Name: Kathy Buchanan Title: Yes please
Known associates: She’s not one to brag but Kathy B once worked out in a gym with a buff and bearded Hugh Jackman at Gwinganna Health Lifestyle Retreat. She also caught a glimpse of High-School Musical’s Zac Efrons elbow at the Nickelodean Awards (on her way to check out a very cool bar of course). Her celebrity goal for 2008 is to do the tango with that annoying guy from Malcolm in the Middle.
Regular haunts: The Hotel Hollywood in Surry Hills in Sydney for drinks (she says to ask for Doris and if you’re lucky you’ll hear stories about Bob Hope).
The Randwick Ritz in Sydney for movies (Kathy B says it is a cool spot and still shows the cheapest movies in town).
…and her very comfy chocolate brown sofa for nanna naps (sorry, Kathy B doesn’t mean to be rude but says you’re not invited – unless of course you know how to program her VCR).
Last sighted at: Macro trying to work out what she can eat that is gluten and dairy free that doesn’t taste like eating dry dog poo.
Current mission: Kathy B would like to not just have to pretend to understand why friends insist on sending her complicated games and applications on Facebook when they know she still can’t even program her VCR.
Other activities: When Kathy B isn’t scouring the city for cool bars or doesn’t have her head stuck captivated in a novel for her job as Marie Claire’s book reviewer, she may be on a bad date, stressing herself out trying to find time to relax or very possibly procrastinating instead of working on writing her own hilarious novel. At other times, after over a decade as a journalist and editor working in Sydney and London for magazines such as Esquire, Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Harper’s Bazaar, Oyster and The Sunday Telegraph, she may be finally trying to learn how to correctly use punctuation.
Kathy B would like to point out that she actually has finished a few things in her life apart from a family sized block of fruit and nut and J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye. These are a few of them.
Charm School, Penguin, ISBN: 0143001493
Happy Endings, Penguin ISBN: 0143001590
Quit for Chicks, Penguin ISBN: 0143001507
If anyone thinks Ketija Bukenena hasn’t been as productive over the past couple of years as she could have been she’s like to ask if that annoying person has ever published a book in Latvia? She would also like to point out that day-long movie marathons can be considered research if you are self-deluded enough (she admits she is).
One of Kathy B’s books was also published in Indonesia but hasn’t gotten around to number 57 on her to do list to ask her publisher to please send her a copy. Her website is: www.kathyb.net
Quote: Kathy B’s 10 Commandments (sorry, she couldn’t be bothered to come up with ten witty yet poignant one-liners all of her own).
1. “The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” George S. Patton
2. “Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.” Oscar Wilde
3. “Don’t read science fiction. Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.” P. J. O’Rourke
4. “The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.” Charlie Chaplin
5. “Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.” Mother Theresa
6. “What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.” Richard Bach
7. “One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom.”Susan Howatch
8. “And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk ever more.” Erica Jong
9. “Time is precious. Why waste it without a great martini in you hand?” Marilyn Monroe
10. “If your brain can’t keep up, you’ve got to think with your heart.” Kathy B
Informants contact: kathybu@bigpond.net.au www.kathyb.net