Another Reason Not to Wear Flesh-Tone Lipstick

Pamela Anderson, who turns 43 on July 1st, at some opening last night.

You know that stretch of the 101 between Sunset and Alvarado?

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Abnough Already

Preeminent putz and "Jersey Shore" lunchmeathead Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino on the red carpet last night.

Okay, we get it. You go to the gym and you tan, and you pull up your shirt at every opportunity.

Does this work outside of New Jersey? And if it does, must it?

Real Gone Places: The Sattler Theatre

That's what's left of the terra cotta masterpiece, the Sattler Theatre, at 516 Broadway in Buffalo, New York, built by architect Henry L. Spann, on commission by John G. Sattler, a real estate tycoon who later owned a department store. It cost $35,000 to build it in 1914 (about $760,000 in 2010 dollars).

It later became the Broadway, then Basil's Broadway, and then the Joy Temple (a church), it was then abandoned and fell into disrepair.


In 2008, it was announced that the non-profit Western New York Minority Media Professionals Inc. would spend upwards of $1 million to renovate the vacant property for use as its headquarters and as a performing arts center.

I tried to call them, but their website offers a non-working number. Status of the project: unknown. This is what they proposed.


Click this link for a slideshow by the brilliant photographer, David Torke, of fixBuffalo blog, showing how The Sattler looked circa 2007.

Shore Thing

Mack Sennett Bathing Beauty Marie Prevost in Laguna Beach in 1916...


and "Jersey Shore" trashlet Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi in Miami Beach in 2010.

That's entertainment.

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Camilla -- Good Lighting, Bad Saints

Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, looking appropriate, visits the crypt of the Orthodox Cathedral of Saints Cyril and Methodius in Prague.

This graven image should make it clear to everyone what Charles sees in her.

Cyril, btw, was a Jew-hater, and Methodius was a real pain. But they also created the Glagolitic and Cyrillic alphabets.

This picture of Camilla makes a fine desktop wallpaper (tiled).

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Amy Goes Goth

My imaginary daughter Amy, 6, spent a long weekend with her mother, Carolyn and her boyfriend Fahd, visiting with Carolyn's relatives in Massachusetts. As you can see by the above photo, Amy returned as a Goth. Yes, I know she's big for six. I was especially reminded when I insisted on taking temporary custody of her new tee shirt, a gift from her Aunt Crystal.

This unfortunate episode seems to have been prompted by Carolyn's sister Crystal's new look, as seen below. I haven't seen Crystal for over ten years, not quite long enough to create a comfortable distance. Amy tells me, "Aunt Crystal's apartment looks like those places on 'Clean House' on Style Network. Before."


Now, I'm all for Amy's sense of self-expression, but my encouragement runs into some paternal hesitancy at fingerless gloves, black nail polish and cringeworthy nose jewelry. I was thankful, at least, that her tattoo was temporary, like her mother's civility. Amy modified her look with this cheery tee shirt so we could attend her school's father/imaginary daughter conference.


I drove Amy back to her mother's, where we found Carolyn outside, waiting, barefooted, for what she said was a "Domino's delivery." As you can see by her expression, she was delighted to see me. Nearly as delighted as her second toe was with its ring.


It was a rough flight back for Carolyn. Her boyfriend, Fahd, was bounced off the plane when he didn't fit in his seat. Amy took this pic with her Hello Kitty iPhone.


This apparently ended with some type of scuffle in which a flight attendant, Geraldo, was not just hurt, but offended.


Amy said, "Geraldo reminded me of you, Ricky. Only cuter. And younger."

Camilla -- Crisis Center

Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, gets that crunky look while listening to staff on a visit to Haven Paddington, one of three London Sexual Assault Referral Centres.

Cam opted for her blue upholstered jacket, made from the remnants of a settee at Clarence House... the stuffing is her. She is apparently having her hair done by a new stonecutter. It rocks.

Camilla wears the cheery expression of a royal... in need of a colonic.

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I Will Cut Me!

Shiite Muslim men and boys assault themselves with chains and blades in Kabul, Afghanistan during Ashura -- a 10-day mourning period for Imam Hussein, who was killed in a battle in Iraq in 680 AD.


Self-flagellation... when you care enough to send the very best.

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