From eonline.com
Mills: Brit Media Made Me Suicidal
by Gina Serpe
Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:20:27 AM PDT
Mills McCartney said the one bright light in her past few years was the time she spent in the U.S. and that she would gladly make the transatlantic move were it not for her daughter with McCartney, Beatrice.
"I would live in America in two seconds, but I keep my daughter here to be near her father. You can't imagine what I've done to compromise things."
Cops Sick of Protecting Mills from "Huge Powers"
by Sarah Hall
Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:37:00 AM PDT
Mills has denied reports that she plans to make the United States her permanent home.
"I would never live in America. I've never even thought of living in America. I'm here with my family and I live here," she told Britain's GMTV Thursday.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Mad Max on heat
Wow, went to the freakiest event ever last night. It's apparently "so underground, it's not even on google" (but, like, it is). Bike Kill - hosted by the Black Label Bicycle Club who apparently live in a house named The Chicken House and eat 100% vegan food. If you want to be in their gang, you must be prepared to do the same (and smell foul even if you're not eating it...). The vegan thing is a peaceful facade, Bike Kill is ferociously vicious. We turned up at night so perhaps the Coors Light 40 ouncers had an effect but it was completely mad. It looks a lot more "arty farty university student" by day. There was blood, fires in shopping trolleys, smashed glass and it smelt of piss mixed with feral vegan sweat. I couldn't help but wonder (oh lordy that sounds like Carrie in SATC) if it was a large group of real Bed-Stuy locals drinking, smashing glass and fighting on bikes - how quickly the police would have shut it down. By the way, what is the plural of trolley? It had an air of Lost Boys about it too but predominantly it was Mad Max outside Home Depot in Bed Stuy (Willoughby & Sanford), check it out next year!
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Fall/Winter 07
As they say in fashion...
Fall has fallen - everyone is ecstatic about it which is a marked change from London ie. summer, ending, happy about it? Yeah, New Yorkers prefer the colder climes it seems - something to do with humidity and hairstyles
Fall has fallen - everyone is ecstatic about it which is a marked change from London ie. summer, ending, happy about it? Yeah, New Yorkers prefer the colder climes it seems - something to do with humidity and hairstyles
Saturday, September 15, 2007
It was bad, but not THAT bad
MADONNA AND SPEARS ANGER MUSLIM TERROR LEADER
13 September 2007
World Entertainment News Network
Sep 13, 2007 (WENN via COMTEX) -- A Muslim extremist has called for MADONNA and BRITNEY SPEARS to be beheaded for spreading "their satanic culture against Islam".
Muhammad Abdel-Al, the senior leader of the Palestinian terror group The Popular Resistance Committees, attacked the two pop stars, labeling them "prostitutes".
He rants, "If I meet these whores I will have the honor - I repeat, I will have the honor - to be the first one to cut the heads off Madonna and Britney Spears if they will keep spreading their satanic culture against Islam."
Abdel-Al spoke out as Madonna and husband Guy Ritchie prepare to celebrate the Jewish New Year with 2,000 Kabbalah followers in Israel.
13 September 2007
World Entertainment News Network
Sep 13, 2007 (WENN via COMTEX) -- A Muslim extremist has called for MADONNA and BRITNEY SPEARS to be beheaded for spreading "their satanic culture against Islam".
Muhammad Abdel-Al, the senior leader of the Palestinian terror group The Popular Resistance Committees, attacked the two pop stars, labeling them "prostitutes".
He rants, "If I meet these whores I will have the honor - I repeat, I will have the honor - to be the first one to cut the heads off Madonna and Britney Spears if they will keep spreading their satanic culture against Islam."
Abdel-Al spoke out as Madonna and husband Guy Ritchie prepare to celebrate the Jewish New Year with 2,000 Kabbalah followers in Israel.
Sunday, August 12, 2007
What are the Dads called?
"Geri Halliwell - GLAMs - glamorous lone alpha mums, along with the likes of Sadie Frost and Patsy Kensit" (ps. I would like to know why Patsy and Sadie classify as alphas unless it means they have famous dads for their babies)
From highly reputable, Hello! magazine which I have to say I am missing like mad (although I did see an Hola! today).
MILFS - US version of Yummy Mummy
Friend in NYC had not heard of Yummy Mummy and only use MILFs.
From highly reputable, Hello! magazine which I have to say I am missing like mad (although I did see an Hola! today).
MILFS - US version of Yummy Mummy
Friend in NYC had not heard of Yummy Mummy and only use MILFs.
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
Comics are for Adults
In my seemingly endless (well, I haven't found one yet so technically it definitely hasn't ended) search for a Linda Carter as Wonder Woman sticker...I stumbled on yet another cartoon slash comic book slash superhero haven store in between 49th and 48th Street.
Full of 35+ y.o. blokes, buying loads of comics. There was a queue. It was dusty, dark, kind of like a porn shop but full of comic fans instead of pervs. They were buying at least 50 at a time and the bundle was put in brown paper bag so yeah, a lot like a porn shop!
I almost bought a Linda Carter as Wonder Woman limited edition statuette for $194.95 but came to my senses.
