The Unbearable Brightness of Bling

Today, we celebrate the beginning of the week before the Week Of.

I can actually indulge in Blatant and Schamess Consumerism in real time because Chanukah coincides with Christmas this year.

Not that my sense of timing is all that good. For example: Am I the last person in America to know that Tana Goertz, recently of The Apprentice, was a single mom who blinged her way to solvency using only a BeDazzler and her own homegrown Iowan-American ingenuity? And that the instrument of her rise to power was also, in great tragic tradition, part of her, um, unraveling?

I am certainly the last--make that the only--person on the Internet to recommend this really old link to the Willamette Weekly's well-written and undersung fashion page. Note the date: now that's a good fashion link.

All this gives me an idea for my own ebay store. Yes, it may be just a virtual junk shop now, but as soon as the holiday rush is over I'm preparing for Year One: The ebay store at flyandbee.

Because as far as I know, I will be the first on the market with the BeChiller.

It's the biggest thing since radio and I'm letting you in on the ground floor.

Okay, you try entertaining 23 to 40 demanding and possibly unique readers a day.

[image via kitkraft]