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Jun

Pam Anderson’s Faux-Faux Leather

By Simon Scowl 45 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Movie Stars, PETA and The Washed Up

Over the last few weeks, we’ve had several items about PETA spokesbabes calling for kindness to animals and then strutting around with various items made from animal hide. There was Leona Lewis, PETA’s “Sexiest Vegetarian,” and her leather handbag; Jenna Jameson, who wants you to avoid eating chicken legs, showing off her own chicken legs in a pair of leather heels; and anti-fur activist Pamela Anderson auctioning off her Dodge Viper to raise money for PETA, apparently forgetting that the seats are made of… well, take a wild guess.

A familiar refrain has arisen among some of our fine commenters: “Um, haven’t you guys ever heard of pleather?” Well, how about this one, smarties?

(Image courtesy of the Purse Page)

The freakin’ suitcase she’s lugging around there is actually something called a Hermès HAC purse, which is made in France and costs about 10 grand. It’s roomy enough to keep a month’s supply of Botox on hand at all times, it wipes clean with a damp cloth (in case Tommy or whoever gets any… stuff on it), and it is absolutely, positively, 100% leather.

These intellectual giants tell us that fur is bad and having a nice steak or some chicken wings once in a while is the worst thing anybody could ever do, but for some reason they think leather is okay. Why is that?

23
Jun

Barking Up the Wrong Seal

By The Oversneer 19 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: U.S. Left-wing Politicos and U.S. Right-Wing Politicos

Unless you’re among the majority of Americans who don’t care much for voting (or unless you live in one of the world’s other 194 countries), you probably have heard that Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has a new “seal.” To wit:

obamaseal.jpg

Look familiar? It should. This is basically what happens when you mix equal parts campaign staffer, Adobe Photoshop, and the official seal of the President of the United States.

It took rival John McCain’s campaign about 20 minutes to release a scathing statement suggesting that it was actually a federal crime to rip off the Presidential seal:

Exit question: Is the Great Seal of Obama even legal?

“Whoever, except as authorized under regulations promulgated by the President and published in the Federal Register, knowingly manufactures, reproduces, sells, or purchases for resale, either separately or appended to any article manufactured or sold, any likeness of the seals of the President or Vice President, or any substantial part thereof, except for manufacture or sale of the article for the official use of the Government of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.” [bold in the original]

Whaddya know — there is a law. The Weekly Standard is helpfully making the case that Obama’s team broke it. And a host of right-wingers is fanning the flames. Here’s one “Arrest Obama Now” example that kinda makes me wish Al Gore hadn’t invented the Internet.

But here’s the rub: If John McCain’s people in the Republican party really want to go all Guantanamo on everybody who tweaks the Presidential seal for commercial or political gain, they’d better send out the dragnet.

First on the list? The Ramones.

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Next? This website, which lets you (literally) put your own text around the perimeter of the actual Presidential or Vice Presidential seal, and then download the finished graphic.

Finally? Oh yeah — the National Republican Senatorial Committee. For a $5,000 annual contribution, you can become a member of the “Republican Presidential Roundtable” to help elect more Republican Senators.

Which may be a fine idea, but get a load of the logo:

nrscc_roundtable.gif

UPDATE: Thanks to Simon Scowl, we have another suspect to round up. The Republican scofflaws who make “John McCain for President” lapel pins. Tsk, tsk…

23
Jun

Wall-E or Phon-Y?

By Holly Won't 12 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Businesses, Environmentalists and Movie Stars

wall-e.jpgI took my little cousins to see Kung Fu Panda over the weekend and was surprised that the message seems to be “you can be overweight or you can be lazy but you cannot be both.” It was a cute movie but DreamWorks included a few too many fat jokes for the moral of the story to be completely clear.

Such ambiguity will also be the case for Pixar’s Wall-E, which comes out on Friday. In it, the protagonist finds himself the last robot on Earth, when all the humans have left the planet due to a garbage avalanche they brought unto themselves.

Shooting himself in the foot, writer/director Andrew Stanton is a little vague about the cartoon’s environmental-stewardship themes:

“I don’t mind that it supports that kind of view — it’s certainly a good citizen way to be… It was like, ‘I gotta go with trash because I love what it does to my main character and it’ll be really clear.’ Then I had to go backwards from that: why would there be too much trash? Well, it would be really easy for me to get across we bought too much stuff, and it would be easy to explain, and it’s fun. It’s fun to be satirical like that. We all have that sort of Simpsons bent. I just went with what was somewhat true. I think we’ve always felt we have to be somewhat disciplined in that area.”

But it’s perhaps easy to understand why Stanton was hedging here: Pixar is a mass-marketing superpower.

For only $250, you can buy the remote-control Wall-E action figure — which will be available in time for Christmas. When kids aren’t busy making the world a better place, they can plop down in front of the plasma and exercise their thumbs on the Wall-E video game, available for Nintendo Wii, PlayStation 2 and 3, and Sony PSP. You can carry your Wall-E lunchbox to school and at night, sleep under a Wall-E poly-blend comforter.

And this isn’t even recounting the junk associated with the Toy Story trilogy (the third one comes out in 2010), Ratatouille, The Incredibles, Finding Nemo, and so forth.

Pixar is not in the business of going green. It’s not in their interest. So why tell little children that consumerism is bad while pushing a load of useless crap down their throats?

23
Jun

Amy Winehouse Has Emphysema

By Holly Won't 14 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Bad Boys & Girls and Musicians

amy_pete.jpgIt’s been a while since we’ve reported on Amy Winehouse’s ongoing addiction struggle, but her dad Mitch spoke out yesterday about her health problems and it’s a pretty sorry state of affairs:

“The doctors have said that if she had continued the way she was going she could have ended up an invalid — she wouldn’t have been able to breathe. With smoking the crack cocaine and the cigarettes her lungs are all gunked up. There are nodules around the chest and dark marks. She’s got 70 per cent lung capacity. “

That is bad news for a girl her age – not to mention it’s pretty hard to sing if you can’t even fill your lungs.

Her dad also had a warning for her pal Pete Doherty, who pledged a few months ago to help Amy get off drugs:

Mitch has urged her drug dealers and addict friends such as rocker Pete Doherty – who has been spending time with the 24-year-old since his release from prison last month – to stay away from her.

“I’m saying to those drug dealers, and they know who they are, if they are supplying crack to Amy, then they’ve got to take responsibility. I don’t want her hanging out with her mates like Pete Doherty either,” he said.

I mean, no kidding. Talk about removing the plank from your own eye first.

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