IWS Welcomes Nicole Russin AKA: Richarde

Holaaaaa and Cheers!

IWS World Media in association with IWS productions would like to welcome Nicole Russin to the I’m With Stupid podcast this Wednesday, July 18, 2012! Ms. Russin AKA: The Legendary Richárde, a bestselling cookbook author, musician, journalist, model and Renaissance woman. Her latest cookbook, “Ostentatious Cupcakes” is racing up the Amazon charts and is full of creative and innovative ways to make the all-American favorite. Her first cookbook, published in December 2010, “The Non-Diet Real Cookbook: Easy Recipes to Stay Skinny Eating Anything You Want and Learn How to Cook!” was based on a mixture of recipes from abroad, healthy food, and the Midwest’s classic roots: soul food, German cooking, and Irish cuisine blended together

Nicole began her journalism career at the age of 13 when she began hosting a video series for PBS titled Illinois Stories which was syndicated in Illinois, Missouri and Iowa. In addition to local and state politicians, Ms. Russin even snagged a Q&A with soon to be presidential candidate John Kerry. Nicole continues to work on her journalism career to this day having interviewed people from the political, business, sports and entertainment worlds.

Nicole graduated from the University of Texas at the age of 19. After graduation she decided to compete in the Miss Texas pageant even though she had never participated in any beauty pageants while growing up. The end result was a fun and hugely popular guest blog on Huffington Post which became one of the top five most popular reads on the site in 2009.

By the age of 21 Nicole was in NYC looking for journalism work. At the same time she decided to seek out modeling work and it didn’t take long to land some opportunities with a number of different agencies. She mostly worked in the beauty/hair/makeup categories, but as with everything else in her life, she doesn’t want to just settle for that. Being a very ambitious person, Nicole is working hard to make the jump to the couture lines WHILE continuing to purse professional writing and journalism gigs.

In her spare time, Russin records songs in every genre under the sun. An opera lover, Russin likes performing each genre differently down to pronunciation “because every musical style should have its own performance method and be felt like an opera performance.” She sings out, talk sings, gets whispery, shouts, performs overdramatically, and sings emotionlessly.  (She does know how to sound traditionally good when necessary also.) Russin taught herself how to compose sheet music while bored in some seventh grade class she can’t remember, forced herself to learn music production on her home computers, and used fellow students as recording test subjects as she discovered her inner Max Martin. In June 2010, she released an art pop double album called Sex Appeal, Love, Confessions Parts 1 & 2 with its additional material album My Other Half, put out a few corresponding psychedelic 60′s/70‘s singles, got together with Russian tennis star and California transplant homegrown DJ Dmitry Tursunov for a Studio 54 meets modern disco sound on The Dmitry Tursunov Experience EP, and will soon release a 1980′s style follow-up album.

So, as you can see Nicole is a busy woman with a lot of interests and talents. This is going to be an awesome show! Be sure to join us on I'm With Stupid Wednesday, July 18, 2012 for all the fun and excitement!

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In other news Matt-Man and Jayman overcame their brutal hangovers to bring everyone “The Hangover Show” on I’m With Stupid on Sunday. We talked hangover prevention and cures and then got a great call from our HAWT friend Meredith! So, totally check it out!

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Cunt

Welcome to the first day of Spring one and all.  Here in Bagwine, Ohio the sun will be shining; the birds will be singing; and the temp will be hovering around the 83 degree mark…

A beautiful, and incredibly rare type of first day of Spring in Ohio, indeed.

But I digress…which is kinda cool.  See, I am so cool that I digress prior to pontificating upon my actual topic, leaving ample word count to cover my actual topic without future digression.

Anyhoo…

Today, I would like to exposiate on the word, “cunt.”

For some reason, no other word in the English language (American English, that is) is more offensive than the word, cunt…especially when directed at, or heard by, women.

The word “cunt” as far as anyone knows, has been around since the Anglo-Saxons brought it to England centuries ago.  It was back then, but a mere word for the vagina…not an obscenity.

Then of course the English, as they always do, fucked things up and bastardized the entire meaning.  The English (c. 1290) began to refer to prostitutes as cunts.  So…

The word cunt went from being a word that described a woman’s vagina to meaning a prostitute.  Is that so bad?  I don’t think so, but then…

For decades, and actually for centuries, cunt went back to its origins as being merely a word for the female vagina.

Oh why did I say “female” vagina, you ask?  Because blockhead Sean Hannity has a vagina and yet, is purported to be a male.  I still haven’t thought of a name for his personal and physiological chaos.

Anyway…

After centuries of use, only relatively recently has the word “cunt” been considered a derogative term toward women, so I ask myself:

“How and why did this simple four letter word  become such an offensive term?  How did it become the Unholy of Unholies?  Why are women so repulsed by it?”

