Chrissy Coleman

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  • Truth in Advertising: More Honest Company Slogans, Mottos, and Claims
    In the interest of upholding truth in advertising and an attempt at humor, I thought I would take a crack at rewriting a few of my favorite corporate slogans, mottos, and claims based on recent Internet news and rumors.
  • Hip Hop Abs: Have Fun and Lose Weight Too!
    Honest review of Hip Hop Abs and the weight loss and fun you can have with it
  • How I Quit Smoking for Good: Living Proof that It's Possible
    I'm the living proof that you can quit smoking for good. All it takes is the kind of dedication that says "no" no matter what excuse or deal your head conjures up to justify a short-term reward.
  • Mother's Day Time Capsules: Capturing Love in a Bottle
    Time capsules capture our memories. In them, we place items that we regard as the best symbols to signify a time period. Years later, when they are unearthed, these objects help make remembrances sharper and past experiences more tangible in our minds.
  • A Child's Lesson in Writing a Personalized Mother's Day Poem
    Personalized poems are a wonderful way for children of all ages to express their creativity and feelings on Mother's Day. Here are teaching suggestions for different age brackets.
  • What to Write in a Mother's Day Card: Tips for the Tongue-Tied
    Knowing what to write on a Mother's Day card can be challenging. Trying this following formula to help you write from the heart on your Mother's Day card
  • U.S. Rice Shortage a Myth
    While lines of super-store consumers stock their overflowing shopping carts with bags of rice and stores limit sales, the U.S. Department of Agriculture released a report this past Monday, April 21, 2008, refuting the notion of a rice shortage in the United States.
  • Comforting Movies for those with Poor Relationships with Their Fathers: Learning from Dysfunctional Movie Dads
    Father's Day for some can be a bittersweet holiday filled with unresolved feelings for fathers who have been less than exemplary role models, but we can learn how to cope from popular stories.
  • Is Barack Obama the Antichrist?
    A growing group of people in the U.S. believe that Presidential hopeful Barack Obama is the antichrist. The top 6 myths bolstering this theory are debunked.
  • How to Be a Terrible Copywriter
    Being a terrible copywriter is super-easy. It only requires attitude--four attitudes to be specific.
  • "Baby Einstein" Videos May Cause Sub-Genius Vocabulary
    Despite being designed for the very purpose of accelerating learning development, children's videos like "Baby Einstein" may cause less-than-genius vocabulary in the children who watch it, according to a study published in the Journal of Pediatrics.
  • How to Create Effective Newsletters
    There are 3 keys to producing effective newsletters to drive traffic and sales: compelling content, design and frequency.
  • A Venice Beach, California Day Trip on Wheels
    Rental cycling along the Venice Beach Boardwalk is lowbrow biking at its best. For less than twenty dollars a mountain bike can be rented from one of the four bike and skate shops located along the Venice Beach Boardwalk between Santa Monica and Marina Del Rey.
  • Culver City, California's Museum of Jurassic Technology
    On a non-descript street in a non-descript section of Culver City, California--a suburb of West Los Angeles--sits the Museum of Jurassic Technology. Bland and ordinary from the outside, once you ring the bell and step inside the world seems to shift a little bit on its axis.
  • Abstinence in the Abbey, My Sex and the City Spinoff
    Sick of TBS re-runs? Try this new spinoff. From the makers of everybody's favorite but now defunct show comes "Abstinence in the Abbey": Four Nuns Sitting Around Talking About Their Bad Habits.
  • War Games: It's All in the Cards
    Either the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) still isn't playing with a full deck, or once again playing cards have hit war zones as psychological tools to hunt for the enemy.
  • Research: MSG May Cause Vision Loss
    Headaches and asthma aside, there's one more reason to keep an eye out for Monosodium glutamate (MSG) - two eyes in fact. Researchers at Hirosaki University in Japan found that too much MSG can make you go blind.
  • Viral Marketing on the Street: Truth in Advertising
    I confided in my friend a wacky notion to help beggars and their signage by becoming sort of a marketing coach. I figured, hey, why not? Just about every piece of communication we get is all about selling us something or referring a friend, so why not them?
  • Drive-Through Tour: Eco-Friendly Windpower in California's San Gorgonio Pass
    The Santa Ana's may be fanning fires, destroying power lines, and littering the streets and hillsides of Los Angeles, but out in the San Gorgonio Pass, this season's strongest gusts are welcome winds.
  • Sit and Deliver
    There's nothing more gratifying than a voracious reader who feels the words he or she is reading aloud. It's like witnessing a temporary bridging of the subjective gap we're all cursed by, if only in small paragraph patches.
  • Reconnaissance
    We met at the corner of Hope and Sixth; not at a coffee shop, but at the intersection of two major downtown streets, beneath the deafening techno blare and green laser lights playing among the trees like a military scanner of the times seeking signs of intelligent life.
  • Happy Endings: Reflections on Toy Dog Culture in Los Angeles
    It's amazing how pets become our heart's mouthpieces, the baby banter reflecting our inner child's sing-songy whine.
  • The Great Paper Chase
    What's the difference between a homeless recycler and a timeless executive? Not much when it's the middle of the night in downtown Los Angeles.
  • Fa La Bella Figura
    A small-town suicide fuels mass hysteria in a small town known only for generational cliques, bad sports and PTA meetings.

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