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When You Say You Love Me You're Just Flattering Your Vanity... In 1996, Lush's "Ladykillers" was the Spice Girls' "Wannabe" of girls who smoked clove cigarettes. I heard it for the first time in ten years the other night and was startled to remember all the words, and now the fucking thing will not exit my mind, so I found it on YouTube and put that and a link to the lyrics after the jump (click the pic!) because I don't think you will find a more timeless message in more hilariously dated packaging. The lyrics are sooooo much more meaningful 12 asshole-rich years later.

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10 Things Karl Lagerfeld Could Do Without

We don't always get around to reading Hong Kong's Prestige Magazine — uh, okay, we didn't know it existed until we learned that a friend of ours was working there — but the recent Karl Lagerfeld cover interview, conducted by said friend, Stephen Short, is nothing less than magnificent. Stephen, who apparently received a Karl Lagerfeld action figure for his efforts, talked to Karl for about three hours late one evening, and Karl had a lot to say, generally all negative, on subjects from books to children to love to Diane Von Furstenberg to food to the nineties. We excerpted some of his most effusively misanthropic utterances for your enjoyment. More »

6:00 PM on Wed Apr 9 2008
By Moe
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Latest by n/a: Yeah, a lot of people got fat in the 90's because clothes were large so we had to grow to fit in to them. . . What a bunch of crap! Surely his rationale explains the weight fluctuations that most more »