The worst has happened. Jason Alexander is the new face of Jenny Craig. According to his Jenny Craig blog, Alexander decided to lose weight after seeing a photo of himself he didn’t like. This, some argue, signals a change in how men are viewed in the multi-billion dollar world of dieting. Rather than dieting for [...]
The Manitoban
The Students' Newspaper of the University of Manitoba
Archive for February, 2010
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When and wear
Every year I wait with bated breath, well more like chapped lips and half-bitten fingernails, to be proven wrong. “This will be the year!” I say. “I can feel it.” Much like every time I drop my tickets in a wedding social auction. My optimism is really just disguised denial, and disappointment only rears its [...]
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I’m great, however
I’m great, however . . . Things are getting better. Actually they’re great. “I’m great,” I smile. “Me too,” she glows. We’re great. However . . . . . . it could always be better. My thoughts wonder. Tamper. Tamper. Tamper. I suppose . . . I want more? More love, More passion, More sex. [...]
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Top 10 bizarre celebrity couples
Dennis Rodman and Alicia Douvall Reportedly, Rodman was one of the loves of Douvall’s life but his reps deny they were ever even together. A beauty queen and a cross dressing basketball player is not one of those classic couples like the cheerleader-ing captain and star football player. Undoubtedly, this is an odd pair to [...]
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The lies you believe about conflict
The word “conflict” often draws up images of two boxers in a ring, Mommy and Daddy yelling at each other and other aggressive or scarring images. People generally don’t have a positive view of conflict, and to be frank, conflict is never going to be a warm blanket in front of a fire place to [...]
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In a land far, far away
Since my last article, the heat now works, a cup is catching the hot water heater drippings, and I purchased some bedsheets. Things are looking up! As it turns out, some Polish girls who were using the room before me had taken all of the sheets, pillows and blankets with them when they left — [...]
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Vanderhart & Poggemiller New English Dictionary
“Hipster,” like “douchebag,” has reached a state of overuse that renders it almost entirely meaningless. To some, a hipster is a 17-year old wearing skinny jeans and listening to Arcade Fire. To others, a Mac-toting, would-be screenwriter, lounging in a Polish legion (despite being thoroughly Anglo-Saxon). The result is that “hipster,” stretching to accommodate these [...]
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Pets!
I’ll put together a team of experts: the foremost zoologist in the world, the number one psychoanalyst, the most advanced child psychologist, the fittest evolutionary biologist and I suppose, even I — a pioneer for the greater good, oblivious to the businesspersons’ adage that “the proof is in the profit” — even I must admit, [...]
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Fried brains and Sam
When last we left Sam, he had enlisted a hacker to help him bring an end to reality. Time passed. People were fried. More time passed. The smell of bacon and tears filled the air. I’ve processed the rich and powerful, the beautiful and the obscene. I’ve worked closely with the poor and downtrodden. There [...]