Going Naked Now

Aparently Zac Posen is so totally over everyone knocking off his designs, and so is Oscar de la Renta. They're trying to get fashion copyrighted... This means no more $200 knock-off dresses by ABS, no more Rampage knockoffs of BOttega Veneta bags, ahem. Read more on the NYT site. Some say story just in time for prom... And while I'd been reading about this development for about 2 months now, this particular story was forwarded to me by the Architect. Proving once again that even when I try to date really straight, they're gay.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/30/fashion/thursdaystyles/30copy.html?_r=1&8hpib&oref=slogin

Advice for Megan

So You've Knocked Over A Row of A Motorcycle Gang's Motorcycles.

Why I Love TV News

This hot story about a leprechaun sighting in Mobile, Ala., comes from my friend Danimal, who lives there. It may be one of the worst stories I have ever seen on local news. It's also one of the funniest.

Tasty

The scene: Le Gym, also known as Pure Fitness (Shea and Scottsdale Rd). Andrew is seated at an incline press machine, working his giant pecs. Matt is standing near him, discussing this weekends activities, etc.

Andrew: "So I made a pot roast. Yeah, put it in the crock pot this morning. Can't wait to get home and eat it."
(really, really, really hot guy walks by)
Matt: "Tasty."
Andrew:"Yeah, the pot roast too."

where is my swan

J'adorable: Capt. E has left us and I for one, hope our favorite swan has a delicious time in the San Diego with everyone's favorite boyfriend.

Also - I move for a family breakfast Saturday around 11. We can welcome Patrick in style and catch up on any miscelaneous gossip, and maybe Jeremy will give us all mono by letting us lick his fork.

So, see you at the Orange Table. Be prepared to wait, of course. But wait in style.

J'adorable

The new supergood Fischerspooner album is called Odyssey and was released last year.

http://www.fischerspooner.com/shop.asp
Jeremy and I were discussing. I thought you might like to know.

One More, And Then I Swear I'm Done

In a feel-good gesture, a bunch of Brokeback fans paid $16,000 to put the following full-page ad into Variety:



Pretty cool, huh?

Get Over It Day

It's a little late, but I just learned that today is national Get Over It Day, which is a day to put unfortunate events behind you and move on. Chosen because it is halfway between Valentine's Day and April Fool's, today is the very first Get Over It Day, and I think it's time to celebrate. So get over it! Whether it be a bad day at work, Brokeback's defeat at the Oscars, or Marcus, there's no time like the present!

(Of course, if you're still not quite over the Brokeback debacle, I highly recommend that you read Steve Lopez's wonderfully sarcastic piece in the Los Angeles Times making fun of Crash. Writes Lopez: "I used to think we could all get along, more or less. I believed that despite its many flaws and obvious divisions by race and class, Los Angeles was one of the more successfully integrated cities in the world. And so to me, Crash felt like an artless, dated and manipulative morality tale on the evils of the sprawling metropolis, shot with a long lens from behind the bars of a gated seaside community.

But that was before the all-knowing wizards of the academy set me straight, choosing Crash as the best picture of the year. Could so many kabbala and Bikram yoga practitioners have been wrong, even if it's been years since any of them ventured east of Robertson except to hand out Oscars or cruise for hookers?" It goes on.)

All Across the World, Swans Are Dying

Noted today in Slate:

Avian influenza continued its advance across Europe this week: On Monday, health officials in Poland reported evidence of the virus in a pair of dead swans. On Tuesday the Bulgarian government pledged to sanitize the area where four infected swans had been discovered. The highly pathogenic H5N1 strain has also turned up in dead swans in Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Serbia, and Slovenia. Why do we keep finding bird flu in swans?

For the answer, read on.

Sex and the Kiddie

From an interview with our old friend Sarah Jessica Parker:

With Oscar season in full swing, what are her favorite films of the year? “Oh. I don’t know,” she says. “It’s hard for me to pick favorites, but I will tell you this. It’s so sweet. I was sitting in the living room one afternoon and James [her 3 years old son] walked over with the ‘Brokeback Mountain’ DVD and wanted to watch it. He had seen the commercials and liked the sheep and scenery, and had been begging to watch it. Matthew and I had debated whether or not to let him and decided to let him watch certain scenes. He likes binoculars and there is a scene with binoculars. And he loves animals. So we put it on and selected about twenty minutes for him to watch. When it was over he went over to his nanny and gave her a big hug. I asked why and he said, so innocently and sweetly, ‘Because, that is what the two cowboys were always doing in the movie. They loved each other.”

Just when I thought it was safe...

"I really wish I was sleeping next to you tonight."

-Text message received from Arin on Thursday, 12:27AM

"Hey sorry for that message last night. It was sent by mistake."

-Test message received from Arin on Thursday, 11:55AM

Is there a way to block someone from calling/texting you? He's eating up my monthly text allowance.