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Have you written to your shoe store today?
We have this video report about the second-biggest shoe department in New York City, see, and the hot news angle is that it has its own zip code. Yeah? So? Maybe that makes it easier to send letters, but these days, I mostly just e-mail my shoe store, don’t you?
I have to say, this shoe report kind of creeps me out. The manager cheerfully talks about how women will give up their rent money for a pair of Christian Louboutin shoes. I suppose some people give up their rent money for cocaine, but you wouldn’t smile about that, would you?
Guess I owe Disney some royalties?
“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like ‘What about lunch?’”
“You can’t help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn’t spell it right…”
These plucky animals, playing Tigger and Piglet, rehearse for the first-ever live animal version of “Winnie the Pooh,” which opens next month. Insiders say the animals miss most of their lines, but seem to be having so much fun it would be very rude to mention it…
A pig plays with a tiger at Sriracha Tiger Zoo in Chon Buri province, southeast of Bangkok, October 16, 2007.
Carniver and Omnivore
Live together in perfect
Gastronomy
Side by side in their cages
Oh, crap, why’d you
Leave open the door?
From parish priest to garish priest…
Hey Blog Guy, is it just me, or is Elvis Presley turning up in a lot of places where you wouldn’t expect him?
You’re very perceptive. Yes, in recent months my blog alone has tracked him down as a local postman-turned-politician in Spain, a trader in Germany, and a Japanese guy, just to name a few. Most recently, he’s been spotted as a priest in Italy, where he divides his time between his flock and his rock.
It seems to work okay for him. After all, basic theology boils down to “return to sender,” doesn’t it? This slideshow tells the story:
Father Antoniu Petrescu practices Elvis Presley songs at his home in the central Italian city of Avezzano October 14, 2007. REUTERS/Dario Pignatell
Willy Wonka and the fashion factory
It’s that special time of year when the fashion designers give us a glimpse of what is in store for a super-elite group of trend-setters: police decoys.
Yes, there are always a few fashion “creations” that would only be worn by folks who really, really need to call attention to themselves. In past seasons I’ve written about them in posts such as “And, for the well-dressed police decoy,” and Say, can you direct me to the ruffians?
It seems that next spring, if you want to have “victim” written all over you, this is what you’ll be wearing as you head for tough neighborhoods, lonely subway platforms, shipping docks, etc. From the look of it, you’d better be sure your wire is working, and your back-up is very close.
A model presents a creation by Portuguese designer Pedro Mourao as part of his Spring/Summer 2008 collection during Lisbon Fashion Week in Cascais October 13, 2007. REUTERS/Jose Manuel Ribeiro
Dressing with your salad?
Okay, we have a fashion show put on by culinary students who want to “show people that you can do much more with food than eating it.”
Huh? Why is that? Have you ever said, “Boy, this t-bone steak and bread pudding with bourbon sauce taste great, but I wish I could use them for something besides just food.”
I want this multi-purpose exploration to stop here, before some guy cooks a meal with steel-belted radials and tinted glass, to show you can use them for something besides your car. Meanwhile, honey, aren’t you chili in that dress?
And my mom always told me never to play with my food. I know where I’m going to school. 
Models in witness protection program
Hello there young lady, good to have you modeling for us in the fashion show today! Connie will be doing your makeup and choosing your outfit.
Oh, you already know Connie? I see. You denounced her as a “hoochie witch” on Geraldo, you put scorpions in her Mini Cooper, you ran off with her husband and you planted crystal meth in her carry-on bag? Small world!
Well, I’m sure Connie will take good care of you today. I mean, you’re a beautiful woman. What’s the worst she could possibly do?
A model presents a creation by Portuguese designer Dino Alves as part of his Spring/Summer 2008 collection during Lisbon Fashion Week in Cascais October 12, 2007. REUTERS/Jose Manuel Ribeiro
Couture manure?
Last Friday, in a posting called When vogue goes rogue, I reviewed some of my least favorite fashion designs for women, going back however long I’ve been paying attention.
The posting was very popular, and this week I’m doing the same thing with really awful men’s fashions:
Dude! is there ANYTHING you wouldn’t wear?
I wonder if it’s true what they don’t wear benieth the kilt.
Plunging to their deaths? Nah!
Faithful readers of this blog know we sometimes give seemingly impossible assignments to our photographers, and they always come through. Who could forget Martha Stewart and the singing camel, or Civil War widows and motorcycles? This week, we outdid ourselves: Go find seven guys with plungers on their backs, and one dude who seems very happy about it.
As usual, our photographers had questions. Could the plungers start in the front a go through to the back? No, too messy. Could the plungers be used? Ick, we don’t want to know about that! Then, a few days ago, in Basel, Switzerland – by coincidence, the source of my family name – our shooter stumbled upon this scene, and we’re thrilled.
Contestant Gerhard Donie celebrates after finishing a toilet plunger throwing event during the German television show ‘Wetten, dass..?’ (Bet it..?) in Basel October 6, 2007. REUTERS/Miro Kuzmanovic
There’s the one thing I need to completely flush out my resume.
ANOTHER Da Vinci Code mystery?
Okay, Leonardo, what are you trying to pull now? I’ve seen the painting, read the book, and read some of the original book as well, and I know there isn’t some guy in a suit and tie slinking around The Last Supper behind the disciples, reaching down like he’s about to snatch a necklace from Matthew’s neck!
Attention on the set! Everybody who’s invited, take your seats! All the rest of you, move off-stage unless you get a call-back from our casting people…
A curator arranges the clothes on wax figures of the twelve disciples, part of a composition depicting Leonardo Da Vinci’s The Last Supper, in Sofia, Bulgaria, October 10, 2007. REUTERS/Nikolay Doychinov
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Just too obvious: cat and mouse…
Well, this is just so sad. It turns out cats are getting addicted to Facebook just as people are, according to a new study.
This photo, taken yesterday in New York City, shows a typical felineface.com user, wasting her days reading major garbage like “Places I’ve Napped,” “Cleo has sent you a hairball,” and “Tux and Midnight are now friends.”
What’s worse, the study found that as a result, cat productivity – whatever that is – is dropping dramatically. Who even knew that was possible?
Zoe, a domestic shorthair cat, touches the mouse of a computer during a media preview for The Cat Fanciers’ Association’s championship in New York October 10, 2007. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
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Chicks, Bob? CHICKS?!
Surely you meant “Babes.”