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EVENING NIGHTCAP: Danglecore Trend. I Gotta Pay $18 FOR WHAT? Kevin Spacey Backpeddles.

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  ► I'm not into trends these days. Frankly, most of them suck. In the era I grew up, we had kick ass trends that included big glam rock hair, acid washed jeans, leg warmers, and mullets. When I heard of "danglecore" I thought it was planking's idiotic cousin. I visualized people dangling off  buildings, or highway overpasses, grain silos, or parking ramps. NOPE!  Danglecore refers to people dangling cutesy charms and stuffed animals on their backpacks, purses, jeans, coats, etc. Anywhere you can dangle an overpriced or bedazzled knick knack. The trend got its start with Labubus....which is this decade's Beanie Babies. Even fashion houses and the rich are fawning over danglecore. Fendi is selling $1,000 charm in the shape of bowl of fettuccine; Bottega Veneta a $650 leather kitty; and Gucci a $850 charm.   Read More Comment : Pfft...motorcyclists and the dive bar leather crowd have been doing danglecore for decades with wallet chains. So have janitors with 80 ke...

It's About Time: Blake Lively Edition

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I will say upfront that she is not a favorite and has never been, so if you are a superstanley, please exit the article because this will hurt your delicate sensibilities. Shoo. Save yourself some tears and hurt feelings. I ask this earnestly, already knowing the answer, but I will ask this question anyway...Is there anyone on the planet who can make the case that Blake wouldn't have disappeared long ago, a forgotten cable TV actress who may or may not have rubbed on Leo DiCaprio's plastic Ken bump if she hadn't married B list Ryan? Can they say without falling into a fit of giggles that she was headed for several acclaimed starring roles? Blake was never good; she was demi-okay, but she never nailed a role or showed any fantastic range or reason that she even had a career after Gossip Girl. As for Leo, she did go on an obligatory bike ride with him, so I feel like that was a signal that Leo tried to get his reportedly impotent teenie weenie to play with Blake's girly b...