Condé Nast announced yesterday that they were closing four magazines, shockingly including Gourmet. (Click here for the NYT article on the subject.) Cookie? Never heard of it. But Gourmet? I was disappointed when Domino folded, but at least Domino was a relatively new magazine. Gourmet is practically a grand dame by magazine standards, in print for nearly seventy years. Wow.
Wow. I know Portfolio‘s “Confessions of a TARP Wife” is being lambasted all over the internet, but I could not resist posting this bit on nonsense here on Femmeiniste too. It is just.that.ridiculous.
To make a long story short, the wife of a Banking CEO has written an article discussing how she and her husband have had to cut back on their lifestyle in the wake of the collapsing economy.
Among the choice bits: they now have to fly commercial, skip opening night at the Metropolitan Opera and downsized the husband’s lavish annual birthday party.
OH, THE HORROR!
Ok, people. Someone at Allure has it out for Blake Lively. How else to explain what might just possibly be the worst magazine cover I have ever seen?
Lest you think I exaggerate, I present you with Exhibit A:
Yikes.
HOLY BAD COVER, BATMAN!
The extreme close-up and the uneven eye makeup = good god, no (!) on so many friggin’ levels.
That’s right, gals. Femmeiniste is going there. Fasten your seatbelts because we may be in for a bumpy ride.
Welcome to our new weekly feature, The Ann Coulter Award, where I take down those women in the public eye who make me cringe with embarrassment for my sex. Our inaugural award winner and target numero uno is Ann Coulter, conservative pseudo-pundit and all-around vicious hate monger who appeared on Larry King’s show this week spouting her usual brand of nonsense. read more »
I have a date this weekend.
Me. A big cup of coffee. My couch. And Michelle.
Happy days are here again.