Best Week Ever:

A model walks the runway at the Thom Browne Spring 2009 fashion show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at Exit Art on September 9, 2008 in New York City.

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Even before I clicked the link I knew where these pictures came from: The Style on The Downs competition at the Epsom Derby. First prize was a new Jeep; I’m guessing that these weren’t among the finalists.

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Holy Taco:

WHY YOU THINK YOURE COOL: Dude, this game totally rocks! I love this song! Hell yes! Welcome to the Jungle, baby! Youre gonna diiiiiiiiiiiee!

WHY YOURE NOT COOL: Despite what the commercial says, you do not suddenly turn into Slash when youre playing this video game. You are playing a child-sized guitar that doesnt even have strings. It has multi-colored buttons and an on/off button. And playing this video game does not mean you can play the guitar now. If I have to hear someone say I can totally play Anarchy in the UK but actually mean I can totally play Anarchy in the UK on Guitar Hero, I am going to take a pee inside the nearest PS3.

Warning: Language

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the morning call.com:

Allentown police had suspected William Torres of dealing drugs in the city. But an undercover narcotics investigation yielded much more, and resulted in Torres, 21, being charged early Saturday with two counts of homicide.

Police said Torres, whose last known address was 436 Turner St., Allentown, gunned down two men at Fourth and Allen streets last month. According to court documents, Torres admitted killing the men.

Torres was driving on Turner Street Friday afternoon when he was pulled over by police and arrested. He was wearing a hooded sweartshirt with a skull-head pattern on it, pajama bottoms and fuzzy lion-faced slippers at the time. He was still wearing the get-up when he was arraigned after midnight at Lehigh County prison.

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I happened across a fashion-show photo the other day but it was too small and poorly-lit, so I went looking for a better copy. It was from the Fall/Winter show at London Fashion Week, the work of a hot young designer named Gareth Pugh.

Google found a Gareth Pugh, all right, but it turned out to be the name of a company in England (Wales, actually) that specializes in industrial and agricultural pre-fab buildings, such as the winery storage shed at left. This couldn’t be the Gareth Pugh, lion of the catwalks from Paris to Milan to New York, could it?

Plugging gamely along, I finally found the this.

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And this acne medicine is endorsed by such people as Vanessa Williams, Jessica Simpson, Kelly Clarkson, Brook Shields and Elle Macpherson so you know its got to be good. Its one of those three step programs to cleaner skin that when purchased together costs less than $60. And we all know that acne medicine that actual works is damn near priceless if you are suffering from the problem. If you got acne or know someone who does why don’t you head over and take a look.

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Being an only child dragged shopping with Mater alot in my life, including this fine afternoon, I know that women love Designer Handbags. As far as I can tell no woman can ever have too many of the things. I believe its something about having one for every outfit. Darby Scott has some impressive designer handbags and are well worth a look if you are thinking of getting a purse either as a gift or for yourself. Oh yes and several celebrities have been spotted carrying DS bags. Genuine kudos in anyones book,

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I’ve noticed that some fashion designers really don’t seem to like women very much.

Then again, they exhibit real hostility towards men, too.

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well tell me again what you were thinking
when you got that bruise tattoo
forever black and blue

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Dude, dude, dude. Having a badly-done tattoo of Pee-wee Herman is not going to get you any props in your local biker (unless it’s of the three-wheeled variety) bar .

More flesh-and-ink atrocities here. SFW, mostly.

Make sure you don’t miss “Mr. CooL ICE” (Don’t worry, you’ll know him when you see him.)

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What we wear is a statement about ourselves; about our hopes, our fears; a message to the world. What is this trying to communicate? It is saying, “Beat me up and steal my lunch-money.” No jury would convict me.

Taken from this blóg. It’s in Portugese, but I get the feeling that these are supposed to be objets d’art rather than everyday clothing. Still.

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Spiked’s Mick Hume, writing in the London Times, does a fair impression of one of TV’s Grumpy Old Men in his condemnation of the BBC Comedy skit show, Little Britain.

Well, Mick, you are entitled to your opinion. Likewise your sideswipe at Children In Need and the proliferation of TV reality shows.

But what does Mick suggest as an alternative to vegetating in front of the box?

He says,

IF YOU are looking for an escape from TV hell, I suggest an evening of dogging,

Well, each to their own! I know that Spiked writers like to stir controversy but this is The Times ! Rather surprised to see this advocacy of dogging – outdoor sex with strangers – placed prominently in Britain’s most establishment newspaper, I read further to find that the sport in Mr Hume’s mind was greyhound racing.

Perhaps it’s just as well. I had to scrape the ice off my car this morning. Not the sort of weather to encourage Times readers to take up an adventurous new outdoor activity.

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The streets are strewn with dead leaves and the air is crisp and wintry. It can mean only one thing—we are in the season of falling. Warning: music.

One should always be polite to the lighting grip in a TV studio. Or he will try to kill you.

What we think of as “risky” is very often not so. An onlooker might be appalled at the recklessness of an act, but the conscientious daredevil has assessed the dangers and instinctively seeks the safest course.

Say you wanted to jump off the roof of a house wearing roller skates. How could that possibly go wrong? Warning: Banners might not be SFW.

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There’s been a palace revolt at Autonomous Source! Max and Talia have overthrown their oppressors—and worse, have figured out how to work the computer!

Oh sure, locking their parents outside in the snow seemed like a good idea at first. After all, they did get to eat all the goldfish they wanted and there was no one to stop them from banging the pots and pans in their kitchen rock band. Plus, they hadn’t had to brush their teeth or wash their hands all day. But now Mommy and Daddy were all cold and still. Neither Suzy nor Callie could work the VCR. How were they going to watch their Barney tapes? Not to mention the vast quantities of bloomer pudding accumulating in their pampers. Maybe Operation Get Rid of the ‘Rents wasn’t such a great idea after all.

Okay, it isn’t really Max and Talia. It’s from a site called Threadbared, which is a couple of women who put up the covers of dressmaking patterns, knitting guides, etc., and proceed to weave bitchy fun at their expense. You’ll be in stitches.

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he’s a victim of his own time
in his vintage suit and tie
he’s casualty dressed to the teeth
in the latest genocide

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“We are watching the birth of a hybrid man. ... Why not put on a pink-flowered shirt and try out a partner-swapping club?” asked [French marketing and style consultants Nelly Rodi’s managing director Pierre Francois] Le Louet, stressing that the study had focused on men aged between 20 and 35.

Sociologists and other experts spent three months analyzing some 150 magazines and books and 146 Internet sites, as well as interviewing a dozen experts from Europe, the United States and China.

The traditional man still exists in China, Le Louet said, and “is not ready to go”. But in Europe and the United States, a new species is emerging, apparently unafraid of anything.

“He is looking for a more radical affirmation of who he is, and wants to test out all the barbarity of modern life” including in the sexual domain, said Le Louet . . .”

Methinks about the only “barbarity of modern life” he’s going to be testing out in that getup is the business end of a glory hole.

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