let me refer you to me.

as i was visiting the ghosts of blog posts past, i came across a good one. even if you are already in a good mood, this will only help.

not heelarious.

if you saw the daily show last night, then you've already heard of the newest and most shocking product -

high heel shoes for babies.

that's right. a company called heelarious (ha ha... not.) has been selling heels for 0-6 months old babies. they are all designed to look like stiletto heels (aside from a few pairs that are cowboy boots), but the whole thing is made out of some mushy material so if your 0-6 month old kid were to try to walk anywhere, the heel would just sort of mush down and collapse. i'm already opposed to kids dressing as adults, but this is above and beyond. can anyone explain why this is necessary? why does this even exist? who would buy these for their kid?

and it continues.

first off, if you're wondering where you can turn for mj news (i know, i know... we've been bombarded with it for almost a full week now), tmz.com is the place to go. considering they were the first to post he was dead, i kind of trust them in this. but they have just been flying off the handle with a new mj story every 4 seconds. here are two good ones in the on-going saga of madness:

#1: i knew it was too nuts to be true. the jackson family is now saying there will be no public viewing of mj at neverland tomorrow. whew! when i heard about reporters going there to camp out for days to get a good spot for pics, and all of the crazies who would descend onto the property.... it was just too much. glad it's no longer happening (well, we'll see what happens between now and tomorrow), but sorry to all those folks who were psyched about it...

#2: some chick is claiming to be mj's wife. first off, her name is Nona Paris Lola Ankhesenamun Jackson. can you say crazy?! that's my first clue. then she says, "all my husband's properties, monies and assets must be transferred to me immediately" and "my husband's body must be returned to the coroner or the mortuary immediately." uh, i don't think so, lady. if you are at all still in doubt that she is beyond nuts, she claims, "though he died to this earth he lives with my father Satan the Devil Khalid Lucifer." yes, please return mj's kids to her. great idea....

crazy time.

um, what? apparently things are getting even farther removed from whatever you learned in biology.

now, tmz is reporting that both debbie rowe AND mj are not the biological parents (of mike jr and paris; blanket is another story). not only were they conceived in-vitro (with debbie serving only as a surrogate, not an egg donor), but apparently it wasn't even mj's sperm either! who do these kids come from?! with blanket - apparently there was also only a surrogate, and the surrogate didn't even know who the kid she was carrying was going to (mj came 3 days later to pick up the kid. or atleast his lackeys.)

additionally, mj never formally/officially adopted any of these kids. since there was no one else who could really otherwise claim them, maybe he didn't think it was necessary? therefore, these were just some random kids he made and had living with him? ack. poor kidlets. hopefully this mess gets sorted out, for their sake.

i thought i'd never see it again.

i really thought this only happened at brandeis. but today, the nytimes let me know that air new zealand just made a new in-flight safety video with all of their pilots, flight attendants, etc in body paint. it's kind of hilarious. i'm curious to know what the meeting was like when they came up with this idea...

thank you, e.

today, you are the king of linkage.

need some europe?

so, we finally made it to the cloisters this weekend! considering im obsessed with early christian-y art, this was a delight for me. (i almost bought a book that only had paintings of the crucifixion. i'm cool.) you might also like it if you enjoy: museums, beautiful parks, flowers, architecture, getting out of the heart of nyc. seriously - gorgeous scenery, lovely smelling flowers, beautiful views high above the hudson river. maybe you will even run into the tai-chi-shadow-boxing-zombie man who managed to entertain us for a good half hour.

in other news, apparently farah fawcett is not alone. i still maintain it was ok that mj eclipsed her death (come on people! we knew she was going to die since like, forever!), but it's interesting to see how many other celebs deaths were overshadowed by cooler dead people. sorry, ray charles....