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Valentine’s Day Countdown, Day 5: Super Bowl Ring

February 5, 2012 by WendyB

I hear there’s some big sporting event today that involves jewelry, guys in tight pants … and  Madonna. Ha! I’ve always thought that football had homoerotic undertones. Clearly, everyone’s about to come out of the closet en masse, as I first anticipated in October. I’m going to celebrate this happy occasion by offering a serious…

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Filed Under: health, holiday gift ideas, holidays, madonna, rants, rings, sports, Valentine's Day

Papa John’s, the “Lady Chinky Eyes” Receipt, Stupid Comments

January 7, 2012 by WendyB

A gorgeous lady named Minhee, who works at MrB’s company here in New York, went to a Papa John’s pizza restaurant last night. Today, she glanced at the receipt and noticed that it called her “lady chinky eyes.” So she did what you do with such things these days. She tweeted it. The Huffington Post…

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Filed Under: rants, restaurants, social networking

Alec Baldwin Is Going to Think I’m a Thoughtless Little Pig

December 8, 2011 by WendyB

I don’t usually let artists’ personal failings stop me from appreciating their professional efforts. There wouldn’t be a lot of art left to enjoy if character references were required.  I still tear up thinking of John Lennon’s murder — which happened 31 years ago today — even though many people have testified that he was…

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Filed Under: Celebrities, Family Guy, rants

Anna Wintour’s Genius Comment About Kanye West

October 7, 2011 by WendyB

The musically talented but otherwise insufferable Kanye “Gay Fish” West showed his first line of women’s clothing in Paris on Saturday, earning reviews such as “Good thing Kanye West has a day job.” I’ve become inured to random-ass celebrities who deem themselves qualified to launch clothing and jewelry lines to great fanfare just because they’ve…

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Filed Under: Celebrities, fashion shows, news, newspapers, rants

Makeup Attacks … and Is Attacked

July 12, 2011 by WendyB

Last week, a busybody speculated aloud that my favorite red lipstick is full of lead that will give me cancer. (My reaction can be summed up by this 2008 post.)  Right after that conversation, I saw that lots of news organizations were picking up a story about a pair of Dutch artists — Lernert Engelberts…

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Filed Under: art, In the News, insanity, rants, red lipstick

One Sample Size Does Not Fit All. Deal With It.

August 31, 2010 by WendyB

Did you know the world revolved around voluptuous Mad Men star Christina Hendricks? Neither did I! Fortunately, I read New York Magazine’s The Cut blog, which alerted me to the fact via a story about Hendricks that ran in the The Daily Record of Scotland. The Record quoted her as saying: “People have been saying…

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Filed Under: awards shows, Celebrities, education, emmys, rants, zang toi Tagged With: Christina Hendricks

Kornheiser, Storm and Age-Appropriate Dressing

February 25, 2010 by WendyB

Sports network ESPN had a “Jane, you ignorant slut” moment recently when Tony Kornheiser, host of its Pardon the Interruption program, said on his radio show that ESPN television anchor Hannah Storm was wearing “a horrifying, horrifying outfit today. She’s got on red go-go boots and a Catholic school plaid skirt … way too short…

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Filed Under: pictures of me, rants, TV, wear what you want Tagged With: hannah storm, tony kornheiser

Enthralled by Versace Pre-Fall

December 29, 2009 by WendyB

Before the holidays, gorgeous blogger Jennine of The Coveted asked me if I would be interested in visiting Versace’s 5th Avenue store to check out the pre-fall collection. Jennine knows I have a good pre-2005 Versace collection thanks to Teresa, who was a stellar sales associate at the now-closed Versace boutique on Madison Avenue. Teresa…

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Filed Under: coats, favorite brands, handbags, jackets, latex, leggings, obsessions, rants, sales, versace Tagged With: versace

She Who Must Be Obeyed

December 23, 2009 by WendyB

It’s my birthday today. I was going to lie and tell y’all that I just turned 13. I’ve always wanted to be an ingenue. Plus, young blogging dynamo Tavi said she wouldn’t mind my jacking her style, age-wise. My plans were thwarted after gorgeous blogger Jayne included me in a “Chic of the Week” post,…

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Filed Under: birthdays, blogs and bloggers, pictures of me, rants Tagged With: bitches, bow down, tavi

Post Rerun: A Defense of Fashion

October 26, 2009 by WendyB

Gorgeous blogger Tavi of Style Rookie recently posted a link to Washington Post fashion editor Robin Givhan’s column about the uproar du jour over thin models. The column, thankfully, didn’t use the expression “real women” (as in “real women have curves” and, presumably, non-curvy women must be imaginary) but the topic did remind me that…

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Filed Under: banned, blogs and bloggers, feminism, insanity, rants Tagged With: glamour magazine, robin givhan, style rookie

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Award-winning designer of fine jewelry inspired by women's history and pop culture. A former journalist who writes about jewelry, fashion, medieval history, news, feminism, dogs, cats and whatever else is on her mind. Blogging since 2007.
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