MALIBU IS BURNING!

Beauty can exact a very high price! Nearly 20 acres of the tony seaside California beach community MALIBU burned today, along with 8 million-dollar mansions. Thankfully no lives were lost! Its these damn Santa Ana winds! On the weekend we had 70 m.p.h. winds. TheGayGardener lost a vintage window, a terra-cotta angel, & 10 years worth of climbing star-jasmine, ripped from the walls! I've got to start reading those LEFT BEHIND books, surely the weather indicates that The Rapture is coming.

ROSIE O'DONNELL like many artists, turns her pain into art. The pic above is her painted version of her weeks-long tormentor, DONALD TRUMP. I think she really captured him, no? According to IN TOUCH WEEKLY, MARTHA STEWART sent Rosie roses last week to comfort her, along with a note that read: "WATCH OUT FOR PRICKS" MS has a delcious sense of humor!

HAPPY 50th BIRTHDAY to the plastic PINK FLAMINGO lawn ornaments. Designed in 1957 by an art school student, Donald Featherstone, these birds remain eternally, belovedly, inexplicably, popular. The company that manufactures them turns out about 250,000 pink pairs per year!

My deepest sympathies to ANGIE DICKINSON & BURT BACHARACH on the loss of their only child, Nikki. Nikki suffered from a particularly cruel form of Autism called "Asperger's Syndrome" For those too young to remember, Angie was the sexy crime stopper cop in a trail-blazing show called POLICE WOMAN. Her character's name was "Pepper" & she was fabulous!! At the time there was even some controversy because Pepper wore, wait....JEANS!!! Rest in Peace Nikki.