It reminded me as have just completed a research project on Marketing to the Olders and it came up in my search:
Comics for Adults
In 1989, the average age of a customer at Joe Field's comic book store in Concord was 18. Today, it's almost 30. Moreover, Field estimates that buyers under 18 account for less than 20 percent of his sales.
Field's experience at his shop, Flying Colors Comics, is anything but unique. The comics business has learned to survive and grow by appealing to adults instead of kids. And that has opened the door to increasingly mature and edgy material, some of it within famously mainstream comics.
Almost no one talks any longer about comics being a sneakily artful way of getting kids to read. There is even some fear that the current waves of adult customers represent the last generations of comics readers.
Some recent research by DC Comics may include insights on readership by age, but the company declined to discuss its findings.
Brian Hibbs, owner of the Comix Experience store in San Francisco, makes the argument that cultivating adult readers is ``better for the maturity of the medium'' artistically.
The adult audience is more demanding, although Field and Hibbs believe that some of their older regulars are buying for children as well as themselves. Many retailers argue that kids are reading even if they're not buying, and anyone who spends time in large bookstores has noticed the packs of youngsters sprawled in aisles while reading manga (translated Japanese comics).
``That a special line of books has to be produced for kids shows that even the major companies know their readership is aging,'' Simpson writes. ``I am really convinced that the monthly periodical version of comics will steadily decline and that the trade paperback will be the only print survivor comics.''
Lee Hester, owner of the Lee's Comics stores in Mountain View and San Mateo, says comics have become a specialty market instead of a mass medium and that the trend is ``to go more adult.''
The danger of being unable to replace aging customers is real, Hester says.
(Comics woo adults (and kiss off kids); EDGIER MAINSTREAM MATERIAL BOOSTS PUBLISHERS' REVENUE TODAY, BUT IT COULD RISK GENRE'S FUTURE, 28 February 2007, San Jose Mercury New)
Full of 35+ y.o. blokes, buying loads of comics. There was a queue. It was dusty, dark, kind of like a porn shop but full of comic fans instead of pervs. They were buying at least 50 at a time and the bundle was put in brown paper bag so yeah, a lot like a porn shop!
I almost bought a Linda Carter as Wonder Woman limited edition statuette for $194.95 but came to my senses.
It reminded me as have just completed a research project on Marketing to the Olders and it came up in my search:
Comics for Adults
In 1989, the average age of a customer at Joe Field's comic book store in Concord was 18. Today, it's almost 30. Moreover, Field estimates that buyers under 18 account for less than 20 percent of his sales.
Field's experience at his shop, Flying Colors Comics, is anything but unique. The comics business has learned to survive and grow by appealing to adults instead of kids. And that has opened the door to increasingly mature and edgy material, some of it within famously mainstream comics.
Almost no one talks any longer about comics being a sneakily artful way of getting kids to read. There is even some fear that the current waves of adult customers represent the last generations of comics readers.
Some recent research by DC Comics may include insights on readership by age, but the company declined to discuss its findings.
Brian Hibbs, owner of the Comix Experience store in San Francisco, makes the argument that cultivating adult readers is ``better for the maturity of the medium'' artistically.
The adult audience is more demanding, although Field and Hibbs believe that some of their older regulars are buying for children as well as themselves. Many retailers argue that kids are reading even if they're not buying, and anyone who spends time in large bookstores has noticed the packs of youngsters sprawled in aisles while reading manga (translated Japanese comics).
``That a special line of books has to be produced for kids shows that even the major companies know their readership is aging,'' Simpson writes. ``I am really convinced that the monthly periodical version of comics will steadily decline and that the trade paperback will be the only print survivor comics.''
Lee Hester, owner of the Lee's Comics stores in Mountain View and San Mateo, says comics have become a specialty market instead of a mass medium and that the trend is ``to go more adult.''
The danger of being unable to replace aging customers is real, Hester says.
(Comics woo adults (and kiss off kids); EDGIER MAINSTREAM MATERIAL BOOSTS PUBLISHERS' REVENUE TODAY, BUT IT COULD RISK GENRE'S FUTURE, 28 February 2007, San Jose Mercury New)
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Times are a changin'
Overheard on a G train, Sunday, Brooklyn NY
A dad explaining to his son and daughter that "the world has changed, you can be anything you want to be these days, there's nothing wrong with that" when they asked why there were five men dressed as ladies in the carriage. He touched his daughter's cheek and said "they want to be like you".
The lead drag queen thanked the father for encouraging his children to understand and not judge others.
Then the other hideous, screetchy drag queens with bad wigs ruined the moment by swearing (F and C words) in front of the children, calling each other beATCHes before toddling off in their heels into the real world.
A dad explaining to his son and daughter that "the world has changed, you can be anything you want to be these days, there's nothing wrong with that" when they asked why there were five men dressed as ladies in the carriage. He touched his daughter's cheek and said "they want to be like you".
The lead drag queen thanked the father for encouraging his children to understand and not judge others.
Then the other hideous, screetchy drag queens with bad wigs ruined the moment by swearing (F and C words) in front of the children, calling each other beATCHes before toddling off in their heels into the real world.
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