Thursday, May 1

Clinique is not French for hospital - Very nice piece in the Guardian on a new trend in gay body image -- the pot belly. We're not talking here about the triumph of bearishness. No, this is more along the lines of skinny people (you know how the English are) with little beer bellies. Most of the references in the article make sense to this anglophile, but I did have to google Ray Winstone, EastEnder Phil Mitchell (Steve McFadden) and Jason Turner (Christian Solimeno) from "Footballers' Wives" to find out what kind of guys are the new male idols in England. Hmm, color me skeptical, but I like the concept.