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This is my interstellar craft of truth and wit. Buckle up. If you want celebrity gossip, this is not the blog for you. If you want comfortable postings that’ll fill you with happy fuzzy thoughts about the world at large, or self-help guru shit, this is not the blog for you.
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Stop the sanctimony, PLEASE. You know why CBS should have rejected the Mancrunch ad? BECAUSE IT’S A FUCKING STUPID AD. It’s bad acting, bad writing, cheap filming, lame directing, and zero spent on production values. The Superbowl is where the best commercials in the world come to play, not stupid frat-boy humour shot for $20 [...]
Posted in Current Events, Gay or Straight?, Hollywood, Steff Rants Also tagged gay rights, get over it, homophobia, mancrunch, stupid, superbowl 4 Comments
I’m interviewing at an ad agency or two tomorrow. No, I won’t be doing any of the ad copy work or anything, more of a save-the-sanity support office worker, since I excel at that. But advertising is something I’ve always been very, very interested in. Remember the movie Crazy People, from years back? Daryll Hannah [...]
Posted in Battle of the Comments, Being me, Best of Steff, Dimestore Philosophy, Education, feminism, Hollywood, Humour, keeping it real, Modern Feminism, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Sexism, sexuality, Society, Steff Rants, Women's Department Also tagged advertising, boycott, dated, dr. scholls, feminism, insulting, media, mentality, misogyny, morons, old-fashioned, Sexism, sexuality, Society, stupidity, the modern woman, women, women today 10 Comments
May
10
2006
Curiouser and Curiouser
As is my custom on Tuesdays, when I’m home, I’m watching television. I had planned to write, but my smarts took the night off, so you’re stuck with a question — or is this an observation? — instead. (Okay, my smarts are fine, but I didn’t feel like ‘writing on demand.’ Sometimes it feels like [...]
Posted in Hollywood, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Society Also tagged beating around the bush, boston legal, captioning, closed captioning, denny crane, euphemisms, hearing, hearing aids, language, mincing words, slang, word choice 4 Comments
I made a pretty quick reference to abortion in my last posting, simply stating that an inadvertent pregnancy on my part would, with absolute certainty, end in an abortion. I have fairly strong views on abortion, and it’s one of my particular irks with America today. Sitting across the great divide, as a Canadian, it’s [...]
Posted in Autobiographical, Battle of the Comments, Being me, Best of Steff, keeping it real, Life 101, Lifestyle, Loving and Knowing Yourself, Modern Feminism, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), relationships, Society, Specifically Steff, Women's Department Also tagged children, conforming, don't want children, having kids, not having kids, not having kids is okay, peer pressures, pressure, society's expectations, stupidity, the new normal, what works for others, why i don't want kids, why not having kids makes sense 15 Comments
Fuck You, Hollywood.