Entries for April, 2008 in Pop Goes the Culture

  • AprillBrandon  
    The Great Hair Highlighting Disaster of 2008
    Which shouldn't, of course, be confused with the Great Hair Dye Atrocity of 2004, or the Mystery Hair Color of 2001. And we won't even mention the 2002 "I said Winona Rider, not Billy Ray Cyrus!" mullet haircut, which practically ...
  • AprillBrandon  
    Mixing sex education with humor
    Okay, so there's been a lot of discussion going on as of late on the Advocate Web site in regards to sex education and teens having sex in general. Well, considering my school sex education consisted of "This is a ...
  • AprillBrandon  
    I Guess You Can Be Too Thin
    ![Image](http://media2.victoriaadvocate.com/img/blogs/entry_img/2008/04/15/anorexia-bikini[1].jpg) Well, France, you've done it. Thanks to you, women throughout the world will now have to find a new way to make themselves feel bad. How dare you try and pass a bill making it illegal for magazines and ...
  • AprillBrandon  
    Death by Blogging
    And we thought the newsroom atmosphere was stressful. In "whodathunkit" news today, it seems that blogging can be bad for your health. Yes, with the Internet ever changing the way the world works, it seems the stress of 24/7 information ...
  • AprillBrandon  
    Celebrity Sighting at Hastings!
    And by celebrity, of course, I mean me. Okay, so I'm not "technically" a "celebrity" but for just one night, I will be one. See, Hastings Hardback Cafe is celebrating April being Coffee Month and each Thursday they are featuring happy hour ...
  • AprillBrandon  
    Um...there's a war going on, you know
    ![Image](http://media2.victoriaadvocate.com/img/blogs/entry_img/2008/04/07/tattoo[1].jpg) Can you name roughly how many American military personnel have died in the Iraq war so far? If you can, well, you are in a small minority, my friend. According to a recent poll by the Pew Research Center, ...
  • AprillBrandon  
    Tramp Stamps for children (I wish I was kidding)
    ![Image](http://media2.victoriaadvocate.com/img/blogs/entry_img/2008/04/01/trampstamps.jpg) Hey parents! Tired of your child not growing up fast enough? Embarrassed that they actually act their age? Are vulgar T-shirts with slogans like "Future Stripper" and "Stop Staring at my Training Bra" just not cutting it anymore? Well, ...