Represent!
Friday, June 30, 2000 | 12:30 a.m.
I love the whole I'm-a-celebrity, you're-a-celebrity thing.

Keanu wars!
Thursday, June 29, 2000 | 11:44 p.m.
This link is to a very funny Fametracker form where some rabid Keanu fans defend their idol against accusations of bad acting. I also found this Salon article about Keanu's appeal that I really agree with.

Quote: "In "Girlfriend," her new book about cross-dressing, Holly Brubach argues that drag sends conventional sex roles topsy-turvy, that while maintaining traditional images of femininity it "upholds the very definitions that it subverts; it is at once radical and deeply conventional." I'd argue the same applies to Reeves. Looking at good-looking people has been one of the great pleasures of the movies since the silents. But the performers who have offered themselves most willingly to the camera have almost always been women. Their seeming passivity has disguised the position of power they hold over the viewer. Ready for worship, they have presented themselves as if they were the sacred icons of pop culture. Men, on the other hand, have traditionally acted to deflect attention from themselves, as if doing anything less would seem unmanly or feminine.

Reeves is one of the few contemporary male stars whose presence acknowledges that people are out there in the dark looking at him. He's not narcissistic, just comfortable with himself, and his slight languidness encourages looking. That willingness to be looked at evokes -- in women as well as men -- a homosexual panic. I don't mean that as a sop to the rumors that have hovered around Reeves' sexuality -- though it's significant that we can conceive of a man comfortable with his good looks only as being gay -- but as a suggestion of how some people still feel threatened by men who don't conform to their ideas of what men should be." -- Charles Taylor.

boy crazy!!
Tuesday, June 27, 2000 | 10:24 a.m.
A couple of years ago, my friend Chrissy and I bought this totally pink ass game called "HeartThrob" that featured pictures of pubescent guys wearing, like, mesh shirts looking fine. By the time we found the game (for 50 cents at the Tacoma Goodwill) the rules were long gone, but we think you were supposed to pick a guy card, then pick "Personality Cards" that had stuff like "Burps after drinking soda" and "is a heavy metal god" written on them. So then you had to decide between the hot guy or his bad personality. Anyway, boy crazy! has brought this idea into the 21st century by using real guys, and I'm sure they are real, because their personality profiles are lame ("I love Cream Soda"), misspelled, and just plain stupid ("Favorite Place: A foreign place"). I guess you can actually buy these as trading cards. So basically little girls have these fantasy objects that are just regular guys, with dorky personalities who aren't that cute, who they're supposed to trade cards of and worship over. I think we've taken lame girl games to a whole new level. The site is, however, hilarious, especially when I get matched up these 4 foot 11 kids who were born around the time I got my first period.

Get Crafty
Saturday, May 6, 2000 | 07:31 p.m.
OK, this is a chickclick link and as such is mass overexposed, but it's my second favorite chickclick site and is full of really great articles about making stuff, saving money, being DIY, and having a rad ass time. Plus, it's verrra pretty. Dos thumbs up.

Queenbee Creations
Saturday, May 6, 2000 | 07:21 p.m.
I really love Rebecca Pearcy's stuff. She makes bags, belts, and guitar straps. They are highly adorable and coveted, and I'd always rather buy from a local artisan than patronize Urban Outfitters or something. You can even pick your colors! Perfecto. She also sells fuzzy kitty hats with ears, which personally I wouldn't wear unless I was 15 again, but they are very cute.

VICTOM!
Saturday, May 6, 2000 | 07:19 p.m.
This is the funniest page I've seen in a while. It's a parody of all those horrid grrl/boi pages you see on Geocities if you search for Bikini Kill. Ha ha ha. "This site is like a place for us to express our thoufghts on like society and fashion and the way we are portrayed in this male dominated society. So enjoy and like dont forget to send us email cause like we love to coresponde with our fans. We are bi."