Kara & Michael’s Blog

When I was in Freshman English at a local community college, the instructor devoted a portion of the class to reading advertisements.
I don’t mean picking up a paper and reading through the classifieds. I mean, we studied advertisements, how they appeal to the audience, what advertisers are really selling us. I guess those skills come [...]

So Kara and I have discovered that our cat has strange taste in music. No, really.
We frequently get into situations where we’re annoying poor Inari: trying to snuggle with her, trying to pat her head, trying to make eye contact with her, etc. This frequently leads to me grabbing her and petting her while she [...]

Well, I officially heart Zappos.com.
Kara and I have raved about the comfort of the Earth shoes that we’ve now both bought. The negative heel construction is an amazing thing. Unfortunately, their quality of construction is poor, as I found out today.
The right shoe of my four-month-old pair has developed a crack that goes all the [...]

I was watching The Pickup Artist 2 on VH1 last night. I was watching mostly because they referred to the host Mystery as world-famous and I’d never heard of him. The premise of the show is that Mystery is going to help a few dorks to get laid. No, really, that’s the premise.
Before I go [...]

I’ve written before about driving. I’ve also written about how the one trait I hate most about anyone is presumption. I think speeding and presumption go hand-in-hand.
Here’s my rant:
The speed limit is generally regarded to be the maximum limit. Meaning, it is not meant to be the speed at which you drive, but the speed [...]

I was reading through blogs the other day because it’s what I do when I run out of work and don’t feel like doing my schoolwork.  And something struck me about blogging, it was this:
Many women bloggers have social anxiety.
I relate to them, at least on that bit. When I wasn’t on medication, my symptoms [...]

There are hundreds of perfectly valid reasons to dislike PETA. The feminist websites get up in arms about the fact that they use the nude female form to incite interest from the public. This bothers me too. Not because I think it’s disrespectful - I think it’s distasteful, but that’s PETA’s game. And that’s it [...]

Maybe this is mean to say, but I am actually laughing, just a bit. Because I’m 23 years old, I live within my means, I don’t have shit invested and no offense, but you got yourselves into this mess, America. Expecting a quick fix to a problem inherent in the capitalist system upon which all [...]

There is no candidate who can rightly be called middle-class. Don’t let them sway you with life stories and down-home country charm. They are rich, rich, rich. They have the best health insurance this country can afford.
Don’t you ever let any politician convince you that they know where you’re coming from. They don’t.
We should be [...]

I think labels are really useful, especially in the vegetarian/vegan community. It’s really easy to pick out the crazy assholes based on whether or not they defend their label.
Listen, I get that vegetarians/vegans have chosen to adhere to a certain lifestyle. It just so happens that most of that lifestyle revolves around foodages. What I [...]