Happy St. Valentine’s Day.

Posted on February 14, 2010 by MAL

We’re off today. It’s a surprise! I have no idea where we’re going or what he’s booked to do, but I’m up and out early. I’ll let you all know how it goes tomorrow! Very excited.

Enjoy your day whatever you’re doing!

In the meantime, enjoy my new Valentine’s Day article! Click on picture below.

Heidi Montag’s New Face – the more mature take

Posted on January 22, 2010 by MAL

So, since my last post on Heidi’s new face, I’ve grown up a little. I have to admit that my initial reactionary stance was one of cruelty and loathing. It’s so easy to take the judgmental way out and look at something that someone’s doing as somehow attacking your own values. Instead, I ask the question, what do our reactions to Heidi’s new face say about us? Please click on the picture or text below to read the full article.

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” – Oscar Wilde

Heidi Montag completely changes her face through plastic surgery, and says that it makes her feel more confident, better about herself and more beautiful. She says that beauty and confidence is within and yet, she’s very grateful for being able to have had the surgery. She’s 23 years old – admittedly a bit young for such drastic measures – but old enough to make up her own mind. Out come the surgical knives, and in come the catty media to feed on her sawed off flesh. You would think she was on trial for kidnapping her natural face, and holding it for ransom. Why are we so against this adult woman changing the way she looks? What is it about morphing a face that angers us so?

Ironic Fashion

Posted on January 20, 2010 by MAL

I have a new article up for AND Magazine. These days of irony in fashion…Click anywhere to read the full fashion editorial!

“Why Can’t Anyone Tell I’m Wearing This Business Suit Ironically?” was the headline of an article back in 2005 from The Onion where a man becomes incensed by the fact that he went to all the trouble to don an expensive conservative gray three-button suit, cut his hair short and nondescript, become a lawyer, marry the ditzy girl from Connecticut and father two ironic children and no one got the joke. He ends the article by saying “Some days, it’s enough to make me want to embrace conformity like all the other sheep.” It’s what celebrities, models and the everyman have tried to embrace at some point in their lives to become the contradictory versions of themselves….“

Thanks, and I’m a Paid Writer!

Posted on January 2, 2010 by MAL

I wanted to say a special thank you to my family members who partook in the “Interview with Fam” series. It was especially great for me because I got to learn more about the ones who bear the same blood, and it was so nice to be able to share this weird world of blogging with you all.

For those I may have missed, I simply ran out of time leading up to Christmas, but will definitely do this again at some point!

On another note, I have two new articles up at AND Magazine. Please take a look and peruse the site. I’m really proud of the layout and how they’ve done it. Let me know what you think! Plus, I’m getting paid for writing for them now. I’m officially a professional writer then, right?