Catty Comments

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Johnny Weir. Holy cow! All I can say is - keep up the truth AND the sass, girlfriend! He answers all fan questions, good and bad, on his website. Thankfully for us, he answers it VERY directly.

from Aysha

Q: Hi Johnny! First off, I love you and your style of skating. My question is; having been friends with Tanith Belbin for a while, do you feel weird hanging out with her now because of her relationship with Evan, since you and he are rivals? I hope not, because she seems like a really fun and nice person and I don't understand why they're together but whatever. Anyway you are a much better skater than Evan, always have been, always will be and I hope their relationship isn't getting in the way of your friendship with her.

A: I was a little shocked about their situation when I realized what was going on last year, but it's fine. Tanith is a chameleon and can change her personality to match her boyfriend or friends. She's always been like that, not exactly in a bad way, unless I don't like her boyfriend. It's not really my business what she and Evan do, but I do wish she acted the way she did a few years ago. In general we're still cordial.

from Margret

Q: Hey Johnny!! You are one amazing inspiration to me, in and out of skating.... So thank you, just for being you!!  I even met you once! I have a picture. But - to my question. What do you think of Michelle Kwan? And, how did you feel about her pulling out of the Olympics?? Thanks... Hugs!

A: I think she did what was right for her at the time and that it was smart. She made her own decision. I don't know Michelle like a best friend and I haven't seen her since Champions On Ice this year in Denver, but she is adjusting well to her new life in college. She yelled at me last year for not going to meet President Bush at the White House, so I didn't like that, but otherwise she's always been very cool.

Yay SF Chron - covering the reign of Conan

Thanks as always to the Chron's fabulous TV columnist, Tim Goodman, for his hilfarious wrap-up of Conan O'Brien's opening night in San Francisco.

Proof that Utah really, really is that cool.

OK, this is too much!!!!

I just ran across a (fellow TypePad) blog called Cute Overload - go ahead, try it if you dare. Warning: you will NOT get anything constructive done for the rest of the day, or possibly the rest of your life. A sample offering.....

Did I NOT warn you? All right then!

Over the rainbow, dreams really do come true

My question has been answered.  On the "debut" of Sheryl Swoopes' coming out in ESPN, the Mag, (http://sports.espn.go.com/wnba/news/story?id=2204322) I was sitting here wondering if anyone has noticed the preponderance of hot lesbians in the media lately.

Not pseudo hot lesbians (ala The “L” Word), but women who are hot-looking, hot-in the media, and happen to be lesbians? I am still glassy-eyed from The Advocate’s recent article on the oh-so-delicious Portia de Rossi (although the picture of her and Ellen in Time Magazine a couple of months back made me weak in the knees) and now Sheryl Swoopes is saying, "Being gay has nothing to do with the three gold medals (yes!) or the three MVPs (yes!) or the four championships (yes!) I've won. I'm still the same person. I'm Sheryl."

Oh, I feel faint.  Of course, in the privacy of our own homes, we’ll idolize whoever we want. Being gay has nothing to do with being a basketball star… but now my favorite talk show host, favorite Sex in the City actress, favorite sitcom actress, and the Best WNBA basketball player of all time are all lesbians????  Well, that just makes all my daydreams and star crushes… *possible*, you know?

And yes you do know.  As I was sitting here wondering it anyone has noticed this trend, the very hostess of this blog IM’d me (with glee, I imagine) to make sure I saw the Swoopes announcement.

It is a good day for us dreamers, yes it is.

Paris hits

Oh all right, we admit, there were some clothes at the Paris shows that we DID like. We are not afraid to wear our hearts on our sleeves (well, not like the pink Valentino from the last post) when we find something worthy. Here goes:

The House of Guy Laroche presented some lovely, sleek creations. We like the spare lines and classic elegance. If only more designers would adopt this philosophy we would not have to wear our shades 24/7 to protect our poor, defenseless retinas!

First up; Black and white - always right. I hope the front of the one on the right is as nice as the back. I suspect that it is.

Another Laroche - love the color, and it's actually wearable! I prefer a longer length myself, but this works for a lot of women, especially the more petite among us.

Here is a surprise - an Elie Saab I like! It's not perfect but the color is dreamy, and you can look at it and imagine yourself actually having a good time in this dress instead of worrying that something is going to fall out at any minute. All she needs to do is lose the giant beads, which distract from the soft, romantic look. Never let it be said that we don't like romance.

It must be the Apocalypse - watch out for the rivers to run with blood and the locusts to plague the land! A concoction by former enfant terrible designer Jean-Paul Gaultier that is not fugly! I would omit the hat, though it would go perfectly well with the Laroche trench (above) I like. Otherwise it's very clever. It's bad when one of the most notoriously excessive artistes like Gaultier comes up with one of the most restrained looks of the week.

One more - I never thought I would find anything by Alexander McQueen that I can tolerate - his theatrics are frequently spoiled by his childishness. However, be that as it may, I really like this unusual swimsuit. True, it will never see water, but what top designers' swimwear ever does? If you absolutely must have something both useless and fetching to lie around the cabana in, it might as well be this one.

My new fetish - who knew?!

OK, girls & boys, I found something very naughty - and nice! It's called Wetmen, and it's a website devoted entirely to pictures of (mostly) actors and other celebrities in various situations involving getting soaking wet, with links to other "themed" pages of said male celebrities.... too delish! One caveat - this website regularly exceeds its monthly bandwidth allowance, so click soon! I found it two weeks ago and it was not back up until today! It is SFW, if work is really laid back about this stuff - I would be inclined to view only at home. WARNING: Also includes pics of men we do NOT consider hot AT ALL, so be aware that certain images may be burned into your retinas that really do not belong there, so click responsibly......

Benjamin Bratt - Is it hot in here or is it just HIM?

Stop the presses!

I found a needle in the haystack - a design at an NYC Fashion Week show that I actually LIKE. Wearable clothing - what a concept! This lovely gown from Costello Tagliapietra is elegant and understated, but packs the attention-getting punch of an unusual coppery bronze color. As we all know, the orange family of colors is difficult to do right, and when it's wrong it's really wrong. This is an object lesson in how it's done properly. Bravissima!

Blind Vices solved - the website!

Passing a gem of a website along that we got from the GGMB "off topic" section. We would link diretcly to the GGMB "off topic" section (and name it's actual section name) except for the fact that we're attempting to keep this site safe for work (sfw) for the time being. I think this one is going to have to go into the "Fave Links" section. You know how you read those delicious Blind Vice tidbits in Ted Casablanca's columns and try to guess who it is?

Now all you have to do is go here, to the "Blind Item Rehash" website. I loooooooove the internet!

A "catty" site worth checking out

We are regularly inspired by My Cat Hates You and we are NOT above cribbing a caption idea or two - OK we will dress it up to make it seem original, who's gonna know? Anyway, here is a sample pic from this week - this one is very slightly NSFW  if you look too closely, but most of them are fine.

http://www.mycathatesyou.com/cats/2005/09/12