Brad really knows how to get girls to open up....on the radio.

Y’all, after watching last night’s episode of The Bachelor, I’ve totally had a change of heart.  I think Brad’s a really swell, understanding, sensitive, sweet, in-touch, adorable, witty, intelligent hunk of hot man.

I mean, why else would Michelle stress so much as to give herself a black eye?  (Certainly not for attention.)  Why else would Ashley H. need an estimated five shots of liquid confidence before confronting Brad?  (Certainly not because she’s a sloppy biatch.)  And why else would that random redhead and the girl whose ethnicity I can’t place and “Lisa” who suddenly has curly hair all stick around even though they never get any attention from our Bachelor?  (I’m seriously lost on that one…)

As an attuned and seasoned fan of The Bachelor series, I’ve learned to spot a true catch.  And let me tell you- Brad is it.  Think Chris Harrison over-served me and this is just the cheap champagne talking?  Think again…

The Top Perks of Dating Brad “I Have a Giant Sexy Jesus Tattoo” Womack

1. The Drunk Heart-to-Hearts
When Brad’s around, a full bottle of wine usually is, too.  And what better way to discuss deep, life-altering topics than with a solid buzz goin’ on?  If college taught us one thing, it’s that, even at 36, you’re never too old for beer tears and shameful public admissions.  Especially if you’re cornered on some classy-as-eff wicker sofa and offered an alpaca blanket for your spray-tanned legs. Read More »

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I know what you’re thinking, but it’s all true. Clay Butler, a California entrepreneur, has now introduced the idea of marijuana-infused soft drinks. Combing regular soda flavors with THC, a psychoactive marijuana ingredient, Butler has produced an innovative line of refreshments that’s bound to be a ‘hit.’ Though Butler himself claims to be straightedge, he’s very dedicated to producing and marketing his drinks.

Just in case you’re curious…there are a bunch of flavors to choose from including: Sour Diesel, Grape Ape, Orange Kush, and Doc Weed – something for everyone! And for you traditional Coca Cola lovers, there’s Canna Cola. Though each bottle is going to be around $10 to $15, there’s no doubt this drink will be ‘high’ on everyone’s grocery lists…for medicinal purposes, of course!

With this new breakthrough, who knows what other products might hit the shelves? Pot-sicles? Marijuana marinara sauce? Pot-tarts?

The sky’s the limit!

It’s been a long night. The only thing on your mind is throwing the 12 decorative pillows (that your mom insisted you buy) off your big comfy bed and burying yourself under that warm, fluffy blanket.

You fight to keep your eyes open as you take the elevator up to your room. As you round the corner and get closer to your room you grow more excited to kick off your shoes, peel those skinny jeans off your legs (you swear they weren’t this tight when you bought them…) and take a one way ticket to Snoozetown.

And then you see it. Scribbled on the dry erase board tacked to your door: come back later.

The writing is messy, but the message is loud and clear. Your roommate’s got someone in there and you are not welcome.

Angry, you stand there for a few moments taking it all in. It’s late on a weeknight. Everyone else is already asleep. And how long have they been in there?  Where the hell are you supposed to go? When can you come back?

You scan the hallway. Yup, everyone’s doors are closed and the hall is quiet. You are going to have to find somewhere else to pass the time. You take the elevator back down to the study room on your dorm’s main floor. You’re exhausted, but you decide you’ll do a bit more reading and try the room again in a half hour.

When you walk in you find another student in there reading on a couch.

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With the list of Razzie’s nominations coming out and celebrating the worst of the worst in Hollywood, we thought we’d award our own set of Razzies to some oh-so-deserving college students who have not been demonstrating the best college behavior this year. And by “not demonstrating the best” we we’re not talking about students who skipped a few classes or drunkenly fell off a few lofts. We’re talking bad. Really bad. The kind of stuff that keeps your mom up all night worrying that you might be this dumb and that maybe college isn’t for you and you should be home-schooled like that weird kid who picked his nose and wiped it on the swing set in your neighborhood growing up.

Yeah, that bad.

And the award goes to:

The award for disgusting behavior goes to the pledges and brothers of  the Delta Kappa Epsilon chapter at Yale University. The pledges were led to the freshman girls’ dorms while blindfolded and shouting “No means yes, yes means anal.” But it didn’t stop there. The pledges then began to shout about necrophilia, which is, as you know, having sex with corpses. Classy, Yale! Not only is this just disgusting and offensive, but don’t these guys have brains?! I understand that it was a pledge activity and yada, yada, yada, but did no one stop and think about how degrading or downright stupid that activity might have been? Read More »

The Sundance Film Festival is in full swing in Utah and we’re jealous that we’re missing all the star-studded fun. I mean if you’re going to be freezing cold and surrounded by snow, you might as well be schmoozing it up with celebrities, too.

