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America Is Not Getting Any Sleep [Trendwatch]

Couples cannot figure out how to sleep together. Teens are too wired to slumber. And celebrities think they’re so special they don’t even need to sleep. Does this sleep crisis threaten to destroy America? You could say that, yes. More

The Neverending Death of the American Mall [Trendwatch]

The death of the mall has been a meme long enough to have inspired an eponymous website , a documentary , and, with the onset of the recession, a slew of mall deathwatch trend stories . So…how much longer do these monstrosities have? More

Just Try Not to Watch These Babies Impersonating Lady Gaga [Trendwatch]

We’ve seen a Brazilian “Bad Romance” baby , a booty-bouncing “Poker Face” baby , and a tween male “Paparazzi” baby . Babies, they just can’t help themselves from soiling their diapers, crying, burping, and painting their faces and impersonating Lady Gaga . More

Brooklyn Is Cool Until You Start Reading About It [Shut Up, Brooklyn]

I live in Brooklyn. I like it. But, fuck me, I was under the impression that Brooklyn was pretty cool until I started reading all the analysis of it. Now I hate it. More

Park Slope Parents All Want to Smother Their Babies [Trendwatch]

Strollers are for savages who want to chop their babies’ fingers off. Trendy parents today are all about the body-hugging baby slings. Which do something much worse. The NYT reports that parents in the global epicenter of parenting excellence ( Park Slope ) are now all about “baby carriers” rather than strollers, because that’s what babies allegedly want, allegedly? “All the dads are wearing it,” reports one lady, emasculatingly. Yea, baby carriers, pretty cool and all, hmm, oh yea, only other thing is to just remember that they will SMOTHER YOUR LITTLE BABY TO DEATH and all. Unless you go for this one, which probably has…other effects. [Pic: Flickr ]

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Park Slope Parents All Want to Smother Their Babies [Trendwatch]

Funemployment: Just About Over

Funemployment ! It has been the exclusive province of not just the rich , but also those lucky bastards who received the mythical ” severance pay .” So how are those severance checks holding up now, hmmmm? Paul Joegriner hasn’t worked since March 2008, when he was laid off from his $200,000-a-year job as chief executive officer of a small bank

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Funemployment: Just About Over

Michele Bachmann’s Teabagging Hordes Storm the Capitol

A bunch of angry white people are yelling at members of Congress right now — both for and against healthcare reform. It’s a good thing the Capitol complex has tunnels underneath it so members can avoid these filthy common people

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Michele Bachmann’s Teabagging Hordes Storm the Capitol

Spanx: Still Lurking Out There

Women across America continue to wear “Spanx” and “Spanx”-like undergarments despite the fact that “Spanx” are clearly evil , most especially for the women wearing them, and whoever may be around when it’s time for them to shed their “Spanx.” Disregarding the warnings of everyone from male fashion designers to male bloggers , a certain portion of American women every day force themselves into “Spanx,” only to be faced with embarrassing situations like needing to pee, or wanting to get naked, and then having no choice but to duck into some nearby restroom like Clark Kent for the purpose not of donning a superhero outfit and rescuing helpless civilians from criminal forces, but for the purpose of unburdening themselves of the tight-fitting “Spanx” unobserved by anyone who might consider such a display to be awkward or, indeed, unattractive. Furthermore, thanks to the vagaries of our capitalist system, various competitors who have observed the popularity of “Spanx” undergarments are now creating their own variation of the “Spanx” formul a, namely, spandex tubes into which women are expected to climb, in order to appear very tightly constrained throughout the midsection, in what could be termed an outright deception , not to mention an unhealthy constriction of one’s bodily vital fluids’ ability to flow freely betwixt and between whichever organs our subconscious brain deems necessary and appropriate, based on its millenia of evolution. We do not need “Spanx” in snakeskin prints.

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Spanx: Still Lurking Out There

Are You Sufficiently Exploiting Your Child’s Looks, For Money?

Raising a child in our modern world can be expensive, what with their constant nagging for new “Gameboys” and “contraception.” Fortunately your child’s dewy, youthful innocence can be sold off to a modeling agency, for sweet, sweet money. Horrible parents across America are selling off their children’s looks to make a few extra bucks during these tough economic times, according to the WSJ.

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Are You Sufficiently Exploiting Your Child’s Looks, For Money?

Is "American Police Force" the Next Great Militia?

Think things in America can’t get any more unsettling? Well, you’re wrong

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Is "American Police Force" the Next Great Militia?