Posted by KTC on 3 July, 2008
I knew gas prices were bad…but wow!
New Zealand man sells his soul to ‘Hell’
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A New Zealand man has sold his soul to hell — Hell Pizza, that is.
The New Zealand pizza chain said Thursday it had struck a deal with Walter Scott, 24, to buy a deed to his soul, shortly after an online auction site that initially agreed to the sale withdrew it from the Internet because of complaints it was in bad taste.
Scott offered his soul on the TradeMe site on Wednesday, saying he had not found it to be much use.
“I can’t see it, touch it or feel it, but I can sell it, so I’m going to palm it off to the highest bidder,” Scott, 24, said on the sale site.
The auction attracted more than 32,000 hits and more than 100 bids before it was taken down.
*looks askance at the pile of overdue bills and nearly empty food stores…*
Pbbbbbt. I’m going to hit the shower and then the library. I’ve got a book hold and I can’t afford to pay the week fee.
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Posted by KTC on 3 July, 2008
It’ll be on Oprah and Tyra any day now. Tyra…*spaced out drooling*
Er…*shakes head clear*
Black is finally in fashion at Vogue
By Ian Johnston and Photini Philippidou
Sunday, 27 April 2008
It’s an open secret in the fashion industry: black models rarely get jobs on catwalks, in magazines and on billboards. According to executives, they do not inspire women to spend money.
Apart from Naomi Campbell in one Louis Vuitton advertisement this season, it would be difficult to find a single black model in a prominent position in a magazine. Carole White of the Premier Model Agency says she has received casting briefs requesting “no ethnics” and adds: “According to magazines, black models don’t sell.” (More)
I personally couldn’t give a flying…duck what the fashion world thought of me. I’d like to think I have more to me than something as vapid as ‘fashion consciousness’ but that’s just me. It seems odd that almost no one is stressing any kind of intellectual stimulation to girls (of all backgrounds) but are, in place of this, pushing forward an idiotic idealization that one must fit into this standardized casting in order to be accepted in society. Bullshit.
Now that I’ve got my personal views out of the way. This is about as old as the hills. For what it’s worth, it’s nice to see someone (aside from Yves Saint-Laurent and the few others like him) take any note of it and specifically address the issue. I still think it’s a shame they’re not modeling academic caps and gowns or…dare I say it? Doctorates in the fields of Mathematics and the various Sciences?
I doubt anyone will take the challenge of not cutting darker skinned models out of their promotions (damn and blast you Covergirl for cutting that commercial with the very beautiful Alek Wek!) as seriously, but my hat goes off to this Nick Knight fellow.
Heh, cool name too. :p
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