brooke shields's endorsement of LATISSE

advertising has done its share of creating problems in order to sell "solutions." in 1921, listerine advertisers invented the word "halitosis" to make bad breath sound more like a condition to be treated.

i guess it shouldn't surprise anyone anymore. but just as i thought it couldn't get any more ridiculous than "restless leg syndrome," along comes another miracle drug to make all your problems go away.

except this time, your problems are... your eyelashes?

A new FDA-approved drug called latisse is marketing itself as a solution for "eyelash hypotrichosis" -- "another name for having inadequate or not enough eyelashes."

REALLY?!?! we're in a global recession and there's a market for people with wimpy eyelashes who can't just buy a tube of mascara like the rest of us?

best of all, they've solicited brooke shields as their spokesperson. wait, why? is she a well-known case of eyelash hypotrichosis? i always thought she had a pretty successful modeling/acting career... featuring her eyelashes the whole way along.

weird.

i can't find the spot online, but you can watch brooke's video diary on the latisse website. this is the richest part:

Brooke is Ready for Her Closeup
HER VIDEO DIARY CHRONICLES THE LASH JOURNEY

She's one of the world's most recognizable faces — a legendary model and actress who's paved the way and continues to set trends. Her film, TV and Broadway roles have earned her critical acclaim and legions of fans, but it's her personal commitment to important causes that makes her real beauty.

i'm glad those important causes now include eyelash health. pffft.

flushing the toilet

seems like a no-brainer, no? i work on a floor with only about 5 women on it. and yet, somehow the thought of flushing the toilet AND MAKING SURE IT ALL GOES DOWN has escaped us. gross.

obama's commencement speeches

i love president obama with the intensity of my disdain for george w. bush. i make no secret of this. but i have especially loved how he has taken the past two university controversies and confronted them head-on. this write-up in the washington post sums it up pretty well.

The failure of both sides to use "fair-minded words," he said, overly inflames an important debate. As an example, he described his own 2004 campaign Web site, which at one point referred to "right-wing ideologues who want to take away a woman's right to choose."

It was not until a doctor e-mailed him about the phrase that Obama ordered it taken down, he said.

"I didn't change my underlying position, but I did tell my staff to change the words on my Web site," he told the crowd. "And I said a prayer that night that I might extend the same presumption of good faith to others that the doctor had extended to me. Because when we do that . . . that's when we discover at least the possibility of common ground."

i think obama has played the controversy so smartly. by acknowledging that "at some level, the views of the two camps are irreconcilable," he simply calls for a civilized debate. is it naive? perhaps. but he's right. there are crazies on both sides (i am one of them). and the crazies aren't doing anything to forge understanding.

at ASU, obama also addressed the university's decision to deny him an honorary degree, saying 

"Your own body of work is also yet to come," he told 60,000 people at the stadium. "Building a body of work is all about . . . the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime, to a lasting legacy. That's what you want on your tombstone. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star -- because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished."

mmmmmm, smart words. of course, nothing illustrates this point quite so finely as this daily show video.

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	M - Th 11p / 10c
Arizona State Snubs Obama
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sebastian's voodoo

speaking of my friend madhu, he showed me this video a few days ago, via boingboing.

my friends who won CLIOs

congratulations to my friend gabe gathmann for winning a CLIO for this sweet PSA.

and congratulations also to my friend madhu kalyanarman on his CLIO for this billboard for stop handgun violence:

racist camera

via buzzfeed, a camera that is helpful to everyone but most of the people on the planet. haha.

texts from last night

a few days late on this train, so sue me. but TFLN is a very funny website. it sort of captures the poetry of overheard in new york, but with a decidedly drunken, sexual, and perversely awkward bent. 

5/15 follow-up...

some of my favorite texts so far:

(203): I'm totally gay for Miss Californiaaaaaa
(860): oh sweet, sweet irony

(313): I'm going to use my one free fuck up card tonight.
(734): What'd you do?
(313): Its more like what im about to do.

(330): what are you wearing?
(703): Just my guilt

(518): I hraet yuo
(862): did you say you heart me or hate me?
(518): who is this?

(703): I want to take things slow emotionally, but fast physically

ULTIMATE DANCE PARTY 1997

i can't believe i ever forgot about this cd. it was my senior year of high school and constantly in my little sony boombox. 

my friends and i were reminiscing about this compilation, because it's seriously the best compilation ever. this was way before "now that's what i call music, even if no one else would." timeless classics include "be my lover," by la bouche, "another night" by the real mccoy, and yes... the macarena. 

enjoy.

TRACKLIST:

1. Missing [Todd Terry Club Mix] - Everything But the Girl	Listen
2. Where Do You Go [Ocean Drive Edit] - No Mercy	Listen
3. Another Night - The Real McCoy	Listen
4. Be My Lover - La Bouche	Listen
5. Beautiful Life - Ace of Base	Listen
6. I Like to Move It [Eric "More" Club Mix] - Reel 2 Real	Listen
7. Deeper Love [C+C Tribesman Mix] - Aretha Franklin	Listen
8. Tell It to My Heart [1996 Remix] - Taylor Dayne	Listen
9. C'mon N' Ride It (The Train) [Remix Edit] - Quad City DJ's	Listen
10. Boom Boom Boom - The Outhere Brothers	Listen
11. Who Do U Love [Morales Classic Club Edit] - Deborah Cox	Listen
12. No More "I Love You's" [Junior Vasquez Remix Edit] - Annie Lennox	Listen
13. Dreamer [Original Club Mix] - Livin' Joy	Listen
14. This Is Your Night - Amber	Listen
15. Total Eclipse of the Heart - Nicki French	Listen
16. Children - Robert Miles	Listen
17. Macarena - Los del Mar

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