Janis had struggled badly with acne as a teen and had scars from it. She had been overweight in high-school and suffered greatly in the tiny, provincial community of her Port Arthur, TX, hometown. She invented the loud, trashy, hyper-sexual broad persona when she was in high-school, as a kind of protective armor, a…

Cheer up, hon. I have a feeling things are on the mend for you.

To say nothing of Bushwick Bill getting shot in the eye.. Today rappers are gigantic pussies. Is Drake even a rapper? In any case, he is weak. WEAK-SAUCE!

There is something about her that gives off the signs of a psychopathic personality. A flatness of affect, something lacking behind her eyes. Even when she smiles it’s a little off. This has nothing to do with her guilt or lack thereof; she just gives me the willies. Knox might be that unfortunate person who, despite…

My money for Angie’s billionaire is on Larry Ellison.

The imbecile is taunting the Feds, basically going, “Come and get me if you can!” Bad move.

Score for you! I am a serious thrift hound and came across treasures over the years—but Chanel bags (plural!) does sound too much like a unicorn. My favorite finds have been weird Japanese designer stuff—Comme des Garcons, Yoji Yamamoto, and a pair of Ann Demuelemeester lace-up combat boots.

I never bought her Nasty Gal genesis tale, that she found two Chanel bags in a thrift store for $4 a piece, sold them on eBay for $5,000 each and invested the proceeds to start her eBay retail business. Uh-huh. And I once found a draft of the Declaration of Independence in a thrift store.

He might be German from Germany. A lot of Huguenots (French Protestants) immigrated to Germany after the Night of St. Bartholomew Massacre, and to this day their descendants have ridiculously French names.

“Love is a dog from hell.” —Bukowski

Your comment reminded me of a great T-shirt I once got my brother: “Chuck Norris never sleeps. He waits.”

She wiggled her bum in American Sign Language, naturally.

I wanna see the receipts for the provenance of that diamond. I don’t expect these crass parvenus to have a conscience about blood diamonds but they are PR-savvy so they know normal people are grossed out by this kind of obscene opulence. Gross.

I salute your insouciant take on this. Humor is our only weapon against the Kardashian tsunami o’ crap.

Not sadism, more like the writer defaulted to feeble snark because that’s the easiest way to write up anything. Tumbleweeds, they are a-blowing here on weekends..

It’s more about Lohan’s current Zeitgeist status. The poor thing has become a literal joke. I’m afraid there’s no second act after that.. Who knows?

My rhetorical question: Has she completed her arc of Greek tragedy fall from grace, or are we still mid-sinking? Somehow I feel this is worse than her arrests days. At least back then she was struggling with addiction, she is apparently sober these days.

They just had a failed coup in Turkey a month or so ago, the country is currently going through.. stuff. Would you be amenable to switching Turkey for either the Amalfi or the Aegean coasts in your fantasy? Both are lovely, I hear.

You got it, it’s “ah-MOHN” for male version, “ah-MAHNT” for the female version.

The French, ever so tactful in their play outside the marriage lines, go with “amant/amante,” which in English is the fortuitously gender-neutral “lover.” Although to be honest “maîtresse” (mistress) is also used colloquially.