Popculturemadness says this is Britney's new single.

Say it ain't so.

For the girl who ultimately hopped on the cat-eye liquid liner trend way before all the fashion mags did, Amy Winehouse sure has horrible self esteem.

Check out this bit from the London Sunday Times. If you're like me, you'll feel sorry for her the next 950 times you hear "Rehab" on KISS-FM.

Now for more about the feline beauty trend. I read the 840-page September Vogue last night and I must say the main trend piece I gleaned from it was: a bold and/or red lip combined with vampy liquid liner is the thing to do this fall. Winehouse has been sporting that look like she took a friggin Sharpie to her eyelids for months now. Don't be so hard on yourself, Amy.

I also noticed a fun uni-brow/concealer-colored lip chic statement, but we'll forget about that one.

Here's Miu Miu giving you the intense red lip. I like!






















Miss Scarlet Johansson for Louis Vuitton, working that eyeliner:


















Other than that, you're seriously screwed this fall if you are allergic to feathers of anykind.

So picking a costume for Halloween is usually the bane of my existence. You have to sift through wads of latex-y, corsetted slut-gear to find something that won't land you in jail. It's either that or the ironically covered up look like a shirt that says "this is my Halloween costume." That inevitably would make me feel like Janeane Garafalo.

So anyway...I think I had an epiphany today. I will be Jem of Jem and the Holograms.
I get to paint a sweet star on my face, wear a light pink wig and say things like, "truly outrageous!"

I freakin love the 80s...and um, how great is this Jem VS Le Tigre mashup?

Fly fishing. Needlepoint. Cooking paella. All things easier said than done.

Responding to a question in the Miss Teen USA beauty pageant? Apparently that's also easier said than done for Miss Teen USA South Carolina. A sad day for South Carolina...and for the U.S. because you KNOW other countries have this on repeat on their 11 o'clock news tonight.

Well, ladies. It's the end of an era. I knew it was coming, but I didn't realize how saddened I'd be. JANE magazine, purveyor of irreverance in the world of women's magazines (that world usually consists of bronzer and sex how-tos), is officially kaput.

What other magazine is going to give me Zooey Deschanel on the cover and tips on how to not look hungover at work? Dammit!!

This is the crap I get when I go to http://www.janemag.com/. Behold. (Click for legible-ness...if that's a word.)

















The same crap happened to me months ago when I went to http://www.formemagazine.com/, only to be cryptically sent to the Web site for Woman's Day. Ew.

You probably think I'm months behind, but I'm really not. I'm also a JANE subscriber, so today I received a pretty unceremonious direct mail card in my mailbox stating: "JANE has stopped publishing."

Really? Thanks for telling me, because I sure as hell don't have my September issue yet!

It goes on to state that I'll be receiving Allure in its place, and if I already subscribe, it will be tacked onto my subscription. Hey, I get business - I know it's also a Conde Nast publication, but why the hell would a JANE subscriber also read Allure?

I am now forced to receive monthly the magazine with the same "grunge chic" font on its cover since the mid-90s. The magazine that can devote 16 pages to the debate over cream vs. gel blush. The magazine that allowed Britney on their cover without even demanding an interview. Puh-lease.

Allure is probably giddy with their circulation numbers that are going to jump.

So to do the glossy rag justice, I'm going to recall my most-remembered JANE moments, stream-of-consciouness style:

• Annemarie Conte chronicling her eight-hour work day in a "nude" office environment...I vividly remember her discussing their use of disposable plastic "chair covers"
  
• the editor's letter featuring a photo of a subway sandwich emblazoned with mustard that stated "I will not be ignored!"...this lovely treat was used to woo a male, showing how aggressive behavior can make guys freak the eff out


• the graphically adorable six degrees of separation expose on HBO's "Big Love"
  
• The same 5 questions we always ask - what other magazine can ask the same damn questions over and over and it's not boring? My favorite question was, "craziest place you've ever had sex?"
  
• Their party ideas that highly encouraged anti-Martha habits such as faking it with takeout and providing beers in the can

Sigh. Such a good run. RIP, JANE.

Here come the next high/low fashion concepts at Target. I have to say I'm pretty excited that Target is taking an active interest in this "high-fashion-for-the-masses" thing.

According to Fashion Week Daily, Jessie Randall of Loeffler Randall (the girl whose apartment I so adored in the September 2006 issue of Domino Magazine - see "For Like Ever" poster that I had to have and is now sitting propped up against the wall in my living room) has been tapped to design a collection for Target next year.

If she cooks up anything close to what her normal collection is like, I'll be at "Tar-jay" the day the line debuts! I didn't even know about the Hollywould/Target partnership until like, five minutes ago, but at first glance I am not impressed.

Feeling a Funeral Hooker vibe, or is that just me?











Source: nitro:licious

Diaper bags to the D-list stars?





















Source: nitro:licious

The Hollywould line runs at Target from October 21, 2007 through January 19, 2008, according to nitro:licious.

Also, there are still a bazillion tickets left for the Pet Shop Boys concert at the Hollywood Bowl on Thursday, September 27. If anyone is interested in rocking out to the men behind "Absolutely Fabulous," let me know. There's some really great shows coming up at the Bowl, by the way:

Upcoming acts Brazilian Girls, Jason Bentley (I heart KCRW) & Pink Martini spark my interest. Hmm. Also heard some good things about Madeleine Peyroux, but never heard her music. But, I always like a good French jazz singer. Did that just make me sound pretentious? That was the idea. Although, I did just check her out on iTunes and she recorded a track with Elliott Smith, so I'm going to have to delve deeper.

So my roommate made my font HUGE on my Internet options last night and it's driving me crazy. It makes me feel very inept and quite like a Boomer with bad eyesight.

This led me to a thought - is it nerdy that I think a good practical joke would be to default someone's font to Comic Sans on their computer? Because that would drive me friggin' nuts!

Hence my love of http://bancomicsans.com/home.html.

I am resurrecting this blog, because I feel I need to do the domain justice. Since my life has been all about monitoring blogs for the past three weeks, I figured I might as well see if "beege.blogspot.com" was taken yet, if I ever felt the need to get blog-a-riffic.

So a swift Google search relayed to me that sadly, my namesake was taken on Blogspot already. But what was this...a post from January 2004 that sounds bitter and talks about graduating? Wow - it's me! So here I am, deleting said post, and starting over. Bringing this blog back from the dead.