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By Katie Kish, December 23, 2008 4:18 am

The Best and the Worst of 2008

It’s that time!

CDs

5. Sarah McLachlan – Closer: The Best Of … I’ve always loved S.M. I used to joke with Sam that I have a “Sarah Sense” because I’d always seem to find her music on the radio. She has probably been the most consistently admired and loved singers since I was like 10.
4. Josh Martinez – World Famous Sex Buffet …I love a little hiphop
3. Mr. Scruff – Ninja Tuna
2. Bright Eyes – Cassadaga
1. Girl Talk – Feed The Animals …I read an article recently about “girl talk killing music” because he uses clips of essentially illegal bits to make his music…but gets around it because they’re all online samples and stuff. …His mixes are amazing.

That category is always the hardest, other bands who released beauties: Tokyo Police Club, cat power, tv on the radio, the walkmen, mates of state, british sea power, …and others. sigh.

Movies

5. The Dark Knight – I’m still having a hard time deciding if I like this movie because it was so entertaining and so like…comic book looking, or if its because Heath Ledger died so there was a huge hype around his acting. I’ll say this – he did a great job. But some people were saying he should be given an award for it…even though he’s dead. I don’t really think that’s necessary. Anyway, I think the movie was really good. It was dark, but it was also a lot like the Batman with poison Ivy in it – it had that cool comic book feel to it.
4. The Strangers – this movie was weird.  …I love Liv Tyler and it scared me to death.
3. Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian – i think CON are really cute stories. Despite the obvious religious undertones to them, I really really like them.
2. Sex and the City – much anticipated and not disappointed …although I don’t think I’ve ever cried so much in a theater as I did when I saw this movie. It may have been the fact that we were drinking wine in the front row, so we were a little tipsy, or it just could have been that it was so tragic to see the girls is such sad situations. Sigh.
1. Wall-E – not only was it mine and John’s first date movie…it has a great message about the environment and mocks our consumerism. Which I always like It was by far the best movie John and I could have seen on a first date. Robot love? Seriously, it doesn’t get any better.

Books

5. In Search of Time by Dan Falk
4. The Forever War by Dexter Filkins
3. A Madman Dreams Of Turing Machines by Janna Levin
2. Hurry Down Sunshine by Michael Greenberg
1. Factory Girls by Leslie T Chang

Gadgets:

5. Nokia N95 8 gb – My new phone! 8 GB worth of space, Wifi, 5 mp camera with carl zeiss optics, radio, mobile e-mail, vision tv/radio, a gorgeous screen with DVD like video capabilities, 35mm headphone jack, 8 gb internal memory, gps with preloaded maps… and best of all, it doesn’t have a full keyboard. I was so sick of the full keyboard, bulky shape and “smart phone” look of my blackberry. The Nokia looks like a normal phone, but totally does more. Its great.
4. HTC Diamond – my brothers phone… it’s sleeker and more easily customizable thank the iPhone. The only reason I didn’t get this over my phone is that it is a touch screen. They seem to be all the craze right now, but I just don’t like them.
3. Flip MinoHD – a tiny HD camcorder for only like $200… mostly because it only has 4gb worth of space…
2. The nikon D90 – *drools* an HD camera. …
1. Optoma Pico PK-101 – the MP3 player projector… I really need to get me one of these. Its the size of a regular iPod, plugs in and plays your movies on the wall. …awesome.

Games
I dont really do a whole lot of game playing…

5. Wii boxing…i played it once
4. Rock Band …I pretty much rock at everything except the drums. But…i’ll get to those in 2009
3. I started playing WoW a couple days ago, i’ve played twice
2.Sims!…one of the expansion packs came out this year, i dont remember which one. But thanks to john i have ALL the expansion packs and have WAY too many options. Its awesome.
1. Spore…. cooool

Hits of the financial crisis:

5. AIG’s credit fiasco
4. No more Fords and Chevys – the Detroit big three went belly up! the earth is happy, but hummer drivers are not.
3. Citibanks 75 000 job cuts
2. Greenspan – people are living in tents!
1. Iceland …is broke, needing to take billions of dollars from the IMF, Sweden, Germany, Denmark and Finland.

