215 posts tagged “lucire”

I wonder if Vox is fixing its problems. I have been trying all morning to get the compose screen up, and here it is, after a couple of hours (as opposed to days). The only problem is, two hours on, the inspiration for writing the post has kind of left.
   Let’s see what I’ve put up lately that I had an intention to mention: how about this guy in a Chevy Camaro Transformer costume? Watch on: there’s a bit of a surprise. (Thanks to Tanya for this one.)

Here were the search terms taking folks to the Lucire ‘Insider’ section yesterday. The day before was similar, but instead of Heidi Klum, it was Vanessa Paradis. Celebrities, still, sell.

eva longoria london fog
heidi klum
eva longoria tony parker
london fog eva longoria
london fog eva
eva longoria tony parker london fog
eva and tony london fog
london fog eva longoria tony parker
eva longoria fog
london fog tony parker

The Parkers finally beat some long-standing records for searches for the Jaguar XJ launch (where Lucire published the first official unembargoed image of the new car) and a couple of other popular stories we did this year.

It was an interesting experience driving home yesterday. I thought I would go via Napier on State Highway 5, since I have never been to the sunny coastal town. I never made it, because the route to the sunny coastal town was like this:

   State Highway 1 (Desert Road) was also closed, which originally made the detour on SH5 a clever plan—not so when it snows in the supposedly warm springtime here.
   Napier has a reputation for having great weather but my one and only memory of getting there will be this! However, I can no longer say I have not seen snow up close any more.
   And how.
   Knowing that the Desert Road was closed off, I took State Highway 41 west, where I was greeted with similar scenes. A very helpful motorist in a pick-up truck led the way down to the Taumaranui intersection, otherwise I would have been stranded at the top of the mountain. As I had discovered earlier on 5, the BMW is terrible on sludge and I had next to no traction in attempting to make a U-turn.
   It didn’t end there. I got as far as the National Park area and stopped for dinner. As I headed down on State Highway 4 (which was also shut for a time as I waited, while Wedding Crashers came on the BMW’s TV tuner), it turned out that SH48 was closed—it would have been much faster going to Wellington from there. I was advised to continue on SH4, which, incidentally, has no lighting. I dodged quite a few slips and if it were not for the three-dimensional sat nav, I would probably not have attempted the drive, as it was tricky for a first-timer.
   I got as far as Wanganui, because I was running low on petrol and a lot of stations were shut at that hour, or on pre-pay. I spent the night in a hotel where a lone cockroach walked atop my blankets—I will not name the place because I cannot say for sure whether this little creature walked in while the door was open as I shifted in my luggage. I am no entomologist. But I have advised the place that they need to take whatever steps are necessary to clean the room.
   Wanganui is an interesting town: the sat nav told me that there were hotels called the Four Seasons (which was really a motel that has nothing to do with the Four Seasons that I know) and the Quality Inn (which has nothing to do with Quality Inn). Sorry, I won’t confirm if either of these was where I stayed. Neither is breaking the law here as far as the names are concerned: as far as I can make out, the old Quality Inns are now the Quality Hotels, and Four Seasons does not operate here.
   So a six-and-a-half-hour drive turned into one lasting about 25 hours, but I had a whale of a time.
   And finding a way to State Highway 2 would not have helped. The police shut that off because a killer was at large yesterday (yes, just one—and in a generally peaceful country, that’s sufficiently for our police to act).
   Oh, and to the asshole in the Touareg who overtook me on SH4 (reg. DZC ***): tailgating in the snow is a really bad idea, dick. I don’t care if you do have four-wheel drive.

Current transport: BMW Z4. At least it’s more butch than the prissy Z3 (too “Pierce Brosnan”) but one cannot help feeling one is compensating. Long hood, short deck.

For the record, I did not start a discussion on Flash Forward because ABC is advertising it on the Lucire site:

Though it is pretty cool that the ad is there. I never saw it last week, though I did happen across ads for other TV shows from this network.

This probably means very little to others, but I thought it was interesting to see some of the fall 2009 US TV shows being advertised on the Lucire site. A couple of years ago, we had Ugly Betty and other shows being pushed heavily on our site; this time around, it’s Eastwick, Cougar Town and Californication, which are a little more adult:

Thanks to Coby at Mercedes-Benz for my transport last week: a new E350 Coupé with Distronic (the cruise control system that slows down if the traffic in front slows). Lucire review to follow. It looks much better in the metal than in the photos (where it looks fussy and rear-heavy). In fact, of all the coupés I have driven, I really began to feel “at home” with this one.

I was going to get an early night, but really couldn’t let the day pass without writing an editorial about 9-11. I remember going to bed in the small hours of September 12 (NZST) thinking that nothing was happening. Was I ever wrong. By 6 a.m., a friend had already called me to tell me what had happened in New York and the Pentagon.
   I put it up at Lucire, since most of (our) September 12, 2001 revolved around fashion, both at New York Fashion Week and the Wellington Fashion Festival. Your thoughts on the piece are welcome.

I have written to the creator of the WP-Cufón plug-in for Wordpress about this bug, which caused some missing characters at the Lucire website today:

It turns out that the ligatures (such as the fi character) are missing from the Javascript version of my JY Fiduci typeface family which we converted. Upon discovering this, I disabled the Cufón plug-in so that the text could display normally, albeit in whatever typeface the reader has on the receiving end.
   At least when we have bugs, I act on them (hello, Facebook?).
   But the above video is a great one. Click here to have a view of it—and watch it right to the end, if you don’t know how it finishes. I also put it here on Vox.