How cool is this? George Orwell’s diaries are being published as a blog.

Judith Warner hates dogs too!

Maureen Tkacik dispenses a brilliantly catty proscription for The Wall Street Journal’s forthcoming snoozer, “Modern Wealth” magazine.

I have no idea whether legendary model agent Jerry Ford was a good man but he did introduce advance pay for models and that seems like a nice thing to do. He died this week.

Slate’s Lauren Sandell does an attitudinal hemline analysis of how the September women’s magazines are dealing with the fact that five-figure handbags may not be au courant at the moment.

Tough cookie Cathy Horyn is a baker! Here is her blueberry pie recipe. I am whipping one up this weekend.

In a strange and thrilling development, the celebrity cover may have reached its logical last phase. Both Vogue and Cookie forwent puff pieces for their cover girls, and gave each the straight model treatment. And why not? Considering that this is Keira Knightley’s fourth cover in three years, Vogue had little smoke left to blow up her tiny tushie (Anna Wintour does, however, pick on Knightley’s penchant for historical roles). At Cookie, there was likely little to write about Milla Jovovich following the closure of Jovovich-Hawk. Much as I like Milla, her movie career is such that the subhed references the 15-year-old “Dazed and Confused.” In any event, Conde Nast has found a nifty money-saving device in cutting out writers of stories nobody reads. But this approach has its perils too. While Milla, a former model, is capable of carrying a multipage shoot, Knightley clearly has no idea what she’s doing and even Mario Testino can’t save her. Sad.