New Britney Spears song “Circus” leaked on the internet. Dubbed over the music video “Toxic”
She is making a huge comeback!
Photo taken during the Proposition 8 protest in Chicago.
Compliments go to Chicagoist photographer Chloeloe
Oh I have heard of them. I see the that little tab in my iTunes and I sometimes accidently click on it and a friendly box says “Podcasts are radio shows that are downloaded over the Internet. You can find a variety of podcasts in the Podcast Directory. Subscribe to them and iTunes will automatically download new episodes.”
But have I actually listened to one? Not that I can recall to be honest. I have always had a stigma against them because I always had the notion that podcasts were just really bored people who were tired of blogs and decided to test out recording their voices.
Perhaps that is how they started out, but now podcasts seem to have become larger than online radios with music. My roommate has over 20 podcasts on his iTunes and he listens to them with religious attention.
I would like to try to get in to them, after all I pride myself on being in the know about new forms of Internet media and this is one of the last hurdles I seem to keep avoiding on purpose.
I just need some suggestions of really good podcasts.
As for making my own podcasts? I have the hardest time listening to my voice when I am transcribing recorded interviews. Imagine the torture I would inflict upon myself by having others listen to my voice multiple times a week! No I think I will stick to the written blog form. Much more comfortable with that. My voice gets too gay when it is recorded for some reason. I think it is the inner diva.
The new Starbucks Gold Card. After a $25 yearly fee, I get 10% off drinks and merchandise. The catch? With my usual order, a grande drip coffee costing me $1.83 after the ten percent discount ( about an 18 cent reduction) I would have to spend $137 in order to get back the $25 I spent on the activation fee.
Found this on the wall at the LaSalle blue line stop. Almost made me cry. Someone out there is missing someone.
Reminds me of how we need someone in our lives or else we get too lonely. As I am now.
Seven of my pictures from the Obama Rally on November 4, 2008.
Yes we did!
As America’s voice echoed throughout the night on Nov. 4, a man took center stage as the new President elect.
Chicagoans rejoiced, foreigners rejoiced and yet some others were saddened. President elect Obama is a great man, but he can’t please everybody. And my roommate unfortunately happens to fall into that everyone else category.
I woke up this morning exhausted yet still showing the same smile I had when I crashed on my bed at 2:30a.m. My roommate, already getting ready for his class at Columbia, casually asked how the rally was last night.
Immediately I whip out my phone, show him pictures, tell him the story of the Canadian, the Brit and the massive crowd. But to my dismay, not a sign of excitement crossed his face.
“I honesty don’t care”
…
What?
To his own words, he does not care because he has lost all hope in the country. Feeling like he was forced to vote by peer pressure, his views on the election went downhill because he knew Obama would win, but felt that even then, nothing would change.
For 45 min, my roommate and I were in a small debate on the importance of this election and what it means for America in the world’s grand scheme.
“I just don’t care about politics. Nothing in America has changed and I don’t think our government works anymore … I just don’t have any hope left for America. Once I have enough money, I am moving out of country.”
How?
In the wake of a new four years ahead of us, he has no optimism about the future of a country that is built on ideals for human rights. True our government has swayed away from that vision that was built over 200 years ago, but with a new President of the United States, a historic one at that, should give rise to a new hope that things might get better.
The roommate claims that I have just bought into false hope, and into political lies. But I disagree. He did not feel the emotional response last night or the reactions in the rest of the world. I just don’t understand how someone can’t care about the future of their own government-that he helped create.
