Saturday, November 22, 2014

Week of November 22nd

This week is all in good fun or pop culture.  No deep news, nothing sad, nothing too serious.  Like it or not.

Starting with-- if you can't understand this sentence, read this to learn about the newest words.  The twenty-something slacktivist wore a normcore knitted sweater and just had to vape before returning to his job as a budtender, 

Do you think that it is acceptable that there is a dress code for journalists in England who want to photograph the royal family?  Should you be able to wear jeans before snapping a pic of William and Kate?

Not fun, but a reason to be totally over Eminem and to respect Iggy Azalea.

You have to have seen Kim Kardashian breaking the internet-- but have you also seen her here, used as SAT prep for math problems, and here, used as a discussion starter by Alyssa Milano, who has received both kudos and controversy over her breastfeeding selfies?

The midwestern girl in me is impressed with the NY Times interactive college football feature, kind of an if-then choose your own adventure for the playoffs.

Here we have speculation that despite its current success, facebook will soon fall.  My favorite line:
 In three years of research and talking to hundreds of people and everyday users, I  don’t think I heard anyone say once, ‘I love Facebook." And my biggest fear: that one of these yik-yaky sites will take over in the future and I'll be scrambling to keep tabs on my daughter!

Speaking of social media, and what has been an ongoing conversation on this blog-- is this or is this not racist, what do you think about this assistant principal's tweet?  Racist?  Job-losing-worthy?


And check out this awesome prospective park to be built along the Hudson River.  Well, I think it is awesome, anyways- I guess some aren't fans. 

So, apparently, the hairdresser responsible for the Rachel hairdo was high at the time.  That worked out well for him.

When I saw this I truly thought it was satire- but it isn't the Onion, it is the Washington Post. And actually, it may violate my rules this week, as is it a little disturbing-- seriously, check out what is happening to our backs because of smart phones!  "Textneck" will need to be a new word!

To help you with your plans for the week-- it is apparently probably fine for 90% of us to get totally drunk on Thanksgiving.  Not me (I have a little baby)-- but maybe you?






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