Sciencey Stories:

5. The Invisibility Cloak
4. Bigfoot is a rubber suit with dead animals inside of it
3. a squid with elbows
2. something tugging at the universe
1. The Large Hadron Collider

Absolutely Hilarious

5. The McCain green screen challenge – McCain did an interview in front of a green background, prompting Colbert to challenge his audience to come up with the best scenes to put McCain into
4. Letterman to McCain “You don’t show up for me, America doesn’t show up for you!”…after McCain stood up Letterman, and was shown at another interview instead, it was the core of Lettermans jokes for weeks.
3. The writers strike… so many late night talk show hosts were SO strapped for content. …hahahaha suckers.
2. is america ready for a woman president? – Samantha Bee as Carrie Bradshaw
1. Tina as Palin…and she didn’t change any words.

Personal Worsts:

5. Working in retail – even though I was the boss, i hated it. i hated bending over backwards for jerk ass customers and seeing people spend 800 dollars on clothes. I hated fitting plus women for bras in the summer when they smelled funny and I hated answering to my overly bitchy and micromanaging district manager. She treated me like a moron. I hated that job.
4. I miss a lot of people including Shaneka, Mark, Caitlin, Torrie, Ashley, Dan, Patrick, Karl and family
3. My currently housing situation – my roommates are annoying, they turn the heat up to over 30 (literally!) and leave messes in the kitchen all the time. My door doesn’t really lock and I’m an hour out of the city. I can’t walk around with no pants on and I have to pay to wash my clothes.
2. The York U strike…dont even get me started
1. My grandma died and it was the sadest of all sad.

Personal Bests:

5. Working at acculink where I met Christine and Stacey – two of the best women I’ve ever met in my life. Plus it made me value the 4/10hr shifts a week thing, and loved being on midnights.
4. Moving to Toronto in June. Although I had to shack up with Allen for quite sometime, I love living here and will be sad if I ever have to move out of the city.
3. Getting a job at CFI… my job is to advance science and secularism in society. How cool is that?
2. I’ve lost 20 lbs in the past 2 months! woo!! i love weight watchers…except now the skin on my belly feels really weird, like loose. its kinda gross.
1. June 24th – John and I had our first kiss and were a “couple” by the next day. awe, <3

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By Katie Kish, June 2, 2008 2:18 am

So I saw it. Me and my ladies got dressed up (like trendy new yorkers) drank a whole lot of wine and went and saw it. And it was SO GOOD.

I’m not going to write about the plot on here – beacuse I don’t want to let out any spoilers. but I definitely wasn’t dissapointed. I did cry a LOT… like… a LOT.

It was done exactly like the tv show – so if you’re not into the show, don’t see the movie. I’ve read a lot of reviews of people who said it was horrible – but it’s because they weren’t into the show. Yes, there are a lot of designer labels, the girls always talk about sex and boys, Samantha is horny, they say “fuck” and it IS hilarious and Carrie DOES NOT look like a horse.

I really did hate the Steve/Miranda plot line – it was just too much for me to handle. Anyway – the movie was great, I don’t care if the big hollywood buffs think it was shit – I loved it.

Also recently loved: Darjeeling Limited. LOVED. I also downloaded the soundtracks for ALL Wes Anderson films and it was the best decision of my life.

Okay, I’ll be back later to bitch about athiests. After I play some pacman.

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By Katie Kish, March 15, 2007 3:10 am

Ashley the midget, my roommate, sent me the funniest video in the entire flipping world.

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By Katie Kish, November 21, 2006 1:42 pm

Season 1: Episode 1: Sex and the City

This question seems to fit in almost perfectly with the recent claims that I’m a slut. Can women have sex like men, or are we doomed to stick to 3 partners for the rest of our lives unless we want an unflattering and nasty label? Less importantly Carrie asks "why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men?"

When I talk to people who don’t really know what sex and the city is, or have never really watched it they at least know a couple of things – Charlotte is the hot one and Samantha is the slut. They don’t know what Carrie does, and they never even know who Miranda is. "The cynical lawyer?" …"no idea" "she’s the smart one!" …"no clue" "She has red hair?" … "…Nope"

The thing with Charlotte pisses me off a little bit, but not as much as Samantha being constantly labeled as "the slut". She has a lot of sex, yes. She also has a few lovers through out the seasons as well. This is really where the "can women have sex like men?" question comes in.

