Music: Magnetic Merritt is Down With Brown

Merritt shows off three dog-droppingly different shades of brown...

Tucked amongst the advertising folderol and nude Freaky Friday pics of this week's New York magazine fashion issue was a piece on precious New Yorkers who only wear one color. And in no case was that color black.

Turns out Magnetic Fields maestro Stephin Merritt has a wardrobe entirely made up of variations on brown. He has some fairly compelling reasons for this:
"Brown shows absolutely nothing. You’d have to spill some fuchsia paint. If you wear black, dandruff is horrific and lint is a nightmare—and dog hair, in my case, is a particular problem."
Or, if you are conservative sacred cow and dead President Ronald Reagan, you wear a brown suit to match the hair goop and to pay tribute to Harold Bell Wright's Christian themed novel That Printer of Udell...

More Rampant Joke Stealing! This Time Colbert is Caught

Colbert: Joke Theif or Plain Ol' Sexy American?

CNN reports that Air America morning host Cenk Uygur is claiming that Steven Colbert stole his joke about Republicans sounding like Klingons. Hmmm... kind of like what New York Magazine did to me! Here is Uygur's full charge below via YouTube. To be fair, Colbert's was funnier (while I was much cleverer than New York Magazine).

New York Magazine Reads This Blog!...and Rips it Off!

Could this weeks Approval Matrix be merely an incredible coincidence? See for yourself , and also above. They do the exact same Damien Hirst/Indiana Jones gag I did last week! I demand restitution, free iced coffee or some form of mea culpa from the culture vultures at New York who dared to rip me off...