August 18 2008
Cross-Dressing Gymnast and Other Choice Links
posted by Ana Samways at 2:08 pm
Peruse the galleries of LP Cover Lover.
Friday’s episode of The Jaquie Brown Diaries on TV3 outdid itself. Brown, with her self-deprecating “Bridget Jones” appeal is looking for love (or at least a shag). After her date with Anthony Starr ends abruptly, Brown ends up getting drunk, spewing on a lapdog at a nightclub and waking up in bed with Anika Moa. Watch it here. (The corn should be mentioned, but I don’t have the words)
The winners of the 2008 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest — for the opening sentence that’s so-bad-it’s-good — have been announced. This is the winner of the Purple Prose category…
The mongrel dog began to lick her cheek voraciously with his sopping wet tongue, so wide and flat and soft, a miniature pink fleshy cape soaked through and oozing with liquid salivary gratitude; after all, she had rescued him from the clutches of Bernard, the curmudgeonly one-eyed dogcatcher, whose own tongue — she remembered vividly the tongues of all her lovers — was coarse and lethargic, like a slug in a sandpaper trenchcoat.
Ad gets away with murder: An ad campaign using the sexy corpse idea has to be the stupidest and most pretentious idea ever. Post Brokeback Mountain Wrangler jeans tries to rebrand themselves as less fey cowboy and more edgy. They fail miserably with a series of print ads running in France featuring a model floating face down in a lake and another lying in a muddy bog. But the post mortem TV generation probably thinks it fine.
Now Spain’s tennis team is caught posing like the Basketball dickheads.
Speedo plans to capitalise on Michael Phelps’ wins in Beijing by making its NASA designed LZR Racer swim suits available for the general public to buy for US $550 each.
Strange pageants: In the Miss Outdoor Life contestants skin muskrats — there’s also a zombie beauty pageant, which is a great idea.
Picture this: Tin Foil Landscapes by Kimihiko Okada, a Japanese architect who sculpted a 6.5 metre high landscape made from aluminium foil.
Video: Cross-dressing gymnast Paul Hunt does an supremely entertaining floor routine, as Paulette Huntsanova (circa 1988).