Blaglash.com

Jezebel is a feminist slanting blog about media, pop culture and celebrity.  They foray into politics, the economy and literature as well.  Their bias, voice and overall tone is aimed at shaming people into agreeing with their ideas and opinions; at least that’s my conclusion based on my year and a half close reading of […]

[Read more →]

It looks like a political figure has once again been caught (or appears to have been caught) in a scandalous situation.  This scandal is bigger than the Spitzer scandal in the scandal matrix, because Edwards has not only been unfaithful to his wife, who is battling breast cancer, but he also has fathered a love […]

[Read more →]

 
Just read this story about a modern day case of slavery.  This woman “employed” two Indonesian woman.  And by employed I mean she beat them and abused them while they worked for her; after she had confiscated their passports and visas.  The family paid the “housekeepers’” families 100 dollars a month.  Besides, doesn’t she just LOOK […]

[Read more →]

 
When Ellen came out, it was such a big deal.  For some reason, I feel like she was one of the first famous lesbians; at least that I can remember.  Ellen is now dating Portia de Rossi, who is wicked awesome.  But aside from Ellen, there has been a kind of bump in the amount […]

[Read more →]

 
Gossip Girl has removed their full episodes feature from their website.  Everyone on the CW message boards is pretty pissed about it.  I wonder how these guys feel about it?
As someone with prior engagements on Monday nights, I’m livid.  All the episodes I watched were from the comfort of my bed, with my boyfriend’s laptop heating my […]

[Read more →]

Blog: Noun.

A new medium invented sometime around the turn of the 21st century that allows anyone to post stories and content to the internet.
A way to kill the dinosaur journalists of mainstream media.

I’ve got no qualms with the first definition. However, the true power of blogs lies in the second. This newfangled way […]

[Read more →]

 
The fans have voted.
And it has been determined that Needle Up! (an amateur band from Buffalo, New York) is the “Spammiest” band on Myspace.
Through their use of illegal spam bots, the band has gathered over 5,000 Myspace friends in a lawless scheme to obtain a record deal.

[Read more →]

Zed Shaw’s always on some crazy shit, but here’s some crazy shit.
Utu is a new software package that hopes to “save the internet with hate.”
Here’s the premise:
The internet is overrun by trolls and aggressors who are free to do as they please, using the internet as their spambot, and are able to continue because there […]

[Read more →]

Solution: Quit and start a blog! Give them your ideas for free!
Screenshot:

[Read more →]

Dogster is on a self-inflicted PR campaign garnering all sorts of publicity.
Check out their blog post about being on ABC News.
My feelings? I would never in a trillion billion years announce to the public that my employees are such childish burnouts that I had to put restrictions on what they can and can’t bring […]

[Read more →]