Manolo saysk, ayyyyy! The Manolo possibly has the food poisoning, or perhaps the intestinal bug, and thus in any event, he is miserable. Hence the delay in posting his recap of the Project Runway. He hopes to be well enough to do so tomorrow morning.

Many apologies.

Manolo says, ayyyyyy! Yesterday evening, the entire Manolosphere came down crashing!

However after many hours, and much heartbreak, the technical peoples were able to restore the various blogs of the Manolo to the internets.

Sadly, you will notice that the postings at this blog from Sunday and Monday are now missing, as are your comments on those posts. Many apologies for this, but the pontifex maximus of the technicians has assured the Manolo that only the sacrifice of these things will appease the capricious gods of the internet.

Manolo dice, no estamos satisfechos con la conquista del mundo de blogs en ingles. Estamos listos y muy bien vestidos para la invasión de los blogs en español. El Manolo presentara su nueva colección de blogs, como un armario lleno de deliciosos Manolo Blahniks, con los temas de zapatos, moda y los famosos.

El Manolo busca autores con fascinación de zapatos, moda y los famosos, un sentido de humor y por supuesto, la habilidad de escribir con inteligencia y sabor en español.

Además de fama, te prometemos un pequeño sueldo por tus ingeniosas palabras diarias. Este puesto es part-time.

Si te llama la atención, manda un e-mail a El Manolo, indicando porque serias perfecto/a para el nuevo weblog de Manolo en español y unos links o ejemplos de tu trabajo.

Manolo dice, no estamos satisfechos con la conquista del mundo de blogs en ingles. Estamos listos y muy bien vestidos para la invasión de los blogs en español. El Manolo presentara su nueva colección de blogs, como un armario lleno de deliciosos Manolo Blahniks, con los temas de zapatos, moda y los famosos.

El Manolo busca autores con fascinación de zapatos, moda y los famosos, un sentido de humor y por supuesto, la habilidad de escribir con inteligencia y sabor en español.

Ha de mas de fama, te prometemos un pequeño sueldo por tus ingenias palabras diarias. Este puesto es part-time.

Si te llama la atención, manda un e-mail a El Manolo, indicando porque serias perfecto/a para el nuevo weblog de Manolo en español y unos links o ejemplos de tu trabajo.

Manolo says, the Manolo is taking it easy this week, enjoying the holiday with good friends and good cheer. The posting at the blog of the Manolo will return to normal on Wednesday, in the meantime, the Manolo wishes you the joy of the season.

Manolo says, The Manolo now wishes to introduce to you the latest addition to the Manolo’s network of blogs,

Manolo for the Home!!!

As the subtitle says, it provides “house, home, and lifestyle advice from Manolo the Shoeblogger,” although, as you will see when you visit, it is actually the redoubtable Never teh Bride who is providing the most sensible and super fantastic of advices. (The Manolo is merely riding shotgun, pointing to things on the big map and kibitzing, much in the way one imagines Martha Stewart guides her media empire, only nicer.)

So, you must now go read this new blog, as undoubtedly you will find much here that is of interest to you.

Manolo says, in honor of the Maestro’s birthday, the Manolo the Shoeblogger has decided to update his blogroll, and to throw it open to all of the new fashion blogs he has not previously included.

The are so many new and wonderful voices out there that the Manolo can barely keep up with his blog reading and linking.

So, if you are the fashion blogger who links to the Manolo, but you are not on the Manolo’s blogroll please leave the the comment here so that he may link back.

By the way, the links in the Manolo’s complete blogroll rotate randomly through the front page, 25 at the time. So everyone does appear on the front page. (If the Manolo included his whole blogroll on the front page there would be room for nothing else.)

Manolo says, in honor of the Christmas Season the Manolo has revived the his Basement of the Bargains Blog, with the Twistie doing the honors as the bargain blogger. Go now and look at the things the Twistie and the Manolo have selected for your bargain-shopping enjoyment.

Manolo says, there is the longish article in the Spanish-language publication Paula about the rising influence of the fashion blogosphere.

