Must See TV: New Reality Show

So has anyone heard about this show: Trading Shoes?

If it's anything like the promo - I can't wait to watch every single episode, popcorn in hand of course! For those of you who can't watch it on tele - youtube is your friend...

From the show summary:

"Ever wonder what it would be like if 'the man' had to live like you?
From the creators of "Trading Housebands", "Straight Eyes into Queer Guys" and "Asexuals in the City" comes the new unscripted series that will launch a competitive search for the most 'versatile CEO'. Can 'the man' burp babies, take out your trash and manage to keep his $6/hour job while feeding a family of four? While the CEOs get to do everyday activities, we've got the people they've switched jobs with a two week paid vacation!

All the fun of the Simple Life without the bottled blondes, melodrama and sex-appeal, just really gritty action and tough men getting down to business (or not). In order to make our experiments as successful as we can, we have not revealed the identities of our CEOs to their new work colleagues until after their performance evaluations take place. At the end of each two week period, they will be evaluated by their immediate supervisors on a unique grading system developed by our team of HR specialists. The winner will of course, get the coveted title of most 'versatile CEO'.

The driving force behind the series will be the pursuit of the American dream and the natural trials, tribulations and heartbreak inherent in that quest combined with the drama and tension of 'success'. The canvas of the show is much broader than capitalist competition - it will give viewers a first hand look into the real life hopes, triumphs and defeats of every American.

Episode List:

Week 1: Bill Gates, former CEO of Microsoft exchanges jobs with Dharamveer, a 27 year old all-night Techinical support assistant at Microsoft's Indian office in Gurgaon, outside of New Delhi. Can Bill Gates manage to maintain a relationship with his wife, tuck his kids into bed at night, work out everyday and support his aging parents while he works nights and sleeps days, all on $17 a day or will he melt under the hot Indian sun?

Week 2: Jack M. Greenberg, CEO of McDonald's takes a trip down memory lane and flips jobs with Tina, a 15 year old high-school student from Dallas, Texas. Can Greenberg pass Tina's midterm exams, take care of her two cats, re-heat her microwave dinner because her parents are at work every night? Will he be able to handle the stress of taking the bus at midnight after closing hours or will he get Tina into trouble with late detentions? We're especially watching Greenberg, because he's promised Tina a $25,000 scholarship if he misses even one hour of work at $5.35/hour.

Week 3: Steve Heyer, CEO of Sheraton Hotels meets the everyday life of Maria a 43 year old Latina whose also an illegal immigrant from Albuquerque, New Mexico. If Steve can manage changing bed sheets, vaccuming the hallways, ignoring passes from drunken hotel guests, cooking and feeding Maria's three children without breaking his back, he's promised Maria a raise from her current $4.50/hour plus a greencard!

Week 4: Mark Parker, the new CEO of Nike gets to take the needle to the heart of it. For this week's episode we fly all the way to Indonesia where Setiawan shows him how the Nike Air is made! This will be the first time that a Nike CEO has visited a supplier's factory. Will Setiawan finally get his dream of clean running water in his kitchen and a gas stove? What happens if Mark Parker fails to work less than 60 hours a week?

Week 5: Hugh Hefner, founder of Playboy Enterprises agrees to work a three day stint at Palms Hotel, Las Vegas serving cocktails in a form-fitting bunny suit, ears and high heels. This one really surprised us. But after losing a bad hand of poker with Donald Trump even this old coot had to give in. Since Hef claims to have a bad back from all the shagging he's done, we allowed him a three day offer, nothing like seeing how the infamous playboy handles himself in drag."

I didn't want to copy and paste the entire 10 week episode list, you can check that out for yourself, but I promise you it's fantastic. I don't think I've ever been this excited to watch TV!!! And a reality show to boot!!! bring it on!

International Women's Day events

In Toronto:

1) March 8 - Rally and March from OISE
Time and Place Date: Saturday, March 8, 2008
Time: 11:00am - 4:00pm
Location: OISE
Street: Bloor W (at St. George Subway)
City/Town: Toronto, ON

2) March 9 (?)

3) And in Ottawa - this looks really cool.International Women's Day Art Show

Corrective Lenses:
Challenging Representations of Women of Colour in Art

International women’s day art show and panel discussion

Featuring subversive reproductions of Gauguin, Michelangelo, Gerome, Metzel, Carr and others by women of colour artists from Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal and Turkiye.

