Life is so empty and meaningless without the Olympics. Maybe these will fill the hole in your life where Costas used to be:
– Oops: Michael Phelps’ leaked Louis Vuitton photos — in which they are letting him be scruffy (boo) but have him wearing a Speedo (hooray; we’re even) — might get him in trouble with the IOC, which could lead to him being stripped of his medals. It’s not LIKELY, perhaps? We hope? But screwier things have happened. Our fantasy is that Rowdy Gaines leaked it so that Phelps will have to come back for Rio in order to get his medal haul back up again, and thus Rowdy won’t have to say goodbye yet. (SF Gate and ABC News)
– For their redesign/relaunch, The Cut was on a roll: They had a fun piece on history’s most scandalous dresses (everything from Elizabeth Hurley’s safety pins to Wallis Simpson to Mary Quant), and some funky, beautiful backstage and runway photography from Fashion Month. This one of Marc Jacobs should go on his office door, and this one is just fabulous. We are also lurking in one of the other ones. Don’t tell. (The Cut)
– I like (as always) Kim France’s take on Helen Gurley Brown. (Girls of a Certain Age)
– Mountain Dew lets the Internet name a new product, lives to regret it. The article also includes possibly my favorite sentence ever: “The funniest example of an online poll going wrong is probably the ‘Fred Durst Society of the Humanities and Arts’ – currently leading the pack for the city-sponsored renaming of the Austin, Tex. Solid Waste Services Department.” (Time)
– In order to help you get over the fact that, despite recent rumors, Mulder and Scully might NOT actually be doing it, here’s a supercut of every time Scully says “oh my god” in The X-Files. My favorite is of course the one where she and Moronica are in the car driving off into the middle of nowhere so Scully can deliver her AlienMiracleBaby to the sound of whale music. (I09)
– Mysterious mansions are being built in parts of Russians, and some Russians are none-too-pleased about them. (Daily Beast)
– This is an interesting read about basketball wives – the actual wives of a variety of ballers, I mean, not the show Basketball Wives. (The Cut)
– Predicting the bestsellers list next year. (Not really. But I’d read that Dr. Oz Semi-Colon book.) (Hello Giggles)
– These photos of abandoned Olympics venues are pretty amazing. And melancholy. (Flavorwire)
– Someone sent us this link to a photo of Young Karl Lagerfeld, and it WILL blow your mind. He looks like he’s about to go walk a tightrope, or perhaps ride a velocipede. (Hot Guys On My Dashboard)
- For those of you who can’t get enough Kate Middleton, check out The Duchess Diary. (Socialite Life)
– I love Jennifer Garner for admitting that she always looks “like [she's] wearing the first thing [she] could find.” (Celebitchy)
– We would go pose with this David Beckham In His Skivvies statue, but we got a mini-replica in the mail and are too busy taking pictures of it posing with random things in the house. (Refinery29)
– It IS true that Cosmo cover girls are skewing younger and younger — or at least appearing to — and this invites the question of whether that’s ooky for a magazine that’s ALSO constantly screaming at you about what you’re doing with your vagina and/or how you should be doing it. (Refinery29)
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“Mysterious mansions are being built in parts of Russians”–now there’s a funny visual. Hope the mansions are minatures, or McMansions, at the very least.
I was just coming down to say that I wanted to show my appreciation for that typo, but that I hope Jessica leaves it in, because it’s too hilarious a visual!
Yes, please leave it!! I’d be none-too-pleased of someone built a mansion on my parts, too!
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Karl’s not so bad, even now. And the Beckham statuette does not do him justice.
Thanks to Arrested Development, the photo of M.P. in the bath tube doesn’t turn me on– it just makes me think he’s a never nude!
Never nudes are no joke – there are literally dozens of us!
I was getting on the ferry (WSF–Washington State Ferries) to go home a week or so ago, and as I was buying my wine (duh) one of my regular ferry-wine-server-gals in the galley told me that they were filming an epsiode of “Basketball Wives” on the boat. She said the film crew was so so nice, but that the “wives” were total…well, not very nice people. Apparently it’s an episode that will air in about October. I’ve never watched it (in fact, hadn’t even heard of it until said ferry-wine-server-gal told me who the film crew was that I saw walking off) but I might watch it, just to see. You know.
The use of “Moronica” just made me ridiculously happy. From a reader who dates back to the Mighty Big days, those recaps were the highlight of my week.
Now I feel nostalgic. . .
Ditto here.
wow, that ‘scandalous dresses’ was more of a general ‘scandalous moments in fashion’. if you don’t have enough stuff to make a list of a certain size, pare the list down!
I agree. I don’t even know that some of the dresses were scandalous, so much as audacious (Liz Hurley’s safety pin dress, J. Lo’s Palm Print Grammy Dress and Bjork’s Swan Dress spring to mind).
Agreed. While it was a cool slideshow, a lot of those pictures weren’t dresses. Some of them were just regular dresses worn in scandalous situations. And I’m pretty sure being nude doesn’t count as a dress of any sort.
Still, it was nice to see the Bloomer dress included. That was scandalous – and an early feminist garment, too!
I think a lot of them WERE scandalous in their eras. Before Bjork no one had done that type of outfit before, and people were totally scandalized at the time by how nude JLo was, etc.
I really wish Mulder and Scully were actually doing it. Take me back to 1998.
If you flip through the 1970-1990s Cosmo covers slideshow you’ll see that most of those women were super young as well. Nikki Taylor says she was a senior in high school when she did her cover! Several others mention being 19.. At 30 I’m DEFINITELY too old for that magazine
The girls from gossip girl have featured on the cover in Australia and they aren’t in their teens or anything. I’m not sure if they are getting younger but it wouldn’t surprise me.
Diabeetus, from that Mt. Dew poll, is the best name for a soda ever.
I would find it hard to believe the IOC would strip Phelps of his medals because of a leaked photo where he is in a tub nigh to a LV bag, as people are wont to do, after they did not take the medal away from that one swimmer who admitted to cheating.
Yeah, but in that case they couldn’t verify the swimmer was cheating because they don’t check underwater footage. They would have to change the policy to hold that swimmer to account, and in that case they would have to check underwater footage of all the swimmers who, by the sounds of it, all do the same thing.
You’re right though, I doubt they’ll strip Phelps’s medals. He probably shot the pics long before the deadline, and it’s not his fault they were leaked when they were.
great article good work
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Also, you should watch this hilarious animation I made in spirit of the Olympics at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2R1ajcli7I&feature=channel&list=UL
Pensee form of indicated squeezes in certain natural leather provide the massive pansy like bloom in the same materials sitting on exploding with the band Gilberte G. Dinh