There’s all this talk of Marco Pierre White being totally 4 real in the kitchen and everything, but it’s left to one half of Two Fat Ladies to raise the authentic culinary stakes: Clarissa Dickson Wright (um, right - you know, the one that's not dead) is being prosecuted for alleged hare coursing, which has been illegal since the fox-hunting ban.
Not literally, obv. I must be feeling intergalactic today because every post is about love, love, love. Jennifer Saunders, on my list since childhood thanks to that French & Saunders sketch where they drop half a Tic-Tac and throw shapes to the Home & Away theme tune, is back with a new BBC2 series, The Life And Times Of Vivienne Vyle.
Watch the video at the wonderful Jezebel, who are going up in my already high estimation because they post about everything. Missy. does. Loves it.
So Song Of The Day isn't always going to be a new band. Today it is L'il Kim, because I've been listening to her all weekend, and because she's so ridiculously too much, and because this picture looks nice on the homepage.
You know that famous Guerrilla Girls campaign around the Oscars back in 2002? The one about the US Senate being more progressive than Hollywood, because just 4% of directors are female? Adjust the figures: someone defected. Larry Wachowski, of the Matrix-making Wachowski Brothers, recently completed the transition from male to female, and, intriguingly, will be talking to the press about becoming Lana.
Props to the extreme ridiculousness of German talk show host Eva Herman, who showed extreme awareness of her nation’s politically-sensitive history by expressing admiration for Nazi “values like the family, children and motherhood...
Remember us posting about the French author Mazarine Pingeot, who wrote a novel with more than a passing resemblance to an open case? Distasteful, perhaps, but Pingeot just isn’t going far enough to shock.
Everyone (OK, literally me and one other person on googlechat today) talks about Marc Jacobs’ boyfriend Jason Preston having his boo's logo tattooed on his forearm. Kind of weird. Kind of funny. Imagine if he shacked up with the head of Asda.
Amy Winehouse not only impressed the industry-packed audience at the Mercury Music Prize last night, she used the down-time of the interval to cure AIDS, cancer and the common cold.
And why are John et Jehn our Song Of The Day?
