Saturday, May 31, 2008
Friday, May 30, 2008
Quote of the Day!
1# "I swear to GOD! If I had to be a prostitute, I could totally be a better one than her!"- Said by my sister
Within the same conversation she said:
2# "Give your money to, like, Christian bums before you give any to HER!!"
PRIVATE DANCER MAGAZINE
Have you seen this free "periodical" on your local street corner? No, not her. The actual magazine itself. TEAGAN doesn't have to do that kind of thing anymore, thank you very much. Anyhow, I LOVE this magazine. When you first open it there are "candids". Although, I'm not sure if you can call terribly unflattering flash photos that capture random, no name strippers in various states of undress while performing Olympic feats of strength, 'candids". But who cares!! In this issue there's an article about how a bunch of LA county strip clubs (including the beautiful Inland Empire/ Ontario) competed for the title of "Best Broadway Act" or something like that. See, the strippers got together and put on these little mini versions of Broadway plays! I honestly cant believe I missed this gem of a show/ experience.Pick up your Pulitzer Prize deserving publication where ever free, sexually explicit magazines are placed on the street!
Stairway to Stardom "Hot Piece of the Day"
LOUISE MASCIA
"Let me entertain yooooouuu"
From the overt innuendos Louise makes, I'd say she has a future in entertainment for sure. Rouge, Valley Ball and Deja Vu all are taking applications (i.e. "Amateur Night!).
I read it in PRIVATE DANCER MAGAZINE. Have you seen this trashy shit?? See next post.
Artist/ Designer of the Week
JASON FREENY
Check out his amazing works at
Moist Production
Check out his "Swag" section for rad downloads for your desktop and iPhone.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
I Can't Wait For...
Women's Prison Dramas!!!
Alan Ball/ HBO- "Bad Girls"
Robert Rodgriguez-" Women in Chains"
FOX- "Prison Break: Cherry Hill"
Ever since I saw some campy women's prison movie on like, Oxygen, Ive never looked at a broomstick the same way ever again...SICK!
All I know is that somebody better say,
"Don't you walk away from me you chalk faced whore."
Quote of the Day!
"Keep in touch bitch face."
-Laurette, one of my most dear friends. It's her birthday today.
"Happy Birthday, Whore-ette!!"
-Me
White Whine Complaint #220
Complaint #220
“I can’t believe my mother sold all my old fencing equipment. Honestly…I’m livid.”
-Whine by Zinggg
See other whines here: http://www.whitewhine.com/
"Good Magazine" Article the Whole Effing World Should Read..
If Customer Service has ever had you near tears, here are some good ideas about how to use your consumer muscle.
Chris Ladd on Consumer Justice Online
By Chris Ladd/ Good Magazine Online
There are a lot of people getting screwed out there in this great nation of ours. Ten years ago, I would never have known how many. But now I know, for instance, that it took one guy nearly three months to get Verizon to install his DSL service. I know that another took his iPhone to Europe and came back to find a $3,000 bill waiting for him. Yet another had to ask AOL to cancel his account 14 times before they acquiesced.
Getting screwed by large corporations is a kind of street battle, with the companies bringing guns to what you thought was a knife fight. If there isn’t a threat of corporate lawyers getting involved, then it’s “Hold please,” “I’m sorry, sir, it’s company policy,” or “There’s nothing I can do.”
But that battle is changing. The Consumerist, a Gawker Media-backed blog read by 2 million people every month, is one of the weapons behind this phenomenon of digital consumer justice. To understand companies, argues The Consumerist’s editor, Ben Popken, we should think of them as forces of nature, governed not by the laws of physics but by profit and loss. These are as absolute as gravity. If addressing your complaint is the cheapest or easiest thing to do, they will. If not, then they’re very sorry—they value your business, but there’s nothing they can do. “They’re not making emotional decisions,” Popken says. “They’re making a balance-sheet decision.”
There is, of course, nothing new to this. The difference today is that the internet has mobilized an army of consumers dedicated to dodging ridiculous company policies and hurdling script-reading customer-service representatives. With their sheer weight, they are driving a sort of revolution, pushing case after case from one column to another.
