It’s not any better on the men’s side of the store. I had to buy clothes this past fall/winter (weight loss, yay!), and every single thing was black, gray, or charcoal, and all in sizes that are perfect if you’re maybe 6'4" and weigh 125 pounds. A 40 chest and a 32 waist should not have to mean hoping against hope…

LiLo’s WeRuBo is all of 22, and he looks about 17. Only the legendary Cinnamon Champagne could be not yet 30 and already a cougar. On the other hand, she’s apparently looking not-terrible these days, so maybe things are working for her, for the moment...

I lived in Ghana for a while; the Ashanti who make up a good part of the population are famous for their proverbs - but not, as far as I could tell, ones that were terribly inspirational. They all seemed to be somehow both very vague and, at the same time, very specific to Ashanti life and history. Wise, I suppose,…

An incredible woman. These days, it can be hard to capture just how revered “The Battle Hymn” was for the generations that followed the Civil War - it was taken far more seriously, in my experience of my grandparents and their late Victorian/Edwardian generation, than the national anthem. My grandmother, who was…

The photo freaked me out. For one horrifying moment I thought it was a before-and-after, and that June Shannon had somehow had an unprecedentedly total Extreme Makeover.

So true. I’m frequently Zillowing Palm Springs and its surroundings, as we’re thinking of scoping it out for retirement in a couple of years. Overall the prices don’t seem bad (next to DC), but my God the decorating - I haven’t seen so many French Provincial bedrooms and avocado kitchens since the Ford adminstration...

if they will have kids , imagine what Mama Dina pitch for reality show will be

I must have read that at least twenty times... still... not sure... whaaa...?

Oh, God. I didn’t have a chance to watch that trailer ‘til just now. This doesn’t just look bad, this looks Mommie Dearest-meets-Liz and Dick bad. I saw Simone play (at a dingy little club in the mid- ‘80s; she came on ninety minutes or so late, berated the audience for a while, sat down and played and sang badly for…

In addition to it being genuinely clever and visually witty, I’m rather impressed that on the whole they were very respectful of the model and her actual body - they didn’t give her Chesty Morgan boobs or toothpick limbs, they left her face (aside from the eye reflections) as is, and they made her look (a much as…

He’s kept Ivana quiet all these years, and you know she’s got great dirt. I’m guessing she’s not wanting for much, and good on her for getting paid for putting up with him for so long.

Barbie. As a middle-aged guy, I feel kind of odd about it, but it amuses me, and I suppose I’m getting back at all the times I couldn’t have one when I was a kid.

Aretha is a longtime (now, I believe former) smoker, sometime heavy drinker, and survivor of multiple health issues and crises. What her voice is is no longer consistent, which is no surprise. Sometimes, she’s in only middling voice (that Letterman “Rolling in the Deep”) and sometimes she’s almost the Aretha of yore…

He looks like a guy hired to play Michael Bluth in a porn parody of Arrested Development. 4/10, would not do.

Me too. I’m getting to the point where I might need to stop with any news for a bit.

I was put into a speed-reading class in something like fifth grade (may have been sixth. It started because I kept getting pulled from class for speech therapy - I had a hesitation and, mortifyingly, a lisp - and eventually since it was going to be a regular thing, they needed something to do with me (and a couple of…

But what would the username be? BarbieQ?

She’s got work on her hands to equal Carol Channing, who managed to bring an indescribable tenderness to an otherwise brassy role.

While other royals like Anne and Sophie work their arses off and no one pays any attention to them.

Because I value my sanity, there is no way in hell I’m going to watch this, so I’ll ask those braver than I: after delivering this little gem, did she pause for just a moment and then flash that horrifying mirthless smile that threatens to reveal, for a millisecond, that she’s in fact one of the aliens from They Live?