'InStyle' Accessorian And Champion Bluffer Alice Kim So Fed Up With New York She Is Leaving For...Omaha

Moe — Wed, 23 May 2007 17:27:57 EDT

The news has hit that "accessories maven" and poker-champ Alice Kim — with whom one of us has worked, and enjoyed doing so — has left InStyle for Nebraska (a state). But no one seems to want to point to her as the anonymous editor of "ViewFromTheFourthRow", even though there is lots of that real discreet pointing-into-the-palm and head-jerking in that direction going on now. Omaha might seem like an extreme choice for someone accustomed to one of those really fabulous media lives like the ones we live, but a few years ago another similarly fabulous person, Meagan Daum, did it as well. She blamed credit card debt, but anyone who has read her ensuing novel The Quality-of-Life Report remembers.... well, first they remember this really gross scene where a horse shoots a massive gush of splooge all over the guests at her dinner party, which was one of those moments where the "character" almost forgot why she had left in the first place: New York society was getting, um, fed-up making! Think "VFTFR" might share her opinion?

Can I please make one last attempt to have all public relations offices of major fashion houses NOT INVITE SOCIALITES? C'mon, like, WHO THE FUCK IS GENEVIEVE JONES and WHY DO WE CARE WHAT SHE DOES? And if I see Lisa Airan at another runway show I swear I'm going to call the American Medical Association to have her license revoked.

Why, yes we do!

Greener Pastures [WWD]
Earlier: Who's Behind View From The Fourth Row?
Possibly Related? Want To Be The Next Warren Buffett? The Line Forms In Nebraska [WSJ]

Maybe It's Just Us, But Michelle Obama Seems Pissed About Something Other Than Never Having To Work Again

Moe — Mon, 21 May 2007 17:35:23 EDT

We know the words "First Lady" lack the respectability of, like, "handbag designer" or whatever — and it's not as if it the job ever leads to anything — but we're still scratching our heads at the weird blogger outcry over Michelle Obama quitting her job:

Just as we watch curvy, healthy-looking singers and actresses like Lindsay Lohan become anorexic too-blonde hoochies before our very eyes, so we're now in danger of having to watch the political version of that process: Any day now, Michelle Obama's handlers will have her glued into one of those Sunday-go-to-meeting Baptist grandma crown hats while smiling vapidly for hours at a time...Few could stand up to the pressure she's facing, especially from blacks, to sacrifice herself on the altar of her husband's ambition.

Uh, earth to Debra Dickerson: That is not why Michelle keeps making all those weird passive-aggressive comments about putting the butter away. The reason we and other slightly more distinguished people named Maureen are so uncomfortable when Michelle Obama says stuff like "someday maybe he'll deserve all the attention" or "he's just a man" or calls him "the brother" even when she knows it makes the white folks uneasy is pretty simple: "The brother" fucked up!

It wasn't Gennifer or even Monica; it was probably just some one-night fling. And Michelle's forgiven him because the other woman totally wasn't even that thin, but it's just so hard to stay forgiving, because, I mean, what a total dumbass man-move to make, right? Isn't it just like a DUDE to sleep with some fawning, butt-ugly City Hall aide one night after budget negotiations and then persist in forgetting to put the butter away, leaving it melting vulnerably on the counter? As if the FUCKING DOG isn't fat enough already? Jesus, Barack! And you're supposed to be all "clean" and "fresh"? You totally remind us of our fucking ex-boyfriend.

Michelle Obama's Sacrifice [Salon]

Jezebel: Just Sayin'

'InStyle' Accessorian And Champion Bluffer Alice Kim So Fed Up With New York She Is Leaving For...Omaha

Maybe It's Just Us, But Michelle Obama Seems Pissed About Something Other Than Never Having To Work Again