when i die, joel can have all my flams

this UES drama queen left all kinds of flams to her manicurist, the guy who kept her car alarm from going off, her doorman, the coat check lady at the salon, the Met, etc.

my benefactors would include:
- the manager at the Steinway Salvation Army
- my beloved coffee guy on the corner of 6th and 22nd
- the gay grocery store clerk at Associated
- the halal guy on 34th ave with the glasses

who would you bequeath your flams to?

fran lebowitz in elle

her style is certainly not my favorite thing about her, but i could listen to her talk about anything.

When we were young, we knew things. We knew basic history, even as it related to fashion. Now, when something reappears, an 18 year old has no clue that it's a revival. Despite the fact that they're almost always online they don't get references.

I think that's part of why visual things are becoming so derivative. Designers now, they all have these things called mood boards. I suppose they think a sense of discovery equals invention. It would be as if every writer had a board with paragraphs of other writers—'Oh, I'll take a little bit of this, and that, he was really good.' Yes, he was really good! And that is not a mood board, it is a stealing board.

READ IT.

our blessed mother TINA TURNER is getting gay married to her boyfriend

congrats tina.

we wish you all the happiness in the world. sitting on a pile of money in switzerland.

harry and peter brant at a punk met ball afterparty

just in case you were wondering

the rich lesbian widow stirrin' up troubs in washington.

if you're like me, when you heard about the upcoming supreme court case involving edie windsor and the $300,000+ estate tax she's being asked to pay for inheriting the estate of her wife, thea spyer, you thought, "those fancy-named ladies sound rrriiiiiicccccchhhhhh..."

...and you wanted to know more about their life together. nymag has a brief piece with an accompanying slideshow.

During this vacation—one of many—the pair tried to stay only in hotel rooms with water views. “[One] day, we were in the Piazza San Marco, and Thea kept protecting me from the Italian guys. Finally one of them said to her, in this strong Italian accent, ‘If you love her, kiss her!’ She didn’t, though. We were still young enough that we just hustled out.” They arrived back in New York the morning after the Stonewall riots. (via)

i hope edie gets to keep every last penny of that gay marriage $$$$$$$$$$$$