The Urban Grind

For the MTV Music Awards, Lady Gaga wore a dress made of flank steaks. This grossed out Mr. Sherry, who owns the Old Homestead Steakhouse in Manhattan’s chi chi Meatpacking district. Mr. Sherry decided he could do better. So he designed an outfit from porterhouse, rib eyes, and kobe beef roots (whatever those are).

You too can have this outfit if you’re willing to fork over $100,000.

The woman who modeled it is certainly OK with the price.

“Wear it for an hour, have fun with it … Then you might have enough meat for six months for your freezer,” Sherry suggested. “So that the $100,000 is not that expensive.”

From my experience of living in Manhattan for most of my adult life, I can honestly say that many New Yorkers will go to great lengths and endure all sorts of inconveniences to prove how “with it” and “chic” they are. For example, I posted a while back about how a chef in a Manhattan restaurant was making dairy dishes from his wife’s breast milk. If you think that’s gross, then how about coffee made from animal poop, which sells for $30 a cup?

New York’s crappiest cup of coffee is also its most expensive.

At $30 a cup, “Kopi Luwak” is made from beans collected from the droppings of a small, cat-like mammal called a civet.

The java – often called “cat poo coffee” – isn’t everyone’s cup of tea and was nearly banned in Indonesia this month for being unsanitary.

Some New Yorkers, though, are saying bottom’s up to the strange brew. At coffee shops like Porto Rico in the West Village, the orders come about once a week, said owner Peter Longo, 58.

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The pricey coffee originated in Indonesia and the Philippines, where folks noticed the civets eating coffee berries, collected their droppings and picked out the beans.

Coffee consultant Michael Peter, 26, of Tamp Tamp Coffee Lab in New York, said the cats’ stomach acids produce a smooth-tasting brew.

Westerners took note and began exporting the kitty-poo joe stateside in the last few years, Peter said. Because of its unique processing, a pound can cost from $340 to $400.

I think it’s safe to call it crappy coffee.

Being that Democrats are so non-chalant about spending other people’s hard-earned money (unless it’s for fighting terrorism), I just had to comment on this bit of news.

The openly gay Barney Frank caused a scene on the Fire Island Ferry when they wouldn’t give him a one dollar senior citizen’s discount.

Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank caused a scene when he demanded a $1 senior discount on his ferry fare to Fire Island’s popular gay haunt, The Pines, last Friday. Frank was turned down by ticket clerks at the dock in Sayville because he didn’t have the required Suffolk County Senior Citizens ID. A witness reports, “Frank made such a drama over the senior rate that I contemplated offering him the dollar to cool down the situation.” Frank made news last year when he was spotted looking uncomfortable around a bevy of topless, well-built men at the Pines Annual Ascension Beach Party. Frank’s spokesperson confirmed to Page Six that his partner, James Ready, asked the ticket office for a regular ticket for himself and a senior ticket for Frank, “but was turned down because Frank didn’t have a resident ID.”

What is it with people wanting to expose themselves? Personally, I prefer that my private parts remain private. But not everyone thinks that way.

The au naturel look is catching on at city restaurants, a Midtown yoga club and even a stand-up comedy joint.

“We’re just more comfortable nude,” said John Ordover, who rents city eateries for dinner parties with a strict dress code – no clothes allowed.

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About 50 diners – whose motto is “no hot soup” – regularly turn up for Ordover’s monthly meals held at venues including the Mercantile Grill on Pearl Street and Pete’s Downtown in Brooklyn.

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At a Midtown studio called the Phoenix Temple, twice-weekly yoga classes also are really encouraging participants to expose their inner selves.

“I had such a transformative experience on my own when I did yoga naked rather than clothed,” said Naked Yoga NYC teacher Isis Phoenix. “I wanted to share that.”

The classes have about 10 devotees who have to obey two rules – leave your clothes behind, and bring your own mat.

“We are reclaiming and celebrating our bodies,” said Phoenix, who starts each class with a disrobing ceremony.

Whatever happened to just celebrating your body with your spouse in your home or a hotel? Also, I’m curious as to what these exhibitionists really look like in the buff. My guess is that they’re not the most attractive, and that they do this kind of thing to try and feel better about themselves.

What do you guys think?

Electronics giant Sony really went overboard when they recently used a freshly decapitated goat to promoted their newest video game God of War II.

