Obligatory SI Swimsuit Edition post

Sauvage Southwood, eh.

February 16, 2011 at 6:00PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Irina Shayk is on the Sports Illustrated cover, and People interviews the suit designer:

No doubt. But here's the headline for the story: Sports Illustrator Swimsuit Cover Bikini Designer Dishes!" There's that word again. Dishes. Used to be confined to some Joan-Rivers-style catty-talk, spilling inside secrets that portrayed others in an unflattering light. Now it just means "speaks." It's up there with "baby bump" as an example of the lazy writing infecting these mags, and -

No one's reading this. Everyone's looking at Irina over to the right. No one even started reading this. She has that effect.

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