Archive for March, 2009

Do I Wanna Take My Picture…

March 19, 2009 · Filed under Advice · Tagged ,

Has this ever happened to you? You put up a totally awesome Facebook pic—one that makes you look completely hot and/or hysterically funny (bonus points if it does both!)—leave it up for a few weeks and then begin to tire of it. But when you go to replace it, you’re left without options. Topping such a fantastic picture is out of the question, which means putting up a standard shot of yourself looking great, but the new photo well is dry. There are always the standbys; the pics you keep in your profile pic album to re-post on just such a proverbially rainy day, but while going green is never out of style, recycling pics is l-a-m-e.

There’s only one choice: take a picture of yourself and post it. We know what you’re thinking, dear reader(s): SO not cool! Taking your own pic for the sake of profile photo updating is not just sad, it’s something only total online a-holes do! Lucky for you, it’s not our first time at the D-bag rodeo and we have a couple of tricks up our sleeves to help you snap your own awesome pic without becoming a social networking site statistic.  

1. Set up a photo sesh: This one requires a little acting talent on your behalf, but the results speak for themselves. Make yourself look great before running your daily errands/going to the office/etc. Then, select a spot that looks like a good backdrop (a nearby park, a well-landscaped Starbucks parking lot, a Taco Bell booth) and bring out the camera. Do your Sacha Baron Cohen character impression and ask someone sitting near you to take your picture. The broken English will lead them to assume you’re a tourist, making this much less weird. Say “fromage” and let them snap the shot. 

2. Bring the party to you: No one can resist a party…even if the invite’s last minute. So pull together your emergency alcohol stash (this counts as just as much an emergency as learning your ex is getting married, so feel free to stop saving it for THAT rainy day) and send out an email. Invite your friends over for a mid-week happy hour. Throw some cocktail nuts on your coffee table and be sure to have fresh batteries in the camera. Get a pic with every one of your guests and be sure to display a wide range of facial expressions. This will provide you with options when it comes time to select a shot. Also, if the guest you’re sitting with isn’t the most photogenic, sit just far enough away that you can crop them out. Don’t feel badly about this: It’s not personal, it’s FB business.

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Twits and Giggles

March 18, 2009 · Filed under Celebs, Gossip, Trends · Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Our job here at ATM is to stay on top of the trends. Nay, START the trends. Which is why we’ve been Twittering for as long as we can remember. According to our Twitter account, that’s 247 days. (We might wanna see a doctor about that.) Our love for the best social networking site since Facebook (BURN, MySpace!) grows with each follower we receive and each followee we, er, follow. And while originally our favorite usage for the site was to keep in touch with you, dear reader(s), we’ve abandoned that kind of Kumbaya mentality for a better usage: keeping up with the stars!

Never have celebs been more accessible! We can keep track of Taylor Swift’s whereabouts (yesterday, she spontaneously packed her bags and headed off to Vegas!), monitor Demi Lovato’s budding career (she met her idol Kelly Clarkson this week!) and feel like we’re part of Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore’s relationship as we read their flirtatious banter (which, creepily, also includes comments from John Mayer). 

We should also mention that several celebs are following us. Dakota Fanning AND her sister both sent us follow requests, as did the biggest celebrity of them all. (No, not Oprah.) OBAMA! That’s right…the big kahuna himself sent us a follow request. Needless to say it was an exciting day in the office when we got that email! (Almost more exciting than the day we got an advanced screener of the Jonas Brothers 3D movie. Which was made less exciting by our lack of 3D glasses. We hear Nick’s dimples look like the Grand Canyon!)

But all this celeb Tweeting got us thinking. Why is it that none of the stars respond to us? We asked Taylor if she was excited about her spontaneous jaunt to Sin City. Nothing. We told John Mayer his idea for a Man vs. Clams show on Food Network sounded dirty. Nothing!  We even asked Soup host (and Co-Creator A crush) Joel McHale when he would be performing in Atlanta. Not a word!

And while we understand that big time celebs can’t take time out of their busy Tweeting/awesome-being lives, we’ve also noticed that for every People Magazine cover-worthy star on Twitter, there are about a hundred that don’t even warrant a mention in the People Magazine crossword puzzle. And what hurts the most? They won’t even respond to us! MC Hammer, Debbie—sorry, Deborah—Gibson, and of course, Twitter-fiend Solange Knowles (seriously, how does she raise a child when she spends ALL of her time typing misspelled, difficult to understand Tweets?! “Stranded at Quiznos sammich shop…let my housekeeper run an errand…she claims she’s very lost…she gone be ‘very lost’ once I get to her.”)…not one of them will respond to our Tweets!

But, as with all things, we’ve decided it’s best to look on the bright side. Twitter might not be the best avenue for a chat with the stars, but it’s the best insight we have into their minds. Now we just have to hope that RPatz starts Tweeting (we’d love to get inside his pants, er, mind). And that Giuliana from E! stops telling us that coffee will make us fat. Please, G, that’s a small price to pay for curing our hangovers.

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What Not To Do Today

March 17, 2009 · Filed under Advice, What Not To Do Today · Tagged , ,

Don’t eat a Hannah Montana granola bar before going out tonight in hopes that it will help you meet an older, questionably gay male model. In reality, all it will do is make you throw up all that green beer you’re going to drink and make you look like Linda Blair in The Exorcist.

