Dear readers,
Holly, Simon, and I have lives. We have Christmas Cheer. We have shopping left to do. So blogging until the day after Christmas will be … shall we say … “light.”
We beg your indulgence as we temporarily turn our focus away from the Two-Faced and Famous so we can focus on the petty deceivers in our own families.
Examples:
“I swear I’m not re-gifting.”
“They do not sell these at Seven-Eleven!”
“All the cookies were gone when I got here.”
“Sure, those are real diamonds …”
“That shirt totally does not make you look like a gay pirate.”
You get the picture. We’ll be back in full swing as soon as the eggnog hangovers wear off. Happy Holidays!
The New York Times reports:
Comedy Central’s pair of popular news satirists, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, will return to their television shows on Jan. 7, two months after production was suspended because of a writers’ strike …
In a statement, the two hosts said they would prefer to return to work with their writers. “If we cannot, we would like to express our ambivalence, but without our writers we are unable to express something as nuanced as ambivalence,” they stated.
How droll! Now, to all you Red Staters who are calling them scabs and such, there’s a little thing you might not know about called satire. See, Writers Guild of America members Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert aren’t really breaking the picket line. They’re making an ironic commentary on the very concept of breaking picket lines. Get it?
In the same sense, I can “see” Mitt Romney being elected President of the United States!
I inherited a gorgeous mink stole from my grandmother that she bought in the 1940s. It still has the Saks label intact and everything. Sometimes I buy theatre tickets and book restaurant reservations just to take it out for a spin.
But some people choose to go faux. The problem is — sometimes it’s not.
According to the Humane Society of the United States, several luxury brands have been labeling real fur as polyester on some of their designs. Most of the garments were made in China.
The moral of this story for holiday shoppers is clear: Buy only real fur. At least then you know what you’re getting!
In the wake of Jamie Lynn Spears announcing she’s pregnant at 16, Nickelodeon, which broadcasts her show Zoey 101, is considering a special on teen pregnancy to be hosted by Linda Ellerbee:
“I think it’s important that something be done,” Ellerbee told The Associated Press on Thursday. “But I think it’s important that it be done in a measured way, and not just to feed the beast of news stories.”
Right. You wouldn’t want to send the wrong message. Like making it look like if you’re 16 and you get pregnant, you can get your own special on Nickelodeon.
I don’t know, I can’t tell if this is a good thing or not. They do have to address it somehow, right? But it was depressing enough already without dragging Linda Ellerbee into it.
Michael Jackson’s reps continue to deny that he’s undergone any plastic surgery recently, as reports surfaced that his lip “burst and collapsed” while playing with his five-year-old son:
A source said: “He was whacked in the face accidentally by his younger son Prince Michael II while playing around and part of Jackson’s upper lip collapsed.
“That mishap led an hysterical Jacko to make a beeline for the plastic surgeon for a bit of quickie repair work.”
Oh, gross. I haven’t even had my Cheerios yet. But seriously, spokespeople, why pretend that he would go out in public like this for no reason? Plastic surgery is totally more socially acceptable than scaring young children. And we all know how much Michael Jackson loooooves young children.
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