As any man can tell you, there’s such a thing as “too soon.” In 2004, while I was working at Lehman Brothers, a colleague introduced me to a bartending artist who specialized in portraits of his bar’s customers. The artist also did a huge, action-packed painting of the traders on the floor of the New…
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Thursday Book Club: Author Randy Shilts
If you’re anything like me, there was only one possible reaction to Senator Dianne Feinstein’s opening remarks at the inaugural ceremony last week: Get me the names of her doctor and hair stylist! CLICK FOR VIDEO. Dianne is 75, people. Seventy-five! And she looks great. Clearly, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and President Obama…
Better to Have Loved and Lost
Why didn’t you bitches tell me that my 60-year-old, African-American identical twin was on Jimmy Kimmel Live? I would have skipped a Law & Order rerun or ten to check out security guard Veatrice Rice, whom I discovered only after she died of cancer. Someday, I hope to be remembered as Jimmy remembers Veatrice while…
Online Shopping Sadness at eLuxury
WWD is reporting that eLuxury.com is shutting down the retail part of the site over the next six months and will continue as an online magazine. Oh noes! I love that site. The spokeswoman at LVMH, which owns eLuxury, apparently took a hit off her bong and, while exhaling, claimed that the closure is “not…
I Am the Fashion Blogger of the People
The late Tip O’Neill, a longtime Speaker of the House, once said, “All politics is local.” And I am the local representative for all you bloggers and lurkers in this small corner of the blogosphere. I come here every day, including weekends, and do my very best to make you laugh soda out your nose…
Happy Holiday, Goyim!
Every December 25, I get into the holiday spirit by reminiscing about an idiot I knew in my freshman year of college. This self-described born-again Christian once went into a rant about the secularization of Christmas as symbolized by the use of “Xmas.” She thought that evil secular people had X’d the “Christ” out of…
The Great Pink Hype
Guess what! Daddy-funded, 16-year-old fashion “designer” Kira Plastinina will close most of her 12 U.S. stores due to poor demand and the craptastic economy. Now can I stop hearing about her “talent”? An obsession with pink is not “talent.” Kthxbai. UPDATED TO ADD: A few words from Shophound.
I Don’t Want Your Charity
I’m putting my foot down. I’m tired of people giving to a charity in someone else’s name in lieu of a holiday gift. It’s so damn smug, like we benighted souls would never think of giving if these saints didn’t light the way with their powerful sunbeams of goodness. Naturally, these gifts are never to…
WendyB in the New York Times
Click the image below to enlarge, then look in the lower left corner of the page for the Committee to Protect Journalists party. There I am in picture No. 15 in glorious black and white. Right under me, in No. 17, you’ll see gorgeous client Melissa, who was my guest that night, with MrB and…
Important Stuff. Also, Dresses.
MrB is the chairman of the most amazing organization called the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). You have to click that link and do some reading, because I can’t begin to describe what people in other countries go through to tell the truth. It really offends me when U.S. citizens whine about how they’re suffering…