FOOD

Let's get this important business out of the way first: stop what you are doing right now, go to the store and buy a box of Pringles Stix [1]. I can't vouch for any other flavors but the Honey Wheat ones are amaaaazing. [2] They are buttery, salty, sweet and my personal favortie: carb-y. And only 100 calories a pack! Also, I saw last night that McDonald's has a "Southern" chicken sandwich?! What the? With two pickles and a steamed "butter dressed bun"?! This is blatant Chic-Fil-A forgery and I will NOT stand for it. How could they? Have they no shame? I want justice...with waffle fries and a tall lemonade!

CLOTHES

I am wringing my hands in anticipation of two lines. The first is Comme de Garcons for H&M [3]. Comme is totally avant garde, and I'm anxious, in the proper sense of the word, to see how Rei's often distressed, de-constructed Japanese aesthetic will translate to the global chain's sensibility. We probably won't get it here, since the chain's suits probably figure us dungaree overall-wearing bumpkins don't know what Comme de Garcons is -- even though Norfolk-based Commonwealth carries some Comme items [4], but never mind that -- so it'll be worth hopping a place to NYC or bribing a friend to get me one or two pieces before they end up on eBay for twice the price.

The second line I'm waiting for is Rogan for Go International for Target [5]. Yeah, it's women's clothes. (A longtime trick of any male rock fashion icon [6].) But two of the peices that I saw in Vanity Fair were a distressed T-shirt dress and a really long vest I'm thinking about co-opting. I think rocking a long grey T over jeans might be hot in a sick, Japanese, Number (N)ine [7] kind of way, provided of course that it doesn't have those little cleavage imprints. If I'm wrong, I'll toss it; it's $30. Rogan with Target, ladies, is out May 15 and Target sources say it should be in nearly all stores...

SHOWS

Kanye is coming this weekend....I know because the transportation reporter here just told me that bus transporting his ego had to get clearance to get through the HRBT four days in advance. Kidding Ye! Don't ban me from the show or diss me like you did the EW writer! [8] N.E.R.D. is performing. Read my interview with Chad, Pharrell and Shay here [9].

Also, remember that resource center that Pharrell said he was trying to bring to Virginia Beach? Pick up the print copy of the paper today to find out more about it. You'll never believe who he's working with to make it happen...

BLOGS

One of the best blogs out there, Crunk + Disorderly [10], mentioned me by name yesterday. Eat it sucka, I'm famous!

AND UM...

It's quite possible that I could be getting a Botox injection somewhere other than my face (in the name of research, of course, *wink wink* ) before the weekend is through. More on that later, so stay tuned...

WHAT'S UP THIS WEEKEND?

THURS

Judy Collins, Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts

FRI

Brooks & Dunn, with Rodney Atkins, VA Bch Amphitheater

Monsters on the Beach. (I know what you're thinking. No, not tourists, monster trucks!) Through Sunday.

"Evita" through Sunday, Ferguson Center for the Arts, Newport News

PANorama Caribbean Music Fest, steel band tunes, through Sunday, Oceanfront. If they take requests, start off with "Crank That Soulja Boy," since it has that steel drum sound, then gradually work your way up to...I dunno, something by Ozzy.

SAT

Gosport Arts Festival, Portsmouth.

Catherine Russell, jazz, blues artist, Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts

SUN

Kanye, Rihanna, Lupe Fiasco and N.E.R.D., Amphitheater

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO ALL THE MOMS!