went to a nightclub and met this really hot girl. They seemed to hit it off and he got her email address. He sent her an email and got no response. After a while, he got pissed and rattled off a really angry, spiteful email telling her off for being rude and a tease in pretty harsh language. A week later he got a long, sweet, lengthy email from her. It turned out she was out of town in Europe for the week, so she just got home and just finished reading the first email he sent. Turned out she was a really sweet girl and her response email showed a lot of interest. She obviously wrote this nice response email before she got to his scathingly insulting follow-up email. She never did write again, he never bothered trying to salvage it. The lessons here are obvious, I hope.

Semi-related: VK’s own Europe Test

“Hey Christian Audigier! Thanks for ruining America!”

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Hot Chicks With Douchebags

UPDATE

The Ed Hardy website is incredible to behold. It’s like a spoof of an Ed Hardyite but 100% sans irony. Even worse, there’s now an Ed Hardy energy drink (as if the bargain basement cocaine didn’t provide enough?) complete with Ed Hardy Energy Drink parties, galleries here. What’s really disturbing when looking at the galleries of Ed Hardy parties is the amount of black guys infected with Hardyitis. I think I’d rather the black community suffer through another crack epidemic than that. Inflicting this on blacks is a real hate crime.