Miss Wasilla 1984.
Take a closer look at McCain’s veep choice in Timothy Egan’s “Ms. Alaska” article here in the NYT.
Speed-read skim round-up of the piece, followed by the same for comments:
She hunts! She fishes! She eats moose burgers!
“Sarah Barracuda,” as she’s known
took on the kleptocracy
Second, she rejected the “bridge to nowhere,”
But she has her own [...]

No big plans this weekend?  Philly Fringe Fest and backyard bbqs seeming a little highbrow for your tastes?
Then head on over to the new Sonic in Bensalem (north on 95, exit Street Rd, turn left, after a few lights you’ll see it on the right).  If you’re from PA, you’re probably familiar with the TV [...]

Check out this video to see what we mean. Believe.

If you know nothing of Wanda Jackson, Queen of Rockabilly, bathe yourself in God’s spittle and haul your fingertips to Wikipedia, her official bio page.

I Gotta Know on Tex Ritters Ranch Party.

The Wanda part of a documentary on women in rockabilly.

An interview from just a [...]

Researching the upcoming Fringe show about vampires set to the tunes of Paula Abdul brought me to this guy, who has some kind of show he’s DIY promoting by lip-synching into a camera and posting to youtube. Works!
He also does Berlin, Brian McKnight and Amy Grant and kind of looks like my friend Matt.

AND peddles generic misogynist stereotypes!
Popmatters breaks it down. Damn. And it looked so clever.

Bummed.
Friend of PW CAConrad wrote a protest Tuesday that makes sense in this mixed up, corporate-everything world. Basically, it appears the new Blick art store on Chestnut between 13th & Broad yanked a plaque commemorating Thomas Eakin’s old studio space.
Then today, CA wrote in this update:
“During the construction of the new art store a [...]

Thursday Styles section has a puff pastry piece on Michael Kors.
Here’s your speed-read skim highlights:
“highly marketable personality,”
improbably pink, cherubic face
folksy wit and fastidious eye
“We were competing for fashion victimhood.”
infatuation with the traditionalism of the Eastern Seaboard haute bourgeoisie
a near fetish of affecting a patrician ease
more than $600 million in wholesale revenues and 60 [...]

on drugs. The LA Times reports Phillips was arrested with “a small amount of heroin and cocaine” in LAX this morning. Shit!
I was always kind of annoyed at her, about how no matter when or where she was forever talking about how many years/days/hours she’d been sober.
Now that I’m BFF with Michelle Phillips from the [...]

The Louis Vitton trend has long been a mystery to me, even before the knock-offs were everywhere. I went to a wedding last year where the clearly disposable fans had little LV-esque patterns on them, which I thought was hilarious and intentional but maybe not.

Anyway Design You Trust has a great collection of photos of [...]

The product placement in Project Runway has always been a little … heavy-handed. Constant references to the Bluefly accessories wall and Loreal cosmetics are one thing. Even the weekly snippets of Saturn-inspired designs during the commercial breaks are acceptable. But having an entire challenge clearly sponsored by one of the show’s key monetary supporters? We [...]