The beautiful, brilliant people's blogs

One of the nice things about the blogosphere is that you can write a comment about, say, a favorite author, and, through the magic of Google Alerts, that person pretty much instantly sees it. I posted a few days ago about my friend Brendan Halpin (did I mention that he was brilliant?) and sure enough, he took the bait and swam on over to check out what I said about him (he's brilliant, and he has three books coming out next year!).

Speaking of authors I love, I think I'll post another comment on Jancee Dunn's blog. In her most recent memoir, Why Is My Mother Getting a Tattoo?, she writes about her passion for obscure vintage beauty books--the wackier the better. I share the obsession and alerted her to The Beautiful People's Beauty Book by 'Princess' Luciana Pignatelli a while back. I've since found a couple of new (old) titles to share with her. (I hope Jancee doesn't think I'm a nutcase. Though Wasps aren't terribly menacing as potential stalkers go. At worst we might follow one around with a little dish of stale Goldfish crackers and a rather weak G and T, and if we did lurk in the bushes, we would definitely write a thank you note after, and perhaps even offer a little pruning advice.)