One thing I like about guest-blogging here while Kevin is gone is that I get to be far more gossipy and tacky than I ever am at WILLisms.com. In that spirit...
The ever-classy Tara Reid has a new show on the E! network, called Taradise. She roams around the world, getting wasted and exploring fabulous locations.
The network bills it (probably mockingly) as a way to improve international relations:

If America has an image problem in the world, Tara Reid is part of the reason, not part of the cure. Especially with nights out like these, with her drinking buddy Paris Hilton (don't worry, nothing is popping out of her shirt, but I do warn you that supreme trashiness is ahead):
Just for reference, Tara Reid turns 30 later this year.



Larger versions can be found here (it is a work-safe site, but there is some adult language).
In my international travels, I have tried to get to the bottom of why some people in the world dislike Americans and American culture. It usually has less to do with American policy than you might think. One of the common threads, meanwhile, is that "Americans drink to get drunk."
Tara Reid, ambassador to the world.
Will Franklin blogs at WILLisms.com.



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Great.We could sen... (Below threshold)1. Posted by joe | August 17, 2005 3:08 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Great.
We could send her to Saudi Arabia and see what happens.
1. Posted by joe | August 17, 2005 3:08 PM |
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Posted on August 17, 2005 15:08
2. Posted by Mary Katharine | August 17, 2005 3:14 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
As the girls at Go Fug Yourself (celeb/fashion blog) put it:
"... when your behavior and appearance makes Paris Hilton look like Grace Kelly, something has gone horribly, horribly wrong."
2. Posted by Mary Katharine | August 17, 2005 3:14 PM |
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Posted on August 17, 2005 15:14
3. Posted by joe | August 17, 2005 3:35 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Wait--better idea. Send her to noted party spot of the world, Pyongyang.
3. Posted by joe | August 17, 2005 3:35 PM |
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Posted on August 17, 2005 15:35
4. Posted by ClobberGirl | August 17, 2005 4:04 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Eric D. Snider on Tara Reid in Alone in the Dark:
You know "Alone in the Dark" is going to be bad just by looking at the cast list. Tara Reid as a museum curator/archeologist? Who do they think they're kidding? The only role she's equipped to play is that of a drunken whore, which she does regularly in the tabloids and on "Inside Edition." Anything smarter or classier than that is a stretch for her.
So true, so true.
4. Posted by ClobberGirl | August 17, 2005 4:04 PM |
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Posted on August 17, 2005 16:04
5. Posted by fatman | August 17, 2005 4:16 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
You know, I used to think Tara Reid was kind of cute, at least until she got the boob job. Trouble with a capital T, but cute.
Now she's just trouble.
5. Posted by fatman | August 17, 2005 4:16 PM |
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Posted on August 17, 2005 16:16
6. Posted by AnonymousDrivel | August 17, 2005 4:25 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
fatman, I was thinking that same t-thing about Paris. What an utter waste. Kinda' like a younger/slimmer Anna Nicole Smith. Why oh why do we have to suffer their celebrity and their high-minded intellect? Just a coupla' boobs, I tells ya'... nothing more.
6. Posted by AnonymousDrivel | August 17, 2005 4:25 PM |
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Posted on August 17, 2005 16:25
7. Posted by Jewels | August 17, 2005 4:36 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Dude, I'm telling Kevin you called his blog gossipy and tacky.
yikes. I question the patriotism of drunk girls with tacky skirts and very little underwear.
7. Posted by Jewels | August 17, 2005 4:36 PM |
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Posted on August 17, 2005 16:36
8. Posted by wavemaker | August 17, 2005 4:44 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I hesitate to say it, but I think she's so trashed even Paris wants to get away from her.
And what's with the mini-van? Can't Paris afford a limo?
8. Posted by wavemaker | August 17, 2005 4:44 PM |
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Posted on August 17, 2005 16:44
9. Posted by Cardinals Nation | August 17, 2005 5:03 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
What a glowing testiment to the "liberation" of the American woman.
9. Posted by Cardinals Nation | August 17, 2005 5:03 PM |
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Posted on August 17, 2005 17:03
10. Posted by Lew Clark | August 17, 2005 5:30 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
