Sorry I was MIA, been so busy and the site was down...but my BFF and webrynth master Matt Lum hooked me up!!! KatyOliver.com is back!...
KO has been a fan of The New Yorker magazine for as long as we can remember. In fact, years ago we were so inspired by our friend Kayt's parents' artful and clever bathroom tribute to The New Yorker (they...
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Seriously?! What happened to her?! No good!!! Brit-Brit is a hot mess!!!...
Your friend KO the artist...is appreciative for the exposure this blog affords. We get to build collages in an untraditional way, using a different kind of carefully considered editing arrangement, with pictures from piles and piles~ both digital and otherwise...
Source: Friend Peter's rad blog SoMuchTroubleInTheWorld...
Happy Birthday Dan!!! You are an amazing, talented, beautiful, and epic friend! Happy happy happy birthday and much success, love & many more years to you!...
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"It's Not True"Went into the City to see Annie this weekend!!! It was also her fiance's birthday bash eve, and David definitely did it up in serious style. Superb!Happy Birthday David! Word to the WordHumper!"You're mean"...
You absolutely must watch this clip from Keith Olberman's March 27th Countdown of Worst Persons! It's completely mind-blowing and tragic. !!! Thanks to Peter at SMT for pointing this out to me!...
My cell is down! Soooo lame not to be able to connect...Rar! Or, more poetically, as fb* (*faveblogger) Andrea Harner put it: LOVE LOVE LOVE!...
So many blog-worthy events, and but oh where is the time? Well, aside from my lack of photog-evidence, there is my lack of wordy emphasis and expression, elaboration and information...so... without excuses, let me say this: this weekend is crazy;...
In case you missed my second update...here is the freaky creepy bizarro awesome and icky Tom Cruise Scientology recruitment video! You must see!!!...
Have you guys seen this video (quickly making its way virally all over the web) of Tom Cruise ranting and raving (and recruiting) for Scientology? It wasn't intended for nonbelievers, or "spectators" as he so generously calls the likes of...
We are extremely appreciative to Matt Lum for his wickedly wonderful webrynth wizardry! He fixed our katy@katyoliver.com email! The man is a master...but more than that, he's an amazing and cherished friend. Matt Lum, you are the wind beneath my...
KO has a new email address! Yes, you can still comment freely on KatyOliver.com, but, katy@katyoliver.com is having technical problems... SO! PLEASE NOTE MY NEW AND HIGHLY FUNCTIONAL EMAIL ADDRESS: katyoliver22@gmail.com Please pass this new email along to any and...
We've been so busy, as certainly you all have been...and we're working our mega-double (10:30am-12midnight) tomorrow at Modern, so we're hoping this brief but brilliant (ha! yes! go Bean!) post will satiate those of you still stopping by KatyOliver.com for...
Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday in a suicide attack that also killed at least 20 others at a campaign rally, aides said. "The surgeons confirmed that she has been martyred," Bhutto's lawyer Babar Awan said. A party...
Still can't get katy@katyoliver.com email to function. Rar! Very frustrating! Luckily, we've got katyoliver.com, ".com" comments and another, heretofore under-utilized and under-appreciated email address: katyoliver22@gmail.com Hit me!...
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How cute are Thandie Newton's kids? Really, WTF? When did Angie get so pin thin? Seriously, WTF? Holy Mary Mother of...Why oh why oh why? Ok, all kidding aside, WTF??? Oh, but how brilliant is DListed? And wow, Mama Madonna...
quote of the month: "19 isn't what it used to be. 19 is the new 40."* *(~dlisted)...
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Vote today for our friend Dan Lubell's kraft cheese spot! He's a finalist and needs your votes!!! Watch his entry here(it's the one on the far right with the dancing toast, see pic below) and then show your support with...
source: PostSecret...
Heard through the webrynth about Oprah's Favorite Things show, filmed this year in Macon, Georgia, and felt strangely compelled to check out the list of gifts she shared with her audience...Here are 4 of the 20:See entire list here...
