Y'all, I watched the whole oprah, and Kirstie Alley has developed her own weight loss system. She plans to lose a whole bunch of weight by November, then come back on Oprah's show and hawk her new diet plan.

@Flackette Goes Retro: According to my hair stylist, Jen A is the poster girl for preventative botoxing.

@rednrowdy: I had a dress like that too, and I always felt like it was about 3 inches too short — not too short as in I'm about to flash, but as in the proportions of a shirt dress are such that it ought to hit my knees. Every time I wore it I spent the whole day tugging it down. But hers looks just the length of…

@cate3710: Actually, it was the guy who plays Adam, who I just looked up and is an actor called AJ Buckley. But I don't remember where I saw the thing that they were dating. It looks like that could be him, no?

I believe her gentleman friend is an actor who plays one of the lab guys on CSI:NY (I am not recognizing him on sight; I read it somewheres). Perhaps she has been moonlighting on his show as a corpse with her throat slashed, and that's why she is covering up with a pink throat warmer.

Many years ago when I subscribed to Vogue I got a bag that looked like the picture on my subscription postcard, but it was 5x7 inches! I gave it to my god-daughter and she put her polly pocket doll (one doll) in it.

I am a lady agog.

I've been pestering the fug girls for weeks to get on this grandma pink lipstick thing, because lots of celebs have been doing it and someone with some power needs to nip it in the bud. It's just not bugging them, they say, so how about a grass-roots movement that starts right here, right now? What we need is a good…

@hortense:

@Big_Noise_From_Winnetka: The show she's on is not the British version of American Idol. That (is it Pop Idol?) is where Leona Lewis came from, and is similar to AmId in its age restrictions and young pretty singers. The show Susan Boyle is on — and that Paul Potts was on — is a different talent show, with no age…

@NefariousNewt: "Incenting" is commonly used jargon in policy wonk type circles. It's totally annoying, but common. By using it, he's definitely signalling that he's in the know. Actually, even "incentivize" is a relatively recent (maybe 1970's) back-formation business jargon term that makes my English teacher parents…

Once again, Flight of the Conchords has got it all over Esquire. As in, "Who's the man? What's a man? Why is it so hard to be a man? Am I a man? Yes, technically."

You know what must be really odd looking? whatever both she and they are looking at out of frame. because if it is enough to draw attention away from that and those, then yowza.

I know a gay couple whose army-wife surrogate will be delivering their twins at a military hospital in a few weeks. The kicker: the hospital provides a room for 2 nights for the expecting fathers to stay in while their babies are being born. Not sure how that works, but our big joke is that the whole thing is an…

@eadubbs: I own exactly three movies on dvd, and that is one of them. "chin up, young person" is kind of my secret inner mantra.

I know it's not exactly a new book, but I just finished reading A Thousand Splendid Suns, which is about two abused women in modern Afghanistan. One of the characters is named Mariam, which just made me come up short reading this post. Anyway, it's really really good, and really vividly informative about women's lives…

And if anyone wants to see more behind-the-scenes fashion stuff, the BEST fashion documentary I've ever seen was on as a tv series about a year or so ago on the sundance channel, I think, about lagerfeld & co. getting ready for a chanel show. Extensive interviews with the amazing seamstresses, a trip out to the…

Sssh, don't anybody tell that awful woman who is gwyneth and madonna's trainer — I think Michelle Obama has been violating her number one ladies' training rule and using more than 3 pound weights. The horror.

@lucystrawberry actually *is* that into you: yes! That photo is exactly what I thought of when I read that the pupster died. I'm sure he's got lots of pictures of his dog, but that's a keeper, and in hindsight how great is it that they got it taken and published at what turns out to be just under the wire.

I read that article this morning and didn't think it was a baby boomer, generational issue at all. It's educated urbanites of all ages. I've got friends in their 20s who have expressed really similar things — not the tuna fish sandwich dreams so much, but along the lines of "he could totally be someone I went to law…