che peccato

isn't this just darling? nicole "snookie" polizzi looked less like an oompa loompa and more like a turd in this glamour shot booking photograph taken in july, after her arrest in seaside heights, nj. disorderly conduct and creating a public nuisance for her trashy CHILEAN, drunken antics were the charges. i would say i am anxiously awaiting her courtroom breakdown and subsequent jail sentence in the fashion of lindsay lohan; however, it seems that her court date in september can lead to nothing more than $500 in fines. and let's face it, those guidos and guidettes are probably wiping their tanned asses with that kind of change these days ($30,000 per episode, to be exact).

also, i have just caught on to the fact that MTV italia actually purchased the rights to first season of the jersey shore, and began airing the episodes in italy on march 22nd. i haven't been able to find any info on how it's been received there, so i'm incredibly curious. i can only imagine that if it's anything like how my mamma lena reacted, it won't be pretty. but it's only natural for italian-americans to be up in arms over this misrepresentation; i myself, with parents right off the boat from ellis island, concur. ironic that our first impressions were of how they are giving real italians a bad name, yet when evaluating these turned tables, i imagine they will now shed some light in general on just how moronic young americans have become. or perhaps not; perhaps this will be just as much of a phenomenon in the old country. non lo so.

but i will admit, there is one thing i can relate to and that is, welp, the jersey shore itself. it is here where i spent the majority of my summer vacations as a child (late 80s-mid 90s). i'm sorry all of you hardcore new englanders: yes, i did grow up in connecticut, but the vicinity of the jersey shore is undeniable, as was the fact that i have multiple relatives that reside in long island. and yes, one of these cousins IS named luigi, and yes he does have a sister named gloria and a witchy grandmother who wears all black and yes we did spend summer days watching soccer and canning tomato sauce and and swimming in polluted ocean water. but in my own defense, ocean city is a dry town, wildwood was just a barrel of amusements and frankly, at the time i was interested in nothing more than sea shells, fried clam strips and miniature golf. so there.