November 17, 2007 - In its first dramatic move since the beginning of the Writers Guild strike, NBC has fired "nearly the entire production staff" of its struggling, late-night staple, "Saturday Night Live," sources told Page Six. One tipster told...
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Dlisted's acidic spin on Shia's Saturday night special, swear words and all:...
Regarding "So Much Trouble In The World" Indeed: COPIED AS IS FROM SMT: Post a Comment On [Peter's Blog]: SO MUCH TROUBLE IN THE WORLD "Sickness redefined" CJ said... How sad are people like Michelle Malkin and Bill O'Relly? And,...
Fellow blogger (and onetime fellow coworker) Peter Mathes has a very powerful, poignant, relevant, repulsive and necessary post up at his blog, and I am strongly urging you all to check it out. Now. _____________________________________________________ ***C&L has a post and...
In the new issue of Penthouse Magazine (classy) Kid Rock takes aim at a certain American actor who is against the war. It doesn't take a damn brain surgeon to figure out he's talking about Sean Penn. Kid Pebble said,...
Brilliant, right?!...
LiLo has been detoxing in rehab for over a month, her third rehab stint this year...She recently met up with her Daddy after almost two years of estrangement. We recently went running and her very revealing song Confessions of a...
We were just saying to RobZ a few weeks ago how much we thought that teen summer 07 anthem The Great Escape by the lamely named band Boys Like Girls should be recorded acoustically, and well, while no one has...
source:the sartorialist...
We really enjoyed this piece about especially impressive and memorable child performances in films, written by one of our favorite cyber-crushes and author of the always interesting blog A Special Way of Being Afraid, John Williams....
Congrats to the lovely and amazing, ever evolving and inspiring, phenom Andrea Harner. She has a truly fabulous picture* alongside her truly fabulous man (in a feature about how truly fab he is, obviously) in the new issue of Men's...
To the tune of Rock Me Amadeus, the Daily Show shrewdly and brilliantly created the segment "Iraq Me Dave Petraeus" and we absolutely insist you click here and watch it right now!...
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Have you seen the Second Edition of Loose Change?*Have you seen the Original Cut of Loose Change?Won't you please watch the Original Cut of Loose Change? *I had a hard time finding the "part 2" of the 2nd Edition! Way...
"InTouch Weekly reports that Owen Wilson has refused rehab and is instead paying $750 a day for a sober companion. This sober companion lives with Owen and follows him everywhere he goes to make sure he doesn't fall off the...
"David Lynch Goes Public With 9/11 Questions Film director is disturbed by unanswered questions Film Director and cult icon David Lynch has gone public with concerns he has over the official government story of the September 11 2001 terror attacks....
We like distractions probably more than most, but we also can't NOT get serious about the way our world is depicted in the media...Especially now... *************************************************** Tragedy's Legacy Six years of 9/11 as a license to kill It evokes a...
My way of paying tribute to those who died on 9/11...* I was in Oklahoma, just outside OKC, on the morning of September 11, 2001, when my mother called me and told me to "turn on the tv." I will...
Britney, VMAs, 1999: Britney, SNL, 2000:...
This promo video for Appalachian State University (featured on BWE) honors ASU's historic win over Michigan this weekend and is hilariously cheesetastic! Even when it's cold cold cold, ASU is HOT! HOT! HOT!...
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Is the picture on the left Shia LaBeouf? Is the guy on the left the same guy as the guy~ Shia~ on the right? I'm not convinced...but...Shia is a life-long Dodgers fan...and the candid shot on the left does look...
Owen is on my mind...(source: X17)...
Witness the Michael Showalter Showalter, featuring Paul Rudd. Seeing is believing and genius is comedians sowing the seeds of sustainable love! Funny is for always... source: CollegeHumor...
Airport connection went kaput for four long days, but alas, it's back and I'm so friggin relieved...Onwards!...
OH MY GOD!!! I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING BETTER OR MORE BRILLIANT!!! FOR REAL, OK?! SERIOUSLY!!! DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT F_CKING WITH BOBBY D!!!HE IS THE MAN FOR A DAMN GOOD REASON ...AND THEN SOME!!!! HAHAHAHA!!!!! THIS IS THE BEST 23...
