Super Duper Tuesday

It's Super Tuesday in three super-de-duper ways:
1. 24 states get to vote for who they want to represent their party (and in select states, you don't even have to be affiliated!) in November's presidential elections.
2. The Giants came home to New York (and New Jersey) to celebrate with the fans who didn't feel like shelling out thousands of dollars to celebrate with them in Arizona.
3. It's Fat Tuesday, Carnivale, whatever! It all means “Big Party”.

By now, if you intended on voting for your candidate of choice, you have probably already done so, so let's just talk gossip until the results are released.

Some of the lesser but still interesting news that's collected over the past few days:
- Lauren Conrad and Whitney Port of The Hills and formerly of Teen Vogue, are confirmed to be working for a fashion PR firm called “People's Revolution”
- Conrad came out top on Radar magazine's Fashion Influence List, 16 spots above American Vogue editor Anna Wintour! This is actually kind of appalling.
- Katharine McPhee married 42-year-old Nick Cokas on Saturday. And no one cares, apparently, except me. How sad.
- Apparently Aaron Carter has crawled out of the woodworks with a plea on his MySpace, supposedly in response to a YouTube video a fan made of Aaron and Hilary Duff in their days together: “EVERYBODY MAKES MISTAKES, BUT YOU LIVE AND YOU LEARN. HILARY WHEN YOUR READY. IM HERE. I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR WHOMEVER PUT THIS TOGETHER. IT MEANS A LOT TO ME." Maybe when he learns how to differentiate “your” and “you're” she'll be ready. He's come a long way, though. He knows “a lot” is two words and not one.

Okay, Target must think its clientele are a bunch of idiots, because it's now February 5th, less than a month before the “arrival” of the “mystery” designer duo, and details have yet to be released! Except, oh wait, NOT. Any fashion forward teen or slightly stunted adult will have already seen the pieces in magazines as Teen Vogue or, stupider yet, the ADVERTISING SPREADS. Target, you are my heart and soul and I would never betray you, but this is a load of crap.

Anyway, those who have tried hard enough have found the press site for the newest Go International collection. Most items seem awkwardly frumpy or paired with mismatched patterns. The sleeveless version of the likable Chiffon Crosshatch Print Apron Dress, also priced at $39.99, is the collection's worst offender thus far. It's shapeless, overly lace-trimmed, and fit for a girl. It looks like something you could pick up at Wal-mart for $7. In the 4-6X section.

I'm not impressed.

[Photo courtesy of Target.com]