got into lost angels last night. the inevitable holiday travel delays with the almost comedic incessant gate changes (gate 31 -> 32 -> 14 which means an entire flight of people hoofing it last-minute from the very last gate at the end of terminal 2 to the very last gate at the end of terminal 1) were mitigated by the discovery that i had a copy of the double-overtime thriller nets-suns basketball game from earlier this month on my laptop, which was a wonderful travel malaise diversion. and yes, door to door it was almost five hours, which hypothetically meant that i could have almost driven in that time. but then when would i have watched basketball? and not to mention the nap.
hmc just had an apico, which is like a root canal, except that instead of going through the tooth, they just give up and go through the gumline. it’s like a bank heist, but instead of doing it on the sly like ocean’s 11, they just bust through the walls like the bank dick. as a result, the left side of her face is all swollen up and puffed up as if she’s keeping a baseball in her cheek for the winter. oh wait, it is the winter already. yum! baseball stew! all she needs is a big white cloth and an icebag on her face and she could be straight out of the little rascals.
we were thinking what she could wear to distract people from her puffy face: perhaps a outrageous wig? or a very flashy earring on her right ear? and then it hit us: why not wear a burqa? in fact, why not market our own line of christmas burqas to celebrate the season? what a brilliant idea! we’re amazed that no one has thought about this yet.
and speaking of puffy, it looks like sean john’s clothes have an odd dilemma:
NEW YORK (AP) — Macy’s has pulled from its shelves and its Web site two styles of Sean John hooded jackets, originally advertised as featuring faux fur, after an investigation by the nation’s largest animal protection organization concluded that the garments were actually made from a certain species of dog called “raccoon dog.”
“First these jackets were falsely advertised as faux fur, and then it turned out that the fur came from a type of dog,” said Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States.
Pacelle added that the issue is an “industry-wide problem” and its investigation demonstrated that retailers and designers “aren’t paying close enough attention to the fur trim they are selling.” He added that the issue is especially problematic when “the fur is sourced from China where domestic dogs and cats and raccoon dogs are killed in gruesome ways.”
Raccoon dogs — which are not domestic animals — are indigenous to Asia, including eastern Siberia and Japan, and have been raised in large numbers because their fur closely resembles raccoon, Pacelle said.
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The Sean John jackets — one a snorkel style, the other a classic version — had been labeled “raccoon fur,” but were advertised as faux fur, Pacelle said.
In a statement by Sean “Diddy” Combs released by his publicist Hampton Carney, the designer said: “I was completely unaware of the nature of this material, but as soon as we were alerted, the garments were pulled off the Macy’s floor and Web site. I have instructed our outerwear licensee to cease the production of any garments using this material immediately.”
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The Humane Society is also calling upon Congress to amend the Dog and Cat Protection Act — which bans the sale of dog or cat fur in the United States — to include raccoon dog, since the organization says these dogs are so “inhumanely” killed and their species are similar to domesticated dogs.
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