We all do it, whether we like to admit it or not: we rate people.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
He's Scoping You Out for Your Digits, but Not the Ones You'd Expect...
We all do it, whether we like to admit it or not: we rate people.
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Bromances
Society focuses a lot on female-female interactions and the varying degrees of friendships - the BFF, the "frenemie" etc. - leaving discussion of male-male friendships on the periphery. But finally, a movie has come out that puts male-male friendships in a whole new light: I Love You, Man. It stars Paul Rudd and Jason Segel (for you guys who know I love HIMYM, this was a moment for me!). The plot starts us off with Paul Rudd and his imminent marriage and the realization that his character has no close guy friends. So he sets off to find some, or even just one...poor guy. During his search he befriends Jason Segel's character, and the "bromance" begins. (Sidenote: Paul Rudd is EXCELLENT in this movie!)
Thursday, March 5, 2009
AE Gives Us "The Ugly Truth"
A few nights ago, I was watching Nip/Tuck (the closest thing to hardcore porn you’ll find on network cable) with a bunch of my friends. At one point, my buddy’s girlfriend comes out of the other room and says she’s watching Biggest Loser. She then goes on to say how the contestants are crying and how she’s about to cry also. I quickly respond with, “Yeah, it’s really sad watching fat people try to lose weight.”
That little offensive and tasteless interaction got me thinking, not about fat people making such an emotional big deal about losing weight, but about how physically unattractive girls go on complaining about how they can’t find a relationship…about how “all men are shallow pigs,” and how “pretty girls are all bitches.”
Well ladies, the fact of the matter is, the problem is actually you, not men, and not necessarily the pretty girls. Gerard Butler said it best in his upcoming chick flick The Ugly Truth, “Listen up ladies. You want a relationship? Here’s how you get one: It’s called a Stair Master! Get on it! No one falls in loves with your personality at first sight!”
That isn’t to say that personality and brains isn’t important. It’s quite the opposite in fact. Once you get past the initial five minutes of an encounter with a man, your personality will make or break you going home with him that night (that or the copious amounts of alcohol that you both may or may not have consumed). However, it is getting to that encounter and eventual conversation that is the problem with you types of girls. I’m sorry to tell you that it isn’t your personality or dizzying intellect that the guy is going to be staring at from across the bar. Unfortunately, if you’re not physically attractive, forget about it. Men are visual people, and if they like what they see, they go for it. Without that initial physical attraction, 99% of men will have no reason whatsoever to come up to you, strike that conversation, and get to know whoever the hell it is you are behind your less-than-stellar physical appearance.
So let that be a lesson from me to all you girls who think that intelligence and personality are all that matter. You’re really only kidding yourselves. Unless you’ve got the physical goods to back up that brain and charm of yours, don’t expect that cute boy to be coming after you at your next girls night out. Having said that, don’t hate on all the pretty girls. While their good looks may give off the bitchy vibe (and truth be told some of them really are bitches), they are simply using the gifts that God gave them, and regrettably for you, it’s those gifts that are going to attract the cute boy you’ve had your eye on all night. So take a tip, and “make it work.”
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Neil Patrick Harris: Fuck Yeah!
If any of you have ever seen "Doogie Howser, M.D." or more recently, "Harold and Kumar..." and especially "How I Met Your Mother," you know just how awesome NPH is.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Girlfriend Lessons: Green Means Go
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Chasing the Journey Front Man
If you're any sort of rock aficionado, an 80's kid, or a former student of any New England college, you know the band Journey. Even if you don't, I bet you a million dollars you know the song "Don't Stop Believing."
Chaos! The Plokkers are unhappy with the disorganization. Hint: AP is...you should know this one by now. Alana is the creeper with her hand on AP's shoulder. Lani is the one in the gray sweater. Mom gets a brief chance to give AP the presents we bought for him and his fam.
Alana: Arnel, you may not really know who I am but I'm Ate Alana.AP: Oh my god! Ate! Thanks so much for _____ ______ and ______ (can't disclose).HOW THE HECK DOES HE KNOW MY MOM!?! She totally crept in there!!!
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Guy-Friendly Book Review: "Physics of the Impossible" by Dr. Michio Kaku, PhD
So gents, AE's back with a chance for you to indulge your inner nerd. If you read my "Celeb List: Geek Hot Guys" you'll know that nerdiness is fully condoned here. So if you're one of those guys who bought one of those Star Wars Special Edition light sabers from Sharper Image (before it went out of business), or you're just a science geek like AE and me, read on.
Let’s face it gentlemen, there isn’t a single one of us out there who hasn’t seen the entire Star Wars Trilogy (not the Hayden Christiansen bastardized trilogy). We’ve all spent countless dollars on novelty light sabers, die cast millennium falcons, and R2-D2 action figures. But how much of that movie is actually possible by today’s technological standard? Dr. Kaku attempts to answer that question along with many of our favorite science fiction phenomena.Let me begin by saying that this is not a book for your average layperson. Kaku is a professor of Theoretical Physics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Unless you finished with an undergraduate degree in a hard science, I recommend you brush up on your basic physics and chemistry before diving into this beast.
Given the proper background however, this book is very enjoyable, fascinating and thought provoking. Kaku analyzes what is necessary to accomplish all of our favorite “impossibilities:” teleportation, starships, faster-than-light travel and even the perpetual motion machine (better known as the Holy Grail in the physics world). Believe it or not, some things such as force fields and starships are not all that far out of our reach given our society’s current technology.
For the stereotypical nerd, this book is everything you would want and more. Kaku discusses the history of each “impossibility”, what we as a society know so far, and the in depth physics and chemistry (oh God! Equations!). If anything else, you will get a great deal of compliments and impressive looks when reading this book in public.
-AE