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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Important Health Tip From Courtney Love
October — aka National Breast Cancer Awareness month, aka The Month That Ruins the Color Pink for Me by Associating It With Disease and Death — is over, but that doesn’t mean we should stop obsessing about the health of our boobs. As we all know, breast self-examinations are a great idea … or not…
Style Icon: Walt “Clyde” Frazier
In the ’90s, I lived with a roommate in a nice-enough apartment building. We had a doorman, a marble lobby and the location was decent — not too far from the subway — but it definitely wasn’t Park Avenue. One day, I saw a tall, elegant man in the elevator. He was wearing the most…
She Looks Like Bjorn Borg to Me
Yesterday, The Huffington Post ran my article about fashion writer Suzy Menkes’s use of the word “squaw.” The word appeared in a story about royal headpieces published in the New York Times’s T Magazine, and was used in reference to the late Princess Diana: “Then there is a cabochon emerald collar that the stately Queen…
You’ll Love-Love This Necklace
Going to the U.S. Open finals? Order your sterling silver Wendy Brandes for Francis SmacEnroe tennis racquet necklace today and you’ll have it in time to wear it court-side … or TV-side. But act fast, because I have only one in stock. Click here to see more images of the necklace, and here to see…
You CANNOT Be Serious!
I woke up on the wrong side of the bed today and neither lolcats nor the misery of others could lift my spirits.A Then I started watching YouTube clips of John McEnroe‘s tennis court tantrums. This is a great way of safely channeling psychotic rage. Please play on.
Giving Golfers a Bad Name
Check out this New York Times story on the sexist asshats at the Phoenix Country Club. I like the part where the men were urinating on Wanda Diethelm’s pecan tree because she wanted to eat in their male-only dining room. She had to set up a security camera. Wanda, if you got any good shots…
Musings on Voting and Football
If you live in one of the Super Tuesday states, don’t forget to vote. There’s no excuse not to vote because Buffy the Vampire Slayer is off the air. Some years ago, a woman I worked with went to her disorganized voting place, waited and waited and then left before getting to vote because the…