Friday, June 16, 2006

Best web site ever?

I'm not terribly interested when my wife and her girlfriends gather, either in person or via phone, to talk about what celebrities are wearing on the red carpet prior to some big awards show—the Oscars, the Grammys, the Golden Globes. And I really really can't stand the "professionals" who are paid to comment on Lindsay Lohan's or Jessica Simpson's or Nicole Kidman's getup.

But I've recently realized that it's not that the subject matter isn't interesting. Young, gorgeous, obscenely rich, completely unself-aware people making a spectacle of themselves—it tittilates, it fascinates, it appals.

The gofugyourself web site does the celebrity fashion dishing thing, and does it brilliantly. The site is simply one of the most entertaining things online. Heather and Jessica are great writers. They're consistently funny, and they're not—as many critics wrongly claim—one-dimesionally catty bitches.

Of course, they can be both catty and bitchy when the situation calls for it, which it so often does, but there's really a pretty menschy humanity beneath it—they can, in fact, say nice things—that makes them all the funnier when they go bitchy.

Heather and Jessica are pretty much always "on," but there are some actresses/celebrities/whatever who really wind them up. Lindsay Lohan is my personal favorite, but they're also great with Britney and the Simpson sisters.

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