Archive for September, 2009
recycling is good, right?
if you’re a news anchor and have a closet full of clothes you no longer can wear on air, you might want to consider selling it online on consignment. tvnewscloset.com was started by a ex-anchor and carries both men and women’s wear. Items include a women’s banana republic three piece suit worn by [...]
the new security blanket
celebrities, designers, buyers and journalist are all in nyc this week for the infamous ny fashion week. if you’re into that kind of thing, one show i’d recommend is the snuggie fashion show. unless you’ve been living in a third world country with no tv for the past year, you know what the snuggie is. [...]
they had shrimp at the craft services table
our favorite foreign president, nicolas sarkozy has done it again. in a staged photo-op to boost his popularity in france (he currently enjoys very little), sarkozy was photographed only with people shorter than him (le petit is 5′ 5″ tall). according to britain’s daily telegraph news 20 workers at a car factory “said they were [...]
live from the battle zone
anderson cooper is reporting from afghanistan this week along with dr. sanjay gupta, peter weir, and peter bergen. he’ll blog all week and show different aspects of the battle zone. what i’ve found fascinating so far are the comments on the blog from all over the world. check them out here.
photo via cnn and getty [...]
bloomberg breathes a sigh of relief
the naked cowboy (a.ka. robert burck) has decided not to run for mayor of new york city after all. the icon of new york’s times square decided that it was too much trouble to be mayor. there just seemed to be that there was just too much bureaucracy involved with the job–the last straw was [...]
i prefer the cookie myself
bank of america is getting a lot of bad press lately and it’s not because of bailouts or ceo compensations. instead it’s because steve valdez went into a bank of america branch in tampa florida and wasn’t able to cash a check made out to him from his wife, who had an account there. the [...]
kraft goes for the velveeta of chocolate
kraft foods, the maker of velveeta cheese, said that they’d make a $17B bid for the popular cadbury chocolate. cadbury would join kool-aid and oreo to make a ‘powerhouse of snacks’ so says a statement by kraft. according to time “cadbury boasts around a quarter of the world’s fast-growing gum market, a sector kraft has [...]
