For me, looking in the mirror is never cause for celebration, I focus on the negatives, slap concealer on the blemishes and smear lip stick on the one positive. For a while, when I glowed with a warm, golden Caribbean tan I looked passable but as winter deepens and the sun becomes is too weak to add a blush my cheek I am left staring at pale wrinkled face....
Sunday June 3 2012 Brooklyn, NYC Disclaimer! Disclaimer! I’m iffy about ‘street style’.* It was 12 months ago that I started to hate Scott Schuman and his seminal website The Sartorialist. (Toooo seminal, that site, and not enough ‘ovular’, as my excellent feminist friend Smitty would have it.) It had something to do with the shark-jumpy, insider vanity of his self-portraits, model portraits and girlfriend portraits; something squirmily 90s-minded...
Saturday June 2 2012 Brooklyn, NYC The phenomenon of hipsters clashing with Hasidic Jews in well-past-trendy (but still Hasidic) Williamsburg in Brooklyn* has been well documented and much ironised.** It’s still a sight to see, though. Right now it’s interesting to see what happens when the hipsters’ older and less hip counterparts (or selves?) move into neighbouring Greenpoint to settle and – inadvertently – to interact with the denizens...
He may not be dead but he is pretty old. Here is Sean Connery in 1974 rocking a red nappie and braces look complete with thigh high waders and a plaited side pony. This was taken when he starred at Zed in Zardoz. Here is the plot summary: In the year AD 2293, a post-apocalyptic Earth is inhabited mostly by the Brutals, who are ruled by the Eternals. Eternals...
Brooklyn, NYC Sex and the City sometimes leads to mommies in the city – and it does so now more than ever, with a 26 percent rise in the number of 5-year-olds in New York from 2000 to 2004 – and growing. In addition – as everywhere – breeders are trending to stay put, close to their hip hoods post push (or likelier, C-section), instead of heading out to...
“The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.” Richard Burton Elizabeth Taylor married him twice - he was that hot. He is also a Welsh Scorpion. Looking like this I’d let him put his shoes under my bed.
Fellow retired Real Hot Bitch and younger sister, Charlotte Meyer reviews Rock of Ages. Nothing but a good time Last Sunday, on my way to brunch, I bought a pair of electric blue, snakeskin print, skinny jeans. They are amazing. They make me feel like a rock star. I took them home, hung them in my wardrobe and spent the rest of the week wishing I had a rock’n'roll lifestyle...
Here was a man, a short man of great muscular strength, the Napoleon of the South Seas, a man whose profile was aquiline, a man whose eyes would gleam and his lower lip curl downwards when he was excited. Te Rauparaha of Ngati Toa. He could be described as a ruthless, vengeful, cannibal and also, (as is so often the case with historical interpretation), as a man...
Last night I woke up at 4.30am and couldn’t get back to sleep, to pass the time I thought about Hot People in History. It wasn’t a new thought as Rosie and I have been chatting about this for a while. It all came about as I noticed Rosie was reading Wolf Hall. I exclaimed “Oh My God, wouldn’t you just LOVE to meet Thomas Cromwell? He’s a polyglot,...
Thursday June 8 2012 Brooklyn, NYC In contrast to the previous night’s divey excesses, this evening was exceedingly sensible – shopping and laundry – but no less exciting for the wee frisson of celebrity brought by the former, and the iconic Americana of the latter. Shopping took place at the Greene Hill Food Co-op , where the organic produce is bounteous, the 2D design witty and cute, the checkout...
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