A Little of The Old In and Out

In: Wonkette. The Corsair loves it any time a blogger gets into the Old Gray Lady's prim and proper pages, so let's share the love. Julie Bosman writes:

"At times, Wonkette reads like Gawker featuring George Stephanopoulos instead of Anna Wintour. Ms. Cox borrows heavily from the features that made Gawker popular (Gawker Stalker, the celebrity sightings roundup, became Wonk'd on Wonkette.) She subscribes to a decidedly Gawkeresque philosophy: try to be accurate, but more importantly, be funny." And funny she is. Congrats, Wonkette.

Out: McDonalds. Shares are down as of blog time 2.77% at the news of the death of the CEO at the tender age of 60 from a heart attack. All he wanted was Chicken McNuggets (link not safe for work!)!

I'm trying to fit in a Morgan Spurlock joke here, something about 30 Days and liver damage and karmic repercussions, but it would be tasteless. Like the Big Mac.

Out: Kimora Liar Simmons. Okay, let's get beyond the turkey neck. Let's glide over the offensive millionaire materialism (The Corsair --sniff,sniff--is a thousandaire). The Page Sixers have got her goose! Kimora, apparently, told WWD that she won an auction at the Martha Graham Dance Company gala. She didn't:

"DESPITE what she told Women's Wear Daily, Kimora Lee Simmons was not the winning bidder at a hot auction at the Martha Graham Dance Company gala the other night. The diva-licious designer of Baby Phat told the trade paper that she bid $16,000 to have Manolo Blahnik name a shoe after her in his next collection. But Manhattan podiatric surgeon Dr. Suzanne Levine says she snared the honor after shelling out $20,000. Dr. Levine quipped: 'If Kimora wants the auction prize that badly, I will sell it to her for $30,000 and donate my profit to the Martha Graham Dance Company.'"

Kimora wanted it bad. Really bad. According to this blog, which references the WWD article, "(Kimora) wanted it so much that she asked the manager to keep the bidding sheet from her competitors in the final moments of the auction."

Oh, Kimora.

In: On Chris Matthews on Sunday, pony-boy wanna be Secretary of State Fareed Zakaria predicted in the "Tell Me Something I Don't Know" segment that Ibrahim al-Jaffari will be the US installed Prime minister of Iraq. Globalsecurity.org describes him thusly, "Ibrahim al Jafari, spokesman for the Islamic Dawa Party, which was persecuted by Saddam. Born in Karbala, educated in medicine in Mosul. Spent time in the United States and the United Kingdom. Shiite." We'll see how clear Zakaria's crystal ball is.

Out: Geronimo's Bones. If, indeed, the rumors are correct, and Prescott Bush dug up Apache chief Geronimo's bones at Yale, this has got to be braught up in the debate.

In: Kofi Annan's "saintly aura." Despite the fact that he is, indeed a fuzzy headed irrelevant factor in world politics, twice in about as many days has Kofi Annan's "saintly aura" been invoked. First by David Patrick Columbia, who wrote, saw Kofi Annan on Wednesday night at the Waldorf at the Citizens for NYC annual gala. Frances Fitzgerald, the distinguished author and daughter of the late Marietta Tree, presented Mrs. Nane (pronounced Nan) Annan with the Marietta Tree Award for Public Service. There were several other awards given out, but more about that on another day.

"Mrs. Annan, who is one of the most beautiful women in New York, like her husband, has a kind of saintliness about her."

And then, on Topic A With Tina Brown, Johns Hopkins Professor Fouad Ajami, spoke of Anan's "saintly aura."

Not a vital, world-historical Joan of Arc aura, surely.

Out: Chris Rock's HBO comedy special. Am I the only one who thought that the last 45 minutes of marriage jokes were way too bitter and misogynistic? I am ... oh, whatever.

In: Yoganistas. Today, Fashionweekdaily gives us a new word:

"Yoganista (/YO-gah-NISTA/)

"NY may have its fashionistas (far too many of them, really) but LA has its very own "ista's": the Yoganista. Yoga teacher/writer and all-around groovy chick Anna Getty coined the new term to describe 'former fashion-obsessed LA girls who are into yoga now - but still wear cute outfits to yoga class.' For daywear, these girls are more likely to go for Joie, C& C, and Nuala over McQueen or Chanel, but they take their yoga outfits seriously?it must look edgy, layered, soft, and of course, flattering. With Madonna as the yoganista fashion icon, how could they not? Look for Anna Getty's new column in Fit Yoga magazine in August."

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Out: Dubya is appointing UN Ambassador Negroponte to become the US Ambassador to Iraq. The BBC's Katty Kay refers to the gigantic embassy being built in Baghdad as a hymn to our empire (cue to Star Wars imperial march)