Illiterati

By Haley

First Impressions: Arkansas vs. Colorado (Part One)

By Libby

Moving to Colorado from Arkansas has been quite a change for me thus far. Though I have lived here  in Pueblo for less than a year, I have already noticed many differences between my home state and my new wild west playground. Here are some observations I have come across between the two so far.

My Review of Avatar (AKA Why I Now Believe We Should Sink James Cameron to the Bottom of the Ocean)

By Haley

Oh Avatar- the bloated idiot corpse of a franchise that never should have existed.  But sadly, no matter the quality level of the first one, Avatar 2 is coming up your butt and around the corner soon whether you like it or not. So what better time to become familiarized with the original  than before a pack of corporate d-bags starts ragging on you to watch the sequel.

Craft Lover

By Haley

OBEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By Haley

As I have been thinking a lot lately about what exactly the term "healthy lifestyle" means, I want to share something with you now that is very special to me. It's my favorite obnoxious dieting web ad that I've ever seen. So much so that this image has literally been on my computer for years.

What a great solution! Just fucking obey. Slightly fat? Really fat? Remove-a-wall-from-the-house-so-you-can-go-outside fat? Chubby, chunky, curvy, plump, obese, pregnant (I SEE YOU AD), old, young, cute, ugly, sad, sick, happy, content, WHATEVER: just fucking obey and everything will be OK.

Obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey obey.

Maybe a healthy lifestyle just means disengaging from the conversations that people have about what constitutes a healthy lifestyle. Maybe it just means ignoring all the charlatans and false prophets who want to make a buck off of your misery (or change you happiness into misery and then profit off of that). Maybe it just means that people should just do what makes them feel sane instead of sexy. Do work on the bodies we HAVE not the bodies we WANT. Feed the feelings that we want to feel. Obey ourselves.

Anyway, I don't even know what the ad was selling because I didn't click. I will never click. Besides, it's always some version of speed + a berry that white people have never heard of anyway.

Rugged People

By Haley

Haley Presents: The Review of Netflix Presents: "The Characters"

By Haley

(L-R) Berlant, Early, Lapkus, Zebrowski, Robinson, Rothwell, Brown, Downs

I recently (OK, last night) finished watching all eight episodes of the new Netflix series "The Characters". Going into it I was nervous- the trailer I had watched weeks earlier seemed truly terrible. However, the experience turned out to be more of a mixed bag than just a outright disappointment, with a few of the comedians featured really blowing me away.
Let's start with the good. Out of the eight comedians who were each given a thirty minute show to do . . . pretty much whatever they wanted with, three really stood out to me. They are the works of Natasha Rothwell, Paul W. Downs, and John Early.