Goodreads | Recent Updates Dating a Privileged White Girl Turtle Rock is a multi-tiered specialty community in Orange County, CA in a city called Irvine. Street signs are small and the roads are hilly. They are threats to teenagers that live here with their parents. The Privileged White Girl, or PWG, remains a staple in male dating habits nationwide. Sage Hill School is a private, liberal arts-focused high school in adjacent Newport Coast, CA that sits approximately one mile from the beach. The host asked me to play a song. Tagged Alexander Wang, American Spirits, boston, DUI, Ivy League, Liberal Arts, Los Angeles, loxe-sex, NYU, Opening Ceremony, Orange County, Radiohead, White Girl Problems, Whole Foods, Wilco
Let It Snow (novel) Plot[edit] The Jubilee Express[edit] The story follows teenager Jubilee Dougal, who has been forced to spend Christmas Eve with her grandparents after her parents are arrested for participating in a riot over a cult-like set of miniature decorative houses called the Flobie Santa Village, one of the pieces being her namesake. While on the train ride to her grandparents' place in Florida, Jubilee meets Jeb, who is trying to contact his girlfriend back home but is unable to find cell phone service. She also runs into a group of cheerleaders, whom she attempts to distance herself from due to them annoying her. A Cheertastic Christmas Miracle[edit] The Patron Saint of Pigs[edit] The third story follows a girl named Addie, who is depressed because she broke up with her boyfriend Jeb. Reception[edit] References[edit] External links[edit]
The Five Types of Friends Everyone Should Get Rid Of The Party Friend If you’re the kind of person who likes to get wild on an occasion, you probably have a party friend. This is the person you call when you want to rage because they always know where are all the parties are happening and usually have unlimited access to illegal substances. Hanging out with them is a guaranteed “good time” and you invariably end up doing something insane, which will later lay the foundation for the paper-thin friendship. You like the party friend, but you actually don’t know a lot about them. The Internet Friend An Internet friend is someone you communicate with mostly in the virtual world. The Sane Friend The sane friend is the person you go out to dinner, have deep talks about relationships and maybe go to the movies with. The Friend Who’s Not Your Friend The friend who’s not your friend is essentially a frenemy. The Depressed Friend The depressed friend is someone who has a perpetual dark cloud hanging over them.
I Quit My Job For months, I spent most of my time at work trying to articulate how much I hated working there. On paper, it was great: Japanese TV News Producer. I had a box of business cards waiting on my desk on the first day. I had 3 press badges, one of which got me free admission to a bunch of museums. I started on September 1st, three months to the day after graduating college. We had it better, or so they told us, but we had the bad luck of not really believing that it was just bad luck anymore. Among my stubbornly media-bound friends, in this grim citywide limbo, I was the first to get a job offer. And the fact that the job came in the same cycle as school semesters felt like a good omen. By Thanksgiving, things had soured. As it turned out, I didn’t really make TV at my job, not much happened in TV news in general, and doing it in Japanese just made it lonelier. And from her re-reply: “Aww shucks, I was hoping you had a more interesting job to make up for the low pay.”
Black Swan: Movie about Mother-Daughter Sexual Abuse « Blooming Lotus January 3, 2011 by faithallen My sister and I saw the movie Black Swan together over the holidays. As two survivors of mother-daughter sexual abuse, the underlying theme driving the story was glaringly obvious, but I suspect that the movie is much more of a puzzle for those who have not suffered from childhood trauma. I don’t see much yet over the Internet about the mother-daughter sexual abuse in Black Swan, so I wonder how many people are swept away by the truths in the movie without making sense of the logic. The basic storyline of the movie Black Swan is about a talented but repressed ballet dancer named Nina (played by Natalie Portman) trying to access the passionate part of herself at the expense of her sanity. Nina is cast in the lead of the ballet Swan Lake despite the reservations of the director Thomas (played by Vincent Cassell). The movie is completely from Nina’s point of view. *** spoiler alert *** Have any of you seen the movie Black Swan? Photo credit: Hekatekris Like this:
aramatheydidnt: Time to welcome our new Japanese cellphone overlords Japan Phone Makers See Opportunity in Android TOKYO — Japanese mobile phones are a gadget lover’s dream. They double as credit cards. They can stream live television. Some are even fitted with solar cells. And yet, for all their innovations, Japanese-made handsets have had little impact overseas. But now the Japanese phone industry hopes to go global — by adopting Google’s red-hot Android mobile operating system. “We have the technology to compete in the United States,” said Naoki Shiraishi, who led software development for a new line of Android smartphones from Sharp, the largest Japanese cellphone maker. Sony Ericsson, NEC and Kyocera are among the other Japanese handset makers also betting on Android as their path to international sales. While Android was initially overshadowed by the popular iPhone from Apple, its user numbers are now soaring. Because Japan’s phone industry is highly fragmented, no company so far has been large or savvy enough to make a strong overseas push. And Mr.
