Selling Out Is The New Keeping It Real

A tribute to the tenacity of human spirit:

the documentary
"Lemonade"

via Swissmiss

via Juxtapoz

Oh and just for smiles, in case you missed THE viral video of yesterday...
the MegaWoosh waterslide.

xo.

To sue or surf?

You know, maybe I should do law school after all. Because lawyers seem to be the only ones these days cashing in (although, probably on credit) on those trying to deny the Great Recession.

CNN: "Alumna sues college because she can't find a job"

(hilarious and tragic in so many ways)

This is precisely the reason why in efforts to stave off the impending bleak job outlook, I picked up a minor at my university and am running off to Neverland in January.

Because I, technically a part of yesterday's class of '09, am enrolled at the most inexpensive university in the country (I think) which affords me that privilege.


I guess I can deal with the zoobies a little while longer.

It's the price to pay for being silly enough to finagle a way, in a landlocked USA university, to put international surfing expeditions on my transcript.

Hang loose!

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Newsbits

A crazy sad (yet brilliantly designed) CO2 emissions interactive world map.

The computer font 'Comic Sans' is now deemed by WSJ as overused!

Video: quite possibly the best ever volleyball kick assist (Stanford Men's VB- my cousin's former team) - (how was that set, Amy?!)

Video: You thought pedaling was all there was to riding a bike.

Buchenwald Concentration Camp prisoners identified.
Bonus: click around on the same Flickr photostream for really neat WWII era photos.

Dooce (former Mormon) talks about popcorn popping and likes my name for their unborn daughter. (She has great photography too)

How to make a baby, in case you didn't know:



Briefly chatted yesterday with my former editor (who has since left the NYC magazine where she worked and I interned last summer), who is now LSAT'ing and working at Blue & Cream Boutique...
Since bandage dresses have been in the back of my mind lately (a la this Herve Leger), I am now obsessed with Preen's Power Bandage Dress....

I can only hope ABS makes a knockoff soon...
if not, then, dreams are recession friendly, right?!
What an epiphany.

Here's WSJ weighing in on discount designer duds.

I think the above red or black would be rockin' with these shoes of mine:

(they make me about 6'4" but, worry not, I've embraced it...due to a lot of encouragement from short friends/strangers in airports and grocery stores throughout the years who have admitted they wish for my inches).

Materialism backlash

Leave it to the comedic geniuses of SNL to break down what 'credit' means and how to stay out of debt.

My recession-friendly refried bean kick

I'm a SoCal native, which makes my soul food Mexican food,
just like gumbo to a New Orlean native or barbeque to a Texan.

Thus, I've been on a refried bean kick lately.



It's the strangest thing. I must be my tribute to the recession gods.

Lindsey thinks it's hilarious, but as a SoCal native, she understands completely, and when I told my sister about what I've been eating lately she told me it sounded "really goood"
(yeah, her dining hall food options include quinoa, edamame and fresh peaches in the dead of winter- I retorted that she was ridiculous).

Regardless, I've lately been feeling disgustingly indulgent dining out after I get on NY Times and read all the depressing (pun intended) stories...

which gets me to thinking about my grandpa who grew up in small town Utah during the Depression and has stories about rationing eggs...

so I figure this is my recession-era food story I'll tell my own grandchildren one day.
i.e. "Back in the Obama years when we drove these things called 'cars' to get around and people read newspapers..."

So here's what I do: I'll buy a pack of 16 Rosarita refried bean cans for about $10 at Costco...

also, while you're at Costco, pick up a thing of Parmigiano Reggiano and marinated sun-dried tomatoes (shh, I know that doesn't exactly sound recession-like, but buying in bulk is!)

All I do is I open a can, put in some cheese (highly recommend parmesan, but cheddar works too) and sundried tomato, nuke it in the micro for a few minutes and voila, a meal.

(It just occurred to me- not only is this easy on the wallet but it's also a fusion of Mexican meets Italian. Economic crises have never been so sophisticated.)

So needless to say, it's filling, healthy, delicious...and your stomach's economic best friend.