Dave Stolte, the guy with the $3,000 iPhone bill, struck out dealing with AT&T’s service representative. Stolte would have to pay, they said, or AT&T would shut off his phone—and his wife’s. Desperate, he sent letters both to AT&T’s CEO and to Apple’s, neither of whom responded. He then sent the same letter to tech-blog extraordinaire BoingBoing, which posted it immediately. Within three hours, a high-level service rep called Stolte, apologized, and waived the entire $3,000 balance.
This kind of thing is happening often enough that many companies, Popken says, have developed “blog outreach teams,” which are “basically like firefighters,” stepping in to stamp out any bad press in the blogosphere. Usually they do this by giving people like Dave Stolte exactly what they want. Problem solved for Customer Y. Good press for Company X. It’s a win-win. When I called AT&T, a spokesperson told me that the company takes a customer’s problem just as seriously if “you simply call us to tell us about it, or write us about it, as we do if someone puts it on a blog.”
That sounds very much like something I would tell a writer working on a story such as this one. It also sounds very difficult to believe, especially in circumstances such as Stolte’s, involving a blog that has three times as many subscribers as the daily circulation of The New York Times. Let’s be generous—perhaps the exposure Stolte gained on BoingBoing and the other sites that picked up his story brought his case to the eyes of someone who gave a damn. But perhaps his was a case of triage.
Others take their fights directly to the boardroom. There is what Consumerist calls the Executive Email Carpet Bomb, wherein creative googling yields both a company’s email formula (firstname.lastname@facelesscorp.com) and a list of corporate officers, which, when combined, often result in speedy referrals to someone who wants very much to make such carpet-bombing go away. There is also the well-written letter of complaint to a friendly CEO, which, if you’re lucky, is then passed down to underlings more eager to do his or her bidding than yours. In a variation, one fellow called Verizon’s corporate switchboard, asked for the CEO’s office, and in less than three days, his DSL service, for which he’d been waiting for three months, was up and running. In each sortie, intelligence is gained, distributed, and discussed. Tactics are honed. The battalion of consumers grows stronger.
And then there is pure catharsis, that instinct to gain satisfaction from nothing more than broadcasting the indignity to which you’ve been subjected. Vincent Ferrari had heard how difficult canceling AOL’s service could be, so when he wanted to cancel his, in June, 2006, he took the precaution of recording the phone call. In a now-infamous four-minute-and-57 second recording of customer-service hell, Ferrari asks an astounding 14 times for the representative to cancel his account and, despite being 30 years old at the time, was asked to put his father on the line. In the following week, Ferrari’s personal website crashed anew with each link from heavy hitters like the Consumerist, MetaFilter, Fark, and BoingBoing, and again as the story ricocheted through the traditional media, making appearances in The New York Times, the New York Post, CNBC, the Today show, and Nightline. Ferrari had created for AOL a very large digital black eye, seen by millions.
To be sure, these stories evoke roughly equal parts commiseration and schadenfreude. For companies, though, the stakes can only get higher. Pissing off customers gets more expensive when each has millions of potential cheerleaders, and each of those cheerleaders is a potential customer. Would it be nice if corporations had purer motives? Sure. But for consumers on the front lines, the very best they can hope for is that someone in some position of influence comes to care what happens to them. In the end, why that happens doesn’t much matter.
Blogger’s revenge:
Thomas Hawk vs. PRICERITEPHOTO.COM
In one of the first big blogger takedowns, Thomas Hawk exposed PriceRitePhoto.com for baiting and switching a high-end camera. The manager threatened he would “never be able to place an order on the internet again.” After appearances of the story on Slashdot and MetaFilter and in The New York Times, it’s PriceRitePhoto having order trouble.
Michael Whitford vs. APPLE
Michael Whitford said he didn’t spill anything on his MacBook. Apple says he did. After pleading his case to an AppleCare manager, Whitford took out his anger via YouTube, where he uploaded a video of himself taking a sledgehammer to said MacBook. Three hundred thousand views later, Apple reconsidered and offered him a new one.
