Angels and Others

Wishing all of you a happy, healthy and peaceful new year. Kisses

Having spent Christmas in Houston we are very happy to be back in the big bad apple. And one of our favorite Christmas time things in NYC are these giant Christmas tree lights on Sixth Avenue. Shine on New York.

If we may be enormous fags for just a moment, we’d like to say how embarrassingly excited we are to learn that Liza Minnelli will be singing “New York, New York” at Bloomberg’s inauguration Sunday. And if we may be pious media critics for just another moment, we’ll also say how mildly disgusted we are that alleged journalist Barbara Walters will be emceeing it. Of course, if Walters dances a Bob Fosse number, we’ll feel entirely differently. Via Gawker .

As many of you know we are spending the holidays in Houston with the in-laws so we won't be posting as much as we normally do. So here's wishing all of you a happy Christmas, Chanukkah, Kwanza or Yule and most of all PEACE. Kisses

Here’s a haunting spot from Medecins Sans Frontieres¨res that illustrates the human cost of AIDS. www.msf.org

Well kids.... Due to the NYC transit strike we find ourselves stranded in New York's fashionable Inwood section for the duration. And while staying in our pj's and watching Martha Stewart is one of our favorite things( it right up there with brown paper packages tied up with string) we fear that it could get old fast. The good news is..... More blog posts. So check back in between Martha segments. I think that Tuesday is decopage day. Kisses

If you thought that the only hunks in French sport were rugby players think again. Meet Jean Galfione , Olympic gold medalist for the pole vault and rising media star. We think that he'll go far. With or without his pole.

It’s exactly 15 days until New Year’s Eve, and we’re guessing you couldn’t care less. We certainly couldn’t. Like St. Patrick’s Day, the 31st is a giant amateur hour, an excuse for wannabe-alcoholics to waste hundreds of dollars on an overcrowded, open bar, and don sparkly shirts that no God could ever have intended for them to wear. And after the ball drops and your night has officially reached its expected level of letdown, you can spend 75 minutes searching for a cab, only to finally hail a ride in a mobile vomit unit. Fun! So thank you, New York Times, for giving us four pages worth of options on how best to execute our inevitably shitty evenings. ‘Cause, um, we don’t have plans yet. Getting a Jump on New Year’s Eve [NYT] Via Gawker

The latest from the very funny Aussie strip Mr Gisby .

Our friends over at Angry Alien have done it again. Just in time for the holidays the Bunnies Troupe bring you their latest masterpiece: A Christmas Story in 30 Seconds and re-enacted by bunnies . Check it out and share the joy.

We hate those MTA vigilante signs all over the subways (at right). Seriously, we “see something” all the fucking time, but it’s not like we’re going to go hunt down some listless MTA employees just to tell them that Al Qaeda planted an unattended package of rotting KFC under the benches. And besides, isn’t the MTA mock-up below really more to the point?

While we're freezing here in NYC it's summer in Australia and the folks at Aussie Bum are turning up the heat even higher. So check out their website and think warm thoughts.

We've always had our doubts about Ronald but who knew that Pikachu was into the whole clowns and netting thing. Kinky

Meet Frank and Gordon ( or Jules et Bertand if you're lucky enough to live in Quebec) the furry and very funny spokesbeavers for Canada Bell. Their posters are all over Montreal and their series of TV spots are running in heavy rotation. They've worked their little flat tales off and have been added to the pantheon of international spokesanimals. So look out all you geckos, toucans and tigers. The time of the beaver has come .

We're not sure why Nick Lachey is wearing a flight suit and we really don't care. He's got our jets burning.

It's snowed in Montreal yesterday. The city is just too beautifal now. More later. Kisses

We're spending a few days in Montreal. It's cold and beautiful. More to come. Kisses

and one we get to eat. The choice is yours America .

Say "Hi" to Ricky. Ricky is my very own Roboraptor. For those of you with lives Roboraptor is this year's must have toy. And thanks to my beloved Jeffrey I've got one. Think of him as my "Official Red Rider carbine action 200 shot range model air rifle with a compass in the stock and this thing that tells time." Check out the Roboraptor website for more info and a cool movie. And no I don't think it's the least bit odd that a grown man is this excited about getting a toy dinosaur for his 40th birthday. "You can only play with him if you're nice to me."

" Jesus first appears in a flash, a white statue rising from the flat cornfields 40 miles north of Cincinnati. Then he is gone, hidden behind a gas station." The rest of the story( if you dare) via The New York Times. The Jesus statue in Monroe, Ohio, is 62 feet tall and weighs eight tons.