What a week for Reality TV, or more specifically Jersey Shore. America’s favorite guidos brought notoriously cheap Viacom to their knees, and MTV caved to their demand of $10,000 an episode for a second season. (And no, I still haven’t seen it! But I’m working on that).
Fascinatingly, Jersey Shore has already inspired the intellectual set to ponder the meaning of it all–and specifically ethnic ideals of beauty. Jezebel posts here about it, right on the heels of the NY Times Magazine getting all smarty-pants here.
Of course, US Weekly just gave us the straight up beauty buzz here, as Snooki demos how to create her “pouf,” a fascinatingly modern take on my grandma’s bouffant.
And Inked Magazine has a profile of tattoo artist turned reality TV star turned cosmetics mogle Kat Von D here, as TLC gets ready to air the 2nd half of the new season of LA Ink.
TGIF this week! It’s been nutty around here. I did a guest blogging post for the awesome pop culture site The Critical Condition on the Nick hit iCarly. And I just started an online blogging class. Plus The Kid’s bus didn’t show up this morning (uh oh,break down) and I have meetings for my day job all day (boo). So I need a homework free weekend. Even if my little “assignments” are about taking care of yourself, sometimes even the pressure of that can kick off a stress session.
Be good to yourselves!
