Jezebel
Ed Note: We hear about and see so many stories that we can't find the time to comment on that we're gonna try something new: "Leftovers", a daily "accounting" of the stuff we had to leave behind. Let us know if you like it, and, obviously, feel free to click through on the stories and flesh them out for everybody.
• Oprah sells her old designer clothes to crazy fans. • Oprah to create a "Dr. Oz" TV show. • Central American girls flee abusive homes to join machista street gangs. • Cat poop coffee goes for £50 a cup at Sloane Square, London. • British man can't gain weight, hopes to "cure obesity." • Delude yourself into losing weight! • Miss World contestants have to prove that they actually care about helping people. • Woman photographs endearingly eccentric prostitutes in Las Vegas. • New book claims biological reasons for women becoming flustered and men being idiots. • A 42-year-old woman claims to having been forced to have sex with teens by her lover. • Baby Couture, a new magazine, shills for Prada Kids and makes a play-on-words with "flip-flops." • A man in Louisiana was denied a request to wear a short skirt in public. • Large-breasted gals told ill-fitting bras may be the root of their back pain.
Comments
These all sound like Oprah topics.
I'll back for this after the Adderall kicks in.
I'm too easily flustered to follow this new feature.
Baby Couture magazine? COME THE FUCK ON YOURE NOT EVEN TRYING
i'm fine with the leftover feature, let's make it less homogeneous though.
When I first read that, I hoped Oprah was sharing her love for Oz, the HBO show. Cause Oz is the shit.
I know it doesn't speak to him as a doctor, but does anyone else find it a little weird that Dr. Oz is always in his damn scrubs??? Like, everytime he's on Oprah or another show?
My dad's a doc and I haven't seen him in scrubs outside the hospital since he was in his residency. I could see a surgeon rushing to or from work in their scrubs, or someone in med school, but I would think that'd be about it. If Dr. Oz is trying to make a point or project an image by always wearing them... ok we get it, you're a doctor.
a breakdown like the news roundup might also be easier to read than a giant paragraph separated by dots.
It's against the law for men to wear short skirts in public in Louisiana? Well, the dude just needs to move to Austin then. We have no issues with guys like that. Heck, we'll even vote for one for mayor.
I heard an interview this morning about the landscaper in Louisiana. One of his elderly clients said, "If you don't like it, don't look at it." It made me happy. Especially since no one in the (I would suspect conservative) community has filed a complaint and the police acted o their own volition.
Toomuchlinkinginonespace.
Will Oz be allowed to wear clothes on his show, or has Oprah written it into his contract that it's SCRUBS OR ELSE?
Ooh, I'd like to work for "Baby Couture." I wrote a few articles for "Patrician Toddler," so I think I might have an in!
I like the idea. That way we don't just get what y'all have time to look at, we can link through and look for ourselves. Nice.
Hey great idea! you girls are so smart!
Short skirt man: try a cotton muumuu. Best of all possible worlds. You'll be relieved of painful sweat-build up, and you will remain the target of many jokes and catcalls, and the community will not have to look at your balls.
I'm going to be honest here: I kind of don't care as much about the stories as the editor thoughts and comments below. So I probably won't pay attention to this.
See! I love you more than the links! SMOOCHES!
Cat poop coffee story as a 'Leftover'? LOL!
So what happens to women who wear short skirts in this town in Louisiana and bend over to pick something up? Do they get fined as well?
@JessicaLovejoy: Boosh and/or Kakow!: I've seen him in street clothes. Scrubs are an improvement.
Re: Buy a new bra. It depends on your actual size. I had a reduction and am now a 32DD. No bra no matter how perfectly sized was going to help my back/neck pain before that surgery.
Does he not wear anything underneath? If he has on undies, then why would it be against the law? He isn't exposing himself.
@GTCosita: But if he's not wearing any underwear, I can see why it may be a problem for some peeps.
Cat poop coffee? They really can make anything a delicacy. This, Baby Couture magazine, that lady fused to her toilet, there is no god.
Is there any bad stand-up comedy cliche articles about evolutionary biology can't pretend to explain? In tomorrow's Telegraph: scientists uncover the biological secrets of why a white guy drives a car like this, but a black guy, a black guy drives a car like this.
