I was turning off Penn to 50th yesterday when I bus passed me.  I happened to glance at it and what did I see, staring back at me but my beautiful little sister, Katie, all made up to look like a hag, wreathed in smoke with the headline "Expiration date; 2018".

It's an anti smoking ad.

I screamed for a block.

Then I called Katie to tell her I'd seen her bus.

We laughed for ten minutes.

Here's the thing; even made up, with wrinkles drawn all over her face, her expression dull and the cigarette drooping from her listless lips, she doesn't look half bad.  In real life, she has been described as "So beautiful I couldn't talk." more than once .

Don't hate her because she's beautiful, hate her because she's so talented.

Katie has dabbled in acting and modeling off and on her entire adult life.  It's what she does when she doesn't feel like writing or painting.  She's extremely (professionally) good at all those things.  If she had an attention span longer than that of a half dead tse tse fly, she'd be Oprah Winfrey.  A blonde, thin, pretty and artistic Oprah Winfrey.

I want to find out what route her bus is running and get a shot of Katie, being splashed by a puddle as her own haggard image rolls by, like SJP in the opening credits of Sex and the City.

She's also going to be the voice of Rainbow Foods during their big January sales promotion.

2011; all Katie, all the time.