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

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by Seven of Nine

As this is the Fashion board, I was wondering what people thought of T'Pal's makeover.

They're deliberately sexing up the show this season, including hot intracrew romances. So in addition to the regulation Barbie corset the never-had-a-date Star Trek writers' spinoffs always put the chicks in, they're going for sexier fabrics/more alien cleavage/as close to porn-star-tousled hairdos as they think the Trek purists will accept.

[andViolins]

Originally posted by Seven of Nine
And then, what was that little scene with the back rubbing? Puhleeze, just another lame excuse to show a little T&A to the lonely, horney trekkies. Then again, Bill Archer is no James T. Kirk, so I guess they have to show *somebody* topless. It might as well be T'Pal.

Seven

Uh, seven? It's Jolene Blalock. Getting nekkid. Of course that is fucking awesome. Well, unless you're really a ThrasherFan sock. Then its icky.

aV

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
I have an allergy like that, but I'm lucky in that it is just one thing and pretty easy to avoid. ... It's only really a problem when I'm at people's houses (particularly because I have to avoid a good bunch of the other food too, because it's one of those "anything that touched it or touched a surface or utensil that was used to prepare the allergy-inducing food may trigger the allergy if it wasn't super-scoured" allergies). ....

This raises a pet peeve of mine and gives me an opportunity to take the League of Fabulous Gentlemen to task. I ALWAYS provide guests options when having them over, rather than assuming that one size fits all in food. A good dinner party should not involve force feeding your guests a limited range of food, and it is really not that difficult to provide a few options. That time the Fabulous ones insisted on having their single guy (Adam I believe) serve a single hors d'oeuvre of fois gras struck me as the height of incivility and arrogance. Indeed, a particular sin where fois gras is involved, since that is a food many, many people have no interest in even if many others love it. Fine to serve it as one of four little dishes, but these guys turned the food into a status symbol rather than a small accoutrement to a social event. Shame on them.

If you have more than two or four people over, assume some are vegatarians or keep Kosher and that some may have the most common allergies. And guests, you should never be shy about letting your hosts know of any special dietary needs or restrictions in advance -- any good host should want to serve something their guests will appreciate.

OK, that's my own little rewrite of Ms. Manners. Rant over.

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
[9/11 rememberance] Whitney Houston's version of the Star Spangled Banner (you can hear it here: http://www.brownielocks.com/starspangledbannerWAVE.html).
Ray Charles' America the Beautiful (you can hear that here: http://www.brownielocks.com/americat...tifulWAVE.html).

That does sound well done. I may disagree with you on the SSB (freakin' lousy choice for a national anthem if you ask me), but it sounds far more moving and appropriate than what they are doing at the WTC site. I may be a callous beast, but when listening to children read bad poetry I just can't get past the awfulness of the poetry to be moved. And listening to them fuck up the name of a friend wasn't very moving, either.

BR(I've actually been wondering if they've been pulling out the other verses of the SSB recently)C

[Seven of Nine]

Originally posted by andViolins
Uh, seven? It's Jolene Blalock. Getting nekkid. Of course that is fucking awesome.
aV

So, the question becomes, who is hotter, Jolene Blalock or Jeri Ryan (during her prime, of course)? And, despite my nome de plume, I have no horse in this race.

And among the men, Kirk, Picard, Riker or Archer?

Seven

[bilmore]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Ooooh. Good one. But with tivo, I watch my shows when I want.

When wouldn't that be?

But, I missed NYPD Blue and CSI this week. I'm sure you caught it on your outdoor, plastic-protected television while sitting in your kayak in your pool surrounded by your wonderful kids and oh-so-beautiful wife. Can you give me a summary? Or are you in one of those, "I've never watched tv in my life" moods again?

Really, I think that if you can just weather through these rough spots, your life will come together, too. It just takes time.

And maybe a little anger management counseling . . .

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
A good dinner party should not involve force feeding your guests a limited range of food, and it is really not that difficult to provide a few options.

I'm not a restaurant. While I can be accomodating to guests (e.g., leave out the cheese), I can't provide a meelyun alternatives. I'd expect someone to call an allergy to my attention.

And I'm happy to comply with at least general kosher rules (I don't have separate pans, though). But since most of my jewish friends ask for bacon on their cheesburgers, I've given up on making too much effort in that regard.

[leagleaze]

Originally posted by Seven of Nine

So, the question becomes, who is hotter, Jolene Blalock or Jeri Ryan (during her prime, of course)? And, despite my nome de plume, I have no horse in this race.

And among the men, Kirk, Picard, Riker or Archer?

