i'm walking around the outer rim of Target aisles
where the clearance sections hide
and am pawing through stuff that i don't need
but at up to 75% off, can't live without
when i see Stacie J. from the apprentice II
smiling up at me from a clairol hair colouring kit

i turn to gina and say...
omg, it's stacie j.
and gina says, Who?
nevermind.
the point of this story is
i am forced to rush home and look up stacie j.
and confirm that it really is her on the package

lo, and behold...it IS
i find site after site of her *official* bio
the one obviously supplied by the friendly
reality tv people and it talks about her
work as a model...
hello! did you see her hair?
do you think clairol is cringing?

and then i read that ms. j owns a Subway in harlem.
her tag on the apprentice was *restaurateur*
Subway is not a restaurant!
Rialto at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge is a restaurant,
L'Atelier de Joel Robuchon, Rue de Montalembert in Paris is a restaurant
subway...for i now refuse to capitalize it...is a...a...
franchise

bah.