are you a discount TJer or a snobby organic eating WFer?

the grocery store wars! the natural, good-for-you, dairy-free, ORGANIC, no pesticides, no GMO (what is that?), flax seed, kefir-lovin' boutique grocery stores. admit it, you hipster, you love them. i do, i prefer Trader Joe's (on my budget) and think that Whole Foods has probably the best produce your daddy's credit card can buy. i'm totally involved in all of this madness here in Chicago, but this is on a small scale compared to the MADNESS (so much MADNESS going on lately between this and SANJAYA MALAKAR) in New York right now.

New Yorkers are going bonkers for the NEW WHOLE FOODS that just opened on the Lower East Side. i heard from a few friends in NY that everyone is going crazy about it "ORGANIC FOOD in my neighborhood! I CAN'T TAKE IT!" "Can you believe it that Whole Foods is opening? SOY MILK, MAN!" (things like that). there have been lines outside of WF just to get in (apparently it's not BIG enough for the crazy NYers and their organic demands) and on opening day people were waiting outside like they were giving away X Box 360s, but no, just lots of pricey ORGANIC FOOD and SOY. we love healthy food (which is great), but do we love it because it's trendy...or because we really like sucking down some Flax Seed oil? i happen to like the taste of weird foods, which includes most kinds of foods and lots of odd things that WF and TJs sell, but i am not sold on the idea that everything that shops there enjoys the health-nut foods.

like an H&M to a Forever 21, Trader Joe's was not going to take this one lying down. oh hell no, Trader Joe's was not going to allow Whole Foods to come in a dominate the hungry organic loving NY grocery shopping hipsters/trend followers - they were going to profit off of this madness too and Trader Joe's in the East Village opened it's doors about a week ago.

check out this hilarious video from GAWKER of Joshua David Stein reporting LIVE from Whole Foods in the Lower East side.

GAWKER'S coverage of this GROCERY STORE MADNESS! (click here)

7 ponytails & a bawling tween!

SANJAYAAAAAA MADNESS is upon us! have you been watching American Idol? you don't have to to hear about Sanjaya Malakar, the new love-to-hate-love-dorky-Indian-idol (the idol part is up for discussion). last week, he made a tween bawl in the audience after he came down and gave her a hug--she might have gotten her period right there, because it was evident that she became a woman at that moment. Sanjaya got back on stage and finished his horrible rendition of whatever he was singing, Simon told him he sucked and everyone boo'ed. this exact scene was portrayed on SNL this past Saturday, and Andy Samberg plays a great Sanjaya!

not to be topped by the week before, Sanjaya wore 7 ponytails this week, the faux-mohawk look. honestly who does the hair and makeup there, art students who have Bo Ricks training? not only did he have 7 freakin ponys, he also sang one of Gwen Stefani's songs, "Bathwater" - it was real baaad and Gwen seemed to do whatever she could to not let him sing it...but then thank god he did, because Tuesday night would have not been the same:

"Sanjaya Malakar - He wanted to sing "Bathwater". She tried to get him to sing some 80's song. He said he was a big fan and he really wanted to do one of her songs. Gwen was upfront with him and told him she didn't think he could pull it off but gave him the benefit of the doubt. Today after seeing how rehearsals were going, she didnt' see any progress. She went to Nigel immediately and told him she does not want Sanjaya singing one of her songs whatsoever. Sanjaya didn't have many options at that point. He kind of got stuck with "Bathwater". This caused a big scene at the studio and was the talk all afternoon."

[source: thread on I love everything message board]

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