But since some of us have obligations, like getting an education, we wanted to offer you the next best thing: a limited edition Kenneth Cole Sundance Ski Vest. Read More »

We all have our go-to stores that we, uh, go to when we need to stock up on some new wardrobe essentials (or when we just have an hour to kill and the mall reaches out and wraps us in its warm embrace). But what about all those other stores? The ones that you walk past on your way to Auntie Anne’s without a second glance? The “mom” stores, the old lady  department stores, the stores that don’t start with “Forever” and end with “21″? Surprise! Many of those stores are filled with major cuteness that you’re missing out on! (Except Chico’s – keep walking, little lady.) We know you’re not one to pass up a cute cami, so we scoured these under-the-radar shops and pulled out all the goodness you never realized existed.

I hate Walmart. Like, really, really hate Walmart. So much so that I’ll drive half an hour out of the way  and drop an extra $20 to avoid stepping foot in a Walmart. I’m opposed to almost everything about America’s not-so-favorite superstores — especially the fact that they stopped handing out those smiley face stickers at the door. But when I’m home with the family during breaks, running errands for my mom typically means I’ll have to make a trip to the big W, as much as I may protest and swear that Target is just SO. MUCH. BETTER.

Here’s the thing, though: on my last trip to Walmart, my 16-year-old sister tagged along, and during my hunt to find bargain paper plates and the latest Nora Roberts paperback for my mom, she dragged me over to the women’s clothing section to see what they had. And what they had was…actually really cute. She and I tried on a few fun tops and dresses, and I ended up walking away with a lacy going-out top that all my friends loved — for only $6.

Now, I won’t call myself a Walmart convert just yet, but I can say that I was pleasantly surprised. And I might head back there next time I’m home to stock up on cute-enough-t0-wear-out-but-cheap-enough-that-I-don’t-care-if-I-spill-pizza-sauce-on-them tops. And rainboots. And sweaters. And…. Read More »

“This is going to be my stress free semester.”

That was me, as I sat down to coffee with my friend approximately one hour before the start of my first class of the year. I was hopeful, really I was. Along with an awesome internship, I’m only taking two classes, a senior seminar, and a senior reflective tutorial, the capstones for my English major. I mean, how hard could those be, right? As is, I’ve already cut my workload in half. And, sure, I’m still working on my thesis, but I’m at the halfway mark, and I just have to find some time to actually write it. (Read: Cut my Facebook stalking time in half.) So really there’s not much to worry about, right? My friend, and fellow senior just looked at me and laughed. And, well, actually, she’s probably still laughing right now.

I had high hopes, really I did. My winter break was enjoyable. And productive. My schedule seemed promising. I came back, fresh-faced, relaxed and ready to take on the final semester.

And then, well, then I got hit with a thesis discussion meeting, multiple club budget meetings, a 5-page paper to do over the weekend, and too much reading to type out for all of you. Plus a weekend full of familial obligations. Not exactly what I had in mind for my first week back. But hey, if there’s one thing I learned in college it’s that nothing ever goes quite the way you planned. So I really should have known, this semester wouldn’t exactly be “stress free.”  Which, you know, isn’t exactly a bad thing, either.

You see as I gulped down a coffee and attempted to plan out how I was going to finish all of my homework, attend my grandmother’s 80-something birthday party, and show my face at a family friend’s sweet sixteen (that sure felt like a time warp) I remembered something I read in my school paper a while back.

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Now hold on a New York minute and stop the trip to Grandmother’s house, because double, double, toil, and trouble we have some Olsen news for you. We all know the Olsens had a brother. I mean the twins not-so-discretely attempted to sell him for a meager 50 cents back in the ’90s. But how did they keep a little sister (especially one as gorgeous and talented as this one) on the DL for so long? Perhaps Mary-Kate was hiding her under her “bohemian-homeless-chic” outfits for all those years?

Well the youngest Olsen (we think!?) is busting out from behind the scenes and kicking off her movie career at Sundance. While the films (yes, she’s got two Indie films under her braided belt) look intriguing, we have to say that they seem to lack a lot of the wonderful music and mysteries and dead mothers that made her sisters’ films such a hit.

Over 120 mobsters were arrested on Thursday in New York City’s biggest Mafia bust in history. If you thought the Mafia was just for the movies or Facebook games, well that’s what they wanted you to think. The gangsters were charged with various accounts of murder, extortion and narcotics trafficking. And, yes, of course, prosecuting the mobsters for the crimes they commit is serious business, but it’s hard not to laugh at the nicknames of some of the men who have been arrested. I can’t really imagine Jello, Vinny Carwash, Marbles, Johnny Lollipop, Lumpy, the Professor, or Tony Bagels being too intimidating, but hey, maybe that was part of their strategy.

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