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

[evenodds]

Originally posted by leagleaze
And on another note, I got another picture today, so cool. Now I have two women and two men, and however many TM has to add to the pile.

In other words, send more pictures to leagl NOW for her "research"!

Even(congrats on your case)Odds

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Are there any reality TV shows in syndication? I always figured that the downfall of reality TV will be when the networks and studios realize that they can't sell the syndication rights because no one is going to watch Survivor reruns on FX. The big money in television always has been and always will be syndication.

Fear Factor got reupped today for a big number, mostly because it does brilliantly well in syndication (compared to other reality shows). The economics still work for the big network reality shows, even sans repeats. Maybe they're hoping that Blake Mykoskie's Reality TV Channel takes off in a big way, but I doubt they're building much into their budgets by way of revenues for repeats.

I had lunch today with the guy who's in charge of the audience voting for Cupid (and did the same for Star Search). Since I'm not watching it I couldn't ask him any intelligent questions about audience voting patterns. If he had that job for American Juniors I'd have some questions for him, let me tell you.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Yes, but we'd get fewer words on the page.

And? Wider fonts are better, because overshooting the page limits are the hourly billing GP's best friend. Don't you remember Blaise Pascal's "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter"? If you added up all the time I've spent in my career honing briefs to fit page limitations, you will have paid for the danishes in the conference room every morning.

Or maybe that's just me. {Spree: self-deprecating Stalin Board link.}

[ias_39]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch

If you added up all the time I've spent in my career honing briefs to fit page limitations, you will have paid for the danishes in the conference room every morning.

All that learning, and your posts have yet to play with kerning.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Edited to ask, how do I make the picture of the chick with the head on the platter my avatar? I find it appealing. It might not size down well, though.

That hardly seems appropriate, as you are neither a server of heads (at least, not lately) nor a saint. This seems more apt:

[ias_39]

Originally posted by the fringe

<nifty, new avatar of me as salome serving heads>

Originally posted by robustpuppy

That hardly seems appropriate, as you are neither a server of heads (at least, not lately) nor a saint. This seems more apt:<pic of fringie, plated>

TM shitstomped ltl well enough to have Plated her. One can't say the same of any of your flames.

edited to avoid provoking one of the lesser denizens of Hollywood for ugly people.

[leagleaze]

Just post a link and I'll resize it for you.

[Jack Manfred]

Originally posted by W.W.L.D.
My problem is, despite the fact that I despise the Dandy Warhols for releasing cd after cd of consistantly poor toss-off tracks (much like Ween, but not as bad as FOW), the more I hear from the new release "Welcome to the Monkey House," the more I like it. What am I to do? Is this new release actually worthy of indy-pop recognition, or should I wait a few weeks for it to reveal itself as the acousticaly empty offal that I am sure it is?

Option (C): Don't buy the album. Do go to the concert when they come to a city near you.

I will remain silent on the issue of whether you should download any/all tracks from any/all of the Dandy Warhols' albums.

One further note about concert-going. The downside is that they don't do encores. The upside is that their female fans look better than most indie fanbases.

One further LA-only music note, Record Suplus is having their annual Super Sale September 3rd-7th. It's the only record store in LA where I've seen actual record execs wandering the aisles (if that means anything to you; if it doesn't stick with Tower Sunset and Virgin Megastore Hollywood for celeb sightings.) Record Surplus is great if you want to buy a new CD from one of the 10 or so new titles they stock at a time. That must have something to do with state sales taxes or something. Why stock so little new product? Why not just sell used?

I concured before on the Penelope Cruz angle issue. I think it is so pronounced that the FB should coin a term like "the Penelope Problem" to describe it. Or maybe, "Yeah, she dresses well, but she's got some Penelope issues, unfortunately."

[Fugee]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Triflin' -- To be petty. Usually used with men that won't commit, have nothing going on (in the way of a job) or make a bunch of excuses. See lyrics to "Bills Bills Bills" by Destiny's Child (at which point the word had jumped the shark in a leather jacket).