Banana Republic pants are like $20 on sale.
Poor civets...
@CorporalCabana: I like how they try and make it sound like a wonderful gift.
@briardahl: Tomorrow in the Daily Mail: A team of medical experts uncovers why men won't do the dishes. AM I RIGHT, LADIES?
@DorothyZbornak:
So DID I!!?
@wednesdayam: If you read the article, it says it's against a town law, not state law. Truss, there are way too many drag queens and trans people in places like Baton Rouge and NOLA for this to be a state law.
"Cat poop coffee goes for £50 a cup at Sloane Square, London."
Come to my apartment and I'll give it to you for free. (And my cat only eats organic food -- I wish I were joking.)
I like it! It gives me lots to read at once. Can you tell I'm stuck killing time at home for a few days?
The article about the Las Vegas photographer was pretty good. I especially liked this: "Jonnie was so nervous that she decided to adopt a persona -- in her mind, she was playing Dolly Parton. "'I thought: Everyone likes Dolly Parton.'"
I think that could work for me sometimes!
can someone explain to me about the woman who's lover and ex-brother-in-law made her molest teenagers? i'm so hung up on the ex-brother-in law part (why ex? the common spouse to make them family? why an in-law has such power?), i can't even get upset about the child abuse part.
@ineffable.me: I hear you. Problem is those vertically-bulleted lists take up so much vertical space and I want this to be small and not jump to another page. But we'll tinker and find a solution at some point.
England's Man Who Gains No Weight, Dies of Heart Failure From Constant Consuming of Junk Food.
Look what is important here is that he stayed skinny through out his life.
"Large-breasted gals told ill-fitting bras may be the root of their back pain."
May I say: DUH.
Also,@ElizaGray: exactly. The story says most women "overestimate" their cup size - but this is not true of the big-chested sisterhood, boys. We are the ones whose cups overfloweth because it's f'in difficult and expensive trying to find real J cups anywhere. It's the quadri-boob look and it's not very sexy.
@Meg: Because some towns or places have laws against sagging your pants past the belt/exposing underwear. Because black people do it.
The guy should buy a kilt and just wear that. Then if they do fine him again, call them racists and notify the Irish embassy.
I'm not sure I ever managed to submit the LA Times article about the Vegas photographer as a tip (computer glitches ahoy), but this is what I wrote:
The Little Chapel of Esoteric Cosmetology [www.latimes.com] Article on a Las Vegas photographer/bartender who went from working at Glamour Shots to taking glamour shot-esque photos of Vegas streetwalkers. You can see more pictures at her myspace page: [www.myspace.com] She self-published a book of the photos.
@cde: Maybe he is wearing a kilt? I've seen crew guys out here in LA wearing utility kilts (cargo kilts??), with pockets and loops and the like for tools. Bending over to weed or the like, even in a kilt, he might still be showing his underwear, which is what the "no sagging" rules apply to usually.
When I was in HS in Baton Rouge in the late '80's, they changed the dress code right before school started, lengthening the minimum for skirts from mid-thigh to knee-length. And outlawing all shorts for boys middle school and above. I organized a petition, and we got local news coverage and lots of signatures. What got us national coverage was the guy who wore his mom's culottes to school one day, to protest that we could wear them and guys couldn't wear shorts. He got sent home, BTW. We didn't manage to get the rule changed, and I spent lots of time in the principal's office waiting for a parent to bring me "suitable" attire because my skirt was deemed too short, at an inch above the knee. I think the skirt length rule is still in effect, thought they did start allowing shorts when I was a senior.
feel free to click through on the stories and flesh them out for everybody.
And what does this gig pay?
@ceejeemcbeegee: You already got your star :P
@mockingbird: I had to look it up. The UTILIKILT.... They have these mock-u-mercials... They are absolutly fucking spectacular.
[www.utilikilts.com]
Round 2, 1st place video is to die for.
@anniehall: It's adds to his credibility. The thought is, people won't take his advice seriously if he's in street clothes.
@cde: And now I do the Dance of Joy!
The Louisiana man? Yeah, thats my current neck of the woods. Hence my Jez handle. True story. in related news, that horse in my backyard came by for a second visit this afternoon. Yeah, seriously.
my two cents: I like this feature