Whoa. Wait a minute. I was just leaving Gawker HQ with two looted bottles of Gawker publisher Nick Denton's best champagne under each arm when something amazing caught my eye.

From today's Post on New Year's resolutions: "Daniel Peres, editor in chief of Details magazine: 'I sincerely hope that this heinous new word, 'metrosexual,' which is banned from the pages of Details, has the cultural longevity of Dolph Lundgren.'"

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Mmm, excuse me? Let's turn the clock back just a few months, to August 20th, 2003, when Mr. Peres did an online chat for the Washington Post on the topic of metrosexuality. "Sure, I'm a metrosexual if that means that I have equal interest in how the Knicks are doing and what the new art installation is going to be at the gallery around the corner," said Mr. Peres. And: "Think about the perfect guy. The one your mother has always wanted you to bring home (assuming you're a woman). He's sensitive. He's smart. He can quote Thoreau. He can cook French food. He knows the difference between a daisy and a daffodil and the difference between a Monet and a Manet. This is a metrosexual," said Mr. Peres. And: "Metrosexual is just a word to define a man who has evolved," said Mr. Peres.

(Then, mid-chat, Mr. Peres loses his mind and refuses to renounce pleated pants for men. Horrifying! Whatever, he's under a lot of pressure, we all make mistakes.)

Geez. Back in the carefree days of mid-2003, so many of us were threatened by the powerful metrosexual lobby. First they threw big money at us. Then they made vague yet menacing statements about our families. So naturally Mr. Peres — and he wasn't alone — sold his ass to the metrosexual lobby at a deep discount. Thank God he's come out the other side. I'm just so glad he's here now to bravely stand up for the truth, for all that is beautiful and important and honest in magazine-land.

Okay. That's all. Class dismissed. Crap, it's only 4 p.m. and I'm trashed already. Lappy Hew Near every-buddy!
'PROMISING' CELEBS OF 2004 [NY Post]
What Is A Metrosexual? [WaPo]
Let's Get One Thing Straight [Radar]