Jezebel: double takes

Ships Ahoy

Dodai — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:45:00 EDT

Pop quiz! Two of the September ladymags have photoshoots featuring befrocked women standing in boats moored on dry land. Boats! On land! Is this a symbol of: A) The effects of global warming; B) The fickle nature of fashion, as changing as the sea; C) The simple fact that there are no new ideas? (Click image see both photographs.)

The shot above is from Glamour. Land ho!

This shot is from Bazaar. Heavens, I do believe we've run aground.

Editor Of The Nation Weighs In On Hillary Clinton (Almost) Word For NY Times Word

Dodai — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:00:00 EDT

Early this morning, a tipster clued us into the appearance of the formidable Katrina Vanden Heuvel — editor, part-owner, and publisher of The Nation — on MSNBC's Morning Joe, where she discussed why Hillary Clinton should speak out about sexism directed at Senator Clinton during presidential campaign. And, well, much of what Ms. Vanden Heuvel said sounded very familiar! She seemed to be reading notes. From the New York Times' Sunday Op-Ed section perhaps? Even the wording, "a woman in Wichita, Kansas or Watts" was eerily reminiscent of something we have read very, very recently. [My two cents: A little annoying, a little amusing, very flattering. -Ed.] Clip above.

Related: Clinton’s Next Campaign [NY Times]

No, that's not Pete Doherty holding Kate...

Dodai — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:45:00 EDT

No, that's not Pete Doherty holding Kate Moss' hair while she snorts a line of blow, it's a pair of celeb doppelgangers from a book called Confidential. Photographer Alison Jackson enlists star lookalikes for faux celebrity shots you desperately wish were real. "Madonna" bathes in Kabbalah water, "Jack Nicholson" parties in a pool with naked chicks, "Tom and Katie" read to "Suri" from a Scientology For Babies book, "Catherine Zeta-Jones" and "Michael Douglas" get simultaneous cosmetic surgery procedures, etc. "We are a culture of voyeurs because we can't have what we see," Jackson says. "We can never have the real deal. It's unattainable. It creates an obsessive, invasive set of needs. Often I hear, when people look at my work, they say, 'Oh my God, I can't look at that.' Then they want to look at it more." Her interview is great; her slide show is better! [Radar]