The corpse of the decapitated animal was the centrepiece of a party to celebrate the launch of the God Of War II game for the company’s PlayStation 2 console.

Guests at the event were even invited to reach inside the goat’s still-warm carcass to eat offal from its stomach.

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At the event, guests competed to see who could eat the most offal – procured elsewhere and intended to resemble the goat’s intestines – from its stomach.

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The party features across two pages of the latest edition of the company’s PlayStation magazine, which was due to hit newsstands on Tuesday but has already been sent to subscribers.

We have reproduced the spread – headlined Sony’s Greek Orgy – here, but have pixellated the image to spare readers the sight of the goat’s decapitated head hanging by a thread of tissue from its corpse, with blood dripping to the floor.

But the magazine’s readers were shown the picture in its full horror.

The article, based on a Sony Press release, shows more vivid pictures from the event under headlines such as Topless Girls! and Flesh Eating?

It asks readers how far they would go to get hold of Sony’s next-generation console, the PlayStation 3.

“How about eating still warm intestines uncoiled from the carcass of a freshly slaughtered goat? At the party to celebrate God Of War II’s European release, members of the Press were invited to do just that . . .”

In God Of War II, which is so violent it has been given an 18 certificate, players follow Kratos into battle against a series of fearsome characters from Greek mythology.

Sony describes it as “an adult-rated, fast-paced bloodbath – and enormous fun to boot”, adding that it is “bigger, better and as brutal as ever”.

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised being that people will do all kinds of public groveling just to be famous or to win prizes.

And I’m not making this stuff up.

Separate or partially joined wombs are uncommon, although not rare about one woman in 1,000 has them, according to Khalaf.

The condition would have occurred before Kersey was born when the two sides of her uterus failed to completely merge. The condition mean the separate wombs tend to have a considerably smaller volume and their contractions are weaker, said Michael Heard, a consulting gynecologist at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester.

Pregnancies are possible, although they tend to result in premature birth more than half the time. Heard said that in the case of a Caesarean two operations would have to be performed.

A senior at Wheaton North High School added his very own special ingredient to the cafeteria’s ranch salad dressing.

As a result, he has been charged with disorderly conduct and attempted aggravated battery, both misdemeanors.

Gross!

Now I can understand arranging play dates for your own children, but doggy play dates? Then again, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised considering that some people have bark-mitzvahs for their dogs.

Marilyn Evins, a retired public relations executive who handled clients in the fashion industry, owns two dachshunds, Jenny and Jackie. She arranges several play dates a week for them. This summer she threw a birthday party for Jenny, with seven dog guests (in bows and bow ties), an angel food birthday cake and goodie bags with chew toys in her Upper East Side apartment, which has a wraparound terrace. ?My dogs come first,? she said, ?If they?re happy, I?m happy.?

Cindy Adams, the gossip columnist who has written extensively about her beloved dogs over the years, said she now schedules much of her social life around her dog-owning friends. ?I?ve become friendlier now with people who have dogs,? she said. ?I?m much closer to Ricki Lauren because her Yorkie, Bikini, is friends with my dogs, and we talk like two old ladies.?

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For those without dog-crazy friends, several Web sites can help arrange dog rendezvous. People seeking to arrange dog play dates post on meetup.com and craigslist, and two recent pet-specific sites are Petster.com, which started last year, and DateMyPet.com, a two-year old site where singles can also search for human love and companionship.

One DateMyPet.com listing was from a 37-year-old San Francisco woman seeking play dates for her dog, Marquee: ?I am looking for doggy dates for Marquee (sorry guys!) and for exchanging dog-sitting services.?

Whatever happened to just taking your dog to that dog run path in Central park?

These people have way too much time on their hands.

Why else would sculptor Daniel Edwards, who also created the statue of Britney Spears on all fours giving birth, create a bust of Hillary Clinton for New York’s Museum of Sex?
He was inspired by actress Sharon Stone’s comment about the former First Lady:

“I think Hillary Clinton is fantastic,” Stone said. “But I think it is too soon for her to run. This may sound odd but a woman should be past her sexuality when she runs. Hillary still has sexual power and I don’t think people will accept that. It’s too threatening.”

If you’re curious, click here to see a picture of the bust.

How is it possible to sue a dog?