Allan Wood vs. MLB.COM
Superfan Allan Wood happily spent $280.45 to download the telecasts of 71 games from the official baseball site, MLB.com. But then Major League Baseball changed its video format, rendering all previously purchased games unwatchable. After being told he had no recourse, Wood posted a tirade on his blog, which was then picked up by Wired News, TechDirt, and The Washington Post. The league caved, granting free replacement vids to all.
Krystyl Baldwin vs. SPRINT
Krystyl Baldwin was pretty sure her $14,062.27 bill from Sprint was a mistake. So she filed a complaint. And? Nothing. It took a high-traffic YouTube video to clear up the mess. After being shared with 40,000 friendly viewers, her complaint was fixed.
Brian Finkelstein vs. COMCAST
Brian Finkelstein’s internet service was spotty, so Comcast sent a repair technician to swap his router. When the technician fell asleep on his couch and failed to fix the problem, Finklestein filmed it all, then uploaded the video to his blog. Gizmodo and MSNBC carried the story, and within 48 hours a team of Comcast repairmen arrived and worked from 7 p.m. until midnight to fix the problem.
Chris Ladd on Consumer Justice Online
By Chris Ladd/ Good Magazine Online
There are a lot of people getting screwed out there in this great nation of ours. Ten years ago, I would never have known how many. But now I know, for instance, that it took one guy nearly three months to get Verizon to install his DSL service. I know that another took his iPhone to Europe and came back to find a $3,000 bill waiting for him. Yet another had to ask AOL to cancel his account 14 times before they acquiesced.
Getting screwed by large corporations is a kind of street battle, with the companies bringing guns to what you thought was a knife fight. If there isn’t a threat of corporate lawyers getting involved, then it’s “Hold please,” “I’m sorry, sir, it’s company policy,” or “There’s nothing I can do.”
But that battle is changing. The Consumerist, a Gawker Media-backed blog read by 2 million people every month, is one of the weapons behind this phenomenon of digital consumer justice. To understand companies, argues The Consumerist’s editor, Ben Popken, we should think of them as forces of nature, governed not by the laws of physics but by profit and loss. These are as absolute as gravity. If addressing your complaint is the cheapest or easiest thing to do, they will. If not, then they’re very sorry—they value your business, but there’s nothing they can do. “They’re not making emotional decisions,” Popken says. “They’re making a balance-sheet decision.”
There is, of course, nothing new to this. The difference today is that the internet has mobilized an army of consumers dedicated to dodging ridiculous company policies and hurdling script-reading customer-service representatives. With their sheer weight, they are driving a sort of revolution, pushing case after case from one column to another.
Dave Stolte, the guy with the $3,000 iPhone bill, struck out dealing with AT&T’s service representative. Stolte would have to pay, they said, or AT&T would shut off his phone—and his wife’s. Desperate, he sent letters both to AT&T’s CEO and to Apple’s, neither of whom responded. He then sent the same letter to tech-blog extraordinaire BoingBoing, which posted it immediately. Within three hours, a high-level service rep called Stolte, apologized, and waived the entire $3,000 balance.
This kind of thing is happening often enough that many companies, Popken says, have developed “blog outreach teams,” which are “basically like firefighters,” stepping in to stamp out any bad press in the blogosphere. Usually they do this by giving people like Dave Stolte exactly what they want. Problem solved for Customer Y. Good press for Company X. It’s a win-win. When I called AT&T, a spokesperson told me that the company takes a customer’s problem just as seriously if “you simply call us to tell us about it, or write us about it, as we do if someone puts it on a blog.”
That sounds very much like something I would tell a writer working on a story such as this one. It also sounds very difficult to believe, especially in circumstances such as Stolte’s, involving a blog that has three times as many subscribers as the daily circulation of The New York Times. Let’s be generous—perhaps the exposure Stolte gained on BoingBoing and the other sites that picked up his story brought his case to the eyes of someone who gave a damn. But perhaps his was a case of triage.
