Now it's personal

Not only did Mushy-Bottom Barton bring her puppy Ziggy to a restaurant knowing full-well he wouldn't be allowed to join her - and that she wouldn't be dining al-fresco on a crisp winter Manhattan day - but she also pulled the reprehensible move of leaving the wittle baby tied up in a place, at an angle, where he can't even see her.

You may have run over my foot with your Mercedes S-class the day before my first marathon, you may have left me to pay your $400 bar tab at Big Hunt last St. Patrick's Day, and you may have punched my Mom in the gut after church, but disrespecting a puppy?

Now it's personal. Now it's on, bitch.

A first

This was a first for me.

And like watching a Jennifer Aniston movie on my own volition or comfortably eating in its entirety a meal at Picholine that included a terrine of seared foie gras with black cherry reduction, four as-rare-as-the-chef-will-grill-them buffalo medallions, half a cheese platter and an overflowing Martini glass of Cointreau-infused chocolate mousse, this was a first I never saw coming.

This afternoon, I actually spent a significant amount of time - time I could've used to take the puddlebug squirrel-chasing in Lafayette Park or to focus more raptly on "Supermax: Pelican Bay" - to identify something worn by Mischa Barton.

I wasn't able to find the exact crescent-neckline trapeze-shaped mini, but I'm near positive, aside from the print on the collar, this is in fact Mischa's dress.

So, if you have around $200 to spend on a great year-round mini, I recommend picking up Fighting Eel's 'Egypt' dress in either black, red, mustard or steel-blue at any of the following online boutiques:

Rok + Lola ($209 at rokandlola.com)

Girlshop ($218 at girlshop.com)

Queen Bee Girls ($209 at queenbeegirls.com)

Blondette ($152 at blondette.com)

Shop Honey West ($209 at shophoneywest.com)

Lola Y Maria ($201 at lolaymaria.com)

Well, I'll be!

Jumbly-thighs Barton and her didn't-she-just-check-into-rehab? sister Hania decided to kick it too-cool-for-school style yesterday while shopping in Beverly Hills with what little money Mischa has left from her Keds and Bebe contracts.

Typically, I don't just dislike Mischa's style, I laugh out loud at it. To be fair, it's not completely her clothing choices that put me in a fit of giggles (though many of them do), it's also her sugar-cone-shaped legs. I honestly can't look at her in a minidress without thinking of her head as the swirl-tip of a soft-serve.

You can imagine my pleasant surprise, then, when I saw this photo of the Barton sisters and not just liked but loved Mischa's ethnic-collared blousant mini with wide-leather belt cinch. The dress almost made me forget the stomach cramps I got when I noticed her zombie toes hanging off the ends of her Michael Kors criss-cross wedges.

Her sister isn't famous enough for me to care about - and thus critique - but I will give her snaps for her Rachel-Bilson-wore-it-first red tights with black shoes look.