Re:Generator Magazine

I admit – speaking as one of them “city folks” the dating site FarmersOnly.com so maligns – that I don’t get talking horses with opinions about hyperspecific dating sites. Here in the “big city”, with our “four dollar cups of coffee, taxi cabs, blue suits, high heels, conference rooms and getting ahead at all costs in the corporate world”, when we do see horses, a policeman is usually riding one through downtown, and the horse has the good sense to shut the fuck up and stay out of human affairs.

It must be different in red states, though, because Mr. Ed over there is a regular chatterbox. He shares the good old fashioned traditional values of “enjoying blue skies, wide open spaces, raising animals, appreciating nature and truly understand the meaning of Southern hospitality, even if they don’t live in the South”. I thought I loved nature, wide open spaces and blue skies, but since I’m livin’ in the city, my appreciation of same can only be characterized as a stunted joke. FarmersOnly.com is really starting to make me feel bad about myself!

We can’t all be ag students with fancy college degrees and a detailed understanding of food production. It’s tough to be a city dweller, more than singles in America’s Heartland know. But we don’t need their condescension or their pity. We’re tougher than we look, and we’ll suffer pantless hobos and a noticable lack of starlight stoically. We don’t need some snobby country horse telling us what we do and don’t get. I’d like to see that horse take his traditional values and try to cross a major intersection with it. Seems to me, a little city knowledge would be a good thing to have in that situation.

Because according to an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco,

Immigration has no “significant” effect on the number of jobs available to U.S.-born workers and helps boost incomes and productivity over time.

Drop Dead Diva co-star Margaret Cho admits to having a crush on, of all people, Snooki from Jersey Shore. “I think she looks exactly like Elizabeth Taylor from Cleopatra – really gorgeous,” Miss Cho said on her Blog. Cho will be a celebrity contestant on the upcoming season of Dancing with the Stars alongside Snooki’s fellow shore star, The Situation.

I have to assume the fabulous comedienne is totally kidding about Snooki. She’s pretty enough, but I don’t think she’s even a real person. I’m pretty sure MTV has digitally created that cast of orange deviants. Snooki might actually have been made from jpeg skins of Elizabeth’s Cleopatra.

Cho also described in her post her meeting with former Dancing with the Stars contestant Kate Gosselin. The two swapped dance stories and Cho advised Gosselin on ways to handle negative publicity.

Alejandro-spurning Lady GaGa reportedly wishes to become ordained so that she can marry her gay friends. The pop star has spoken out against California’s Proposition 8 on several public occasions, and this is another example of her dedication to equality in addition to having written a song about love’s struggle against Prop 8 and having marched on Washington with the HRC on behalf of Gay Rights.

I now pronounce you Monster and Free Bitch, baby.

A sedate golf game can lead to a 12-acre blaze in the time it takes to accidentally hit a rock in the rough.