Dish #62 - West Coast: Close-ups

The Dish: So many colours, so many textures in this world. I love the little red mittens. So fuzzy...so furry. (I meant to upload these yesterday but internet access is limited in the mountains. Click on them to enlarge...for a little bit.)

Dish #61 - West Coast: Prairiescape.

The Dish: The pastel colours of the prairies and near-mountain zones...
Vast, industrial, barren and always a little smoky...but in a good way. 10 photos of my trip out west so far. Mostly taken in South Dakota and Wyoming. I hope you find the colours as soothing as I do.

Dish #60 - no.9 witchcraft.

The Dish: I just came across this video of Nicole Fox (ANTM Cycle 13 winner) with two other models (Rachel Ballinger and Daria Plyushko) in a promotion for Wildfox Couture Fall 2010 Collection. It's vintage porcelain dolls meets voodoo floral princess. Eerie and intriguing. Some still shots from the Wildfox website. I love Nicole's red fiery hair. I want the pink leggings in the last photo (also at 0:37)!

Dish #59 - A Thing for Dramatic Flair.

I love K-Drama: Just finished watching 'IRIS'. So the storyline got a little far-fetched but you can't help but watch it for Lee Byung Hun, who's pretty damn gorgeous for his age. Not that I'm a stalker (really, I'm not) but I had to search for some gossip. Lucky me, it seems that K-Drama doesn't end on screen. It looks like the 40-year old actor (who plays Storm Shadow in the last year's G.I. Joe movie) just ended a lawsuit involving his 22-year old ex-girlfriend suing him for luring her into bed with the falsehood of a promised marriage. (Yah, my reaction exactly, huh?) The plaintiff allegedly gave up her entire career as a rhythmic gymnast/prima donna at York University and followed him home to Korea. Omg, LMAO, what a joke. Is she sued him for dating her, sleeping with her or being a jerk for dumping her? It's 2010 and it's called having a relationship with a big shot actor who's a player. Goodness girl, he's like the George Clooney of Korea - just be happy you got a piece of him. She must not be the brightest patch of green in the field and he's got millions and never filched for a second when she sued him. Oh, she allegedly now owns a Tae Kwon Do centre with her mother and sister somewhere in Ontario. Verdict: Big Shot Actor vs. Silly College Girl ... Big Shot Actor wins.

Bling Bling From The Block: JLo has signed a $12-million dollar deal with FOX to join American Idol as a judge. For one season. Geez. The show had its glory days. Signing on Jennifer Lopez is a a desperate act I'd say, even for FOX.

Girls & Gossip: The season premiere of Gossip Girl was hot. Paris is, no doubt, the sexiest city in the world. Blair is desperate to hook up with a real prince and ironically, a post-trauma Chuck assumes a false identity, naming himself Henry Prince. Coincidence, I think not! His new girlfriend is Fleur from the HP franchise and you can't bear to hate her. Oh, and Dan is Brooklyn's newest baby-daddy. Girl & Guns: Nikita. I watched the season premiere last week. It's not the best pilot I've seen but Maggie Q definitely has what it takes to make the line "if looks could kill" completely and deadly believable. Shane West, who plays her former trainer/agent-who-used-to-love-her, isn't bad either. I have faith to keep watching the next couple of episodes. 

Carnivourously Gaga: Talk about bringing food to the table. Lady Gaga's meat dress, designed by Franc Fernandez (for FF's blog and photos of the dress, click here), at the MTV Video Music Awards this past weekend was, to completely understate, different. Once again, Lady Gaga is making a statement about the world (surprise, surprise). During the interview with Ellen Degeneres (who is a vegan - oh the irony), she defends the dress: "...if we don't stand up for what we believe in, if we don't fight for our rights, pretty soon we're gonna have as much rights as the meat on our bones." Hmmm... Sure, Gaga, I see where you're trying to take this but I don't buy it and judging from the look on Ellen's face, she didn't either. But I gotta love Ellen for coming up with a kale dress as a gift to Gaga in return. (Click here for the interview with Ellen.)

Dish #58 - Recover(ies).

The Dish: I'm back!!! I haven't blogged in months. I feel so disconnected from the real world and all the gossip, rumours and gorgeous celebrities. (Yes, this is the blog where I like to promote the shallow side of myself.) My last school term literally sucked all the living soul out of me. Plus the surgery/recovery and getting my wisdom teeth removed last week (still a little swollen - I looked like Tweety Bird at one point), it's a miracle that I still want to blog at all. Anyway, September is almost here which only means real TV shows will start kicking in again. Simply writing that sentence rejuvenated me. But for now, here's to the world of the nasty and dirty.

Til Our Sex Tapes Do Us Apart: Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt are divorced after a 15 month marriage. Spencer quotes himself as a "famewhore" whereas Heidi just wants to "hike and hang out" and stay out of the spotlight. (Wait - wasn't she the one who had like a billion plastic surgeries?) Now little Spence (who apparently always wished to be a porn star - go figure) is trying to sell their sex tapes for lots of money as well as claiming that he holds captive a girl-on-girl vid of his ex-wife and Playboy Playmate Karissa Shannon. It sounds like this battle could go on forever and I've lost interest already.

Whoosh: True Blood stars Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer got married yesterday. Then the latter stripped off his suit and took a plunge into the nearby Pacific Ocean. How fitting...

GossipGossipOMD! As some of you might know, I love Gossip Girl. Season 4 starts off in Paris, France. The entire cast looks super good as per usual. Check out the trailer! Chair <3.