Others take their fights directly to the boardroom. There is what Consumerist calls the Executive Email Carpet Bomb, wherein creative googling yields both a company’s email formula (firstname.lastname@facelesscorp.com) and a list of corporate officers, which, when combined, often result in speedy referrals to someone who wants very much to make such carpet-bombing go away. There is also the well-written letter of complaint to a friendly CEO, which, if you’re lucky, is then passed down to underlings more eager to do his or her bidding than yours. In a variation, one fellow called Verizon’s corporate switchboard, asked for the CEO’s office, and in less than three days, his DSL service, for which he’d been waiting for three months, was up and running. In each sortie, intelligence is gained, distributed, and discussed. Tactics are honed. The battalion of consumers grows stronger.
And then there is pure catharsis, that instinct to gain satisfaction from nothing more than broadcasting the indignity to which you’ve been subjected. Vincent Ferrari had heard how difficult canceling AOL’s service could be, so when he wanted to cancel his, in June, 2006, he took the precaution of recording the phone call. In a now-infamous four-minute-and-57 second recording of customer-service hell, Ferrari asks an astounding 14 times for the representative to cancel his account and, despite being 30 years old at the time, was asked to put his father on the line. In the following week, Ferrari’s personal website crashed anew with each link from heavy hitters like the Consumerist, MetaFilter, Fark, and BoingBoing, and again as the story ricocheted through the traditional media, making appearances in The New York Times, the New York Post, CNBC, the Today show, and Nightline. Ferrari had created for AOL a very large digital black eye, seen by millions.
To be sure, these stories evoke roughly equal parts commiseration and schadenfreude. For companies, though, the stakes can only get higher. Pissing off customers gets more expensive when each has millions of potential cheerleaders, and each of those cheerleaders is a potential customer. Would it be nice if corporations had purer motives? Sure. But for consumers on the front lines, the very best they can hope for is that someone in some position of influence comes to care what happens to them. In the end, why that happens doesn’t much matter.
Blogger’s revenge:
Thomas Hawk vs. PRICERITEPHOTO.COM
In one of the first big blogger takedowns, Thomas Hawk exposed PriceRitePhoto.com for baiting and switching a high-end camera. The manager threatened he would “never be able to place an order on the internet again.” After appearances of the story on Slashdot and MetaFilter and in The New York Times, it’s PriceRitePhoto having order trouble.
Michael Whitford vs. APPLE
Michael Whitford said he didn’t spill anything on his MacBook. Apple says he did. After pleading his case to an AppleCare manager, Whitford took out his anger via YouTube, where he uploaded a video of himself taking a sledgehammer to said MacBook. Three hundred thousand views later, Apple reconsidered and offered him a new one.
Allan Wood vs. MLB.COM
Superfan Allan Wood happily spent $280.45 to download the telecasts of 71 games from the official baseball site, MLB.com. But then Major League Baseball changed its video format, rendering all previously purchased games unwatchable. After being told he had no recourse, Wood posted a tirade on his blog, which was then picked up by Wired News, TechDirt, and The Washington Post. The league caved, granting free replacement vids to all.
Krystyl Baldwin vs. SPRINT
Krystyl Baldwin was pretty sure her $14,062.27 bill from Sprint was a mistake. So she filed a complaint. And? Nothing. It took a high-traffic YouTube video to clear up the mess. After being shared with 40,000 friendly viewers, her complaint was fixed.
Brian Finkelstein vs. COMCAST
Brian Finkelstein’s internet service was spotty, so Comcast sent a repair technician to swap his router. When the technician fell asleep on his couch and failed to fix the problem, Finklestein filmed it all, then uploaded the video to his blog. Gizmodo and MSNBC carried the story, and within 48 hours a team of Comcast repairmen arrived and worked from 7 p.m. until midnight to fix the problem.
