Skinny jeans. Really skinny jeans.

There is not much commentary that needs to accompany this picture I managed to snap in Hollywood other than a. These are unquestionably the skinniest legs on a man I have ever seen and b. If you did in fact have legs of such a shockingly small circumference, why would you choose black (a naturally slimming color) skinny jeans?

Now that I'm on the topic of jeans, I need to express a little of the culture shock I have experienced since living in LA this summer. I have to say that though it was not easy, I had just begun to adjust to the commonality of boys in Wranglers (see photo below) since my move to Austin, Texas in 2006. This alone probably deserves its own blog post, but I'll save that for a rainy day. Very quickly, I want to pose the question of how a place roughly 1,300 miles from another can yield such a different style of pant?

Lastly, being a frequenter of this style of jean myself, I was a bit startled a few weeks back when discovering that a condition known as "tingling thigh syndrome" exists. CNN claims this nerve condition can happen when constant pressure — in this case, from the skin-tight denim — cuts off the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve, causing a numb, tingling or burning sensation along the thigh. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30870617/

Maybe Wranglers aren't so bad after all...

*Side-note- This photo was taken the morning after one of my roommates sleepovers sophomore year. How the jeans resulted in this position is an unsolved mystery,

Slow it down buddy!

Eating contests, in general, tend to really freak me out. Perhaps it was the milk chugging contest on the Real World Road Rules Challenge I saw as a preteen that really turned me away from such activities. The thought of ingesting 25 hotdogs to prove personal worth is a little far-fetched and puzzling, but maybe that's just me.  The world record to date is 59 franks in 12 minutes, which is held by Joey Chestnutt of San Jose. This astounding feat was accomplished at the Southwest Regional Hot Dog Eating Championship in 2007. Who knew that competitive eating contests had such esteemed titles? Southwest Regional? Does this mean only residents of the southwest region can participate? I never knew of such exclusivity.

Another question, at what point do you decide that you will begin training to win hot dog eating contests? Is it like running a marathon? Slowly working up from 20 to 30 to 40 dogs as the big day nears?  I guarantee Joey is an all-star at playing Chubby Bunny, [which is an event that will most definitely be included in me and my roommates' summer field day games.]

Side note: If you're in Austin this summer..get excited. We're talking potato sack races, egg on a spoon,and 3-legged races. With booze.