For the sake of full disclosure. Am I the only honest man left in America? There is a time and a place for everything. There is a place for drunken sluts. That place is in bed beside me. Not on national television during prime time!
10. Posted by Lew Clark | August 17, 2005 5:30 PM |
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Posted on August 17, 2005 17:30
11. Posted by capitano | August 17, 2005 5:31 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Maybe she just got typecast early on -- you know, as Bunny:
____________
Bunny Lebowski: I'll suck your cock for a thousand dollars.
Brandt: Ah hahahahaha! Wonderful woman. We're all, we're all very fond of her. Very free-spirited.
Bunny Lebowski: Brandt can't watch, though, or he has to pay a hundred.
Brandt: Ah haha. That's marvelous.
The Dude: Uh, I'm just gonna go find a cash machine.
11. Posted by capitano | August 17, 2005 5:31 PM |
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Posted on August 17, 2005 17:31
12. Posted by mesablue | August 17, 2005 5:42 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Best comment from the site you linked:
I think Tara's ass broke the site.
True dat.
12. Posted by mesablue | August 17, 2005 5:42 PM |
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Posted on August 17, 2005 17:42
13. Posted by Sam Pender | August 17, 2005 9:20 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Two words:
GITMO TORTURE
That makes it all worthwhile
13. Posted by Sam Pender | August 17, 2005 9:20 PM |
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Posted on August 17, 2005 21:20
14. Posted by MacStansbury | August 17, 2005 9:53 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
God bless you, Wizbang Blog.
God bless you, and the work you people do with the animals.
And blondes. Who are drunk. And have breasts. And are drunk.
14. Posted by MacStansbury | August 17, 2005 9:53 PM |
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Posted on August 17, 2005 21:53
15. Posted by moseby | August 18, 2005 12:43 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Tara Reid?
Giggety--giggety!!!
15. Posted by moseby | August 18, 2005 12:43 AM |
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Posted on August 18, 2005 00:43
16. Posted by El-ahrairah | August 18, 2005 1:21 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
What? You mean that this isn't what her function in life is, getting drunk and partying? What else is she going to do?
16. Posted by El-ahrairah | August 18, 2005 1:21 AM |
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Posted on August 18, 2005 01:21
17. Posted by -S- | August 18, 2005 2:24 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Taravision? I thought it was the reenactment of DRUNK GIRL.
17. Posted by -S- | August 18, 2005 2:24 AM |
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Posted on August 18, 2005 02:24
18. Posted by -S- | August 18, 2005 2:27 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
(Not you, Will on Wizbang, but the episodic DRUNKGIRLVISION -- utter oxymoron, I realize [not you, Will on Wizbang, but DRUNKGIRLVISION].)
18. Posted by -S- | August 18, 2005 2:27 AM |
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Posted on August 18, 2005 02:27
19. Posted by DavidB | August 18, 2005 3:50 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
The term "ugly american" did not come from our foreign policy. It came from the crap that Americans do while on vacation/holiday/whatever you call it.
I can't tell you the number of times I have been in a foreign country and have seen the worst sort of behavior from Americans.
My favorite was the Fat Texan in Heathrow Airport, yes complete with Ten Gallon Hat, Boots, Levi Jeans and the drawl. Bitching at the poor lady who was taking his cash at the cost of the coffee! He bellowed something along the line of, "In Texas this cup of coffee would only cost $.50, this is a ripoff!" She took the cup out of his hand and told him he should go to Texas to get it then.
19. Posted by DavidB | August 18, 2005 3:50 PM |
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Posted on August 18, 2005 15:50
20. Posted by jini | August 20, 2005 8:12 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
crab
20. Posted by jini | August 20, 2005 8:12 PM |
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Posted on August 20, 2005 20:12
21. Posted by Justin Johnson | September 13, 2006 1:09 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Hello Tara,
I love seeing you in magazines. I just got back from my second tour in Iraq and both times, I have had every picture that I could get my hands on of you on the walls beside my bed. I think that you are the most beautiful woman on this planet. You are an angel from above. Just wanted to let you know that you keep us going. Hope to talk to you!!
Spc Justin
21. Posted by Justin Johnson | September 13, 2006 1:09 PM |
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Posted on September 13, 2006 13:09