Wicked Halo at Your source for all things wicked and awesome brings some nice scans of the August 2008 Harper’s Bazaar fashion layout featuring Lucy Liu titled “Fashion Olympics”

It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you’re dressed that counts.

Liu as the weightlifter “struggling” with the pair of $3200 Gucci bags is rather amusing*, but all of the shots are great. Still, to afford most of these looks, you’d need to win a few gold medals… and then hock ‘em!

* I was going to say ‘priceless’ but clearly… not

From The Consumerist, Circuit City had a rather extreme reaction to being spoofed by Mad Magazine. From an internal memo:

Immediately remove all issues and copies of “Mad Magazine” from your sales floor. Destroy all copies and throw them away. They are not inventoried, and your store will not incur shrink.

Thank you for your immediate attention to this!

They really need to lighten up and realize what a compliment it is to be parodied by Mad. Head to the site to see the full spoof, it’s a really good one. Especially the sales copy for the Wii.

Update: I was wondering if this was for real considering that while I know some Best Buy stores sell books (and magazines?) I had never seen a Circuit City that sells one. Apparently some (40 out of 700) do and The Consumerist got a letter from their corporate communications department.

What is it about elevators that allow them to retain a distinct memory of the aromas of previous riders? In recent days my morning ride down has been filled with the smell of an over-cologner, wet dog and just this afternoon to go to the grocery store? Corn chips–not the smelly feet kind, just corn chips. I’m used to the elevators at work smelling like dirty rotten smokers, but the scents at home are just weird!

As I was on the bus coming home from the grocery store, a woman comes up waving a scratch-off lottery ticket and says, “I just wanted to share my good news, I just won $100!” I told her congratulations and she giddily went back to her own seat. I had to wonder how much she’d spent on tickets, but no need to be a damper on her triumph.

I’m starting my “At Home Restaurant-Like Week” a little early and thinking about expanding it to a full month. I picked up some Cornish game hens tonight and I’ll try to do something interesting with those and, per some twitter advice, some substantial side dishes. I know game hens are hardly exotic, but I’ve never cooked with them before and a key is that they make for a good sized serving for one person. I don’t expect this experiment to necessarily be full of healthy dishes, but matching portion size to meal size is still important not only for calories, but for boredom. I’m not averse to leftovers, but it would be nice to be able to enjoy a lot of different kinds of dishes in a shorter time span without having to pawn off tupperware onto friends and co-workers.

And I think I may have to start reading Miss Conduct’s Blog. This quote from a January entry about fat-pride and fat-phobia cracked me up:

As I’ve said before, if you think fat people have no self-discipline, consider the fact that they haven’t killed you yet.

No, not that kind of delicious, this kind!

Delicious has revamped their website and it looks pretty amazing. One of the more functional changes, in my opinion?

[W]hy did we switch to delicious.com? We’ve seen a zillion different confusions and misspellings of “del.icio.us” over the years (for example, “de.licio.us”, “del.icio.us.com”, and “del.licio.us”), so moving to delicious.com will make it easier for people to find the site and share it with their friends.

They included a video that shows off the new look and features. It’s funny that this comes right around the time I’m considering removing the delicious bookmarks from my daily feed because I’m trying to cut down my RSS feed to just the blog content and I’ll add pages to my site with bookmarks, google shared stories and of course, the blogroll in the coming month.

Definitely a change for the better!

If you think the scoreboard is busy, you should sit through a game! It was a really fun time though. When I told some friends I was invited to a Nats game they all said, “What the hell do you know about baseball?” To which I countered, “Who cares, they have a suite!”

Before I start rambling on, it was really good to meet some of the TMG Strategies social media people and meet/see the bloggers behind:

• Somewhat Frank
• D.C.Girl@TheMovies
• V.U.B.O.Q.
• ShallowGal

Standing in the Will Call line, twice, makes me think that the park really needs to figure out a way to print validated pre-paid tickets at home. The line was 1/4 as long at the “purchase now” line about 40 mins before game time, and it was over 1/2 as long at 10 mins prior and they really weren’t moving people through quickly. Also a lot of people in the Will Call line thought it was the Purchase line and had to be sent back.

Once inside, the smell of the ballpark is unmistakable… no.. wait.. that’s not the ballpark, that’s… FOOD! And way more than the usual ballpark fare. Thankfully I’d had a small snack before leaving the house, so I wasn’t tempted, but after hearing so many complaints about the price of stuff at the park, I can understand why — the will to resist the goodies has got to be shot after getting a whiff. And that’s just the main (2nd) entry level, when you head up to the 3rd level with the deck seating and suites, it’s like a completely different world. Air-conditioning, bars (that oddly resemble airport bars/eateries), cocktail bars (I had to giggle when one of their signature cocktails was a Dirty Queen) and good sampling of concession stands, again with the intoxicating aroma that seems to say, “Game? What game? You look hungry!”

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