There is no way KO could ever craft the clever attitude-heavy commentary found @ Dlisted. Yes, we love Perez...but let's be honest, Michael @ Dlisted is truly fierce without fear. He harbors no Hilton associations, and he's honest as hell....
You take your eyes off the 'ball for a single day and what happens? LiLo goes full-on d'ohglo and gets busted for driving drunk, with coke, with a suspended license. Does LiLo have anyone loving her? Ho needs help. Fast.LiLo...
So very much smitten purring wow awe love the dress...LiLo, Vegas, 7.07...
Read: The Tender Bar J.R. Moehringer's memoir was a Times best seller for good reason. More importantly, my sista Ami raved about it, quoting it freely. It's moving, at times laugh-out-loud funny, at times too true to be real, and...
Hmm...Couldn't resist passing this along... Armistead Maupin is the author of the extremely homo books "Tales of the City" and according to Holy Moly! gave his theory on closeted gay actors in Hollywood at a book signing in London. Armi...
Katy's back, tell a friend...Yes, KatyOliver.com is finally ready for another close-up! After months of sporadic posting, KO finally has wireless at the new house. Woohoo!!! That means regular, multi-post days are back y'all. Hiphiphooray!!!Bradley St., July 2007...
While in LA, what has KO done? Ummm...err, uhh, well~ consolidate! Pretty much just packing up stuff from storage...and bonding with bf Matt Lum...Below, a picture taken on "9/11" in Dallas: Rob Z and KO were driving cross-country and moving...
But no worries, we totally captured the magic of this memorable day... and of course we couldn't resist adding some Perez-style flavor fit for Queens...KO with Matt and Perez, Hollywood, 6.8.07 ************************************************************************** Check out this flawless performance by Beth Ditto...
We heard Perez give his phone interview to Fox, and snapped this screen shot to salute Peretzel for his sincere~ if silly~ spin on the drama....
News networks are all about the heiress...We think these sketches are pretty......Ironically, just now, when the MSNBC broke to a commercial~ the first ad was a Hilton Hotels spot! Hahahahaha......
KO was moved to take some stills of Mona Edward's sketches of heiress Paris from inside the courthouse, and Peretzel quickly used one in a post. Yay!Thanks P! ************************************************** Update: Another picture by yours truly is featured by P!...
Moments after the Heiress was whisked away to the LA Courthouse for a reevaluation of her release yesterday and newer sentence (a "punishment" of 45 days under house arrest), KO was off in a whirlwind to pick up Matt's friend...
100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know by Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries abjure abrogate abstemious acumen antebellum auspicious belie bellicose bowdlerize chicanery chromosome churlish circumlocution circumnavigate deciduous deleterious diffident enervate enfranchise epiphany equinox euro evanescent expurgate facetious...
Directly From A Special Way of Being Afraid: "I honestly can't remember the last time that a celebrity's passing truly affected me. In 1990, I was a junior in high school. Our English class was assigned, in pairs, to...
"Kurt Vonnegut - So He Goes Kurt Vonnegut passed away earlier this week. I'd written a lot throughout my youth before discovering his work but it was he who taught me to write less. If that makes any sense. His...
KO has not been posting as regularly as usual... Why, you ask? Well, good question... KO was essentially MIA in many ways the past few days... Alas, it's good to be back in baby's arms again... As always, we appreciate...
Obedient baby no more, Britney Spears is cultivating cuckoo-crazy like...crazy... Fruits from her freak-outs are fiercely fresh and just obscenely, outrageously ripe. Picture via X17; Brit-Brit "Rehab is In" Illustration via Gawker...
And then she got some fresh ink...KO has nothing against the bald is beautiful school of style, Sinead and Ami both rocked it really successfully some time ago... But, umm, it seems like Brit-Brit has crossed over to full-on cuckoo-panties...
