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Is American Apparel Skeevier in Real Life Than It Is In Ads?

American Apparel has a new hiring practice in place that lets them weed out the ugly and out of shape. Apparently, all potential employees are now vetted by an unknown person (or team or people) via photographs emailed in with applications.  One photo of the applicant's face and one full body head-to-toe (not sideways) shot. Seems like an awful lot of potential degradation to go through for a job that pays 9(-ish) bucks an hour, doesn't it?  Oh, and EEeeeewwwWWW.

Kathy Griffin Wants An Emmy Nomination

 Kathy Griffin took out one of those Emmy-nomination-grubbing "For Your Consideration"ads in The Hollywood Reporter, and it's actually pretty hilarious. 

Les Grossman and The MTV Movie Awards

Remember Les Grossman?  The best part of Tropic Thunder?  He's hawking the MTV Movie Awards.  Brilliantly, I might add.

2012 Summer Olympics: Filled With Tea And Crumpets And Creepy, One-Eyed Aliens

The official mascots for the 2012 Olympics have been revealed.  Something about having one giant camera eye.  I...am so afraid.

iPhone Advertisement Hurt My Feelings

 I love my iPhone unapologetically. I literally take it to bed with me. I read books on it before I go to sleep. That being said, the current iPhone ad really pisses me off.

FOX and ABC Still Hate Plus-Sized People

FOX and ABC got caught being prejudiced again. The last time I wrote about them it was about how they wouldn't run a gay dating commercial. This time, ABC refused to air a Lane Bryant commercial because it showed too much cleavage.

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Remember the Mascots

Do you remember the days of mascots? What happened to them, where did they go and why have we been left behind? Did they all get picked up by aliens and taken to a better place? Perhaps! Then again, perhaps the mascots simply died off in some kind of mascot holocaust.

Really??!! Apparently We're 'Generation Mix' Now

 If I were to make a list today of the top three things I hate, in the order of how much I hate them, it would go something like this: 1. Cucumbers; 2. Hitler; 3. Consumer market research. 

That's right: I hate market research only slightly less than mass murder. Apparently, unsatisfied with the equally arbitrary categories of "Generation X" and "Millennials"  market researchers have made up a hybrid term for 24-34 year-olds: GenMix.

Bristol Palin Wants Poor Girls to Know That They Shouldn't Have Sex Like She Did Because They're Poor

Bristol Palin, daughter of Sarah Palin, former Republican nominee for Vice President of the United States in 2008, and public face of wealthy teen motherhood, wants you to know something: 

It's okay for girls with money and famous mothers to have baby's outside of wedlock, but if you're poor and unknown, you had better think twice, or "pause before you play", as she terms it in a recent PSA.

Domino's "New And Improved" Pizza: Snarky Amber Investigates

Yes, I am reviewing a pizza. And this is totally relevant to pop culture (*waves to overlords*) because those friggin' Dominos commercials are incessant, commercials are pop culture, and I really don't want to write about Lindsay Lohan today. 

Madonna's Louis Vuitton Ads: 'Shopped All To Heck

I guess it's not terribly surprising that those behind Louis Vuitton's Fall ad campaign featuring Madonna chose to apply photoshop liberally to these images. See why after the jump.

Pajama Jeans - For When Casual Friday Just Isn't Casual Enough

I have often wished I could go out in my pajamas in public, but silly pride has gotten in the way every time. Now, thanks to Pajama Jeans, there is a solution to my quandary!

CBS Can't Handle Gay Dating Commercial

CBS, who has decided to run Tim Tebow's anti-abortion ad during the Super Bowl has rejected an ad from a gay dating site called Man Crunch because it "does not meet broadcast standards".

I think it is kind of funny. Watch for yourself.

LOST's Last Supper Promo Photos

...And then, just when I thought I'd freed myself from its skull-crushing pain and torment (LOMGST!), ABC goes and releases two promotional images for the new season of LOST (starting February 2nd! Mark your calendars!), and makes my brain all owie and hurty... AGAIN.

"The Naked Truth": Most Women Don't Look Like THIS Either

The cover of the February 2010 issue of the Australian edition of Marie Claire magazine features 2004's Miss Universe -- Aussie Jennifer Hawkins -- in what they're calling an "un-retouched nude photo... to encourage positive attitudes [regarding] body image" in women.

ORLY?