Loneliness doesn’t just suck, it blows. I know this because I have dealt with it first hand. The emotions, the weight gain, the boredom. With a new city, a new job and no new friends to speak of, loneliness and I were pretty tight.

If I told you I had a sure-fire way to beat it, I’d be lying. Because if I had found the magic formula, it wouldn’t have taken me 8 months to realize that graduating from college in four years wasn’t the worst decision of my life.

Fortunately for you, I have a few good tips about what NOT to do. Whether you are kicking it at home for the summer or making your way in a brand new city, these tips are sure to keep you from going as crazy as, well, I did. Read More »

Now that Kate Moss’s collection for Topshop is a few weeks old, London has a new fixation: the FitFlop. It’s a “biomechanically engineered” flip – flop that promises to “make your bum smaller and your legs leaner.”

FitFlops are supposedly so intense that the creators recommend wearing them sparingly at first, so not to exhaust or injure your legs. No testimonials yet as to whether FitFlops deliver, but they’re currently completely sold out across the UK and there is already an extensive waiting list for the next batch.

I know, I know, it’s upsetting — nothing worse than a waiting list — but you can take comfort in the fact that the FitFlops are hideous. They’re definitely the Uggs of summer.

See for yourself (and decide that you’d just rather go to the gym).

I’m not sure why we date them, but we do. We date them and then mourn the loss of a possibility, but we know all the same. We would never end up with a douche bag. But for some reason I attract them like bees to honey.

Like any well-versed male he charmed me. He laughed at my jokes and my funny quirks. He was impressed by my iPod music collection and even more impressed by my writing. He told me how talented I was and he pushed me to write. I was enamored.

I knew from the beginning that things with the Australian would never work. He wasn’t exactly what you’d call the monogamous type, and I certainly would have liked to be monogamous with him. On our first real date we sat and smoked hookah and talked for hours. We had an instant connection that I hadn’t felt since my last relationship almost 7 months before. Read More »

Okay, when I think of Jordin Sparks, the first word that pops into my mind is definitely NOT obese! But, one organization, the National Action Against Obesity, feels that Blake would have been a better American Idol because he’s skinnier.

Don’t get me wrong, I understand the harmful effects of obesity, but really, Jordin Sparks? Come on! I am sure there are much better examples of obesity than the lovely Ms. Sparks. Maybe she could be classified as a bit overweight, but obese seems to be pushing it.

Think this sounds insane like I did? Well just wait until you watch the YouTube clip of the organization’s President and Founder, MeMe Roth, explain what she thinks of when she looks at Jordin.

Give the girl a break for goodness sake, she was just named the youngest American Idol and has enough pressure to worry about right now before we start jumping down her throat about her weight. A weight that actually looks pretty normal to me.

Memorial Day has come and gone, but Bikini Season is officially in session. With a little help from InStyle.com, we have compiled some hot celebrity bikini looks for your viewing pleasure. If you find a look you like, click over to InStyle.com- they’ve got a great list of look-a-likes and where to buy.

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Who’s got the hottest bikini bod?

I remember when this odd new website, thefacebook.com, first surfaced at the beginning of my sophomore year in college. I thought it was a weird stalkery thing that would never really catch on. Well, boy was I wrong.

At first, I was anti-facebook and refused to put a picture up and only opened an account so that I could see what all the broohaha was about. After a few months, I looked like the creepy one with only a question mark to represent me. So, I gave in and posted my first facebook picture.

In my mind, the aspect that made facebook legitimate at first was the fact that it ONLY for college students. Somehow that justified it to me and seemed to minimize the amount of creepy old men posing as fourteen-year-olds that could be on it.

But now, The New York Times reports that Facebook is heading towards a future more similar to that of Myspace, and that sucks.

“Some of the new features, demonstrated by software developers at a Facebook event, will allow members to recommend and listen to music, insert Amazon book reviews onto their pages, play games and join charity drives, all without leaving the site.

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Has reality TV finally gone too far? (Although if you ask me, it went off the edge long ago with Extreme Makeover). A new Dutch program goes beyond washed – up/overweight celebrities by making a kidney the star of the show. A woman named Lisa’s kidney, to be exact. During the 80 – minute spectacle, tastefully called The Big Donor Show, Lisa will choose a recipient for her healthy kidney based on the kidney contestants’ personal histories and stories. Viewers can send her advice via text – message.

Of course, many astute Europeans are up in arms over the show, saying it’s completely dangerous and unethical. But the show’s producers claim they are doing a public service by highlighting the lack of organ donors in the Netherlands. The former director of the television station that will air the show died of kidney failure after being on a transplant waiting list for years.

So maybe the show isn’t exactly in line with Hippocrates, but if Kelly Clarkson can go from a nobody cocktail waitress from Podunk, Texas to an international superstar millionaire, why can’t someone benefit from a televised kidney? Although in this case, the losers of The Big Donor Show are really losers — but hey, just as Katharine McPhee is irritatingly famous now even after she lost American Idol, maybe the losers on this show will get some second – prize kidneys and then some. And let’s be honest, a kidney is a kidney, so everyone wins.

What do you think about this show?

Spoiler Alert!

Maybe I should have known better than to try and sit through 147 minutes of Johnny, Kiera and Orlando at midnight on a Saturday night. After all, I was not at all impressed with the sequel. Was I really hoping that “Pirates of the Carribean: At World’s End” would pull a 180 and recreate the magic of the original?

Unfortunately, it didn’t. No, it wasn’t as painful as sitting through the second one was. After all, “Dead Man’s Chest,” really did nothing but create dozens of loosely intertwining subplots while introducing a myriad of underdeveloped characters. For all its faults, at least “At World’s End” tied the stories together, and gave the movie a nice, albeit very unexpected, ending (while simultaneously setting the stage for brand new adventures if they so desire to create a Pirates 4).

My biggest gripe of the movie was that it did an awful job some key plot features. For example, remember the Kracken, that evil sea-thing that Davey Jones would summon to utterly destroy ships? Yeah, that puppy was nowhere to be found in the third film. It was briefly alluded to early on, and then at a certain point you actually see a dead creature that’s supposed to be the monster, but you’re never really able to tell. Read More »

All my favorite people — Lindsay, Britney, Nicole, even Marc Jacobs!– seem to be going or have gone to rehab. My question is: When can I go?? From what I’m reading these days, rehab is like the new hot club you have to wait an hour on line to get into, only to be rejected at the door because you’re not cool or famous enough.

I’m assuming normal folk like you and me go to rehab all the time, it’s just not reported in the NY Post. I was generally brought up to think that rehab was a place I should not aspire to go to. And I’ll admit, even though I know James Frey was a big faker with A Million Little Pieces, I still drank seltzer with lime for a month after reading it whenever I went out — my plebeian version of rehab.

Nevertheless, rehab doesn’t seem to be doing these celebs any good — the process has become a ruse for attaining health and avoiding jail time. Read More »

So over the weekend as you dusted off your bikinis, you realized that you’re in desperate need of some new swimwear. That old JCrew bandeau just isn’t cutting it anymore and well, you need to show off your new svelte self.

Good news. Now I’m giving you another reason to go shopping for a hot new suit: Blufly.com is having a serious swimwear sale because obvioulsy they knew all of us budget fashionistas needed a little something to enhance those summer months.

With prices as low as $34 a piece, you won’t break the bank. So go ahead, shop the hell out of BCBG, DKNY and many other fab designers.

Need a little celeb bikini style cue? Click here.