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Okay kiddies…KMM’s Shadowfever just downloaded on to my e reader and so here are a few goodies to keep you occupied while I go read.

 

 

Right From Coco Chanel’s Mouth

How cool is THIS??? Stylelite.com found this and posted it on their site.Coco Chanel’s first television interview back in 1959. Warning-this in French so brush up on your “parlez vous francais” or hit up Google translator.

According to the YouTube blurb the interview takes place in Chanel’s office. She’s clad in her signature jacket and hat; brooches attached to both pieces. Huge pearls adorn her ears as she gesticulates — cigarette in hand, of course — and rarely smiles. In fact, she’s kind of scary here.
And what does she think of the collection in the video, as modeled by Marie-Hélène Arnaud? ”It is already outdated. It’s been a week.”

 

 

Stella McCarthy says XXXXL is HAWT for Fall 2011

The McCartney standards were tweaked and trotted out in fine new form: boxy double-breasted coats in camel and Prince of Wales check in longer iterations, thick-gauge sweater dresses, pretty little silk shifts that showed plenty of leg. Long-sleeved wool dresses with apron tops managed to emphasize the bust while revealing not an inch—neat trick.

 

 

I Want Burberry To Adopt Me

I know this is from the men’s line but I likes. For me.

 

Did Elle Overstep The Lines? Again?

Elle India is in hot water again for allegedly digitally lightening the skin of their current cover girl, actress and beauty queen ­Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. On the cover, Bachchan’s skin tone appears many shades lighter than in candid photos and production stills from her Bollywood films.
Bachchan's inside cover story features photos in which her complexion looks just as retouched as the cover itself.
While airbrushing photos is a common practice in the publishing world, this is the second time an edition of Elle has come under fire for digitally enhancing the skin of one of its cover girls in the past several months. The American edition was criticized for its October 2010 issue which featured actress Gabourey Sidibe with noticeably lighter skin than her natural complexion.
In response to that incident, Elle claimed "nothing out of the ordinary" was done.
Elle has yet to comment on the controversy surrounding Bachchan's cover.

What do you think?

Things That Caught My Eye

iPhone DOES do it all

Srsly? You need an APP to show you how to do this? Back in the day you either had it or you didn’t.

 

Those Favres Ain’t Nothin’ But Trouble

Brett Favre isn’t the only on trying to dodge a legal hail of bullets. Brandi Farve, Brett’s sister, was busted in a meth lab raid not 10 miles from the family homestead.
Is it the water there?

 

 

2011 Golden Globes

 

Looks like color was a no show on the red carpet last night as an endless sea of pale gowns and matching faces graced us with their presence. 

 

I think some may have mis read the awards invitation. It was please ATTEND the Golden Globes, not please SHOW your Golden Globes.

And then you have some that I think have been using the iphone roll your own joint app.

 

Damn Spoilers!!!

I'm sure you all know that I have been waiting for KMM’s Shadowfever for, oh, OVER A YEAR! 2 days ago a very unscrupulous retailer LEAKED the first 2 chapters of the book online. WTH? Why would you do that? KMM got wind and went ahead and released the first 2 chapters on her site to counter it. But still. Do you know how HARD it has been for me not to read those 2 chapters? I may be the only on in the world who has not. So to you -Me/Ms I  Needed That Money Really Bad To Break My Contract With A Major Author And Torment Tori So Bad- I say Screw you. I will emerge triumphant!
Only 1 more day. *thud*

 

    WINNERS              LOSERS

 

Marilyn Monroe the Brand??

Being dead seems to pay. Although Marilyn Monroe has been gone for almost 50 years, she can still bring it to the table. Authentic Brands, who also handles Bob Marley’s estate and entertainment licensing company Neca, have decided to pick up the rights to the blonde bombshell’s name. A report from the Financial Times reveals that the new owners of Monroe’s name have big plans for it. Although nothing has been disclosed yet, the deal is rumored to be close to $30 million.

ZOMG

 

And The New Miss America Is…

Nebraska's 17-year-old Teresa Scanlan was named Miss America Saturday becoming the youngest winner ever in the pageant's history.

