Et tu, Dora?

The new Dora, by Miriam at Feministing.

This is not good. It is telling that I identify with a round girl who carries a backpack and has a monkey for a friend, more than with a skinny girl whose new defining characteristics are bouncy hair, jewelry and leggings. Leggings are not pants. What kind of adventures can a kid have in non-functional ballet slippers? Ugh.

That reminds me; I should get a monkey friend. Real or imaginary, either or.

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I apologize to Zac Efron.

After multiple (two) of you readers pointed out that Mr. Efron may not have leaked Ms. Hudgens's pictures on the internet, I will no longer label Zac guilty until proven innocent. Until the IP addresses are checked, Mr. Efron is just an unfortunate bystander. I'm sorry, sir.

My apology was also sparked by this developing situation, which I discovered on People via Defamer: High School Musical nudity update.

In a shocking--just shocking!--development in the Vanessa Hudgens Nudie Photos Scandal, a "source close to the situation" says that the High School Musical libertine sent the racy images to Drake Bell...star of Nickelodeon's Josh and Drake. We know! Already-enraged Disney Channel execs will be additionally livid about Hudgens' disloyal decision to show her body to a direct competitor's horny talent.

However, Mr. Bell's rep reports, "Drake says he never received those photos."

I feel like I'm in an episode of Law and Order where Sam Waterston and his supermodel Assistant DA keep arresting the wrong suspects.

The best part? The comments.

From Ben:

What about Malcolm? Was he in the middle?

And from El SmrtMnky:

ironically, zac efron emailed naked photos of himself to drake bell, too.

So wrong, yet so funny.

Also, since Stephanie is into the younger men, I wonder which one she would choose:

Drake?


Or Zac?


What about a Jonas brother?


Not the middle one, readers. Nick's not legal yet.

For readers like my Mummy who could never tell the difference between Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC, there are five separate people in these photos. However, Drake is featured in two of them: the picture at the top of the post with the birds, and the picture right below his name and the question mark.

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I was going to write a post about the book pictured above. I decided to read again after the racial angst of the past week. I do like to be right, but I would also like the ability to convince people of my rightness with subtlety and patience. That way, they'll think they came to the conclusion themselves.

Anyhoodle, while I was searching on Google for an image that would fit this smug post--preferably a picture of Ferguson Darling--I came across this page: Fear of the Dark, posted in 2004 by Syd Lexia.

...Nickelodeon [was far superior to The Disney Channel]. Shows like Finders Keepers, where contestants trashed rooms in order to find prizes, catered to what children wanted to see instead of what parents wanted children to see. In the early days, a lot of Nickelodeon's programs were borrowed. Early favorites such as Today's Special and You Can't Do That On Television were imported from Canada, while early cartoons were picked up in
syndication or imported from Japan, England, and even France. These included Looney Tunes, Heathcliff, Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics, Danger Mouse, and Spartakus and the Sun Beneath The Sea. In the early 90s, Nickelodeon had a massive influx of original programming that included Clarissa Explains It All, Welcome Freshmen, Hey Dude, Salute Your Shorts, and the first batch of cartoons produced explicitly for Nickelodeon. While Nickelodeon stuck mostly to cartoons, comedies, and game shows, they were always open to innovation. Nickelodeon decided to try out a horror show called Are You Afraid of the Dark? in 1992. This is the story of its first episode...

It goes on from there. And there are pictures! Yippee skippy.

Update (7/17/2007 2:50pm): In a bizarrely related note, I found this via Pajiba this afternoon: XYZ Affair - All My Friends, on College Humor.