Maiden Mondays: Amanda Bynes

Well, I realized that it is time for yet another format change. Firstly, having a Monday Rant and a Wednesday Pop Culture diatribe doesn't make much sense, since most of my Monday Rants are likely to be pop culture related anyway. So from here on out, Wednesdays will now be Pop Culture Rants, and Mondays will be...

That's the dilemma isn't it. I decided to solve the problem how I solve most of my problems, by Googling the phrase "words that start with m" (I like alliteration). This brought me to the idea of Macho Monday (although that would basically just parallel Things of Awesome Day).

In the end I settled on Maiden Monday, where I will pick a celebrity crush of sorts and write a little profile on her. She can be a character or actress, and if you don't agree that's great since that's less competition for me. So without further ado, the first entry for Maiden Monday: Amanda Bynes.



Amanda Bynes is one of those rare women that skillfully combines hilariousness with cuteness, and still ended up a total babe. I've been a fan since the early days of The Amanda Show and What I Like About You, and with the exception of Lovewrecked thought her movies were lul-inducing.

Rumors abound about her lately from her involvement with rapper Drake, to her questionably lengthly absence from television and movie screens. She got a nice push after being a back-to-back cover girl on Cosmo and then Maxim, and it's only a matter of time before she's back in she spotlight.

That or she's totally fallen into obscurity, which would rule since it would make it easier for me to pick her up broken and desperate.

PS: Tuesdays will also now be Trailer Tuesdays, where new movie Trailers will be discussed. I told you, I like alliteration.

The Internet, (Why So) Serious Business

I will admit that being on the Internet as much as I am, I feel a little bit detached from "regular folk". Everything on the Internet goes so lightning quick, and I feel I've burned through so much before the average person even finds out about it. I still have friends that are only now finding out the glory of Japanese commercials.

The other day I was casually talking to someone and they asked me what this "digg-thingy" was. Seriously? I can barely fathom a world where people don't at least know what Digg is. The same goes for pedobear and rickrolling. I take these things for granted as assumed knowledge, but the average person has no idea about this sort of stuff. Sometimes it feels almost like I've traveled through time, I mean one of my friends tried telling me a Chuck Norris joke the other day. I half expected him to bust out some POGs next.

There are times that I've tried to give "regular" people some insight on what the Internet really has to offer, but it always falls apart. Heck, if these rubes can't grasp the concept of Twitter, how am I supposed to explain what the hell a demotivational is.

I suppose the scariest part is that I don't even consider myself an Internet guru. Hell, I only found out about that meekakitty chick a couple months ago. There is just so much out there to discover, and it's hard to really grasp how big it all really is.

If there are people who use the Internet on a regular basis and have no idea what the heck podcasts are, I can't even fathom how much there is that I myself haven't found yet. When you sit back and think, it's actually quite intimidating. Thank god it's pretty much just filled with porn and wholly inaccurate movie rumors.