I actually saw a pic of my Grandma, the then-department store model, sporting a rather chic sheer black dress circa 1920. So cool. #mymomthestyleicon

When I read that Morrissey, the world's most deliciously maudlin depressive, has suffered such a public showing of frailty, it feels so appropriate, so meta, as if it were staged. Like, if I were writing a fictional encounter of his character's life, this would happen.

I'm with whoever said to cut the warm & fuzzy crap— here's how I'd enlightened the subsequent reader:

Apparently I am the only person who has always lived by the maxim "Don't do anything that could come back and severely limit your future choices". Not that I haven't done my share of sex, drugs, et. al., but aside from hearsay, there is very little proof of any of it. I thought this made me smart. Now, I fear, it…

I just love the way these people do their damndest to act out every Italian-NJ-Mob-Family stereotype for the cameras, what with threats and bad grammar and the lot; yet when they are actually confronted with evidence pointing to them as the real deal, suddenly they go from Loudmouth Mob Princesses to Proper British…

Warning: totally harsh, personal comment forthcoming. But only because Ms. Wintour opened the door to let the ice-storm in...

@VeryFancyBunny: Ahh, the bubble gum sales subsidizing the decent fare— a custom to which we have become accustomed (NPI) in music, coming soon to a bookseller near you...

@Wit is periodically disensouled: After admiring the rampant shameless bitchiness of the Times review , I had to re-read the aforementioned sentence for accuracy: were they really holding up Heidi Klum as some sort of Model for hosting (given her warm, engaging uber-dynamic, typically German on-camera chemistry?)

@Jezebabe: Stereotypes? Perhaps. But said stereotypes backed up by hard data. Remember, Kaiser aims to reach a large portion of a community, and therefore must look at what the sociological data says re: the community by and large (in order to do so).

Who drinks Chablis anyway? Doesn't that crap come exclusively in boxes?

I think I can explain this fairly easily. It is actually a brilliant idea, IMHO.

Tameka Raymond, Usher's wife, is now in stable condition after suffering complications during "routine" surgery in Brazil, according to her rep.

Well, they always say men age well, as men grow to look more rugged. Rugged is manly, and therefore desirable on a man.

My bf was stupid enough to fall for this 3 years ago, and I was kind enough to womankind to write a blog post about it entitled: Gift-giving advice for men who want to get laid next year, or some such. Too bad my post didn't reach a wide enough audience— otherwise this PJgram ad would never have made it to the…

My BF calls Lisa Rinna Vagina Lips.

OK, I know Obie is, like, a far better human being than McCain, and Palin is beyooond annoying, but am I the only one who is terrified by the very real prospect that we may be repeating history's mistakes circa the late 70's... by electing Jimmy Carter II?

I read an interview with Spencer once wherein he tried to diminish his douchiness by saying he merely "gave the producers what they wanted". His example of this was the fact that, in the scene where he told Heidi to get out of his car (after she dared not move in with him), once the cameras were done rolling, he had…

Being from SoCal and also loving Zuma Beach, I totally got the Stefani-Baby-name thing; still, I remember the first time I heard the word— a guy I was dating told me to meet him at his parents' beach house at 'Zuma' and my reaction was like WTF kind of name is that for a BEACH in MALIBU?? I realize that we have…

@tranquilmademoiselle:

I live in Huntington Beach/Orange County CA (yes, right next to America's most substantive real housewives), so you can imagine the consignment possibilities. One day my bf announced he was going to buy me a designer bag, so, armed with every pertinent detail about each hot purse du jour, we braved the haute couture…