Dispatches and Dish

I made a trek to Appleton today to the lovely Fox Valley shopping mall to look for something to wear to a wedding I’m attending next weekend. The inevitable wrath of camisoles was like a virus spreading from store to store. The camisole (note to designers), is not so flattering on middle-aged women with flabby upper arms and breasts that don’t fit so neatly into tiny triangles. I tried to hike mine up by using a string to tie the straps up like a holster, but then I just looked like an out of proportioned sausage. I then attempted to re-arrange my boobs like I was working with model clay - molding them into these small triangular mountains, but to no avail. It was humiliating.

I did score the latest W magazine (July 2005) with Brad and Angelina on the cover. Interesting shots (60-page spread), but I was hoping for something a little dirtier. I love the “Suzy” column – lots of celebrity and high society dish. Great little blurb on Joan Rivers attending some Garden ball dressed like a crazed exotic bird. Her entrance to the ball was described as, “…you could almost see her coming before she arrived (p. 51).” Katie Holmes will be on the cover of the next issue. Supposedly she was escorted to the interview by her Scientologist chaperone, Jessica Rodriguez. Katie was quoted as saying, “Tom and I will always be in our honeymoon phase.” Aaahh, youth. It’ll get you every time.

Willie Nelson is releasing a reggae album? What’s that all about?