Oh Shit, I Dated A Stripper! For a long time, I was a nerd, and then I dated a stripper. This was a weird thing to have happen. Guys who spend their teenage years playing “Bard’s Tale” on the Commodore 64 do not generally excel in the art of dating strippers. To be fair, when I started dating her, she wasn’t one – a stripper, I mean. Stephanie was also bisexual, which, I know, this just sounds implausible – or, if you knew me in real life, it would seem implausible. I must reassert here that I wasn’t just a nerd, I was a SUPER nerd. “‘My god,’ I said to myself. The weird thing about strip clubs is that they look just like strip clubs in movies. Annoyingly, Steph wouldn’t let me pick her stripper name; we had lots of debates about this. And there were other strippers in the club, of course. Tagged Being Single, College, Love & Sex, loxe-sex, Relationship Advice, Relationship Issues, Relationships, Single Moms, Strip Clubs, Strippers, Stripping
How To Have A Shopping Addiction Develop a “passion for fashion!” Or just be a dedicated consumer who fills the void with buying tons of crap they don’t need. Suffer from multiple identity crises. Want to dress like a hippie freak one day and a glamazon the next. Go to your dealer otherwise known as the bank and apply for a credit card. Decide that you need a tunic. Go to the mall, breathe in the recycled air, and bask in the fluorescent lighting. This is when things get hazy. When you blackout shop, you’re obviously not aware of what you’re doing. Walk away from the store and come to holding six shopping bags, one of which inexplicably holds three berets and four of the same tunics in different colors. Your parents discover how much money you’ve been spending and ask if you have a drug problem. Tagged Banks, Ebay, Fashion, Free People, Gilt, Hot Dog On A Stick, Humor, Malls, Shopping, Tunics, Vomit
Never Date A Nice Boy You should never date someone because they’re nice. As far as qualities go, it doesn’t hold much weight, requires no discernible skill. You know this now but you didn’t know it then. You didn’t know it on that night of the dinner party. At the dinner party, you’re talking about mature adult things with your friends when the nice boy comes in. “Wicked spread.” As the night progresses, you drink more wine and start to care less about his slang and more about his sweet ass. You suggest moving the party to the rooftop of your apartment. You smoke pot, tastes so good. This is when things get blurry, stop making so much sense. He says he has to go and you panic. You run down the hallway, turn the corner and see him get into the elevator. What happens after that is a series of choreographed moments, a nice relationship with a nice boy. But it doesn’t become real-not even close. You wonder how this meanness could have lived inside of you undetected for all of these years.
'Japan's single finest film critic' Tadao Sato laughed an embarrassed laugh as he recalled that three years ago, in London, he had been referred to as a “legend.” Though adding to his discomfort, I had to admit that in my university days I had thought of him in the same way. And I still do. Notification You’ve reached your story limit as a non-registered user. To read more, please sign up or log in via one of the services below. A lifetime of kabuki “Koraiya!” shouts someone in the audience, acclaiming the actor center stage. Feeding off the adulation, he launches into his next line. “What a useless fellow you are,” he yells, berating the servant at his side. “You shall pay dearly!” “Koraiya!” Then, in an explosion of grimaces and angular motion, the actor pounces on his servant, snatches a staff from his grasp, raises it aloft and brings it crashing down on the man’s shoulders. The scene, which is the climax of the classic 19th-century kabuki play, “Kanjincho,” never fails to thrill the audience and elicit such cries of encouragement as “Koraiya!” Benkei’s act is a desperate ruse — a severe dressing-down will convince the suspicious officials that this really is his servant, and thus save both of their lives. The man playing the lead role of Benkei in this performance, which this writer saw several years ago at the Kabukiza theater in Tokyo’s Ginza district, goes by the stage name of Matsumoto Koshiro IX. Yes, I was 3 years old.
Top 10 Manga to Learn History From Author: Artefact Categories: Manga, NewsDate: Mar 8, 2011 10:47 JSTTags: China, History, Otaku, Rankings, Samurai, Shonen, Shoujo Manga fans supply a ranking of the manga they feel most likely to be useful in gleaning some understanding of history from. The manga listed are likely to be of particular interest to budding “rekijo” – female history otaku, an affliction apparently common as it has managed to pick up its own name – although anyone who can stomach endless retellings of the Chinese classics (see below), Genji or assorted tales of samurai and crossdressing is likely to find something of interest. The ranking: 1. The total absence of the likes of Vinland Saga from the list is rather problematic to say the least, although the exquisitely illustrated Hyouge Mono’s omission can probably be excused.