Fierce!
David Cook debuted a new hairstyle on American Idol last night.
Sean Avery and the gay press
A post on the gay blog Towleroad about Sean Avery, “the most hated figure in hockey,” has got me thinking. Avery is an obnoxious Rangers player (I gather) who has a strong interest in fashion — to such a degree that he’s secured a summer internship at Vogue. Not Men’s Vogue, not Vogue Living, but [...]
About The Cow
This poem, if we want to call it a poem, is amazing.
E=Mc2
The conventional wisdom on Mariah Carey: a genius voice undone by terrible musical taste. Excessive melisma, an irrelevant and unappealing whistle register, solicitous coos — all in a single song.
But after her most recent appearances on SNL and American Idol, The Next in Line wonders if we haven’t had it backwards all along. Mariah’s voice [...]
Protocol to be a RocaWear model?*
On her blog and in the Times, Cathy Horyn wrote recently about the Marc Jacobs–Juergen Teller partnership. Juergen is a photographer of the Helmut Newton school. His photographs, taken with an on-camera flash, are neither sharp, beautifully composed, nor beautifully anything. But they are smart and knowing. They set an illicit mood that is ever-so-slightly [...]
A Thirty-Seven-Year-Old Woman
Earlier today, a woman was arrested at London’s Heathrow Airport for spitting on a police officer.
Airport personnel had apparently misplaced one of the woman’s three bags.
The woman, traveling to Los Angeles on a first class ticket, became enraged and was deemed “unfit to fly.”
Police would not verify the subject’s identity, describing her only as a [...]
Honey
At first, fuzzy confusion, a peach pit.
Knew the name, the reputation.
Looks drew you in, but aura fell short.
Then the wig came off.
Then the wig back on . . .
What transfixes me in Ms. Badu’s New Amerykah, Part I (4th World War): texture, refusal, hermetic pleasures. Badu’s samplings of the hip-hop canon aren’t arbitrary; Badu has [...]
Bibliophilia
“A library is truly a status room,” an interior designer said in a stylish story in today’s L.A. Times about displaying books at home. I agree: books are soulful, charismatic objects; they represent possibility and openness.
Books may be charismatic (whether they are “soulful” depends, I suppose, on your definition of soul; I have none). But [...]
Dolls
A: Blog, it’s been too long.
B: –
A: Dolly on Idol. Wow. I mean, catch that lift.
B: How does she even chew?
A: Playing it pretty straight, tho, no?
B: Girl’s got a tour to promote.
A: I thought she might suffocate David A. in her mighty bazoom.
B: Dude, American Idol’s a mormon. Are we ready?
A: They way he [...]