Corrective Lenses:
Challenging Representations of Women of Colour in Art

International women’s day art show featuring subversive reproductions of Gauguin, Michelangelo, Gerome, Metzel, Carr and others by women of colour artists from Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal and Turkiye.

March 8, 4pm
Vernissage and panel discussion featuring:

Charmaine Nelson: McGill University Art History professor and author of Racism eh? A Critical Inter-Disciplinary Anthology of Race in the Canadian Context
Rosalie Favell: Award-winning photographer whose work has appeared in more than a dozen solo exhibitions and more than twenty group exhibitions around the world
Dipna Horra: a multi-media artist and visual arts reviewer with CBC
radio’s Ottawa Morning
Joanne St. Lewis: University of Ottawa Law professor and recipient of the 2008 Dreamkeepers Award conferred by the Martin Luther King Day Coalition.

Art exhibition March 8 –15 featuring the works of:
Sundus Abdul Hadi, Ilknur Demirkoparan, Rosalie Favell, Dipna Horra, Radha Jhappan, Meera Karunananthan, Joanne St. Lewis and Helina Tadesse

Location:
Jock Turcot University Centre, University of Ottawa

For more information, contact Meera Karunananthan: correctivelenses@gmail.com

Corrective Lenses is sponsored by the following University of Ottawa institutions: The Institute of Women’s Studies, Community Life Services, The University of Ottawa Women’s Resource Centre,The Social Justice Group, Common Law Section, Faculty of Law and the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa.

i have a girl-crush... sigh

Yes, it's Joy Nash - you might remember her from this:

And she has a Blog!!! Yay!

Not entirely progressive - but very good and tres funny!

Enjoy!

When Queen Latifah was a "role model"...

Sigh... I have to give her props though, she does try her hardest to explain it away as though she's not 'shilling' and it's really about 'health' (and maybe it is - but where was Oprah's fitness and food guru? did it have to be Jenny Craig?}....

but I'll always think she was more of a role model here, anyday: (sorry, can't find the 'official video')

the value of pussy...

It is the same sentiment that I've elicited from a lawyer, who says, "I paid 100 grand to go to law school, and I could make more money on my back," the same response I get from an executive assistant, a service-industry worker, and a teacher, who hold five degrees between them. Even Rosen, after asking me how much I'm "worth," exclaims, "That's a lot! Think about your income. Think about mine. I'm not advocating this; I'm just saying I can understand the calculations."

Note to white feminists, again, so if this is so lucrative - what happens to 30+, pudgy, coloured women like me... any price for my pussy?

I forgot - I'm not supposed to be educated, sexy or worthy - unless I'm exotic and submissive...

blah blah blah. And so it goes, more churning for the putting out industry. What was the point of this article again.

Seriously, feminists who advocate that sex-work is value-neutral - i.e. 'nothing sexist' exists - seem to think that it operates in it's own little bubble outside of anything else. I.e. though the author pays lip-service to the fact that being '27' is too 'old' - there really is no critique of the fact that that in itself is sexist. So, while taking money is okay - it's as if, this is just some kind of 'simple isolated transaction'. I.e. the objective of the article was economically reductionist in which women's desires, women's age/beauty/SKIN color/ CLASS - i'm sorry but not everyone has $50K+ to spend on getting an MA - play no part in being desired as 'fuckable', let alone by wealthy men. But of course 'sex-positivity' is NEVER holistic. NEVER. It's is fragemented and selective.

Btw - my blog sucks now and I don't even get 25 hits a day, so if you are going to start a 'war', or let's be clear, I don't like your comments (it's my blog isn't it?) - forget it - I'm just not publishing your comments - bite me.

later.

Thanks!

Thanks so much for the nomination - wowsers, so unexpected!

Muah!

Guess what I just realized?

I just don't give a crap about the US elections.... no, seriously.
I had to burp that out somewhere, no better place than here. I just don't care.

After about 3-4 months of not looking at blogs, I flipped through, oh maybe - 10 of them.... and I realized, as a Canadian, I just don't give a damn about your elections.

Yes, I'll probably be depressed if somehow another fascist dictator is elected, but you know - right now, I just don't care because as far as I can see it - I don't really like ANY of the candidates that are running.

Comment if you don't care either.... cause you know what, the supposed 'revolution' is not happening from above and the more bandwidth people waste on "but hillary vs. obama" the more of a headache I have. Like I said as a Canadian, I don't see the difference between either of them.

the awesomey goodness of M.I.A

and to thunk that MTV would censor those bullet shots... dayum...