tanya gold tries living by the advice of women’s magazines

You may have heard about Cathy Alter. She claims to have literally followed all the advice she read in women’s magazines for a whole year, and is now a happily married fembot who’s written a book about the experience, called Up For Renewal.
And if you wanted to stab her in the face as badly as I did, [...]

pre-emptive reviews of movies that are probably going to be better viewed under the influence

This is a bit of an recurring feature at Public School Intelligentsia, and the first time I’ve tried my hand at it.

Bangkok Dangerous, Grade: B-
Sorry Nic! As dementedly awesome as this scene where you cut off a guy’s arm with a boat propeller, pluck the gun from his severed hand, and shoot him with it [...]

exactly what color IS beyonce?*

Last week, L’Oréal denied they had photoshopped an ad featuring Beyonce Knowles to make her skin appear lighter. Well, let’s just do a side-by-side comparison, shall we?

Here is the ad in question…

… and here is a photo I got by randomly Image Googling “Beyonce Knowles”.
Yeah, unless she was wearing a whole lot of the wrong [...]