Killing Us Weekly

Doug and Chase discuss “taking it and turning it”: the act of taking the ordinary date or get together and turning it into something unexpected or new. The key is being spontaneous without making spontaneity its own vice or end in itself. Topics include:Jay Frosting’s Us Weekly DigestKilling Us Softly, a movie series on the depiction of women in advertising.Natural’s Not in It, on the conservative interest in the paleo diet.Metafilter thread on the cultural cross-pollination between paleo, Crossfit, P90X, and libertarianism.HowAboutWeAsk the English Teacher: Beer or Beers?.Your Hosts: Douglas Dollars and Chase Nordengren. Follow Dear Blank on Twitter! Rate us in iTunes!.Your Theme: Seeking, off the album Love Story by Monk Turner.