50 Fall beauty tips!

Publication: People
Date: 17 Oct. 2011

People has a story about the fall fashion tips. The cover has a small picture of Minka Kelly.

Also on the cover is Lauren Conrad.

And the largest picture is of Lea Michele.

Love Bird Alert™: Taylor Swift and Glee's Chord Overstreet

Publications: Weekly Life & Style, Us Weekly
Date: 14 March 2011

2011 has not been a good year for Taylor Swift's love life, if we are to believe The Only Ten Magazines That Matter. Most of the stories have been about her pining away or how upset she is that Jake Gyllenhaal dumped her. But she's still pretty, young and famous, so not surprisingly she's getting on with her life. The latest notch on her guitar neck is allegedly Chord Overstreet from Glee, with whom she was seen at a hockey game. He is not actually mentioned on either cover, but Google "taylor swift glee" and click on the news and you can find plenty of stories about them online and several pictures, all of them taken at the same hockey game.

Here are the headlines.

• Weekly Life & Style: Taylor's revenge romance
• Us Weekly: Taylor Swift - dating a Glee stud

I've only watched a few episodes of Glee and I don't know this guy from Adam, but at least he's tall enough for young Taylor, who is listed at a willowy 5'11" (1m 80).

In accordance with this blog's pro-love policy, we wish the young couple all the best, even though the young lady goes through beaus like Sherman through Georgia.

Glee's gone wild!

Publication: In Touch
Date: 11 October 2010

There are several reality shows the supermarket rags love that I don't mention at all. The one with the roses, the Actual Married Women of East Jesus or wherever, the one where young women who had babies too early and are exploited for ratings, that awful show about those awful people from that unnamed state on the Eastern seaboard. So far this year, Glee is the only scripted show that supermarket rags care about. This week's headlines on In Touch's cover are about late night parties, catfights, what the lives of the stars were like before the show and Lea's "diva" behavior.

While I don't watch the show, I do consider these stories worth repeating, because they are about actual celebrities, people with talent who worked hard to get where they are. Most of the reality shows today are just people put on TV so we can feel superior to them and their unremitting awfulness.

Glee's dirty secrets!

Publication: Star
Date: 4 October 2010

The supermarket rags love Glee so much, you'd think it was a reality show. It's back on the air after the summer hiatus and Star wants you to know the secrets. Specifically, they want you to know who's hooking up, who's wasting away and who wants to quit.

To get the answers to these questions, I would actually have to open the magazine, and longtime readers know how assiduously I try to avoid that.

Glee secrets!

Publication: Us Weekly
Date: 14 June 2010

No other scripted show has an "in" with the Only Ten Magazines That Matter like Glee. Still, this is just the third cover story for the show by name, while Dancing With The Stars has had sixteen cover stories, eight of them concerning Kate Gosselin.

I am tempted to use the Planted Crap label, but I will refrain for the time being.

Glee cast at war!

Publication: Weekly Life & Style
Date: 7 June 2010

On this Memorial Day, it only seems right that we honor all those theater nerds who gave so much...

Oh, wait a second. I think Weekly Life & Style is just using a weak analogy during a bad week for weak analogies about war.

My bad. Or should I say, their bad.

Life before Glee

Publication: In Touch

Date: 26 Apr. 2010

In Touch wants you to know about the lives of the stars of the hit show Glee before they got the jobs that will change their lives forever.

HINT! They were theatre nerds. Any questions?