Read the article online here: http://www.goodmagazine.com/section/Stimuli/chris_ladd_on_consumer_justice_online
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Stairway to Stardom "Hot Piece of the Day"
BOBBY J CARTER
Where the Hell did Michael Fobes come from? This is Bobby's show.
Sharkeez "Gets It"
I swear to God, I never signed up for the "Sharkeez" e-newsletter (people from my past shut the eff up! I didn't!!!) but I LOVE getting it.
Please see today's masterpiece notifying me of their totally crazy/sexy/cool Global Warming Partay!
Hot chicks in a "recycled bikini" contest and a polar bear luge??!! (thanks Ben)
This is THE party to be at if you give a damn about the environment.
Quote of the Day!
"You! Freckle Face! You bettah make that money because cute pony girlfriend is gonna be over your ass soon enough!"
-Me, in regards to my opinion about one assistant dating another assistant.
Mazzy Photo of the Day
Here's Mazzy Lamb going to town on a lime popsicle stick. He's in heaven.
He truly does whatever the Hell he wants. He's a damn crazy brat and he doesn't give an eff!Rent This Movie
MI VIDA LOCA-1993
w/d: Allison Anders
I guess my obsession with this movie in high school was a precursor to my obsession with Gwen Stefani.
Chola fights are nothing to mess with.
This Household Sounds Awesome!!!
Wait, I'm totally confused by people's "shocked" reaction to the Jolie- Pitt Household. It sounds like the household of my dreams and the household of my child hood!!! It's good times and total chaos all the time!
It's like this one time my mom made some tuna casserole thing for dinner and it tasted like straight up shit! (I think she put in wayyyyyy too much salt or something.) So she looked at us and said, "Okay, cake for dinner tonight". She had also baked some amazing cake and that's what we got instead.
And who the Hell cares when or how kids take baths? At least they get them in the tub!! This fake ass "nanny" needs to rethink her career path. Maybe the Library is hiring mean bitches. I was a nanny for 7 years for this one family and my agenda/ daily planner sounds right on key with the Jolie-Pitt Calendar.
THE CLAIMS:
The kids eat pizza and chocolate for breakfast
The kids have regular screaming matches
The kids have regular dart-gun wars
The kids all speak in different languages
The kids will all be in the delivery room when Angie gives birth
The kids take baths late at night and get water everywhere
Brad and Angie like to skinny dip at 2am
THE VERDICT:
Fucking Awesome
I mean, this is coming from the same person who lets my dog chew water bottle caps and eat popsicle sticks but I keep an eye on him and he LIKES it!
Summer Trash!
Yesssss, time for Summer trashy novel reading. This one sounds just right.
Synopsis: Desperate housewife Janice finds her husband has run off with her tennis partner on the day his company goes public.
Older daughter Margaret faces the bankruptcy of her feminist zine and gets dumped by her boyfriend.
And younger daughter Lizzie learns that what looks like newfound popularity is actually a reputation as school slut.
As their “perfect” lives unravel, the Miller women turn to drugs, sex, and religion to cope, before figuring out that if you try sometimes, you just might find you get what you need.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Things I Want...
Far be it from me to EVER perpetuate the nastiness that is AMERICAN APPAREL, but I really like this dumb little dress...
American Apparel's Nylon Tricot Figure Skating Dress$48
Available at: http://store.americanapparel.net/rnt40.html#i
MySpace "Model" Profile of the Day
CHER
"If you don't have enemies, you don't have character!"
Hot...
AND patriotic!!
With mad photoshop skillzzz...http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=272471097
Stairway to Stardom "Hot Piece of the Day"
TONI MARIE TERRANO
You know her first choice was "Tomorrow", but someone else already did it!
Bitch thinks she's ANNIE!!!
I must have watched this shit 8 million times in grade school! For reals. What an effing nerd.
Photoshop Disasters
My best friend, Christy, first showed me the awesome site www.photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com. Today I checked it and found this awesome "disaster". Totally awesome and robotic.
Things I Want...
FLOWERS OF THE ISLAND from Empty VaseA Balinese basket adorned with cream Vendela roses, yellow Cymbidium orchids and garden hydrangeas.
