Doppel-DANG, er...: Quick Take on a Phacebook Phenomenon + 3 Things I Love Today

(First off: Forgiveness is begged for the lack of a LOST-related post. LOST is Anna Margaret's territory (and Sawyer her man), and I've only ever seen the pilot episode (shameful, I know...I just knew I couldn't give LOST the attention it deserved over the years because I was too busy wrapped up in other addictions...Josh Schwartz-ian ones). One of these days when I have the flu or something I'll rent all the seasons and just go MIA for a few days. But for now, apologies for no review on the season premiere tonight. ANNA MARGARET, this is your cue to step it up and press the hold button on studying for a while. Until you do, dear partner in crime, this beautiful picture of you circa 9th grade will remain prominently displayed...just think of yourself as the bounced check, this website as the corner mom & pop shop, and your next post as payment of the debt):



Moving on...

If you have a Facebook account you log into semi-regularly (aka if you are a member of the civilized world) you've probably noticed that a major craze has been upon us in the past week. People have been posting their celeb "lookalikes" as their profile pictures.



At first this seemed like a harmless trend. But it's suddenly morphed into a nightmarish thing akin to when people could first start posting status updates and I wondered how these people's statements were real (Think about how ridiculous/emotional/dramatic/diary-esque statuses(stati?) seem so normal now...still hilarious, but totally commonplace. Scary, right?) What I mean by that is that we probably all have seen new profile pics on our news feeds and just wondered WTH those people were thinking. Don't get me wrong, I'm certainly guilty of making someone-not-me my profile pic a little too regularly, but that's just because I have an unhealthy and unexplainable obsession with certain people/movies/shows/songs (hence the existence of this blog)...not because I'm claiming to look like them. Don't post a picture of shirtless Matthew McConaughey; that only fuels the already-too-pervasive trend of Abercrombie Hulk Wannabe Profile Pics. And I mean, you're pretty, but Penelope Cruz? Really? I'm not trying to suggest that celebrities are goddesses and real people can't possibly measure up. I know actors/resses wake up with bedhead and undereye circles. I AM suggesting that this trend just invites people to make fools of themselves. But I guess the Facebook trend in general does. Ok, never mind. I've just lost my own argument.

3 things I love this week:
1. THIS AMERICAN LIFE now has an iPhone app!! $2.99 for access to EVERY RADIO EPISODE THEY'VE EVER PRODUCED?!?!?! I'll take it!!


^David Sedaris aka FUNNIEST MAN EVAAARRR. He has TAL to thank for helping the world realize this.

2. New She & Him single, "In the Sun!" Zooey Deschanel (she) and M. Ward (him) have a new album (Volume 2, a follow up to their appropriately-titled debut Volume 1) coming out MARCH 23. Such a cute and poppy duo (although I have to wonder why Zooey and hubby Ben Gibbard have yet to release anything together. I'm not sure how awesome their voices would sound together, but the married-couple duet is a time-tested gimmick that works. It'd sell, at least, even if it weren't that great. But honestly, how could it be BAD?)



3. La-la-la-la-LOLA.

This isn't a super-new perfume, but Lola by Marc Jacobs is my new favorite. It's sitting on my roomie's dresser right now and I just really like looking at the bottle. Is that lame? Probs, but not any lamer than the fact that I bought Daisy by MJ a couple of years ago when it debuted...because I liked the bottle. I wear the scent, sure, but I'm no perfume expert. I buy based on the bottle and whether I think it smells pretty. In this case, yes, I always judge the book by its cover and how cute it will look sitting on my dresser/bathroom counter.

I also really like how my roomie's use of Lola this week has gotten this stuck in my head:



OK, I lied... *4* things I love this week. Gratuitous Lady GaGa mention: Check out this magnificent mashup.