"Like men" = a lot, for their own satisfaction, hardcore, quickly and… did I mention a lot.

It seems as though its more appropriate for men to have unlimited casual sex. They don’t get deemed slutty, or disgusting. Its a status symbol. Its like in that movie… American Pie… 2? I think? Anyway, you are told that men always add 2 when they say how many people they’ve slept with and girls always subtract two because its more appropriate. Women are taught to be modest about their sexual lives and men are taught that sex gives them a higher status.

Women can of course have sex like men. Women can do whatever the fuck they want… (well, except … you know, get equal pay and have abortions.) but while they’re out screwing whom ever they want, when ever they want they’re gaining a ‘bad’ reputation because they aren’t keeping their legs closed. Not to mention the double standard that guys what their girls to be virgin like… but then always expect them to be good in bed.

One huge difference between women and men when they have sex is that sometimes it seems like the man is just using the woman as a replacement for their hands – masturbation with a body. It’s a hell of a lot hard for a woman to do this. For there to be complete satisfaction for the girl she’s got to make the guy do a bit of work, but for the guy, he doesn’t need her to do anything except cheer him on. Argo? We should probably all just be lesbians.

I’ve also read somewhere that when a girl has sex a chemical is released that makes them more affectionate and lovey toward the male that they were with, but that this doesn’t happen to a guy. This would indicate that women can’t have sex like men – because they can’t just let go of partners as easily as men can. I don’t believe this for a second -but its a theory.

I say, if a woman wants to have sex with 10 guys a week for the rest of her life then she should go for. (As long as it’s safe… I don’t cheer on stupid sex.) The more women that have sex for their own pleasure and push men off to the side afterward the better. Its about time we ditch the ‘modest about sex’ attitude and start being just as proud as men are when they have sex.

So I conclude that women can of course have sex like men. Sex is sex. Do it! Its good fun. …But more importantly women SHOULD have sex like men.

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By Katie Kish, November 16, 2006 12:43 pm

I just took a quiz (the link is on that site…) and it turns out that Aiden is my match from Sex and the City. Now… this just made my roommate Ashley go "Oh dear…" because she knows my REAL match is Big. Sure, he can be a bit of an asshole, but he says cute things!! like this:

Mr. Big: You girls are the loves of her life, a guy is lucky to come in fourth

AND he takes carrie on a horse and buggy ride in Central Park before he leaves for napa, that is just so cute.

I really do plan on starting some Sex and the City posts – you can learn some really good stuff from Sex and the City, the best example "Hes just not that into you"… Mixed signals? Confusion? Think he’s cheating? …There ARE no mixed signals, don’t be confused just move on and he probably is cheating, because he’s just not that into you. (Its a book now too!)

I was going to go on the sex and the city tour – but… Tuesday I was too tired, same with today. I won’t go tomorrow because Alon doesn’t have class tomorrow so I don’t want to ditch him for Sex and the City… And I think I want to go with someone. It can’t be that much fun to do it on my own… So I’ll convince my sister, or Ashley or Sam to come here with me soon and we’ll go on the tour, because it will be fun and you get to drink cosmos.

Louis: I have to say, this is my first trip to New York…not for me. The garbage, the noise, I don’t know how you put up with it.
Carrie: Thanks. I had a great time.
Louis: Wait, you’re going home alone? It’s rough out there.
Carrie: Nah. It isn’t so bad.
Carrie (voiceover): If Louis was right, and you only get one great love, then New York may just be mine…and I can’t have nobody talkin’ shit about my boyfriend.

I will start with the S&C posts next week. They’ll be fabulous, I promise. …I’m not obsessed – I just think there is a lot of truth underneath sex and the city, and there has to be a logical reason as to why women love it so much. …We all know the characters are stereotypical, and we also all know that it is based around consumerism. …We know that we could never live their lives, and will probably live in crap holes when we move to New York.. But we’re still all still stuck in your adoration of the show. …Hmm.