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December 2007
What did you get for Christmas?
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A new bike? A Wii? A digital camera? Guitar Hero? Rock Band? A tie?
What did you get this morning?
Has YouTube become too common?
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If Queen Elizabeth II has her own YouTube site does this mean YouTube is over?
What would signal other trends are so yesterday to you? Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts with a Facebook account? Your 5th grade piano recital downloadable from iTunes?
‘I Love New York 2’ season finale: Glad to see Buddha lose
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I’m surprised but glad that New York chose Tailor Made over Buddha in Monday night’s season finale of “I Love New York 2” on VH1.
Yes, he’s wimpy and conniving, but I grew sick and tired of Buddha’s self-righteousness and phony spirituality throughout the season. See, Buddha, you aren’t “all that” after all.
As for Tailor Made’s marriage proposal, I’m glad she said to wait on that and to date long-term first. To be honest, it’s not that I liked Tailor Made; I just didn’t like Buddha and wanted to see him lose.
If I had my way, New York would have ended up with the 4-foot Midget Mac, the Florida man she let go earlier in the season. (Memo to VH1: Give Midget Mac his own looking-for-romance reality show and call it “Looking for a Li’l Love.”)
What do you think of the finale? Is there enough steam for a third season or a spin-off?
Do you have love for “New York”?
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Well, she’s down to her last two guys.
Tiffany Pollard, aka “New York”, the chain-smoking sexpot and star of VH1’s immensely popular reality series “I Love New York 2,” decides into tonight’s season finale who she’ll choose in her second go-round at finding her true love.
Narrowed from an initial field of 20 suitors, New York will choose between Buddha and Tailor Made in the season closer. (Unfortunately, she parted ways a few episodes ago with my favorite, the 4-foot-tall “Midget Mac”). Personally, I don’t like either one of the finalists — though I have to admit, they’re both a step up from the two losers she had to pick from last season.
Even so, Buddha is this self-absorbed, New Age-y kind of guy with a violent streak who thinks he’s God’s gift to humankind. Tailor Made, who got the beat-down of beat-downs in the annals of reality show history at the fists of Buddha, is a scheming, little double-crossing punk with money.
I think she’ll choose Buddha because he knows how to manipulate her and keep her in check. And she likes her guys brawny (Buddha) not scrawny (Tailor Made).
I can’t explain why I’ve been hooked. Maybe it’s because she’s just plain too much: Too much hair, too much make-up, too much chest and too much mouth. It’s like a mangled train wreck — you can’t help but look at the disastrous beauty of it all.
Who do you think she’ll pick? Do you, too, have love for New York?
And guys, try to keep it clean.
Check back tomorrow to discuss the show.
Rock concerts you can’t forget
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Led Zeppelin proved once again that they are truly rock stars.
The group’s long-awaited reunion concert had music reviewers and fans calling for more.
Playing a full set for the first time in nearly three decades, the authors of “Stairway to Heaven” and “Whole Lotta Love” rocked a London arena on Monday for more than two hours.
Here’s your chance to share stories about rock concerts that were off the chain. Who did you see in concert, where and what made it special?
Were you in school dress codes wars?
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On Monday night, the Atlanta Board of Education banned sagging shorts and trousers” for students.
They’re following in a long, controversial tradition of telling students what they can and cannot wear to school. Depending on when and where you went to school, you may have been forbidden to wear jeans, or shorts, or hats, or T-shirts with any sort of message. Girls of an earlier era could only wear skirts that came to the knee or lower; boys were not allowed to wear hair growing over their collars.
Culottes? Anti-Vietnam war black armbands? Confederate imagery on shirts or hats? They’ve all had their run-ins.
We’d love to hear your stories of dress code battles past. What did you get in trouble for? We’d particularly love to hear from teachers and school administrators who were involved in past controversies.
You can talk about it here, or you can contact Phil Kloer, who is working on a story about this. Email him at pkloer@ajc.com or call him at 404 526 5448.
Are you a “Wire” head?
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The fourth season of the critically-acclaimed HBO series “The Wire” is now available on DVD, just in time for a healthy dose of holiday drama and wrongdoing.
The series focuses on the streets, politics and troubled schools of Baltimore.
Are you a “Wire-head”? How would you have rewritten season four? Would you have included a showdown between Marlo and Omar? Reserved a nice flat in the “Vacants” for Snoop and Chris? Let Bodie live? What about Dukie, Randy, Michael, and Namond?
The fifth - and final- season debuts in January and will deal with the media. What loose ends would you like to see tied up in season five? Although the shows creators said there won’t be a sixth season, what are your ideas? Someone once suggested a showdown between the Baltimore crews and crews from Central and South America. (Are you listening HBO? )
