'The Message'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I saw my first dead baby bird of dead baby bird season this morning. Fallen from one of the two nests under my back porch awning.
I would see a lot of that on the farm. Are some baby birds just suicidal? Is it the result of too much baby bird roughhousing? ("It's fun until someone falls out of the nest and plummets to her death.")
We have swallows that nest in the garage here. It's always traumatic for me.
Are some baby birds just suicidal?
Very often they are shoved out of the nest by their sibs. Gotta compete for those limited. resources.
er...not to gloom all over the happy robin story.
Honestly, my though pattern went "oh cool! Wait, I shouldn't get too attached."
Hey, cool. DC is getting a bike share program: [link] Wonder how well it'll work out.
Speaking of which, I really need to decide what I'm wearing to work. High of 76, to what does that translate?
Me hating you?
Sorry, probably not helpful.
A Disney spokeswoman, Patti McTeague, faulted Vanity Fair for the photo. "Unfortunately, as the article suggests, a situation was created to deliberately manipulate a 15-year-old in order to sell magazines," she said.
This statement irks me beyond reason. Of course Vanity Fair manipulates in order to sell magazines, in much the same way that Disney manipulates children to sell (and hell, to buy) shit.
I think the image is whatever. I think the tempest in the teapot about it is a result of Disney being pissed that they aren't controlling her image as well as they would like.
a situation was created to deliberately manipulate a 15-year-old in order to sell magazines
As opposed to putting her on the cover of Disney magazine, which is a totally spontaneous event with no adult or corporate intervention at all.
@@ forever.
What Kat said.
I honestly think it's a lovely picture. And chances are she would show that much back in a dress on a red carpet anyway. It's a lot less provocative, to me, than Brooke saying nothing comes between her and her Calvins.
Thanks, amych. This is going to be very temporary as I'm taking the laptop in today.
On NPR, the reporter was talking about the response of the 10-15 year old set on some social network site. The reporter mentioned how they felt betrayed by the falls from grace that Lindsay and Britney took. And I kept thinking? What? How? They were into them when they were 5? That's ridiculous.
chances are she would show that much back in a dress on a red carpet anyway
IMO, there's more to the photo than just the amount of skin, though. Wearing a strapless evening gown does not (necessarily) carry with it the context of "you could totally hit this" the way the vaseline-on-the-lens bedhead sex kitten pose does.