Seven

Jeri Ryan. But mainly because I never have gotten into Enterprise so have never really appreciated the hotness that is Jolene Blalock.

And no one could overact like Kirk, so Kirk it has to be.

[ThrashersFan]

Originally posted by andViolins
Uh, seven? It's Jolene Blalock. Getting nekkid. Of course that is fucking awesome. Well, unless you're really a ThrasherFan sock. Then its icky.

aV

Not icky if done artisitcally and not in a manner merely to show T&A. I just don't like it when it is done only for the sake of having nudity or done in a cheesy manner. What bothers me most about nekkidness in film (non-porn) is that there is rarely ever any give and take -- you see tits and possibly some coochie (which appeared in a movie I watched the other day and shocked me because I didn't think they could show that so blatantly in films not rated X) but the only thing we gals get is Will Farrell's ass and the rare (very rare) "so quick you gotta pause it and watch in slo-mo" glimpse of penis. My father, ever the comedien, tells me that it is only fair that if the actor takes off his shirt the actress should too -- oh ha ha.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by evenodds
Stuff about Once upon a Time in Mexico

Glad to hear it. That is the first movie in a long time that I am really looking forward to.

[tmdiva]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
This raises a pet peeve of mine and gives me an opportunity to take the League of Fabulous Gentlemen to task. I ALWAYS provide guests options when having them over, rather than assuming that one size fits all in food. A good dinner party should not involve force feeding your guests a limited range of food, and it is really not that difficult to provide a few options.

Depending on the number of guests/style of the party, I often just say, "Do you like [menu item] okay?" when I'm confirming the final party arrangements. I have one good friend who doesn't eat meat, so if she's coming I'll often serve fish or at least have fish as an option.

Other than meat issues, I very rarely have problems with people not liking what I serve, because I'm a closet picky eater (2 and 3). People who eat only at my house would never know because what I serve, while delicious and varied, never includes anything I don't like. They're always shocked, when eating elsewhere, when I pick off /out the olives, mushrooms, or radishes, and avoid altogether the shellfish, cantaloupe, cherries, blueberries, coconut and carrot sticks.

tm

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
I'm not a restaurant. While I can be accomodating to guests (e.g., leave out the cheese), I can't provide a meelyun alternatives. I'd expect someone to call an allergy to my attention.

And I'm happy to comply with at least general kosher rules (I don't have separate pans, though). But since most of my jewish friends ask for bacon on their cheesburgers, I've given up on making too much effort in that regard.

Yes, the Jewish people do love their bacon, don't they?

Now here is a situation I was in during law school. Married couple friends, gourmet cooks, invited my bf and I over for a little dinner. they made some kind of cajun soup thing (gumbo?) that was pork based with hunks of pork in it. The guy who made it said to me "I know you are a vegetarian so I picked out the pork". This was really bad bc since it was a pig based food, it still was something I could not touch. He made it, and then he went to the effort to try and help me- not aware of his ignoreance to the vegetarian way o' life. I did not eat the soup but thanked him. While my bf didnt say anything, I think he thinks I should have eaten it. And our friendship was never quite the same.

But hell if I am gonna eat pork base when I havent touched pigs in upwards of twenty years.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

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[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
That does sound well done. I may disagree with you on the SSB (freakin' lousy choice for a national anthem if you ask me), but it sounds far more moving and appropriate than what they are doing at the WTC site.

My local public radio station switches from NPR to classical music at around the time I'm pulling into work. Every morning they do an arts and performance calendar and have a piece of classical music in the background while the DJ tells us about the various performances around town this week. Today's background music was America the Beautiful by the Boston Pops. When the DJ finished his thing, he just let the music play through three verses and when it was done, he went on with the rest of the day's program. I thought it was very well done, and the music said more than anyone's talking could possibly have. America the Beautiful is probably my favorite patriotic song (especially when sung by Fozzie Bear) because it's such a statement of awe about the country without being devisive or combative.

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
I'm not a restaurant. While I can be accomodating to guests (e.g., leave out the cheese), I can't provide a meelyun alternatives. I'd expect someone to call an allergy to my attention.

Absolutely. If you're even dropping by casually as a 'friend of a friend,' you or the pal closer to the host should give a call ahead or take the host aside to say what they can't/won't eat. Any half-assed host would be happy to find something else in the fridge.

I always do provide something vegetarian (though tomates/basil/fresh mozzarella is the only thing I can usually think of being appealing without meat). I suppose I could do nuts or something for the non-lacto types if they're not allergic to that...

Entertaining was much simpler when everyone liked steak au poivre and scalloped potatoes or at least just shut up and ate it.