A long-distance love-picture from webmaster, genius and bf Matt Lum!!!Matt by Matt, LA, 2.13.07...
Connecticut got the snow on V-day, and KO couldn't get online anywhere. Well anyway KO is now in VT at Tanglewood, and finally back online! Sorry to be gone fo' so long, friends. I promise to make it up to...
I'd link to one thing in particular if everything he posted wasn't so damn funny. Check MattSearsForever and you will get it. Out Loud....
Happy Happy Happy Birthday to everyone's favorite blogger and friend, John Carney! Got nothing but love for you John! Well, love, and...(omitted due to content)...etc, et al! So glad to see you are on the road to recovery! Can't wait...
An excerpt from one of my favorite writers/bloggers:Source: A Special Way of Being Afraid...
Great post at So Much Trouble In The World about the ongoing health problems of rescue workers and residents of lower Manhattan post-9/11. Check it out....
KO suggests you take a few minutes to read this New York Observer article about bloggers and LES bars. Friend-to-many DealBreakerist John Carney gets plenty of action (insert witty-if-all-too-easy pun here) in the article, with plenty of quotes throughout....
Friday night KO ran into director/friend Zal's brother Rostam. Rostam is the genius behind the best ko.com review ever: Not Terrible!He is also a rockstar in a band called Vampire Weekend.It seems more than appropriate that we'd run into him...
KO and Ninja are the magicKO and Ninja flank Jonique (aka prettymeangirl)Latenight crew represent! represent! Levee, Williamsburg, 1.19.07...
Sometimes it all goes so well...Last night was simply superb. KO met up with Ninja for the My Sassy Girl wrap party, and wrap it up nicely we did, we did...It was a visual feast! There was so much love...
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Went to visit John Carney in the hospital today... The man is very popular! When I got there, his father was on the way out, Paul Frankenstein was chillin' and then later Mitch (Michelle) and a friend (guy's name TBD...sorry!)...
DealBreaker writer~ and great friend (to many including) KO~ John Carney was hit by a car late Saturday night. It was a hit and run. I resisted mentioning it sooner because I wanted to get as much detail as possible...
KO has also considered these issues~ always aware that I! am not! alone!~ and couldn't help but love the brevity of the 1-2 punch from D.D.'s most recent posts: Bravo Giulia....
KO knows you know how much we love hockey...but check this out: Criminally-hot actress Elisha Cuthbert, currently filming My Sassy Girl alongside our friend and fellow-Connecticut-native (represent! represent!) Jesse Bradford, is a hardcore hockey fanatic. We've known about her blog...
As you know, KO loves WordHumper, but my mom, aka BCO, is totally *smitten*. It's silly I didn't post this rad recognition by WH of BCO's crush...All I can say is, thank you WH and see you soon BCO. Much...
It's been a while since I've shared some stats...I am happy to report that KatyOliver.com is growing and growing and (hopefully) continuing to reach out to artists, friends, lovers, fighters, filmmakers, party-goers, pretty people, strangers, old school acquaintances, new school...
via DealBreaker...
My Mom is a very savvy internet surfer, she really is. Recently she turned me on to WordHumper. Yes, it's true~ I know and in fact recently featured a night out with (among others) the mastermind behind WordHumper, but he...
DealBreaker mentions Michael Lewis' piece on the pains of profiting and the burdens of bonuses...we can't help but feel the frustration......
DealBreaker's John Carney was on CNBC this morning talking about those big-ass bonuses.Well done John....
Last night, after figuring out the Good-Will-Hunting-grade math equation of packing my life Tetris-style into my car, I rejoined Matt Lum in the web-rynth for one last night of research and ridiculousness. Our resonate friendship! Sigh. How I love Matt...
Simple amusement succeeds...the Defamer orgy with yahoo players is a winner:(Great screen-capture ~!!!~ made possible with my shift-apple-4 fingers!)...
KO totally didn't realize our friend Dan was taking pictures last time we all partied with Santa! If you think the stills are revealing, you should see the video! Thanks Dan!Put yourself~ or someone else~ in my cute little elf...
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