IN THE NEWS TODAY
1. Another of New Orleans’ cross-dressing thugs visited Burger King for an early morning order of fries and a supersize bag of Benjamins. But this guy hit new lows: he got into the store by crawling through the drive-up window. If you’re gonna knock over a BK in drag, you should at least have the balls to walk through the front door–not to mention, put on a little ladyface:
Employees said they were not free to comment on the incident, referring any questions to the store’s owner.
But one employee, who saw the security camera footage, said that since the suspect made the effort to dress the part of a woman, he should not have halfhearted it.
“He should’ve gone to the spa first,” the employee said.
In the guy’s defense, though, it was Mother’s Day, so maybe he needed the cash to take his mom to the spa after brunch.
2. I’ve loved Cintra Wilson since she first appeared on MTV’s Liquid Television as the creator of Winter Steele. These days, she’s less about sock puppets and more about socks in general, as one of the New York Times‘ two “Critical Shoppers”. In today’s Style Section, la Wilson visits the Lacroix boutique and comes up with one of the most fabulously bizarre paragraphs I’ve read in recent weeks:
One particular gown stood out: a sleeveless white silk sheath with an elaborate print ($3,400) that said, “I am Basquiat in hell, forced to endure a Sisyphean nursery school where I trace my hand and paint multilegged monster turkeys and get an F, forever. Then these discarded paintings end up on earth as formal wear for rich women.”
3. Also in the Times: residents of Chicago can eat foie gras again! Legally!
4. Gaming site SteamPowered.com just released the results of its recent online computing survey, and although gamers usually fall into the “early adopter” category, over 80% of SteamPowered’s visitors are still using Windows XP, compared to the 14.95% using Vista. Even more shocking: according to Rock, Paper, Shotgun, the Vista figures have shrunk since November, when they were at 16.91%. Which only confirms what John Hodgman and I already knew.
5. Just noted on the WDSU severe weather report: there’s a town on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain called Uneedus:
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