Best Comment of the Day, in response to Valentino In Vogue: Models With Ennui Playing Invisible Croquet: "Tyra would be pissed that none of them were smiling with their eyes." We say: because Tyra's smiling eyes can penetrate even the thickest leather purse! • Worst, in response to MagHag: "I hate when a crumb…
"...This is a real paradox for me: My entire life I've been told I wasn't pretty enough. My entire life I was told by people that I was ugly, that I was too tall, that I was flat-chested, that I was this, that I was that. When I was a stripper I was never quite pretty enough. I was never one of the beautiful girls. I…
Okay people, it's not puppytime just yet. There's been a series of anti-abortion mishaps out west this month. On December 6 in Albuquerque, abortion provider Dr. Curtis Boyd's clinic was destroyed by arsonists, reports the New York Times. This past Tuesday, two other abortion centers in the New Mexico city were…
No really, why? There's this review of a show called "Pricked: Extreme Embroidery" (part of a series of exhibitions that included "Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting") at the Museum of Arts and Design in today's New York Times, and the first line of the piece is: "In the '70s, artists who swapped their paintbrushes…
Writer and Sexist of the Year Tad Safran, who has spent the past month insulting both British and American women (and in some cases, American women playing British women, like Renee Zellweger in Bridget Jones), is ostensibly the subject of a column in today's Daily Mail called The Man Who Called British Women 'Ugly'…
In an industry where corporate loyalty has gone the way of the dodo, Susan L. Taylor has been synonymous with the Essence brand since the magazine's launch in 1970. Today, the NY Times reports that Ms. Taylor is stepping down from her post as publications director (she held that title for 7 years; she was…
Baltimore contractor C. J. O'Brien rigged up a device back in 1934 that sounded a pistol alarm when disturbed in order to catch his spendthrift wife red-handed when she picked his pockets. She probably wanted to blow all his money on hats anyway! [Modern Mechanix]
Most psuedo-intellectual college age girls who fancy themselves writers will, at some point, worship at the altar of Didion (or maybe that was just me and all my poseur friends!). [No, it wasn't just you. -Ed.] Anyway, in today's Washington Post, resident book critic Jonathan Yardley discusses his "on-and-off love…
Best Comment of the Day, in response to Girl Power: "Who are they fooling? They just want her to get a man because he'll have to get with her friends too." We say: we thought the Spices made their position on group sex clear back in 1996: It's 2 become 1, y'all. • Worst, in response to The Real Beasts At Zoos Are Not…
Tis the holiday season, and what better time to discuss un-immaculate conceptions, uneaten Christmas hams and unloved, adorable babies in the manger? That's right kiddies, it's Midweek Madness again, and this week the tabs are all still talking about Jamie Lynn Spears. (She made the cover of Us and Life & Style.)…
Two new studies show that the average citizen is starting to get on the pro-environment bandwagon. Market research firm KPMG found that 88% of holiday shoppers describe themselves as "very concerned" about the environment. According to MediaPost, "74% say they buy environmentally friendly products, 60% say they are…
Today's NY Times includes a list of the most
notable deaths from the past year, and while women only constitute about 17% of the list, what they lack in numbers the ladies mentioned make up for in spunk and glitter. The Jezeverse is considerably less festive now that Slut Machine's favorite televised trainwreck, Anna…
Best Comment of the Day, in response to Why The Fuck Are You Working Today?: "We just hired this girl who texted our boss (who is in her early 60's) this morning to see if she wanted coffee. My boss flipped her wig! It was the first text message she received in her life. She thought the cell phone company was asking…
[St. Barth, French West Indies; December 25. Image via INF.]
[December 22, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Image via Bauer-Griffin.]
In the September issue of British Cosmo, the magazine allowed a multi-millionaire bachelor named Robin MacDonald to write what basically amounted to a singles ad saying he was "desperately searching for the perfect woman to share the medieval castle in Staffordshire he called home." The magazine then went on to host…
In today's Huffington Post, former ABC News anchor/blogger Heather Cabot is feeling guilty because she confused some kid's nanny with his actual mother. In short: Heather and a blond caretaker bonded at the local gymborama or whatever. They made a playdate. Then Heather spotted the same child with a tall brunette…
Skankiness runs in the family! British "model" Jordan's little sister Sophia (pictured) has started posing nude, just like her big sis. I bet their mum is so proud! • Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox spent Christmas together. Friends foreveerrrrrrrr. • The Hills resident evildoer Spencer Pratt served homeless people…
It's not just you! The polls are in, and this Christmas was officially a disappointment. Sales were "bleak", the streets were violent, and in the U.K. a man stuffed his wife's dead body under the tree before killing himself. Uplifting! So here's a news tidbit to be thankful for: in Los Angeles, a "beefy" dude wearing…
