Disney is a Cult: Happily Ever After Dispelled
Disney is a cult! Yes, I said, it. Disney is a cult! Sorry, Sue and Tyler, I loved your Disney wedding, but after five days living on the grounds of the “happiest place on earth,” I felt I was being wooed into believing that nothing bad ever happens in the world, and if I stayed there long enough, I too could find Prince Charming while riding Space Mountain. Call me a realist, but life is not a “happily ever after,” as Mr. Disney wants us all to believe. Cinderella and Snow White are just fantasies: A ploy to warp little girls minds into believing that Prince Charming will come and sweep them away. My rant on Disney could go on for hours, but I found that photos do a much better job in dispelling the happily ever myth that Disney...
Read MoreAnd the nominees are…
Finally, the Oscars are here! And yes, I must admit that instead of listening to today’s homily, I drifted to think about my favorite movies and the lines in them that “spoke” to me. Here’s my top 10: 10. Mommie Dearest – “No wire hangers.” 9. A Few Good Men – “He eats breakfast three hundred yards away from four thousand Cubans who are trained to kill him and no one’s going to tell him how to run his unit, least of all the Harvard mouth in his faggoty white uniform.” 8. Bridget Jones’s Diary – “The only thing worse than smug married couple; lots of smug married couples.” 7. When Harry Met Sally - “All I’m saying is that somewhere out there is the man you are...
Read MoreThe Bachelor Recycled
I didn’t realize I’d miss the winter Olympics so much. Not so much that I love winter sports, but because watching world-class athletes fall on their ass is more entertaining than what’s typically offered on Monday nights. Namely, The Bachelor. I hate this show and only watch so I can bitch about it and yell at the TV, “you’re sooooo stupid!.” Yes, I”m cynical and I don’t believe in overnight, I want to live with you forever kind of love. It just doesn’t happen that way. What irritates me more is ABC’s obligatory request for future Bachelor/Bachelorette submissions. During each episode they advertise, “if you’d like to be the next Bachelor send us your submission.” This must be some...
Read MoreMen’s Figure Skating Over UNC Basketball
Initially, I was very weary of following the winter Olympics after I had already medaled in the DC snowpocalypse of 2010. Yet I found myself choosing men’s figure skating over Carolina basketball. This year, this is not a hard decision and fortunately, the winter gods have given me a diversion from this atrocious basketball season. My diversion: men’s figure skating. Typically, I hate men’s figure skating. Mostly it’s their costumes and music that turn me off. Men in sequins skating around to music that can push a bipolar person over the edge is not my idea of sport. Nevertheless, I tuned in to watch the USA versus Russia drama. By now we all know how that turned out and everyone outside Russia agrees the Russian dude is just a poor sport....
Read MoreIdol: My Drug of Choice
Only 12 days into the new year and I begin another American Idol journey. If you don’t know already, I’m a huge Idol fan, but it wasn’t always that way. It wasn’t until season 3, AKA, the Fantasia season, that Idol became my drug of choice. That year, it took everything I had just to function. Everything around me was a blur and I walked and talked in slow motion. I wasn’t living…I was just being. With a shattered heart, I couldn’t imagine what was next for my life, but then came American Idol. Idol became my escape from the hurt, the Michigan cold and the loneliness only heartbreak can impose. I didn’t just see Idol as a talent contest, I saw it as a second chance for lost dreams. A chance to be you and to...
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