Sometimes, it’s not enough to make your own fab entrance at a Halloween Party; you and your whole crew need to be noticed. On the other hand, sometimes your crazy costume idea is so unique that nobody will get it… unless your faves are by your side to complete the picture. Want to make the biggest splash this Halloween (and have some killer bonding time with your buds as you shop, create, and play dress up)? Here are just a few ideas for some great group costumes. And most of them can be done on a budget!

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I’m slowly coming to terms with the fact that my liking a show is essentially its kiss of death (so I hope no one is getting too deeply in to Gossip Girl, ‘cause I love those rich bitches). As soon as I really get into a show, it either gets canceled or goes the way of the Hindenburg, quality wise.

In middle school (okay, high school) I started watching Dawson’s Creek around the beginning of the fourth season when Pacey and Joey got together. They had such chemistry and Joshua Jackson was such a sexy little cupcake of a man.

Then, as if the WB knew that I was enjoying the storyline, Pacey and Joey broke up and Joey went off to boring college, got a boring roommate and dated a boring, creepy professor. And, worst of all, Pacey got a goatee.

Anyway, don’t get me started on Carnivale, My So-Called Life, Arrested Development, Freaks and Geeks, Buffy and Daria. All amazing shows that caught wind that I was ardently watching and loving and got almost immediately canceled or started sucking (the sucking part is, of course, highly subjective, but did anyone really enjoy whiny little sister Dawn? or Tom, the ruiner of one of the best friendships in TV history?)

The one that hurts the most, however, is Veronica Mars. I watched the first two, transcendently awesome seasons on DVD right before the third season premiered on the new CW network. I had never seen a female character quite like Veronica: so smart, so witty, so kick-ass, sassy, no nonsense, flawed, complex–she was pretty much my hero on celluloid. It was, without question, my very favorite show and I Could. Not. Wait for season three. Read More »

Our generation has been called a lot of things. Lazy. Fame obsessed. Narcissistic. Unmotivated. Oversexed. Why haven’t you Twenty-Something’s moved out of your parents’ house yet? The general consensus seems to be. Why are your parents still giving your money? Stop watching reality TV and and get a real job!

Instead of pushing against the unfocused, immature stereotype so much of the older generation is trying to box us into, “Quarterlife” a new MySpace web show (soon to be a real NBC show) plays right into their frustrated hands.

Produced by “the creative minds behind My So-Called Life”, “Quarterlife” follows 6 white kids in their twenties, most of whom consider themselves some type of artsy bohemian. In weekly, 10-minute installations, the characters on “Quarterlife” walk around plugged into their iPods and deal with, you know, issues. Sexual tension, boredom, sexual frustration, confusion, sexual discontent…everyone’s so like, conflicted. So like, unsure. Happiness is fleeting, and nothing makes like, any sense at all. Read More »