Esculpir la industria de la moda, elegir íconos como Mary-Kate Olsen, decidir qué va a ser tendencia y qué no. No hace falta ser un diseñador reconocido o un monstruo sagrado de las pasarelas para dictar los cánones. Basta tener una computadora y conexión a internet. Colgar imágenes, comentarlas, hundir o ensalzar una creación… se convierten hoy en auténticos privilegios de bloguero. “No se puede tomar el pulso al universo de la moda sin devorar bitácoras”, opina la estilista española Cristina M. Faber. Sin embargo, es difícil saber qué viene antes: si la gallina o el huevo.¿Las fotografías que pululan por la red reflejan el estilo dictado previamente por los diseñadores, o son más bien las colecciones las que beben de las estrambóticas novedades que circulan por el ciberespacio?

Naturally, the writer mentions your humble shoeblogging friend the Manolo.

Prefiere mantenerse en el anonimato, pero si algo está claro, es que Manolo the Shoeblogger no es Manolo Blahnik. Su web es un homenaje al diseñador canario del calzado idolatrado por las protagonistas de la serie Sex and the city. “Un zapato es una obra de arte; sus líneas conmueven”, considera. Vive entre Nueva York y Los Ángeles y ronda los 40 años. Ya de pequeño soñaba con zapatos. “Pero nunca tuve dotes de creador, así que me conformo con escribir sobre ellos”, explica. Más de 6 mil lectores devoran a diario sus reseñas sobre Christian Louboutin o el británico Rupert Sanderson. ¿Un momento inolvidable? Leer un artículo del London Times, donde Blahnik dejó caer que admiraba su bitácora. Residió en Madrid hace unos años, y en parte por nostalgia y por el jugoso mercado bloguero español, tiene previsto fundar dos webs en castellano: Manolo y sus Zapatos y Manolo Novias. shoeblogs.com

Yes, it is true what is said here, the Manolo will soon be launching new blogs in the Spanish language!

There are far too few fashion blogs in other languages and the Manolo aims to rectify this with bitácoras super-fantasticas!

And so, if you have the native fluency in Spanish, and are obsessed with the moda, the famosos, and especially the zapatos, you may wish to send the Manolo the email about these new employment opportunities.

Manolo says, perhaps the Manolo should apply for this job. He is certainly qualified.

Manolo says, ayyyyy! The Manolo has been in ill most of the day with the bad cold, sleeping and taking the medicines, and so it is only only now that he has remembered that today is the third anniversary of the Manolo’s Shoe Blog!!

And so he belatedly shouts…

Happy Anniversary!!!

It was three years ago, on October 16th, 2004, that the Manolo invented the shoe blog.

It is hard to believe, but three years ago, the Manolo could count the number of the fashion blogs on the fingers of the single hand, and now, marvelously, there are thousands of them, each more wonderful and amusing than the next.

And this is exactly as it should be.

We live in the era of miracles and marvels, when for the first time the tools of mass dissemination and entertainment have been placed directly into the hands of the humble.

And in response to this opportunity, millions of the humblest have taken up these instruments and set about making their own music, each playing his own song in his own way. And together these millions of peoples, all playing as loudly and as passionately as they can, have produced the glorious and cacophonous music of freedom.

And the Manolo has been proud to add his little song to this symphony of noise.

He is also proud of those who have chosen to ally themselves with the Manolo.

Never teh Bride at the Manolo for the Brides, Izzy Gallant at the Manolo for the Men, and Mr. Henry at the Manolo’s Food Blog, are all old friends, who have been joined by our new friends, Raincoaster and Glinda at the Teeny Manolo, Plumcake and Francesca at the Manolo for the Big Girl, Twistie writing on the weekends, and Spirit Fingers at Ayyyy!.

The Manolo is convinced that taken as the whole, there is no group of bloggers anywhere who are as consistently funny, or write as well, as these peoples. That the Manolo has brought them together and given them the place to be read, is among those things of which the Manolo is the proudest.

Finally, and most importantly, the Manolo must thank those peoples who have been most instrumental in the success of this enterprise, the many thousands of the internet friends who each day visit this place.

The attention, generosity, and love the readers have given the Manolo over the past three years are without compare, and can never be repaid. All the Manolo can do is recognize that he has been truly blessed, and say thank you for all that you have given.

You are indeed most super fantastic!

Manolo says, the Manolo’s friend Linda has alerted the Manolo (via the Professor Norm) to this fascinating visual test.

For the Manolo, the dancer is going clockwise, only by looking to his left and thinking about doing his taxes can the Manolo convince the dancer to go anti-clockwise, but as soon as he blinks, she returns to her previous clockwise dance.

These results do not especially surprise the Manolo, except that the Manolo believes himself as being exceptionally verbal.

Go now and take this test and report your findings back to the Manolo