A Site For Sorry Guys?
If you’re an average Joe and you still want a lot of folks to see you in your underwear, here’s your chance. A Web site that sells boxers and briefs online (sort of the Amazon.com of shorts) is looking for models that, well, don’t look like models.
The Web site, www.underneath.com, is looking for a few “average Joes” to model its new line of Joe Boxer underwear. What’s required to apply? A photo (not necessarily in underwear, but definitely not nude), a paragraph about yourself, such as hobbies and interests, and the usual name and address info. Go to the Web site for details and to tell them just how average a Joe you are. (From Aug. 13 Seattle Weekly)
Show us the way: Here’s pop-psychologist Dr. Laura Schlessinger’s take on what’s wrong with America: “Too much freedom and too little values.” Her solution: “Preaching, teaching and nagging.”
But her assessment doesn’t end there, of course. She also hammers feminists in a recent interview in Vanity Fair. “(Feminists) nauseate and sicken me,” she says. “They’ve destroyed the family. They’ve destroyed the sanctity of motherhood.”
The interviewer, Leslie Bennetts, doesn’t let Dr. Laura’s views go unchallenged, however. One of the many contradictions in Dr. Laura’s life: Although Schlessinger admonishes those who call into her radio show to mend family tiffs, she hasn’t seen her own mother in 14 years. (From September Vanity Fair)
Get a ticket on the clue train: In this country, almost 70 percent of all physician visits are made by females, health-care decisions are made by women in 71 percent of U.S. households, and women spend 70 percent more on medical care than men.
But between the ages of 45 and 54, men are five times more likely to suffer heart attacks than women, they comprise 80 percent of all suicides, 80 percent of severe drug addictions and are three times more likely to be alcoholics. Almost 100,000 men die each year of lung cancer, 35,000 of prostate cancer and 500,000 of heart disease.
So exactly what health woes are so bad they drive men to the doctor? The most common complaints, say doctors at a men’s health clinic in Seattle, are impotence, hair loss, premature ejaculation and prostate trouble. (From August Seattle Magazine)
Quote of the week: Meryl Streep, a mother of four, eagerly accepted a role as a mother in “One True Thing,” the movie version of Anna Quindlen’s novel.
“I’ve never seen a mother really depicted on screen: the sort of invisible contributions that moms traditionally make,” Streep says. “I thought these things could be made visible — could be celebrated. This is a (story) where the daughter looks around and suddenly sees the glue, the grout that holds the family together and makes life pleasant and lovely.” (From September Vanity Fair)
Susan English is the Weekend Editor at The Spokesman-Review. Contact her by mail at 999 W. Riverside, Spokane, WA 99201; by e-mail at susane@spokesman.com; or by phone at 459-5488.