let's accessorize!

It's Friday and my brain is fried and totally in the gutter. Via JC Report, a weekly email newsletter on "global fashion trends," comes articles on Chinese luxury goods, the designer hotel boom, Azzedine Alaia shoes, and The Bulge(TM). This latter item is a "very realistic looking, flexible insert [that] sits snugly atop your natural assets and provides significant increase to your manhood." Ummm. Errrr...I mean...uhhh. Ahem. Ok, that rotating picture is strangely captivating. But anyway, like excessively padded bras, this device poses a dilemma. If the purpose of it is to attract members of the sex to which you are attracted, once you've succeeded wouldn't the poor sucker be a little disappointed?

In other news, I just rediscovered this British online shoe store. With a selection more impressive in size than even The Bulge(TM), reasonable prices, and cool stuff for dudes too (Ten-year-old Boy is my preferred style of dress,) I'm tempted to stop resisting and just get a shoe fetish already.