Mustard on the Hedge

Now I know what I’m wearing to CaKe on Saturday night….

Just came across these and had to post them! These are ‘dresses’ by Brazilian artist Adriana Bertini.  She makes the flamboyant dresses out of condoms to show they are everyday objects and promote their use. She has said in the past:

“Condoms are seen very negatively in our societies as a barrier to pleasure,” she says. “I want to talk about love with the condom as a way for people to be together.”

The designer apparently receives 100,000 condoms from manufacturers a month now and used 80,000 condoms in one piece! Many of the pieces were displayed as part of the 2007 campaign “Dress up against AIDS”.

Perhaps giving the 100,000 condoms to people in the Developing World might be of greater use??

Rosie Howick appears to be your typical Cork woman- personable, with that confidence which is just on the safe side of cocky. However the 31 year old mother of one stands out from the crowd as Ireland’s only Kylie Minogue impersonator.

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So it’s freezing cold and every radio station and newspaper columnist is talking about how we’ll be on a diet of gruel or, on special occasions, bread and dripping, before Summer. Never fear. Lindsay Lohan has brought some cheer to an otherwise gloomy morning….well if you’re a LiLo fan that is.

She wrote on her MySpace blog:

“little piece of TRUE information:

we did NOT break up!”

Romance is alive and well and it’s thrashing hotel rooms!

The saga continues…Access Hollywood is reporting that Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson have broken up. To be honest I’m hoping this isn’t true. I was kinda rooting for the pair of them to defy the odds, withstand the paparazzi and endless gossip and ride off into the sunset on white horses between Ellen and Portia.

However it looks like Lindsay may be riding solo from now on. The infamous ’source close to the couple’ said that Lindsay has packed up her old kit bag and moved out of the house she shared with Ronson.

Lindsay’s sister Ali Lohan is supposed to be moving in with her to support her through the breakup. She’ll probably need the support as she’s being painted as ‘the crazy redhead’ Cruella DeVille character in this story…driving poor Samantha to literal exhaustion. Mmm…From what I can see since the couple confirmed their relationship, Lohan has said she loves Samantha and ‘cares about her deeply’. She’s been by her side through all her gigs and they seemed happy. That said is there ever smoke without Firecrotch?

Lindsay stated adamantly that if the pair ever broke up she’d declare it on her MySpace blog and there hasn’t been a peep out of her yet. Fingers crossed she’ll come out and say it’s all just bullshit.

I’ve never minded having freckles- even in the Summer when they spread and try their best to join together to form one large super freckle. I think they add to my roguish charm! Clearly being young and freckled can also assist you if you’re a murder suspect- at least if you’re being detained in Italy!

The 21 year old Texan, Amanda Knox, who is suspected of the murder of British Student, Meredith Kercher, has been named fourth (and the top woman) in a list of ‘Personalities of the Year’ in an Italian online poll by news programme Studio Aperto.

Knox has been described as ‘angel faced’ by the Italian media and is also known as ‘Foxy Knoxy’.  She denies the charges against her. The prosecution claims University student Kercher was killed when the three suspects in the case tried to force her to participate in ”a perverse group sex game”.

Knox topped the women in the poll with 8% of the votes. Also in contention were Olympic swimmer Federica Pellegrini who had 3%, the Alaskan wonder- Sarah Palin and the French first lady Carla Bruni who both received 1% of the votes.

To put Knox’s position is perspective- she got 8% of the vote. Barack Obama got 13% and was ranked one place higher in the poll!  I’m not sure which is more surpising- an American alleged murderer voted a top personality in Italy, or the fact that Sarah Palin was in the running at all! Bizarre!

When it comes to Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson there is always some debate raging in the media. First it was the ‘is she or isn’t she’ saga. Then the ‘is it a publicity stunt’ debate. And , most recently, the media decided to analyse every facet of the relationship and await its demise as the ‘they’re on the verge of splitting up’ stories hit the press on a weekly basis.

Photo by: KCSPresse / Splash News Online

Christmas can be a tough time for relationships. Spending Christmas Day apart or with your in-laws can make anyone turn to the mulled wine for comfort or fling some brussel sprouts at a particularly annoying relative. If you believe what you read it’s been a tough Christmas for Firecrotch. As well as having to deal with every aspect of her relationship being media fodder, she has to deal with her ‘peach’ of a dad who took a break from trying to attack Sam over Christmas to drop a bombshell on the family. Lindsay wrote on her blog:

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