summary for Podcast 1: This american life Middle School

This American life starts out with a monotone interviewer who fluctuates his voice here and there in a failing attempt to sound animated. The reporter speaks with a gidy14 year old middle school grad who proposes a podcast on middle school and basically its hardships.She would probably claim that middle schoolers ought to be awarded for being the cruelest most judgmental stage of student through out education. She claims "kids are in socially awkward stages" and that "no matter what you do or who you are you will get made fun of for it." Middle schoolers are all trying to determine who they are and part of doing so is by being insecure and subsequently mean to others. But agreeing with the interviewee, " whatever middle school was it worked, everyone's a lot friendlier now," once people have established a base for themselves and feel accepted they can branch out and expand their horizons and viewpoints on each other. Luckily by high school, most kids have matured enough to be accepting, encouraging and friendly to everyone around them.

The Help 2-10-12

I'm beginning to run out of posts for this book. And I can't really remember exactly how many pages ago all the events were, so hopefully these ones fit my 100 page timeframe. It's ironic that the white people don't want their maids in their bathrooms, or drinking and eating out of the same dishes as themselves, but the women give their Help their babies and children to raise. It's also wierd that the children who had close relationships with black people as children, and have first hand experience of their personalities and kindness, since they were basically their mothers, still grow up to continue the cycle of black and white inequality. Skeeter seems to be the only Help alumni that has learned from her childhood. Hopefully Mae Mobly turns out like Skeeter, judging people base on her own beliefs, not everyone else's. Abileen tells her a story to try to subltly teach her to love people like Skeeter does and better. Her "secret stories"  are little treasures to Mae Mobly. The first one is about loving the inside of people, no matter the color. She wraps candy in brown paper and white paper, and tells Mae Mobly that it doesn't matter what color the outside is, what is inside is equal. Then she tells her about Martin Luther King Jr., portraying him as a green alien, outcast because her was green.
      Maybe Mae Mobly has hope, since she is learning these leasons. Skeeter had them. She told us earlier in the book that she used to go home with Constantine some lucky Fridays. An it struck her that her mother told her to be nice to the little black girls when she is there. Ofcourse she wondered, "why wouldn't I." Children have no shame. Onse they grow up they learnabout themselves. Not particullarly about others, about themselves. They learn that they are flawed and they remember their mistakes. Then the white women, struggling for power and prestige, have to put down the black community, seperate themselves from it, to make themselves feel superior to someone. This book portrays the women and the issue and it seems like the suposedly subtle creatures of the day were running more than half of the black oposition. I think one reason Skeeter turned out like she did was because she had her dad as an example, who didn't really like segregation and unequal rights for blacks, but Skeeter had the strength to openly act on her beliefs.

Wedding Dresses Galore

Design it white and long, and honey you've got yourself a wedding dress. Ivories and creams and eggshells all paint themselves onto A-Lines and Ball Gowns and Empires to convey their simple elegance. Some hit at the waist and continue to ascend in a simple flow to employ a sense of purity. Others poof out and ruffle down to spark memories of princesses and fairy tales and lost glass shoes. Beaded bodices and laced trains waltz down the isle and instill joy to the serenade of wedding hymns. To avoid being overpowering, the dresses are either simple in design or detail.The gowns completely covered in lace are usually a faded cream color and have a rather simple dress body; the dresses that have just a simple central jewel or rhinestone design are less subtle in shape. Both deliver a young enticing innocence. Radiating from the hip, one dress ripples out like a recently submerged stone. The tide calms as it ascends the body of another dress. Ball gowns flare out like the waves of a waterfall. Enchanting, lulling dresses, all eyes are on the bride, and its no wonder why. Luckily, when it all is accounted for, no matter what shade of white or style of cut, all wedding dresses express love.

short list #2

My friend made this: Esther Boller - 


one of her pages
Esther's fashion blog

Esther Boller is probably the coolest person I have ever come in contact with. I met her at a friends house one summer day and she was swimming around in her vintage one piece bathing suit, something that looked fresh out of the 20's. Little did I know she made it herself. When I got home, I added her on facebook only to find that she was an outstanding fashion designer, sewer, photographer, and artist. She's basically everything you could possibly ask for in an artist. Above is a dress she made out of masking tape, and a winter coat she sewed. Check out her websites because she is truly amazing.

WEDDING DRESSES!
I recently went through a wedding dress obsession phase after being introduced to " Say Yes to the Dress" on TLC a few years ago. An acceptable wedding dress has basically two conditions; white, and long. It's not surprising then how many possible designs and combinations can sprout up in the wedding world. From vintage lacey and cream to elegantly crisp ivory-white, the dresses never cease to be amazing.

The "sexy and I know it" M&M superbowl commerical is my final topic. I think what makes this commercial so funny is, well for one, the fact that it had absolutely zero competition this year, I mean come on where were the funny ones? But what really does it for me was his dance moves. The way he says "oh so its that kind of party" isn't even very well presented but his facial expressions and dance moves always leave me cracking up. By far the best commercial this SuperBowl.