Friday Fun Day!

Hey All - Happy hot, muggy, humid Friday! And I'm not at the beach! Pfft!

Anyway lots of news today. First, the show I have been working on all spring and summer finally airs tonight! Making Over America with Trinny & Susannah starts on TLC tonight at 10pm. It's gotten a great week of press (Live w/ Regis & Kelly, On Air w/ Alexa Chung). Check out this article in the New York Times. They are hilarious, wonderful women and I am really excited! My non-existent summer seems to have been worth it.


Also a friend of mine, Mike Bonfiglio (shout out!), produced a documentary that will be playing around the country in the next few months starting at the IFC center in New York in September. It's called Crude. It's about big oil and an indigenous group in Ecuador's Amazon. Check out the trailer here as well as when it will be playing near you. For my family in Dallas...it's playing there so go see it! Also getting great reveiws, it was at Sundance and has appeared in many other festivals as well. Mike's many treks to the jungle also seem to have been worth it...


Ok...now for some Talking Points. I've been saving them up all week. Thanks to the mysterious mastermind behind them...

• http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/13/fashion/13POTBELLY.html?ref=fashion
• This one is for Jane, it’s about smart babies: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/opinion/16gopnik.html?_r=1&em
• The dude who fell through the sidewalk: http://gothamist.com/2009/08/17/unlucky_outside_otb_bettor_falls_th.php
• Ew ew ew – stay away from Sleepy’s: http://ctwatchdog.com/2009/08/14/sleepys-the-bedbug-column-the-courant-refused-to-publish-about-its-prime-advertiser
• Interesting blind item diet: http://blindgossip.com/?p=12204
• This article is a lot like, “Who Moved My Cheese,” if anyone was into that book: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/18/science/18angier.html?_r=1&em
• Jeez Louise , Fiji Water!: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/09/fiji-spin-bottle
• Human Behavior: http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/truth_or_lies/
• Holy crap – this is obsessive!: http://www.unlikelywords.com/2009/08/17/everything-don-draper-said-season-1/
• What’s with the wrong-way drivers? Not cool. I have decided that everyone on the road is just drunk: http://www.app.com/article/20090817/NEWS/90817100/1004/NEWS01/Wrong-way+driver+causes+2+accidents+on+Parkway+in+Hazlet
• Oh boy – Russian mob news: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/08/18/2009-08-18_brooklyn_couples_basement_searched_by_feds.html
• I am still counting on a Sean/Madonna hook-up: http://www.nypost.com/seven/08182009/gossip/pagesix/unhappy_ending_for_sean_penn_185091.htm
• How does Blind Gossip get all this info?: http://blindgossip.com/?p=12227
• I think this is interesting, I’m still in the middle of reading it: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/19/us/19terror.html?_r=2&hp
• Yes! Insane Sandwiches!: http://www.insanewiches.com/
• Granted, I don’t really follow Archie, but this is surprising: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/18/AR2009081802044.html?hpid=features1&hpv=national
• Park Slope scaffolding collapse! I’ve always liked this building: http://gothamist.com/2009/08/18/worker_killed_in_park_slope_scaffol.php
• They’re all bananas. All of them! I love it. I’m sorry.: http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/08/19/2009-08-19_best_of_the_rest.htm
• Blindy!: http://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2009/08/todays-blind-items_18.html
• Not cool, Libya : http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/22/world/europe/22lockerbie.html?_r=1&hp
• Also not cool, Bush administration: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-na-ridge-terror21-2009aug21,0,2931941.story
• Really not cool, Teterboro – Get your act together!: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-na-ridge-terror21-2009aug21,0,2931941.story
• Super not cool, movie-going public: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/21/movies/21stars.html?_r=1&hp
• Not cool, boring gossip: http://www.nypost.com/seven/08212009/gossip/pagesix/earliest_barbra_on_the_block_185557.htm
• Yay! This is cool! A million Michael Musto blind items!: http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-08-18/columns/blind-items-about-raw-sex-and-meth-habits/

And finally the pic of the post!

Because you can't a) pass this sign without laughing, b) drive back around the block to make sure you read it right or c) stop and get out to pretend you are sneezing and, well, you get it.

Enjoy the weekend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!