Protected: My Grandparents and Uncles in front of their Store - C&D Market - Eureka and 18th St. (1949 or 1950)
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May 12, 2008
April 24, 2008
Die, Vogue, Die
This article in Today’s NYT Style section exemplifies everything I hate about the fashion industry — how the big wigs try to declare a flattering trend dead just so that they can get people to stock up on another item. In this case, the forecasters, magazines, designers, and department store buyers are trying to decree the death of the dress, despite the fact that dresses make every day dressing simple and flattering. All so that they can get us to stock up on separates the boost their bottom line (i.e. the combined price tags on a trousers plus blouse combo are often times much higher than a dress plus tights combo).
The Web 2.0 conference has forced me to think whether there has been some sort of consumer revolt, where fashion magazines have lost their relevance. When I was in high school and college, I would purchase the arm-breakingly heavy Fall Fashion issue from Vogue, but now, I just skip Anna Wintour’s voice all together and look to the street, the store displays, and fashion blogs for cues instead. If the print editions of newspapers are bleeding eyeballs, this leads me to wonder if the fashion mags are suffering equally.
April 11, 2008
7
Normally, I wouldn’t link to something like the Weekly Standard, but I find P.J. O’Rourke’s description of the original 7 deadly sins to be spot on:
The beauty of Pope Gregory’s lineup was that he nailed our most devilish villainies with one word each. His seven evocative nouns produced an instant mental image: a puffed-up, shifty-eyed, fat cat furiously ripping the thong off a young intern on a slow night in the Oval Office.
March 26, 2008
My Favorite Swede
I went with Miss KK to see Jens Lekman at Bimbo’s this past Saturday, and it was an absolutely amazing show (the best one that I have gone to this far in 2008). His set included Arthur Russell’s A Little Lost and featured the little touchpad, as seen in this Lekman video:
Edit: I realized that I blogged about Jens once before.
Stand By Your Man?
Wait, Hillary, are you saying that women don’t have a choice to leave their cheating husbands?
“We don’t have a choice when it comes to our relatives,” she said. “We have a choice when it comes to our pastors and the churches we attend. Everyone will have to decide these matters for themselves. They are obviously very personal matters.”
If Wright were her pastor, she said, “the choice would be clear.”
Emphasizing that she was saying only how she would have dealt with a minister such as Wright, Clinton added: “I don’t think that’s negative.”
Senator Clinton, did you take family law at Yale Law? You do have a choice when it comes to your spouse, you can leave him if he betrays you.
Blech, the Clinton campaign is just so dispiriting and nasty. Hillary Clinton really is the Heather Mills of U.S. politics.
March 21, 2008
This is Where It Gets Interesting
As my earlier post from today indicates, I was concerned about a Tweet from the JohnMcCain2008 twitter page. About an hour ago, I received the following direct response from the JohnMcCain2008 twitter account:
The John McCain2008 twitter profile is used by a group of bloggers, who are not part of the campaign, strong opinions, and supporter.
Now, I need to do some investigating to verify if this statement is indeed accurate. The “about” section for the JohnMcCain2008 Twitter page now says that it is independent from his campaign:
About
I, however, was pretty sure when I added JohnMcCain2008, it was his official Twitter page (the same way that John Edwards had his own official Twitter account). The Google Cache of the JohnMcCain2008 page from February 10, 2008 has a completely different profile, one that sounds as though it was part of the official McCain campaign:
About
I have no idea when this change was made, but would like some confirmation directly from someone at Twitter if they permit people to set up accounts in the name of presidential candidates, without the candidates’ permission.
Watch Your Tweet, Senator McCain
Depending on which side of the bed I wake up on, I alternate between supporting Obama and McCain on their White House bids. This week, with the feeling of poor economic times weighing heavily on me, I’m back to supporting Obama. The combination of Obama’s rousing, inspiring, and incredible speech on race in America and Robert Reich’s uttering of the D-word (Depression), makes me believe that Obama is the only candidate who can inspire the nation with fireside chats a la FDR. If we’re headed for a long downturn, I want Obama to be the one to tell this nation to keep its chin up and persevere.
I was also heartened this week by McCain and Huckabee’s defense of Obama’s connection with Rev. Wright as well. The WaPo also reported that McCain distanced himself from the Wright attacks by suspending an aide who distributed an incendiary Rev. Wright video via the aide’s personal Twitter page.
That’s why I’m upset that in my Twitter feed this morning, there was a tweet from the McCain campaign regarding Obama’s connection with another black minister. This seems completely out of line with the statement from the WaPo article above:
The McCain campaign has repeatedly said it intends to run a campaign free of personal attacks, and McCain himself told Fox News recently that he did not believe Obama shares Wright’s views.
If you vow to run a clean campaign, Senator McCain, then you better keep track of what your staffers Twitter.
March 7, 2008
Memo to Anna Wintour
Never bare your arms. Seeing your upper arm wrinkles will give me nightmares for the next week, if not the next month. Bronzer/spray tan does not hide them.
March 3, 2008
Good Job, Son, Good Job
If I found this stuff in my teenager’s backpack, I’d probably raise his/her allowance. I wouldn’t want to stifle the creativity of a future Banksy.
February 27, 2008
Conversion
A short while ago, I declared, rather loudly, that if Hillary won the nomination, I wouldn’t vote for her. There is some sort of magic spell that would persuade me to go Clinton, however, and that spell starts off with, “Abracadabra, Justice Kagan…”
(A huge part of me is having difficulty in accepting McCain’s pledge to appoint strict constructionists. Blech.)
