Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Homosociality in Entourage

A good example of homosociality. And Radiohead's Fake Plastic Trees accompanies what, in my view, is one of Jeremy Piven's best performances in Season 5.






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Anna Wintour's Sartorial Misstep


They are calling Anna Wintour, American Vogue's editor-in-chief, Worst Dressed Woman of 2008.
Ouch, very ouch.
I don't quite know how they quantify these things but I would have to concur with BB.




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Line of Day



I was just looking at the Winter 2004 issue (pictured on the left) of Black Book magazine in an effort to find this conversation between Julian Schnabel and Benecio del Toro when I ran into a bit by Meghan Daum. Daum observed the following:

"New York was a prohibitively expensive place for the people who had made it what it was: the creative people and the intellectuals and the artists."




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I'm With Larry






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Burger King Markets Body Spray?


Because we have had a shortage of news of the bizarre...,
"Burger King is hoping to be known as more than “The Home of the Whopper.”

This weekend, the fast food chain rolled out “Flame,” a new men’s body spray billed as “the scent of seduction with a hint of flame-broiled meat.”

And an informal survey by the Boston Herald found that there are men out there who’d wear it - even one who seemed to be named after a meat."





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