$200
Douche Party Photo of the Day!
I haven't checked in with www.spyonvegas.com lately but figured that today would hold a plethora of new HOT photos of douche bags partying it up over the holiday weekend!! Our stimulus checks in ACTION for sure!
Here's your Tuesday morning MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND RECAP!
Trying much too hard, douche in the middle.
What the Eff does that even say?? "sfileffo"?? Is that her last name? What is her day job? Does she have to cover all her fingers with band aids to count the cash back to her customers at the bank where she is a teller? She looks like a bank teller.
My eyes just totally got herpes!!! So did yours.
Smoked Douche Sandwich
FILTHY!!
No, unfortunately, these two are not vaccinating each other but they probably should be. How genius would THAT be??? Trick all the douches at Rehab into thinking that the "syringe shots" they are shelling out probably 8-10bucks for are just alcohol when REALLY they are vaccinations!!! Yes! Get to the douches and kill the germs before they get back to us on Monday/ Tuesday morning!! haha! I'm going to talk to someone about this.
This girl could save the world and she doesn't even know it.
These girls are one of the main reasons why I won't go in any public pools in Vegas. Hot tubs??? Forget it. They are like super std breeding grounds. SICK!
Gawd, I feel like I need a shower in hot, soapy Purex with a dash of bleach. Ugh!! Nast.
Because I'm not paranoid enough...
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The Thrillist (NY) posted about an online service, www.Spotcrime.com, that breaks down the where/ when/ who/ what/ how of crime in your city. Excellent!
Here's the link: http://www.spotcrime.com/ca/los%20angeles
Here's the link: http://www.spotcrime.com/ca/los%20angeles
Here's the Thrillist link: http://www.thrillist.com/archives/2008/05/spotcrime_nyc_new_york_services.html
Sorry, sorry, sorry...
I've been pretty horrible about updating the last few days.
Do-Over starting now/ today.
Thanks.
Monday, May 26, 2008
"Stairway to Stardom" Hot Piece of the Day
MARK CONNER
With another ORIGINAL composition, "I GOT EYES"
With another ORIGINAL composition, "I GOT EYES"
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Mazzy Photo of the Day
I imagine that having Mazzy is somewhat similar to what having the world's most gorgeous child is like. Look at that face.Look of the Day
Pin Up Kitten! 
How to: Base- Trade foundation for a fresh-finished tinted moisturizer and add color and lots of shimmer under the cheekbones with a pale pink highlighting blush. The sparkly formula reflects light to subtly perfect the skin.
How to: Cat Eye- To get the perfect shape, first draw the outline of your cat eye with a grey liner, starting at the inner corner of the eye and flicking up at the edges. (Adjust the angles to go as dramatic as you dare.) Once you've got it right, fill in with a black liquid liner and add waterproof mascara.
How to: Kitten Lips- Use a fresh shade of rosy-pink lipstick and lots of sexy gloss on top.All information via Sephora.com
"Stairway To Stardom" Hot Piece of the Day
LUCILLE CATALDO
With an ORIGINAL composition, "Hairdresser, Hairdresser"
"Tease it up! What a tease, what a tease, what a tease! Tease-a-Louise!!"
MySpace "Model" Profile of the Day
CINDY PUCCI!Age: 24?????
"Where dreams come...true ;)"
My eyes tell me something different...something more like 30, perhaps? Yeah, on a good day.
Lust Object of the Day
Christian Louboutin Very Prive Paillette Platform Pumps$995
Available at:http://www.christianlouboutin.com/
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Lust Object of the Day
Plenty by Tracy Reese Tie Waist Chemise Dress $275
Available at Couture Candy: http://www.couturecandy.com/plenty-by-tracy-reese/tie-waist-chemise-dress-in-tantre/product.html
Things I Want...
"Eden" dress by With Hearts In My Eyes
$134
Available at Bona Drag: http://www.bonadrag.com/shopmain/dresses/eden.html
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