Fashion Board 4-6-04 to 5-7-04

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by purse junkie
It was all about the Gunne Sax. The sniveling boys, the bad punch, and the Stepford-wife teacher in the bouffant and floor-length quilted skirt were completely beside the point.

And I will never, never regret knowing how to cha-cha.

Disagree on the Gunne Sax. That was the stuff of Bat Mitzvahs, not cotillions.

Agree on the sniveling boys, the bad punch and the Stepford wife teacher.

Knowing how to cha-cha is good. Knowing how to waltz is better. Knowing how to sneak out of The Cricket Club to drink stolen booze out of someone's older brother's flask without getting caught is invaluable.

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I've done Pilates once. Ouch. I can't keep my legs straight for that long. Running has made me much more inflexible...

Did Sequels make you watch Legally Blonde Two before or after she dragged you to pilates?

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
Cotillion . . . The Cricket Club . . . someone's older brother's flask . . .

I am sad for you, and sympathize (but of course do not empathize) with the shame you must feel, living in a McMansion rather than on the family's estate. Tax bills?

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
Did Sequels make you watch Legally Blonde Two before or after she dragged you to pilates?

Bring it On II

Oh it's on.

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by baltassoc
Peasant.

The point of cotillion wasn't to have fun. It was to seperate out the children who were good enough from the those who weren't.

(And apparently, as a place for chicks to dump me. Eight cotillions, got dumped four times. Five if you count the last one, where my date and I weren't really going out at all, I was just serving as cover because her boyfriend was black.)

Good enough to be allowed to dance in the Lutheran church's rental hall?

[dtb]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I think its the dancing. She's looked pretty much the same for 20 straight years. I see absolutely no change in the body at all. If anythin, sh'e gotten tighter.

One of my best friends did hot yoga with my wife and his wife a few weeks ago. He looked nearly dead when he got back. I gotta try it. He said it was miles harder than playing full court or jogging on a hot day.

No way, man. In the "Like a Virgin" era, she was a little chunky. There were times when she looked a little too beefy too (not fat, just not lean -- too muscle-bound, I think); I'm thinking of the Dick Tracey era, I believe.

But for the last 10 or so years, her body has been absolutely amazing. The only reason I stomached the 20 minutes or so of that horrendous movie where she's shipwrecked with that Italian dude was to see her in a bathing suit.

On your other point -- yoga is totally transforming -- and not the namby-pamby exercise those who don't do it like to think it is. Not the meditative crapola -- that may be nice, but it's not going to shrink your ass. I know someone who didn't lose a pound, but went down two sizes from doing ONLY yoga -- no diet change, no other exercise.

For a while, I was totally "in the zone" and doing it several times a week, but, alas, I seem to have lost time somewhere, and can't do it as frequently as I used to. If I ever do get the nerve to quit this racket, I'm going to become a yoga instructor. (When I'm not copy-editing brilliant novels, that is.)

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Bring it On II

Does anyone know if there is a sequel planned for Blue Crush? There were so many unanswered questions at the end. Had Anne Marie truly overcome her fears? What kind of sponsorship deal did she get? Can locals and NFL quarterbacks really be friends and share waves?

[bilmore]

Originally posted by baltassoc
The point of cotillion wasn't to have fun. It was to seperate out the children who were good enough from the those who weren't.

The only cotillion I've ever heard of was a record label that handled EL&P long ago.

But, I guess I would agree that it was a good way to determine who was good enough. If you bought it, you were.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Hot yoga is an amazingly intense workout. But the teachers yammer on incessantly about how "WONDERFUL YOGA IS FOR YOU." That drove me insane.

Agreed. I went to bikram a few times and I found it almost cult-ish - the worship of Bikram is just weird. That combined with the vomitous feeling and the stinky sweaty room was too much for me. Not sure how they behave at the non-licensed "hot yoga" studios.

But I do Iyengar and that is obsessive too, both with Iyengar himself, blanket-folding, mat positioning etc. Freakish. But very helpful for my scoliosis.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Fuck my wife. Her taste is in her mouth.

Okay.

Could have saved yourself some time if you had just posted: "Fuck my wife's mouth."

TM

[Jack Manfred]

Originally posted by purse junkie
I will fiercely defend "Dance Hall Days."

So will I, you, and everyone we knew...

[baltassoc]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Someone asked me this weekend if I was ever on the forefront of a trend. The REAL forefront. The first 1%, not the first 10%. I don't think I ever have been.[...], unless it was the forefront of being a dork...

On the dork forefront, I had an e-mail address that I used regularly in 1987 (although it was on the slower but more reliable BITNET, not the ultimately more successful TCP/IP networks that would become the INTERNET).

I also downloaded my first browser (Mosiac) very early in 1993. - The amount of stuff actually available online not in gopher format was pretty small, but one could see the potential.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by baltassoc
On the dork forefront, I had an e-mail address that I used regularly in 1987 (although it was on the slower but more reliable BITNET, not the ultimately more successful TCP/IP networks that would become the INTERNET).

I also downloaded my first browser (Mosiac) very early in 1993. - The amount of stuff actually available online not in gopher format was pretty small, but one could see the potential.

You're Al Gore?

Originally posted by dtb
No way, man. In the "Like a Virgin" era, she was a little chunky. There were times when she looked a little too beefy too (not fat, just not lean -- too muscle-bound, I think); I'm thinking of the Dick Tracey era, I believe.

But for the last 10 or so years, her body has been absolutely amazing. The only reason I stomached the 20 minutes or so of that horrendous movie where she's shipwrecked with that Italian dude was to see her in a bathing suit.

On your other point -- yoga is totally transforming -- and not the namby-pamby exercise those who don't do it like to think it is. Not the meditative crapola -- that may be nice, but it's not going to shrink your ass. I know someone who didn't lose a pound, but went down two sizes from doing ONLY yoga -- no diet change, no other exercise.

For a while, I was totally "in the zone" and doing it several times a week, but, alas, I seem to have lost time somewhere, and can't do it as frequently as I used to. If I ever do get the nerve to quit this racket, I'm going to become a yoga instructor. (When I'm not copy-editing brilliant novels, that is.)

The fact that you would use the term "in the zone" and dismiss the meditative part of the yoga conveys your lack of respect and appreciation for it. You could never be a good yoga teacher. You would be one of those 'its a workout" people who totally disregarded the holistic aspect of it. As my yogi says "the poses are just eastern calisthenics",. When the eastern calisthenics click with the breathing and the inner workings,, then you might understand it. Until then, you are just another neurotic New Yorker trying to eat their white flour bagel and lose it to, on the "American Life" trend machine.

Namaste

[dtb]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
The fact that you would use the term "in the zone" and dismiss the meditative part of the yoga conveys your lack of respect and appreciation for it. You could never be a good yoga teacher. You would be one of those 'its a workout" people who totally disregarded the holistic aspect of it. As my yogi says "the poses are just eastern calisthenics",. When the eastern calisthenics click with the breathing and the inner workings,, then you might understand it. Until then, you are just another neurotic New Yorker on the "American Life" trend machine.

Namaste

Why thank you. That's a real compliment coming from you!