Fug Curry

Sometimes, Ann Curry's overly maternal and husky-voiced interview style, which is almost always too earnest and never at ease with whimsy, drives me up the wall. But there is something oddly comforting about her voice, and she's rather lovely -- you can't deny that for a woman who is turning a  50 later this month, Ann hardly looks over 35. So to that, I say, "Well played, Ann Curry. Well played indeed."

However...

... it's days like Halloween on which I think Ann wonders how she got from a journalism degree and two LA-area Emmys to a job that requires her to parade around in a Cher costume, exposing her bits (toned though they may be) in a spangly spandex jumpsuit while people across America gape in unsettled alarm. Not because there is anything wrong with her figure, but because this is Ann f'ing Curry, and America is not ready for their relationship with Ann f'ing Curry to get to this level. And she knows it. She's the woman we're supposed to feel comfortable confiding in about our financial struggles, or our lady problems, or obesity in our schools, or sensible makeup choices. She is not the woman whose breasts and upper thighs we are supposed to see. It feels uncomfortably like catching your cousin in the shower by accident: not illegal, exactly, but nonetheless ooky and wrong.

Needless to say, we here at GFY are thankful that Halloween has passed. Not because we didn't enjoy it -- Jessica made a stellar Anna Wintour, complete with a copy of Vogue marked up with scathing Post-It notes denoting which cover lines were idiotic and which models/writers should be fired immediately; and even though I just sort of looked like a more deranged and incontinent version of myself, I do think the adult diapers were the best part of my Fergie costume, and thus well worth it. So, no, we have nothing against All Hallows Eve. We're just happy to see it pass because we'd like to go back to people wearing fugly clothes on their own accounts, and not to mimic somebody or something else. A return to normalcy -- fuglamcy -- is what we need.