After much back and forth over whether the word merely described female genitalia or was derogatory…

In the 1930’s here in our good ol’ United States, heap big censors of print, movies, radio, and the like, decided that “cunt’ was a derogatory term when directed at our homegrown, amber waves of star spangled womanhood.

Yes ladies, it was a bunch of old, stodgy white men that told you that the word “cunt” was and is, the most heinous of insults to be leveled against you, and that has been ingrained in the American culture for over eighty years.

Ironic, no?

Cunt…much like prick, dick, pussy, queer, nigger, loser, or any other insult, is no more nor less inflammatory than the other, and yet…

Many women, in fact many women I know, think that word cunt, is the end all and be all of insults.

Well…

It’s not.

Cunt is just a word…A word that was in Norse, and among the Anglo-Saxons, to mean vagina.

If women take the word cunt as an insult, and as an attack on them, they see themselves as under attack in a war of a word initiated by stodgy, old, white guys some eighty years ago, and ally themselves with them.

That's kinda sad.  Maybe we should just stick to calling women who think like that, pussies.  That seems to be an acceptable word.

Cheers!!

Matt-Man

Email:  neshobadude@yahoo.com
Twitter:  @mattmaniws

I'm So Going to Heaven

Hola bitches and welcome to the further adventures with my mother’s friend M.E. You remember M.E. from Thanksgiving, right? Well after a year of talking about it M.E. finally decided to get a laptop computer. She hasn’t ever used a computer before in her life. Okay, she did use a computer in a very limited manner back in the early 90’s, but that doesn’t really count.

Oh, and she’s never been on the internet either. Of course, she’s pretty sure she knows all about the net and … it’s the devil. But, she’s ready to take on the devil anyway. She asked me to go with her Walmart to get a laptop and “whatever else I’m going to need.”

Surprisingly enough Walmart wasn’t too difficult. We had a short discussion about whether she needed a desktop or laptop …

M.E: “I’m pretty sure I want a laptop.”
Jay: “They both have their pros and cons.”
M.E: “I think I’ll put it on the desk in the spare bedroom because there’s no TV in there.”
Jay: “So you want a desktop?”
M.E: “No, because I want to use it in the living room and downstairs.”
Jay: “Uh you just said … okay.”

So, we get her an HP laptop, a wireless router, a mouse and she also finds this portable tray that she thinks she’ll put the laptop on. It went smooth, no arguments or strange questions. Then we get back here so I can set her laptop up and show her a few things and get it registered for her. She also called the cable company and they will be out next Thursday to turn on her internet.

I get the thing out of the box and go through the set up process and then I decide to show her the internet. I figured the best place to go to first would be YouTube which leads to this conversation …

Jay: “What is your favorite musical act?”
M.E: “Oh I don’t know.”
Jay: “Do you like Dean Martin?”
M.E: “No.”
Jay: “Sinatra?”
M.E: “No.”
Jay: “Tony Bennett?”
M.E: “No.”
Jay: “Barbara Streisand.”
M.E: “No.”
Jay: “Willy Nelson.”
M.E: “No.”
Jay: “Miley Cyrus?”
M.E: “GOD NO!”
Jay: “Hey! That hurts! Rolling Stones?”
M.E: “No.”
Jay: “Huey Lewis and News?”
M.E: “No … I just don’t listen to music at all.”
Jay: “Umm … Okay, puppy vidoes.”
M.E: “Puppy vid? … Ohhhhh they’re so cute!”
Jay: “Internet, M.E. M.E, Internet.”

Then I put some of the games icons on the desktop so she can find them easily and play games to get used to using the mouse and all that shit. As I putt the laptop back in the box so she can take it home and all that and I show her where to plug the mouse back in at and I say “since you’re right handed just plug it in on the left side and run the cord around the back.” She says okay and gathers her stuff and says she’s going to go home and will “practice on the computer.”

About an hour later she calls and says “How come just because I’m right handed that means I HAVE to plug the mouse in on the left side? That doesn’t make any sense to me.” I told her I was just doing what seemed most obvious and easiest to me and she could plug it into any of the plugs it will fit in. She said okay, but was clearly a bit skeptical that I wasn’t trying to set her up for something.

That’s how day one went. God only knows how it’s going to go from here, but I’m pretty sure this is going to get me out of God’s doghouse.

Jayman
Email: Jayman3768@gmail.com
Twitter: @Jayman_IWS

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In other news, on Saturday Matt-Man interviewed Jayman on I’m With Stupid Podcast. It was light-hearted yet thoughtful and at times deep. We talked about growing up in Arkansas, religion, politics, writing and all kinds of other topics that Matt probed. So, check it out. Matt-Man actually kind of made Jayman sound interesting.

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