Pimpin' -- Used to be used to describe the act of pulling a lot of women. Now it's more generic and often describes the more general behavior of ballers or players.

Chickenhead -- Wannabe women. Started with girls around the block who were always sweatin' ballers. Now it's more general and applies to any woman who wants to be down. See PJ.

TM

Apparently I'll have to send my mentee to remedial slang class.

She uses triflin' in the context of having nothing going on so she's safe there. And things having jumped the shark probably don't matter in Minneapolis for awhile.

But the definitions of pimpin' and chickenhead don't quite fit although maybe she uses pimpin' in a gender neutral context for a player. She described it to me by reference to the excessive (IMHO but obviously not hers) number of chains she was wearing so I thought it had something to do with that. And the kids yell "Holla back pimpin" to each other in the halls and don't get into fights for it.

Her definition of chickenhead is the farthest from the ones posted here. She sometimes calls her little brother a chickenhead so I thought it was like calling him a dope.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Jack Manfred

I concured before on the Penelope Cruz angle issue. I think it is so pronounced that the FB should coin a term like "the Penelope Problem" to describe it. Or maybe, "Yeah, she dresses well, but she's got some Penelope issues, unfortunately."

I heart Jack Manfred.

[mmm3587]

Maybe it is just me, but I think that Alison embodies just about everything that is wrong with the world today. The clip of her parents belittling her boyfriend Donny for being hurt for seeing her canoodling with other men was painful. Yes, your daughter is a conniving backstabbing itch. Yes, Mr. Alison's father, your wife is everything that your faughter is, and the fact that you married her says a lot about you. Yes, you will have a full Entertainment Tnight career after BB4, and I hope that it judges you well.

Recently, a disgruntled take-for-a-ride partner in my group told me that, since he had no kids, he had secretly canceled the life insurance to which his ex-wife was entitled. I guess that she had been of the "keep working 16 hour days and never taking time off so that I can continue my $1000/weel shopping habits at the Oak Street boutiques" ilk. He didn't seem like he was suicidal of anything, so the twinge of guilt for her lasted at least three or four seconds.

[Fugee]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Just think how much more colorful and rewarding our lives would be if Janson Text, an infinitely more graceful and elegant face, had won that battle! Oh, the humanity!

OK, you've just topped DS as the poster concerned about the most "interesting"** things.

Between this and your "don't let the kids play in the living room" issues and your font woes, I just realized you picked the perfect avatar.


**"Interesting" is Minnesota-speak for "that is flipping weird."

Fu(we didn't have a family room so the living room was the family room and we did homework on the "formal" dining room table)gee

Edited to change the subject line.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Fugee
OK, you've just topped DS as the poster concerned about the most "interesting"** things.

Between this and your "don't let the kids play in the living room" issues and your font woes, I just realized you picked the perfect avatar.


**"Interesting" is Minnesota-speak for "that is flipping weird."

Fu(we didn't have a family room so the living room was the family room and we did homework on the "formal" dining room table)gee

I think the proper word is "eclectic".

(Granted, Minnesota deals with "eclectic" as well as it deals with "flipping weird", but . . .)

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Fugee
Between this and your "don't let the kids play in the living room" issues and your font woes, I just realized you picked the perfect avatar.

Credit Not Bob. He derisively changed the "Originally posted" lines in his quotations to "Niles Crane" a couple of times before I homage-d him with my avatar. Incisive on his part, no?

Apropos of nothing, that Not Bob sure was a good poster when he was around. I miss his yarns about Podunkville. It always sounded a lot like Mayberry, or Hooterville, or New Rochelle.

[tmdiva]

I don't know that naked yoga person, although the park where she was arrested is less than a mile from where I grew up and the site of frequent Diva family bike rides and annual blackberry picking.

tm

PS Wonk, I make jam. Want some? Strawberry, raspberry or marionberry?