Fashionistas you have arrived 3-25-03 - 10-3-03

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by bridge of love
have docs. look at them occasionally on plane, bill review of file/ not the travel

Do you really have clients who would pay for 19 straight hours of reviewing files (at any time, but particularly when they know you were travelling internationally that day)? If so, can I come work where you work?

[Penske_Account]

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Originally posted by leagleaze
What would your bedroom theme song be?
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the Smiths' How Soon is Now.

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
GACK! Yet another reason not to own Louis Vuitton. I hope whomever designed THAT freakin ugly piece of shit got fired. Not that I care that Louis has more ugly purses I will never buy, but I certainly don't want to have to look at that!

Yes, but it's got a long waiting list so it's prestigious. So what if aesthetically it deserves to be soaked in gasoline and lit on fire. Where the fuck are your priorities?

And because I am feeling nice today even to a designer of hideous liver-colored bags with ugly logos that pollute the world, I will point out that his early spring bags in simple lines and solid summer colors were pretty.

[MisterEbola]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
So this means you're alone with your bedroom music?

Note the first three words of my post:

"Not personally speaking"

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Now THAT'S a good poll.

The Harder They Come, The Harder They Fall?

Strictly Business?

All Night Long?

(Three, that's) The Magic Number? [Doh. Walked right into whatever joke comes of this one, although I will note that it's off the album entitled "Three Feet High and Rising."]

No Sleep 'Til Brooklyn?

Thurgreed(I'm guessing Thrasher's would be "Pull up to my bumper")Marshall

Thurgreed's bedroom theme song... Too easy.

M is for the many things she gave me

O is for the .....

Tax(y'all get the picture)wonk

[cheval de frise]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
(Implausible bedroom song allegations).

Hardly. Your song is either "The Romance of the Telescope" or "La Femme Accident (12 " version)," by Orchestral Manoeuvers in the Dark.

NTTAWWT.

[bridge of love]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
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Originally posted by leagleaze
What would your bedroom theme song be?
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the Smiths' How Soon is Now.

Suprising, I had you for Girlfriend in a Coma

[Mr. Man]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I've never understood that either. Which is why the self check-in devices in airports are so great when you can use them. The check-in lines at airports compete only with the bank drive-thru teller lines for the most likely to inspire a rage-related incident from me. Therefore I try to avoid both.

Ah yes, the classic Dennis Miller: "Why is the person in front of me trying to restructure third world debt on the friggin ATM machine?"

[dtb]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
I did finally got around to reading Me Talk Pretty One Day, and I almost choked I was laughing so hard. (I could barely keep my Appletini down and I almost spewed it all over my Kate Spade bag.) Just thinking about some of the stories makes my eyes water.

I plan to buy his and Amy's other books, but wouldn't mind a capsule review from the other Sedaris fans on the board.

Barrel Fever was not one of my favorites, and it had some of the same stories from Holidays on Ice (which I liked better.) I can't remember the name of the book that is basically a collection of stories about his childhood. I thought it was outstanding. There is one story that talks about the death of his mother that [literally] I was laughing hysterically on one page, and crying (not because of laughing) on the next. I can't remember which book that was, though.

Me Talk Pretty was hilarious. I loved the half about his being in Normandy. Absolutely hilarious.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by bridge of love
Suprising, I had you for Girlfriend in a Coma

That's the post-game flip side.

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
I plan to buy his and Amy's other books, but wouldn't mind a capsule review from the other Sedaris fans on the board. Having heard Sedaris on NPR a couple of times, I would like to buy his books on tape.

Felicity,

The Santaland Diaries, to which others have referred, is in his earlier work Barrel Fever. It's a collection of true, fictional, and pseudo-fictional essays. Inspired stuff. Enjoy.

Peter

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by dtb
No, wait, they've come up with something even uglier!

It's a white purse with the logos in pink and blue (and maybe some other color). I suppose it's supposed to look summery, but it looks even worse than the dark and light brown combo. I saw some woman on the street carrying it and couldn't stop staring (a la slowing down to look at a car accident.)

Here is a particularly hideous example:

I saw those for 25 bucks in the Santa Fe flea market last weekend.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Bedroom song: Prince, Ballad of Dorothy Parker (or almost anything else on Sign O' The Times)

Sedaris: If you like David Sedaris, you might like stuff by his accomplice in crime, Sarah Vowell.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by mmm3587
That's true; synthetic diamonds bring to the surface what has been the nasty truth of diamonds since DeBeer's marketed them as valuable: they have little inherent value and aren't scarce.

They're desirable because they look nice, but they're expensive only because their supply has been controlled by a cartel engaging in some activity illegal in most countries of the world (price fixing, collusion, etc.) and some activity illegal in almost all countries of the world (murder, rape, terrorism, etc.).

I have always been perturbed by consumer demand for things without prices directly related to what I perceive to be valid utility. Clearly, many people get utility out of diamonds just because they are worth what they are worth. While I agree that diamonds have significant utility based on their appearance, and I have no problem with that, the fact that they have additional utility to many people based solely on marketing and price disgusts me.

I would think it was great if a woman told me that she wanted an engagement ring without diamonds, even if it cost the same as or more than a diamond ring. And if you could get an exquisitly beautiful ring with a nice-sized synthetic diamond for less than what the ring would cost with a price-inflated natural diamond, all the better.

I've always been disturbed by the ways that giving a diamond ring for engagement is tied up in concepts of spending a lot of money, to prove one's love, and doing what everyone else does, to prove one's love. Those two things, to me, seem to be materialism at its most naked.

I'm not trying to impugne diamond lovers, of course. To each his or her own. I'm just annoyed that the industry-created party line is, "You don't love her if you can afford a nice, expensive diamond and don't give her one." and that so many people buy into that.

Diamonds... the best fucking gimmick ever. An astounding piece of marketing staregy. I mean, really, has any business ass-fucked the world harder and laughed about it longer than the DeBeers? "Hey, this rock is unbreakable and shiny as hell. We should mark it up 100,000X its value. Hell, how else can we pay the negroes in the mines their $.50 a day?"

I'm all for free markets, and idiots who buy things to show off deserve to get fleeced, but the diamond thing... fuck, that's just plain old foul filthy exploitative greed run amuck. I bought one a few years back and recall writing the check and thinking "This is surreal. I might as well write 'I'm a fucking sucker' on this check and staple it to my forehead." Thank God I didn't pay for the fucking wedding - then I'd really feel like an idiot. Best post wedding quote I ever heard was from a buddy after he just got married. He said "I just bought a Lexus and drove it into a lake."

The only thing more pathetic than writing the check for the diamond is watching the receipients of diamonds compare cut/clarity/quality/size, etc... I want to leave the room when that shit happens.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by dtb
Tying into my story about Lenny Kravitz (was that just yesterday? damn, this week is going slow...), everyone knows, of course, that [what the hell was her character's name?] is Lenny's mom. What you may not know, however, is that in school, people would ask him if Mr. Willis was his dad (because IRL, Lenny's dad is white -- so naturally, the guy on tv playing his mother's husband must be his dad!). Those kids sure were quick!

Lenny's mom was Roxie Roker. She just passed away a few years ago.