March 2011
1 post
November 2010
4 posts
Crystal Renn: "Plus Size" Debate
Today, photos from Crystal Renn’s latest photo shoot hit the internet. The December addition of Harper’s Bazaar presented a slightly svelter version of Crystal Renn since her last photo shoot in Paris Vogue with Terry Richardson. Of course, given her advocacy for plus sized models and her novel “Hungry” about her acceptance of her curves…her...
"Passing"
In a recent ABC 20/20 Special called Albinism: Albinos Caught Between Dark and Light, a girl was highlighted, Angel, whose Albino features have made her the subject of gossip and mocking by her peers. In an effort to reintegrate with people and to become more social she underwent a makeover to “normalize” her appearance. This move, the news article subsists, is somewhat controversial...
The Man Outside My Window
At roughly 4am twice a week, a deeply disturbed individual hops the fence from the street into the parking lot attached to my apartment building. Like most people who enter illegally he is after South Central Gold…plastic bottles and aluminum cans. What sets this man apart is his maniac loud ranting to himself. Alternating from “FUCK YOU MOTHER FUCKER” and an endless string of...
