Mating Habits of the Fantasexual � The Anthropik Network

and you wonder why I don't take any amount of media objectification and bullshit beauty standards lightly.

from alt.comedy.british

"It is the height of fashion in media circles to take the piss out of poor people like Vicky Pollard and chavs. I want to see a rennaisance in comedy where Jews are lampooned for a change instead of being constantly presented with Jewish comedians like Matt Lucas and Ali G cruelly lampooning the poor and unintelligent, themes which might go down really well in the kosher corridors of media power but do not necessarily have such a great impact on the streets of Britain. [...] The Jewish influence on our media is only too apparant and so all encompassing that no one questions this bias. In fact, far from being 'hideously white' the British media could just as easily be described as being hideously jewish."

Is it just me or is this slightly hypocritical?
Not that Brits are known for their political awareness...
(And yes, I'm saying this from experience.)
At least this guy's trying, seeing that bigotry against SOME populations is fucked up.

(check the link for further discussion and a "study" on the subject.)

Breakfast on Pluto, a film by Neil Jordan

I've been waiting for this film since pre-production! Neil Jordan is one of my favorite filmmakers, and Pat McCabe one of my favorite writers- together they created, and Neil directed, nearly 10 years ago, the film version of "The Butcher Boy", based on Pat's novel. Anyone who knows me knows how obsessed I am with this film (and book). This is their second collaboration.

BBC America - Nylon

I saw this show when I was living in Scotland, it was kind of lame but it being half in New York fed my nostalgia. Whatever problems I have with the turning everything in downtown New York into gentrified bourgeois white hipsters thing, which this show seems to portray exclusively without shame, it is beautifully shot and regularly offers the most amazing views of both London and New York.