Personally, I don’t do pageants. Having had a former friend that was all into pageants, I still have nightmares involving spray tanning, fake claws, and a high pitched voice screeching, “OMGGGGGGG, does this make me look fat?”

Unless it’s Toddlers & Tiaras.

Srsly, I’m embarrassed that I watch this show. These mothers are freaking C.R.A.Z.Y. It’s like watching a train wreck. You know it’s going to be bad but you can’t stop watching. After every episode I want to call my mom and tell her I love her.

Only 5 days Left to SAHDOWFEVER!!

That’s right you Moning Manics. Shadowfever releases in 5 days. SQUEEEEE!!!!

I’ll be at Smexybooks today with Mandi (Smexybooks) and Sophia (Fiction Vixen) talking about Dreamfever.

"But for those of us who live large, the most alive we ever feel
is when we're punching air with a fist, uncurling our middle
finger with a cool smile, and flipping Death the big old bird."
MacKayla Lane lies naked on the cold stone floor of a church, at the mercy of the erotic Fae master she once swore to kill. Far from home, unable to control her sexual hungers, MacKayla is now fully under the Lord Master's spell. In the New York Times bestselling author Karen Marie Moning's stunning new novel, the walls between human and Fae worlds have come crashing down. And as Mac fights for survival on Dublin's battle-scarred streets, she will embark on the darkest-and most erotically charged-adventure of her life.

I don’t know about the rest of you, but this book devastated me. DEV.AS.TA.TED. Me. I laughed, I cried, and I threw the book a dozen times as I followed Mac through her journey of pain and revelations.

So come join us over at Smexy Books as we discuss, debate, argue, and drool over Barrons, Mac, V’Lane and all the smexy things in between in Karen Marie Moning’s Dreamfever.

Well, Since You Asked…Books I NEED For 2011

This is a list for Jan-June. I’ll do July-Dec later in the year. Now, this list of books is by all means NOT the only ones I want for next year, but they are the ones I would “knock you down and rip out of your hands”. Just saying. :)

JANUARY
Karen Marie Moning’s Shadowfever. Releases 1/18.

FEBRUARY
Dreams of a Dark Warrior by Kresley Cole. Releases 2/15

MARCH
Invincible by Sherrilyn Kenyon. Releases 3/22

Eternal Rider by Larissa Ione. Releases 3/29

APRIL
Darkest Secret (LOTU) by Gena Showalter. Releases 4/1

Tangled Threads by Jennifer Estep 4/26

MAY
Hard Bitten by Chloe Neill. Releases 5/3
 
Dead Reckoning by Charlaine Harris. Releases 5/3

JUNE
Magic Slays by Ilona Andrews. Releases 6/1

Deeper than Midnight by Lara Adrian. Releases 6/28

Kiss of Snow by Nalini Singh. Releases 6/28

I’m At Smexybooks Talking Barrons, V’Lane and All things Fever

The last and most anticipated book of Karen Moning’s Fever series-Shadowfever-is set to release Jan 18th 2011 and I am STOKED!!! *doing the happy dance*

 

The Fever series is soon coming to an end. *SOB*  This series has been a frustrating, intense, heartbreaking, sob fest, fist pumping, “I can’t get enough of it” series for me since her first one came out-Darkfever. This Urban Fantasy is the perfect blending of action, suspense, pain, humor, and romance. The sheer weight of the arc demands you give all you have to the reading of it and holds your attention of long after the last word is read.

KMM tortured us all through out the series with tidbits, clues, and cliffhangers of such magnitude that you sat there shell shocked then went off to cry amongst friends at the unfairness of it all.

So join me over at Smexybooks along with Mandi(Smexybooks) and Sophia(Fictionvixen) as we begin to re read all of the Fever series in order to be properly primed and pumped for when Shadowfever releases.

If you haven’t read this series-start NOW!! You can get a free e book copy of Darkfever at Amazon, B&N, Sony, and Kobo. Just remember-Barrons is MINE!!