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Entries from June 2009
June 29, 2009
Lobster sex is good for our wallets
According to Trevor Corson of The Atlantic, lobster prices are dropping, in part, because “the lobster population in the Gulf and concluded that adult lobsters continue to have lots of sex and make lots of babies.”
Okay, so that’s not entirely true. BUT, their ability to reproduce buttressed by New England lobster fishery rules and regulations [...]
June 26, 2009
Sweet and Sour
Michael Jackson is well known, among a ton of other things, for his classic party starters. But what about the ballads?
MJ’s ballads were excessively sweet…and tragic. “You are not alone,” “She’s out of my life,” “it’s the falling in love,” and “Can’t help it” have been interpreted as MJ sending smoke signals about the lonely [...]
June 25, 2009
The Art of Apology
Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina, a thin, wiry, man held a press conference today to expalin himself, his affair, and his disappearance. While I’m not a fan of press conferences, particular those held by elected officials, this one is worth watching. Sanford – your typical looking Southern father, loafer wearing, family man, upright citizen [...]
June 23, 2009
We’re just not that into this…
At Blockbuster, the cashier checking us out picked up “Bride Wars” and she excitedly said “OH! I love this movie” with her voice getting squeaky and her eyes lighting up at Bean.
I then asked her if she liked “The Wrestler” and she said straightforwardly in a montonous tone: “No.” She added, “I heard it was [...]
June 22, 2009
Body Slammin’ and Slammin’ Bodies
We are finally catchin’ up on the summer blockbusters…of 2008.
With a broke car and forced to stay in, we did what most graduate students would do: watch movies and drink some alcohol. For the next few days, we’ll be doing our analysis of these 2 – thousand – and – late movies Siskel and Ebert-style. [...]
June 19, 2009
Beef
The biggest beef of 2009 might actually be chicken.
As if Kentucky Fried Chicken’s Grilled Chicken didn’t already have enough enemies already, El Pollo Loco, too, is now hatin’ on it! El Pollo Loco’s latest web campaign exposes how KFC’s grilled chicken gets its flavor, in part, from beef. We might as well start calling the [...]
June 18, 2009
Ebony and Ivory
(the best interracial duet so far?)
As you can tell from my blog entries, I’m obsessed about analyzing — to the point of paranoia — the politics of “unity” that rap music has provided since it’s emergence on major labels and radio waves across the country and world.
Today, Complex Blog covers some of the worst Ebony [...]
June 16, 2009
100th Post
Hello fans. Daily Fortune officially turns 100! A hundred posts that is.
To celebrate this milestone of arts and letters (ha!), we’ve decided to re-tell a story we’ve told a bunch of times to help introduce you readers to us a little more. It’s a story about passion! It’s a story about food and sex (but [...]
