The Best & Worst of 2008 Year End Round Up

Truthfully, this is only part one. I think. Unless I get lazy and decide to not post any more highlights or lowlights from the year that was 2008. Which is entirely possible because lately I seem to have the attention span of a house fly.

ANYWAYS, I've decided to post some of the highs and lows of the year that was, and what better way to get the ball rolling than with my favorite bitchy fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld. Seriously..no one does bitchy better than this man. His talent is undeniable (HELLO Chanel!) but its his catty comments that make him so, so awesome. He is the most superficial man on the planet. This man hates just about everyone, and truly thinks he's better than you. A few months ago, I actually meant to post about an interview I read with him where he gives his two cents on just about every possible corner of society and then rips them to shreds. Turns out old Karl hates fat people, children, charity work, journalists, intellectuals, and pretty much everyone. The interview was part of a Sunday Times profile, and I swear its the best thing I've ever read. EVER.

The Karl's thoughts on Journalists: “I have no problem with journalists – many are friends. Only if they are really stupid, or if they’ve got bad breath, or if they smell. Yesterday [after the Chanel couture show] I had a problem. I said, ‘I’m sorry, you’ve got to tell this woman that she needs to be taken away. Her smell is not possible.’ ”

The Karl's thoughts on fat people: "Yes, new Russian girls are like this (very thin). But this is a subject I won't discuss. You know why? In France there are a large percentage of young girls who are overweight and less than one percent are skinny. So let's talk about the 25 percent who have a weight problem, or are overweight. We don't need to discuss the less than one percent. Anorexia is nothing to do with fashion. These Russian girls are so young. Chinese ones are skinny, too, and bony. I don't think it's a subject to discuss. And in today's world, many people take drugs, not only models, hmm? It's an unnecessary subject. Let's talk about the fat ones."- Wow.

The Karl's thoughts on Charity work: "I live in certain isolation. I never take appointments in the morning. I leave my house only after lunch. I don't want to have a social life. I've had enough of that in my life. It's demode. It's another era. Perhaps people are still excited by that era, but not me. It's uninteresting today. It says nothing. It's boring, pretentious and vulgar...Even for charity, people get paid. I try to avoid charity. It doesn't happen for me. I'm rich enough not to have to do that. Thank God I don't have to do that. I do a lot of unnecessary things for free, but I'm very much against that. Money itself isn't interesting, the use of it is."-Truly stunning.

The Karl's thoughts on Children: "That's the last thing I want (is to have a child). I hate all children. For other people, it's fine, but not for me. I was born not to be a family person." - I do have to agree with him here. In Karl's words "Children are Demode"

The Karl's thoughts on Intellectuals: “I’m mad for books, It is a disease I won’t recover from. They are the tragedy of my life. I want to learn about everything. I want to know everything, but I’m not an intellectual, and I don’t like their company." - Meow!

The interview is much longer, these are just spectacular snipets of how his snobby, deranged mind works, but I absolutely LOVE it. So old, so bitchy, so awesome. In fact, he's so bitchy, that I'm sure if given the chance, he'd use common folk like us as a carpet so he wouldn't have to step in anything undesirable in the shoes he buys a size too small. For that, he is definitely a highlight of 2008! Although, since its December 30, I guess it would be fair to say that 2008 is "Demode", and 2009 is "what's hot, what's fresh" Viva La Karl!

I'm....I Don't Really Know What To Do With This...

Truthfully, there are SO many things going through my head after viewing this piece of crap. I guess the first, is WHY? Why does this exist? and more importantly WHY did I actually sit through the entire 4 minutes and 8 seconds of this craptastic production? and I guess another thing is that I am SO thankful that the Canadian government doesn't waste tax payer money on shit like this! I've seen better production value in my sisters vacation videos. I really don't know why I watched it all...I really don't. Its 4 minutes and 8 seconds I'm not getting back. Shit.

*SIGH* Yet Another Reason To Hate The Red States....

Although truthfully, I don't know if Pennsylvania is a Red state, but anyways, I'm getting off topic. So today, I'm on www.msnbc.com getting my daily news fix. I swear since I've moved here to Vancouver, I feel so ignorant, my upkeep on current events has been spotty at best. But anyways, I'm reading the news and I come across the story here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28269290/?gt1=43001 which is about the uproar in some shitty Pennsylvania town because some racist red-neck hicks had a kid and named it Adolph Hitler Campbell. No, sadly its not a joke. Turns out little Hitler is turning 3, and his parents were pissed because the people at the local Shop-Rite had some balls and told them to go get their kids cake at some other store that supports mass murder and general hatred (note it was ultimately Wal-Mart who put the kids name on the cake...what does that tell you?)

So of course I have a problem with all of this. You can't name your kids Adolph Hitler Campbell and JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell and not be racist, or not expect that you'll run into problems like this. Its not like you named your kid Oprah or after someone else everyone loves. Of course the father of these future Klan members goes on in the article to talk about how he isn't racist, that he wasn't brought up to avoid people of other races, but he just wasn't supposed to mix with them socially or romantically. So if that isn't racist, tell me what is? cause I'm pretty sure, that's racism. Never mind the problems these poor bastard kids are going to face later in life when god forbid, they become functioning members of society who actually have to work for a living. Would you hire someone named Hitler? cause I'm pretty sure I wouldn't. I also have a problem with this, because racism is learned at home, and if those are the kinds of values those parents are instilling in those kids, then I seriously weep for the future of America. Of course this only further highlights the cultural differences between Canada and the US even more. We don't teach our kids to hate here. We are a proud multi cultural nation, and I for one am now even happier that I'm Canadian.