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When Irish Celebs Are Smiling…

March 17, 2009 · Filed under Uncategorized


Hey there ATM lover(s)! We’re sorry that this post is coming to you so late, but we had green eggs and ham at the office this morning, which led to a healthy green salad, which led to a healthy dose of green beer. Needless to say, we’re a little tipsy (and very full!). But, we know that you can’t properly start your mid-week drinking without a shot of ATM and thus, we put together this St. Patty’s-inspired post for you and your clansmen. Set aside your corned beef and hash and dance a jig…here we go!


Today, in honor of St. Patrick’s Day, we have decided to salute those celebs blessed with the luck of the Irish this year. These stars have some serious leprechaun blood in em, and for that, we raise our glass of Irish whiskey and say “cheers!”

Mariah Carey: Just when you thought she couldn’t make it bigger, the half Irish songstress married a man half her age…who just happens to be a music video director in his down-time. What luck!

Owen Wilson: While he probably considers Kate Hudson his pot of gold, we think Owen’s lucky to be alive these days! And he had a huge number one flick at Christmas to boot!

Tom Brady: Sure he’s easy on the eyes and a decent football player (or so we’re told), but this guy wouldn’t make many headlines if he hadn’t dumped one super model (Bridget Monahan) for an even hotter less pregnant one: Giselle Bundchen. He and the Victoria’s Secret angel got married last week. (But don’t fret, boys, if history is any guide, he’ll break up with her as soon as he knocks her up!)

Jessica Biel: One of the dullest doorknobs on the planet, this plain Jane bagged herself one of the hottest men on the planet: Justin Timberlake. If that didn’t require some serious Irish luck, we don’t know does! And now rumors say that she’s going to start singing. It will take more than a couple rounds of Guiness to make us listen to that!

Charlie Sheen: This guy MUST be 100 percent Irish. Nothing about him should be famous and yet, he’s got it all! Top-rated sitcom, check. Series of relationships with relatively hot Hollywood ladies (Heidi Fleiss’ girls not included), check.  Successful(?) t-shirt line, check. Not to mention, he’s one of the only guys in Tinseltown with babies with normal names! (Though unlucky for them, when they end up in a class with kids named Knox, Pilot Inspektor and Zuma, they’re bound to get the crap kicked out of them.)

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I’m Just Mad About Twilight…

March 16, 2009 · Filed under Celebs, special events · Tagged , , , , ,

As some of you may know, faithful reader(s), this weekend was to be a banner one. Sure sure, we had a great time with pre-St. Patty’s Day festivities and general merriment, but the real excitement stemmed from what was to be an epic Sunday evening. According to several reliable Internet sources, Sunday was the official release date of the Twilight board game. (If you didn’t already know about it, you’re welcome.) We couldn’t think of a better way to combine two of our favorite passions: game night and Twilight. Throw in our third passion—alcohol—and you’ve got what could be the best drinking game since the Twilight movie drinking game! (Note: the board game is recommended for ages 10 and up. Drinking is not.)

So, ever the Twihards, Co-Creators A and M grabbed their Sunday morning tacos, threw on their rain boots (the ATL was looking uncannily like Forks this weekend…clearly somebody up there is a Twilight fan) and headed to Wal-Mart in search of this holy grail of board games. A thorough scouring of the aisle revealed that the game was not in stock. While we were briefly saddened by this revelation, we brightened at the notion that we now had a fantastic excuse for our favorite and most dangerous Sunday afternoon activitiy: a  trip to Target.

With all the anticipation of Bella on the Isle of Esme (we’re not giving anything away with that, new readers!) we headed to our local Target to find, to paraphrase Bono, what we were looking for. And while we did some serious damage to the clothing and home decor departments, we were crestfallen when we arrived in the toy department to the same Twilight-less scene.

Always the instigator, Co-Creator A decided to Twi, Twi, Twi again (sorry, that one made even us cringe) and called every Toys ‘R’ Us within an hour of the metro area. NOTHING! It was like trying to find a Cullen in LaPush! What gives?!

Well dear reader(s), we don’t have an answer for that question. As best we can tell, the delivery date on toysrus.com has been pushed back to March 20, but none of the employees in stores seem able to confirm that. The whole episode has been even more disappointing than Kristen Stewart’s acting skills (BURN, Stewart!!). But never fear, fellow Twi-abetics (we’re so trademarking that one!), we will keep you posted on this mystery. If we have to call every board game selling venue on the eastern seaboard, we will do it, because that’s just how devoted we are to you. And to answering questions about Edward. Mmm, Edward. 

Editors’ Note: If the non-release of the board game left you feeling like Bella was when Sam found her in the woods, don’t fret! DVD release parties are taking place all over the country this Friday/Saturday. The Twi-ly anticipated (we’ll stop now) DVD goes on sale Saturday at 12:01am. If you’re in Atlanta, join us at the Brookhaven Blockbuster for a huge event complete with a blood drive (lock up the non-’vegetarians’) and thousands of your fellow Twihards! Plus, we’ll be handing out a little surprise to some of the best dressed (Alice look out!). Nothing to wear? Rush order your own ATM Twilight shirt!  And if you’re not in the ATL, follow the whole event via Twitter!

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