Posted 11/19/2009
Tonight we're showing one of my all time favorite episodes of What I Like About You -- the one where Ben sings the "Holly Tyler" song. It's on kinda late (11:30 pm) so if you won't be up, set it to record. It's worth it.
I typed up the lyrics to Ben's song in case you want to sing along as you watch it:
I thought we'd be forever,
I thought our hearts were one,
But now you and I are over,
Just as fast as we'd begun.
Oh, Holly Tyler,
You are such a liar!
You are such a liar!
Oh, Holly Tyler,
Where your heart should be,
There's a block of ice.
Your soul is missing,
You think you're so nice.
Holly Tyler,
You are such a liar,
You are such a liar,
Oh, Holly Tyler,
How you lie, lie, lie.
It makes me sick.
How you lie, lie, lie.
I wanna puke,
When you lie lie lie,
Oh, when you lie lie lie lie lie lie lie...
I've never dated a musician, and I consider this episode a cautionary tale. Thanks to Ben, I now realize there's a MAJOR downside to dating someone who can write a song about you.
I'm a total Holly/Vince fan, but this episode makes me glad Ben was on the show for a while. Know what I mean?
Posted 11/19/2009
Tags: @teennick, nsider, thingdujour, useful, under 20 bucks, cutecutecute
Posted 11/19/2009
On tomorrow's fresh new Degrassi (8 pm et!), sooomeone says, "Guys think I'm cool and girls think I'm dateable all because I'm with you." Ain't in the truth -- as soon as you get a bf/gf, all the sudden people get flirty with you? It's like that whole "youth is wasted on the young" thing; Mojo is wasted on the spoken-for.
Have you ever noticed that happening -- or have you ever suddenly noticed that someone was actually kinda awesome once they started dating someone else? ('Cause... based on a lot of the advice questions I see, a lot of you could say yes to that second one.)
Posted 11/18/2009
You know, I keep thinking about Brryan Jackson -- one of the four outstanding teens being honored on the HALO Awards. I don't know if you've taken a minute to read his story yet or not, but here's the short version: Brryan was deliberately injected with HIV-tainted blood by his father when he was an infant. He's had full-blown AIDS since he was five.
One of the (many) ways Brryan is helping others is by giving talks at schools about what it's like to live with AIDS, to help battle the social stigma he himself has faced. His bio mentions the tough time he's had growing up: "Schools were reluctant to admit him, ignorant kids called him names and he constantly got into fights, eventually transferring schools to avoid being beaten up."
You know, people talk about how "kids are cruel" all the time, but we know that a) basically zero kids are 100% cruel and b) everyone makes mistakes. People put each other down for all sorts of different reasons -- none of them GOOD reasons, mind you, but people sometimes do what they think they have to do. Anyway, here's my point:
If we dig into our past and get honest with ourselves, I bet a lot of us can think of a time we've ganged up on someone for dumb reasons, or kicked someone when they were already down -- probably when we were in middle school or thereabouts.
Maya Angelou said, "Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."
So, if you want... you could do this little ceremony with us, to honor what Brryan went through in school and how he's let it make him a better person.
1) Take a deep breath and acknowledge to yourself that before you knew better, you hurt someone.
2) Then think about the fact that now you DO know better. And now that you're older and more mature, you'll think before saying or doing something like that again.
3) Post "I'm sorry. I take it back." in the comments. You don't have to tell us what you're taking back (repeating an insult probably isn't really the best way to take it back anyway; see the gym catharsis scene of Mean Girls).
4) Forgive yourself. It was a mistake, and we all make mistakes.
Posted 11/18/2009
Tags: @teennick, nsider, thingdujour, under 5 bucks
Posted 11/18/2009
Tonight at midnight, we're showing the "Career Day" episode of That '70s Show where the gang all have to go to work with their parents. Hyde and Fez both spend the day with Hyde's mom, Gross Edna, a lunch lady.
Four Reasons I Love Gross Edna:
She is really freakin' gross. That scene with Fez and the "chili bucket" grosses me out SO bad. Blaaarrrghghhh.
She's played by Katey Sagal. I'd love to follow Katey Sagal around on career day, because she also voices the role of Leela on Futurama. That one-eyed, purple-haired girl is one of my favorite animated characters.
Before she had Hyde, Gross Edna performed in a water ski show. She was the very top of a water ski pyramid. The thought of balancing on other people's shoulders while they water ski kind of blows my mind.
Edna was my grandma's name. (My grandma wasn't gross though.)
Posted 11/18/2009
nmsdramax and some others over on the Degrassi board seem to agree that Anya's LARPing thing is "stupid". Other say it looks like fun. Let's investigate this scientifically. Post your findings in the comments:
Posted 11/06/2009
Jane from Degrassi and Mary talk about making out with Landon Liboiron (but only one of them knows what she's talking about).
Tags: nsider, @teennick, podcast, degrassi, paula brancati, cheating
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