found this from http://lethelee.blogspot.com/



really cool.. haha..




America's Next Top Model
So I wrote a gigantic thesis on the first episode of America’s Next Top Model (season 7) but the report that I so diligently composed is now gone like Kate Bosworth’s cleavage. Vanished, goodbye. I brilliantly deleted my file by accident while transferring it into another folder.




Speaking of computers, my sister brought home this pretty white Apple three weeks ago but it’s so intimidating and in my opinion, not user-friendly. Why is it that when I press download, I can’t find the thing I just downloaded? It doesn’t even have Word. What is this notepad business? I need Word. Did you know that Anne Rice still uses an old school, like pterodactyl DOS program? The one with the big blue screen and the big white blinking line as the cursor to write all her huge books. To this day! Add that to your Jeopardy vault.




But back to America’s Next Top Model.I want to discuss the whole nudity issue. If you have a problem with it, do not apply to America’s Next Top Model. Nudity is a regular part of modeling even when it’s not the point. Have you not seen blurred nipples and booty cracks on a backstage show on Project Runway? Do you get that you have to entirely disrobe in front of hundreds of people every two minutes while walking a show? And sometimes nudity is the point. Even the implication of nudity is the point. Ding ding ding. This is not Afghanistan’s Next Top Model. This is America’s Next Top Model, where nasty is as nasty does. We’re all cool with nasty around these parts so get it together. Have you never seen a Calvin Klein ad? Are you not familiar with the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition, the Victoria’s Secret catalog? Naked is a business. Get with it or stay shucking corn somewhere in the middle lands. Do you want to model or not?






That’s not to say that I too didn’t feel a little weird about the naked photo shoot. I get it, totally. But damn, it’s only 8 o’clock and kids are watching. Although this will come off hypocritical, I must say that The Nastification of the World is in full effect. Case in point: the bulimia/anorexia photos, the drug scandals. Starvation and drugs to get ahead? Are we serious right now? Did anyone else wonder how this got past standards and practices? Hey, let’s glamorize eating disorders, drugs and sexy time for all the little girls that love this show. It’s crazy.



(Small voice: I still love this show.)




Actually, it’s not that crazy. It’s normal now. Nicole Richie is on the cover of magazines every day with an obvious problem. Anorexia? Crystal Meth? Cocaine? I don’t know. When I see her on the cover of a magazine and it’s NOT about her body issues, I’m like really, am I supposed to look at this girl and go yeah I love that Chanel handbag? No. I go holy crap! Is that a full-on sternum I see? It’s distracting really, however, I’m obviously hooked on the anorexia stories. I’m the one who reads those tabloid sites religiously, but still. Some people don’t see what I see. They see her and they go, “Wow she’s my thinspiration…” We all have body issues, but damn.Okay, fine, I was drinking a Diet Cream Soda during the show.



But, you see, I had dinner. That’s the difference.