Hello Mr. and Mrs. President

This is SO wrong. And yet, I couldn't resist embedding it here because it was so GOOD. I've been on a self-imposed media blackout, mainly because most of the news related to the presidential elections is rarely newsworthy anymore. This was the first presidential election in which I voted, and I felt good about doing my part as a civic citizen, but then I lost my excitement and tuned myself out of all the banter. Plus, it's depressing to see that there are so many people in the country that will support McCain. Out of all the Republican candidates, I thought he was the least threatening. But then I heard some of his comments, and now I just think he's just as bad as the others, just in a different way. If there was a way to fast forward to November, I'd do it in a GranoLA minute.

"Fierce"

To follow up on a previous post about Project Runway, a random thought popped into my mind this week during one of my sleepless nights. Fads and trends are not hard to notice around these parts of HelLA, and that also applies to words and jargons. Trends are often influenced by the worst of all sources, not the least of which includes celebutantes and reality TV shows.

"Fierce" currently seems to be the word-of-the-moment, as Christian's win on Project Runway and his frequent usage of the term has made the expression very modish. It's also pretty gay, which might also explain why I'm now inclined to use the word as many times as possible in a given sentence. Sort of like the modern day "fabulous!" However, "fierce" has been around for a long while in the splendiferous world of gaydom, and Christian only made it mainstream by overusing it on the airwaves.

What other words and expressions have been transplanted into the mainstream language?

• Hot (or haut)
  
• Splendiferous
  
• Tight
  
• Dope
  
• Fo shizzle
  

And many more for sure.

Project Runway

I have been having mixed feeling about Project Runway's winner from last week. Personally, Jillian had a collection that was more realistic and wearable. Aside from my own personal views, I still found the following SNL skit very entertaining.