Back in skinny jeans

Real Spiderman promoting safe sex

Hat tip to Manola of Sex and The Beach, for this, um, well, insect-ialia. Bonjour arachnid arousal? Gives new meaning to Spiderman to the rescue. I guess putting a crab into the mix would get too off track unless maybe you'd have sex with this crab. {I couldn't help myself. I had to go there.}

This French public health announcement is supposed to scare people into getting more educated about AIDS prevention. Personally, I'm scared for folks who approved this campaign. One journalist even found these posters erotic. Erotic or Erroneous? I vote for the latter.

Speaking of Spiderman. If Mary Jane can thong up the wash so can Spidey

Marvel Comics wanted to remind everyone that good Super Hero love interests need to wear thong revealing low cut ripped jeans, and tight boob enhancing t-shirts as they do the laundry of said Super Hero. I'm surprsied they didn't also include a blender as Mary Jane multi-tasks and whips up Spidey a delicious insect smoothie for her arachnid sweetie. Crime fighters need sustenance as well as clean clothes.

Not to worry. Some brilliant illustrator came up with the equal opportunity version of beefcake Spiderman in his thong doing Mary Jane's laundry. Awww! Parker's got back.

[via Boing Boing]

Gawker remakes Conde Nast "Point of Passion" ads...he he he

I absolutely love the snarkiness of Gawker, and they certainly lived up to their arty brilliance with this display of mockery of haughty-toitey publisher Conde Nast's latest campaign "Point of Passion", a ploy designed to get us consumers glued to their glossies. Conde Nasty are the folks who print those fashion mags that ensure that our body image stays distorted so we continue to buy clothes, makeup, shoes, and jewelry we can't afford, and probably will never have just to keep us in dream torment. Good times.

Check out the five P-o'-P ads Gawker retouched featuring Mary Louise Parker, Richard Branson, Diane Von Furstenebrg, Patrick Dempsey, and Stanley Tucci. It's entertaining mischief.

A sneak peak at the new Bionic Woman

I'm showing my Grey roots here, but I loved the original Bionic Woman with Lindsay Wagner, so I'm looking forward to the new version coming this Fall starring Michelle Ryan. Even more exciting David Eick the producer who has commanded the recent remake of Battlestar Galactica is sprinkling his magic on the new Jamie Sommers adventure. Here's a sneak peak. I think I'd react the same way if I found out I had new mechanical body parts.

How to become an eLebrity in a YouTube universe

An eLebrity is someone who's become famous online like lonelygirl15, Amanda Congdon, and Ask a Ninja because of their enigmatic and entertaining video presence.

My future prediction is that the next Oprah and Martha Stewart will get their start online. Why? Because it's cheap and easy. You don't have to audition and wait for a shot at being in front of a camera. You can get your video camera out, do your "show", and then slap it up on YouTube. Simple.

So, you want to be an eLebrity? Here's 6 tips on what it takes to be famous in a YouTube cosmos.

[via Wall Street Journal]

Do you appreciate the men in your life?

As women, sometimes we can get caught up in bashing men too much especially when we've just had a string of failed relationships or we're dating again, and the crop isn't turning out to be very creamy.

But let's not forget about the good guys in our lives. The men who give us hope, who love us, who are good friends, and the ones who will hold your hair while your praying to the porcelain god because you drank way too many martinis trying to forget about Mr. Big (Mistake).

There are also the friendly strangers. The guys who open the door for you as you walk into the mall. The UPS guy who was nice enough to carry that large package into your home office because it's too heavy for you or you're just plain feeling lazy that day. And what about the guy at the gym who was cool enough to wipe off all his manly sweat off the treadmill before you got on it so you can have a clean machine.

Take a moment to say "thank you" or "I appreciate you" to the men in your life. It's a fantastic way to build positive feelings about the opposite sex.

[Flickr pic: "never to be seen again" by Sean]

Thin outside yet fat inside and other diet bits around the skinny-sphere

• You may be a TOFI (Thin Outside, Fat Inside). When it comes to health, another factor that matters is how much fat deposits you have around vital organs like the heart and liver as well as how much fat you're carrying in that gut of yours. There are MRIs that can show the fat topography of your body. [Yahoo News]

• Diet Blog has a compilation of billboards that speak to body image. My favorite ad of idiocracy is the one about how boob jobs make you look smarter.  I laughed so hard my Diet Coke sprayed out my nose. Special K got very creative with signage on the back of a leg extension machine at the gym. Keep pumping those gams gals. [Diet Blog]

• Apparently, the food police doesn't think there is enough medical backup to prove that dairy products really can make you skinny like all those milk ads are claiming, so say adios to the "Milk your diet. Lose weight" campaign funded by the Dairy Industry (shocker.) [FitSugar]

• Here's a list of 40 Flat Belly Foods that can help you shrink your muffin top as we head into Daisy Dukes and swimsuit season. [MSN Health]

Hairbrained things celebs say about body image

Here's a shocker. You don't have to be a straight A student to be a celebrity. In fact, it almost seems nowadays that being an ignoramus can actually make you more popular. Here's some highlights (no, not the kind in your hair) of what some celebs think about body image.

• Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff.

- Mariah Carey, pop singer

• I don't diet.  I just don't eat as much as I'd like to.

- Linda Evangelista, Supermodel

• I'm not anorexic. I'm from Texas. Are there people from Texas that are anorexic? I've never heard of one. And that includes me.

- Jessica Simpson

• Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

- Fran Lebowitz, US writer

• When I'm a blonde, I can say the world is purple, and they'll believe me because they weren't listening to me.

- Kylie Bax, Model/Actress, in Stuff magazine.

[via 2Spare.com]

 

Boney collarbones: The new skinny status symbol

With all the flowy fashions, how is one still able to show off their skinniness? Apparently, off the shoulder couture framing protruding clavicles is the way to let others know:

“Don’t let this tent dress fool you: Underneath it all, this girl can fit into a sample size.”

Why are the bony collarbones a more "authentic" symbol of skinniness? It's one of the few areas on the body that cannot be altered by cosmetic surgery, at least for now. The only way to get that skeletal look requires you to drop a significant amount of poundage. There's no nip/tucking around it.

So we've moved away from the projecting hip bones peeking out of the low cut jeans over to the jutting clavicle as a skinny status symbol. Collarbones are sexy especially when sprinkled with a hint of perfume or draped with an exquisite necklace. But they are much better looking when they aren't poking you in the eye.

[via NY Times]

Playboy is setting up shop in Second Life and other party favors around the skinny-sphere

• It was just a matter of time. Hef is bringing the Playboy bunnies to Second Life this summer. Specific details are not out yet, but I wouldn't be shocked to see the virtual versions of The Girls Next Door, Holly, Bridget, and Kendra mingling with boob-crazed geeks for a handful of Lindens. [Ad Rants]

• Real bad Ty-ming.The new "Ty Pennington at Home" magazine hits the stands just in time for his DUI bust debacle, and inside the rag are recipes for "Ty-tinis" so we can "Thai one on." Ooops. That's not Ty-licious. [Media Week]

• Momma Annie Lennox learned the social power of MySpace after her teenager daughter's "couple of friends" get together turned into a major rager after it got around on MySpace that "dad is outta town!" (Lennox is divorced from poppa) The party crashers "wrote graffiti on the walls, broke pictures and lampshades, ripped apart books, urinated and vomited on the carpets and flooded the kitchen." Someone's definitely grounded. [Female First]

• Just how long does it take for that piece of Bubbalicious or Juicy Fruit you swallowed to digest? Urban legend says it takes 7 years. No wonder we all have big guts that won't budge. [FitSugar]