Another week has passed and I’m one week closer to graduation. In ten short days I will stand up, toss my cap in the air, and graduate in front of family, friends, professors…and a bunch of random people I don’t know.

Many of you have already taken this step. You’ve cried sentimental tears or jumped for joy as you packed up boxes and drove away from your home for the past few years. But if you have the pleasure of a quarter or trimester system you, like me, are lucky enough to have a smidgen of time left.

A lot of people have been worrying about the typical things that soon to be grads and recent grads worry about: getting a job, finding an apartment, moving, paying bills, insurance, liver recovery, taxes. I am stressed and concerned about all of these things. But I’m also stressed about some basic issues I haven’t considered until recently, like friendships.

For many grads, we’ll be moving away from the network of friends we’ve created over the past four years. For me, I will be moving clear across the country and my insecurities are rising. All my friendships are about to change and come June 14, I will be in a Long Distance (Best Friend Forever) Relationship. Read More »

Gosh, Wednesdays are so much more fun when the week doesn’t really start until Tuesday. It’s only just begun but it’s already almost over! Woop! And it doesn’t hurt that I spent Monday stuffing myself to the brim with hot dogs, corn on the cob and Miller Lite. (Lies. That actually did hurt. My whole body hurt yesterday. Seriously, why did it feel like I did 1,000 crunches??)

Anyways, regardless of the short week, it’s Wednesday and that means it’s time to play Would You Rather. So read it and weep. Or read it and vote. We don’t want to make anyone weep.

Would You Rather find out that your new boyfriend was obsessed with your best friend for a year before he met you OR find out that your new boyfriend actually hated everything about you when you first met?

Things to Consider: The fact that your best friend is still single, how good she looks in a mini-dress, what you did to make him hate you so much.

From triple-Ds to divorcees – my, how the mighty have fallen.  In what can only be the lamest publicity stunt in their short marriage (if it were even real in the first place), Spencer and Heidi have decided to call it quits.

Those healing crystals Spencer purchased must have reversed the brainwash job he did on his dearly beloved, because she’s finally spilling all the creepy details of their business deal relationship to her friends.  Cutting ties with friends and family?  Threatening guests with guns?  Signaling aliens? Apparently it’s all par for the course when you’re Speidi.

Now, I’m going to call bullsh*t on all this drama.  When you’ve already gotten your boobs to Ripley’s proportions and your husband is a new age, rape-stache wearing, gun toting maniac, you’ve pretty much shown the world all the cards in your deck of crazy.  Short of throwing Spencer on a judge’s stand for domestic violence, what’s there left for MTV to do?  Feature a massive marital blowout on the Hills’ series finale (people, you know it’s coming) and start spreading rumors of a split, that’s what!

Is a divorce really going to happen?  Possibly.  It would be a relatively neat and tidy finish to the ultimately insane PR move, there’s no denying it.  If both parties were looking for an out that didn’t shatter all the bizarre antics leading up to now, divorce would be it.  Who would blame them?  But then again, look at whom we’re talking about.  Would Spencer and Heidi really want to give up the limelight?  Like, forever?  As in the end of Speidi as we know it?  Read More »

Who or what inspires your style? Many of us use musicians (like Debbie Harry) or movie characters (like Annie Hall) as style inspiration, even though, most of the time, they are being dressed from head to toe by the best stylists. Which we don’t have. And sometimes it’s damn near impossible to work their Hollywood looks into our not-so-Hollywood lives. I’ve made it my mission to tap into the mind of a fashion stylist and show you how to take your style inspiration – whatever it may be – and make it more you!

Diablo Cody is one cool lady.  Not just because she has a wicked awesome tattoo on her arm of a pinup girl, the fact that she won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Juno, her previous profession of being a talented “clothing-remover,” or the fact that her name means “devil” in Spanish.  All of those help make her pretty neat, but there’s just something about her, something I can’t quite put my finger on, that oozes awesome.

And she wraps it all up perfectly in her uniquely fabulous look.

Diablo is pretty under the radar when it comes to her style, but I fell in love with it the first time I saw her being interviewed for Juno.  It’s unlike anything I’ve ever seen before; the innocent ’50s housewife meets the rock-and-roll dominatrix. She’s got the whole pin-up vibe going on, but still manages to look totally modern. It’s romantic yet somehow dark and edgy. Think animal prints and spikes meet polka dots and ruffles, then get married and live happily ever after.

