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

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
Yeah I was going to edit, but ran out of time.

And yes, it's got to be the godforsaken hideous rainbow bag.

Now, that thing is definitely not worth killing an animal for. Not even the notoriously vicious and dangerous wild vinyl.

[NotFromHere]

Question...

Is the hurricane affecting anyone yet? And what is the deal with the names of the coastal cities?
Cape Fear
Morehead City
Baldhead Island
Kill Devil Hills?

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
In my experience, in the south, people may just let their racist flag fly (over the capital, even), but, at the same time, the south is much more geographically and socially integrated than the north, and the different races, racist or not, actually interact with each other much more regularly and much more familiarly than they do in the north.

This is, I think, true. There's certainly a lot more "sir"ing and "ma'am"ing between black and white in the South, and successful interracial transactions have a more genuine warmth instead of wariness.

However, the fact that Northern racism is more latent and less patent does not in all cases make the Southern way better. For example, I like the fact that in California (latent racism region), you're not invited back to cocktail parties if you use a slur, even in jest. Giving voice to racist beliefs is an utter social dead-end. In my experience of the South, those who express patent racism (like a hotheaded use of the "n" word) are dismissed as relics (at least in the public forum), but are never ostracized. Outside the South, I can feel embarrassed to be in the presence of persons who voice racist beliefs, and the local culture supports that reaction instead of quietly closing ranks around those who are "old fashioned" in their thinking.

If you could combine the "sir"ing and "ma'am"ing of the South with righteous indignation, instead of mild clucking, at vocal racial generalizations, both regions would be better off.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by purse junkie
Now, that thing is definitely not worth killing an animal for. Not even the notoriously vicious and dangerous wild vinyl.

I saw a fake one in the mall yesterday which was even more ugly than the real one.

I'm craving a new filofax/agenda/dayrunner thingy. Anybody have any suggestions (and don't say palm pilot, I hate technology and like writing my social events down on paper).

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by purse junkie
No, no, no. I think mink is fine because minks are vicious little rodent bastards. You miss my entirely simpy and hypocritical "bunny rabbit" exception--I cannot wear anything that is too cute when it's alive.

P(no guilt whatsoever about my grandmother's alligator clutch)J

So now you think the seals are cute, aye? Are we thinking of a move to Ty-land, PJ?

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by purse junkie
Now, that thing is definitely not worth killing an animal for. Not even the notoriously vicious and dangerous wild vinyl.

So true. And those wild vinyl - they smell bad too.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
Question...

Is the hurricane affecting anyone yet?

Most certainly.

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
I saw a fake one in the mall yesterday which was even more ugly than the real one.

I'm craving a new filofax/agenda/dayrunner thingy. Anybody have any suggestions (and don't say palm pilot, I hate technology and like writing my social events down on paper).

Not possible. The real thing is just a bad idea.

In the past, I found that the Dayrunner line of agenda thingies were the most flexible and convenient. Refills were relatively easy to get. I have friends that swear by Franklin - but I find them too bulky.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
I have friends that swear by Franklin - but I find them too bulky.

No no, Paigow swears by Franklin but I find him to goofy.

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
So now you think the seals are cute, aye? Are we thinking of a move to Ty-land, PJ?

"Cute," not "hot."

Dammit. Now anyone who even looks at my future dog is going to have to get their ass kicked.

[bold_n_brazen]

Okay...I want this one.

http://www.filofaxusa.com/alligator1.html

Do you think I could get it with a mink carrying case?

[Puft Daddy]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
You left out the best part of that gossip column --

Paris Hilton, the table-top dancing young socialite who reportedly likes to leave her skivvies at home, has surprising advice: playing hard-to-get. “I tell Nicky (her kid sister), with guys, they’re only gonna want what they can’t have,” Hilton tells Seventeen magazine in its October issue. “Nobody wants the beaten-up Prada purse on Canal Street. Everyone wants the brand-new colorful Louis Vuitton one that no one can get. Guys don’t want the girl who’s been around the block.”

Somehow, I doubt that Nicky, who is much better-looking and possibly a bit more sane than Paris, really needs dating advice from her whack-job sister.

Which reminds me. I read somewhere that John Molloy (sp), the author of Dress for Success is coming out with a book advising women on how to land a man and make him marry you. The only advice I remember from the tease was that he had a 6 month rule -- if you don't have a commitment to head for the altar within 6 months, it's not going to happen. That, at he found that men ages 28-33 were especially susceptible to the marriage thing.

If I can find the link, I'll post it.

[Shape Shifter]

I couldn't find a San Diego board, so I decided to post this here. Unfortunately, I do not qualify.

http://jobsearch.monster.com/getjob.asp?JobID=19123209

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Most certainly.

Is this some pathetic attempt to get off my shit list?

Try harder. Send me a finger or two that got sliced off in the hurricane. Though, they are saying now it is a pathetic Category 2 so inland people may not have to worry much.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Good lord, you have it backwards.

Wait a second, are you saying that evenodds' doesn't have standing to talk authoritatively about race, or are you saying that she in some ways is being offensive when she is talking about a race that is not her own?

If it's the first, I don't understand why a person has to be of a particular minority to comment on issues relating to that minority. Does that mean that I can't talk about gay culture from time to time with authority, even though I'm not a gay man. I care a great deal about gay culture, and my brother is gay. I spend a hell of a lot of time with gay men. I don't know the plight of every gay person, or even any gay person, because I'm not gay and I'll never fully understand exactly what that means. But I have some insight to what I see around me, and I care very much that my brother is not hurt by idiots and bigots. So if I see an opportunity to waylay an idiot before he or she gets near someone I care about, I'm going to take it. If I see an opportunity to talk about something i know a little about, I'm going to take it, because, as my post count in general and this post in particular indicate, I like to talk.

If it's the second, you're not being very clear. Are you offended on someone else's behalf about what evenodds has to say? Or even on your own behalf, because I have no idea where you're coming from on the race spectrum. I'm not seeing her comments as offensive on their face, but I may be reading things differently than you are.