It shouldn’t work, but it does.

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That might be a possibility under the new health care reform…

The lines that won’t get you laid.

A big “mazel!” to Jane Lynch!

32 summer work outfits that are actually cute.

Is being cheap a dating deal breaker?

There might be a bun in Khloe Kardashian’s oven.

As we all know (hopefully), life in our twenties is not anything like that portrayed on The Hills. We will not be living in our own mansions or beach houses when we graduate college. We will not have closets full of Louboutins or friends with private airplanes. We will not spend our days eating at the finest restaurants and awkwardly staring at our friends across the table as Top 40 music plays in the background.

The show is just not real and it’s nearly impossible for anyone watching to relate to the lives those girls lead.

But for the first time last night, when Kristin and Stacie went on their man hunt, I actually did. Sure, Kristin was wearing designer clothes I’d never be able to afford and was drinking white wine at the bar (something I’d never do), but I finally felt like I could identify with her. I know I’ve had plenty of those nights where I make it my mission to get out there and find new boys. I put on my hottest outfit, add a little volumizer to my hair and prepare myself for a night filled with crowds of hot guys buying me drinks. Only, when the night actually happens, I end up sitting in the corner with my girls eying the door in hopes that someone hot will walk through it… and the only guys talking to me are the weirdos or the super old creepers who smell like body odor. Read More »

[There are over 100 million sites on the Internet. 100 million! You might think you know about all the important ones (CollegeCandy, Gmail, Google, TFLN…), but there are thousands of other sweet sites out there (like Live Mocha, ThredUP, and Blah Therapy) and more showing up every day! We get it – it’s not easy or fun sifting through the crap and porn to find those gems, so we’re gonna bring the gems to you. Just sit back, kick up those feet and allow us to introduce you to the diamonds in the internet rough.]

Every movie has iconic and memorable moments.  You know what I’m talking about: the “King of the World” scene in Titanic, The Wizard of Oz‘s “There’s no place like home,” or even “We’re going streaking!” from Old School.  These are the parts you quote over and over, and part of the reason you watch the movie again and again.

In the past, if you wanted to watch your a particular part of a movie, you’d have to pop in the DVD (or even the VHS) and skip forward until you found the scene you were looking for.  Now, that seems like a lot of work for our internet-centered culture, and now we’re more likely to just search YouTube.  But that isn’t always the best option, either – the video clips you find on there are most likely against copyright law to even be on YouTube in the first place, are probably longer than what you want to watch, and are usually bad quality. Or, worse, they are just reenactments by bored 16-year-old boys in their basement on a Saturday night. Read More »

Miley’s getting a little too saucy for some peeps.

Behind the Speidi split.

Wait, Al Gore and Tipper split too?

A few books you need to read right now.

Does L’Oreal’s Last Boosting Serum really work?

4 summer beauty trends the boys love.

Word on the runway is the color for summer is turquoise. Yay! I am more than happy about this fate. Turquoise looks so glamorous with glowing skin and a mojito. And something else I’ve noticed about the color? The exotic hue never looks cheap, not even when you’re loading up on it for under $20.

Although I’m obsessed with this color yum-yum, I barely have any of it in my closet, so this summer is a perfect time to start weeding out the black and letting the turquoise shine.  Here’s a jump start to a closet full of the color of the summer: Read More »

What IS the smell of man?

Dirty socks, sweaty gym shorts, and day-old Ramen noodles are just a few things that come to mind (and consequently bring up my lunch). And apparently some people rather enjoy those scents, because someone (most likely a man) decided to bottle them up and add a wick.

Yes, let me introduce you to the “Man Candle.”

The Man Candle (or mandle for those guys in the know) is a guy’s answer to the lavender/vanilla bean/clean cotton candles we ladies have been burnin’ for years. Much like sandals, bras and even Spanx, guys have been feeling left out and wanted a scented candle of their very own. But with none of that girly smelly stuff, of course.

Mandles come in a number of “manly” scents ranging from dude places (the fishing dock, the golf course, and the garage) to dude foods (pizza, popcorn, bacon, draft beer and pot roast). They are the perfect room accessory when guys are looking to set the mood or freshen up that stale, man room air. Because there’s nothing more appealing than a guy’s room that smells like a mix of mildewy laundry and “the warm, savory goodness of a slow-cooked hunk of beef seasoned to perfection.”

Mmmm. Manly. Read More »