Fashion Board 11-2-03 - 12-09-03

[Replaced_Texan]

Space Ghost Desk and Chair

For a mere $39,995, you can give your favorite Space Ghost fan a replica of the desk and chair from which Space Ghost conducts interviews.

The gracefully curved desk is constructed with a brushed aluminum body and a frosted plexiglass inlayed top. Mood lighting is built into the front overhang and the desktop is self-illuminated.

A 15" Philips LCD television pops up seamlessly from the desktop. A Sony Dream System supplies the built-in sound and a mini-fridge is furnished. The desk includes ports for computer hook-ups and AC power outlets. A cordless telephone is also provided.

The desk comes complete with a Custom Executive Desk Chair. Leather with Space Ghost logo applique, this luxurious chair includes multi-tilt positions with push button adjustability and a four-zone, eight-motor massage system.

[Aloha Mr. Learned Hand]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Let me rephrase. Some bars may be jumping. That, I'm not arguing. But there will be plenty of cabs in the city because there will be about 3 million fewer people in the city.

TM

The night before Thanksgiving has become one of the biggest nights of the year in Chicago for people to go out and get shitfaced, ranking up there with St. Patrick's Day, New Year's Eve, Super Bowl Sunday and Halloween. Bars are packed downtown that night.

I attribute it mostly to everyone having an extra night off with not much to do and people needing a bracer for seeing the family the next day...

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
I don't recommend buying sheets from LL Bean, as the fitted sheets are too tight

How can this be? I hate it when they're too loose and there's excess sheet crumpled beneath you*, but too tight? I would want my sheet to stretch tautly over the mattress.

*for this same reason, I can't sleep with a shirt on. Ever. Or any kind of pajamas for that matter. Long underwear is an exception when in the backcountry though.

[purse junkie]

[i]and people needing a bracer for seeing the family the next day...

A nation of people getting wasted in anticipation of seeing the loved ones? Now who says Americans aren't all in touch with good-old-fashioned family values!

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
I don't recommend buying sheets from LL Bean, as the fitted sheets are too tight, and the sheets are not as soft as they should be for their thread count and length. The fitted sheets are supposed to have a deeper pocket -- but they scooch off the corners of my bed, which is pretty luxurious but not nearly as deep as a pillow top.

The dog beds are great, though.

How many beds do you need?

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by purse junkie
A nation of people getting wasted in anticipation of seeing the loved ones? Now who says Americans aren't all in touch with good-old-fashioned family values!

We all want to look our best when we see our family.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
If the Schilling trade goes through, I don't want to hear any crap about how the Yankees can outspend everyone, anymore, from anybody. The simple fact is, we have more money than everyone else, but we are hindered by our own success.

We wanted Schilling. We didn't get him because Arizona wanted Nick Johnson and Alfonso Soriano -- two excellent players (one of whom has flirted with 40/40 two seasons in a row, the other hit over .300 this season and is widely believed to be an excellent young hitter). Boston is giving up Fossum (yeah, who?) and 3 prospects who haven't done a damn thing.

Same thing happened last year with Pittsburgh. We wanted Sauerbeck, Pittsburgh asked for Giambi, Mariano and Clemens. We told them to forget it. Boston wanted Sauerbeck, Pittsburgh asked for some clam chowder and a beer. Boston sent them the chowder, kept the beer and signed Sauerbeck.

Boston is interested in trading Manny Ramirez, one of the highest paid players in baseball for Alex Rodriguez, the highest paid player in baseball and current MVP. Can't say I blame them for this. But if they pull it off, they will have spent like champs in the offseason.

The thing is, they look like geniuses for making all of these shrewd moves. But they're really just taking advantage of teams not wanting to deal with the Yankees. And we always end up paying above market for the players we do sign (by trade or in free agency). But no one ever takes that into account when they look at our payroll.

So just keep that in mind.

TM

A defense of the Yankees based on the notion that the other 28 teams in the league (Sox aside) all act irrationally! Nicely done! Now tell us how we should pity them for having to overcome The George's personality disorders.

Originally posted by Anne Elk
Well I guess I used to go out to all the wrong places on Thanksgiving Eve.

My recollection is more akin to yours Anne- people who come home to manhattan go drinking. it loses the transients who move to town seekign fame and fortune but gets back its home people. I am just trying to ascertain exactly how fucking late I am going to be meeting people.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
A defense of the Yankees based on the notion that the other 28 teams in the league (Sox aside) all act irrationally! Nicely done! Now tell us how we should pity them for having to overcome The George's personality disorders.

You're overstating. I'm not looking for a complete defense. I just want you to acknowledge the Yankees' complete bargaining position relative to other teams. If you disagree that teams won't deal with us and often act irrationally (and please tell me how the Schilling and Sauerback trades don't fit under "irrational" if you disagree) in terms of trading to non-Yankee teams for less than they can get from the Yankees, say so. But back it up.

I concede that Steinbrenner is a maroon who acts irrationally, but it's usually just with his players and management. He's consistent and rational when it comes to making deals. He wants the best and will pay for it.

Your comeback sounds good, but you haven't really said anything.

TM

[Aloha Mr. Learned Hand]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
We all want to look our best when we see our family.

"By the time... I get to Phoenix, I'll be wasted..."

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...l_dc&printer=1

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
You're overstating. I'm not looking for a complete defense. I just want you to acknowledge the Yankees' complete bargaining position relative to other teams. If you disagree that teams won't deal with us and often act irrationally (and please tell me how the Schilling and Sauerback trades don't fit under "irrational" if you disagree) in terms of trading to non-Yankee teams for less than they can get from the Yankees, say so. But back it up.

I don't think either of us knows enough about what's really on the table to have this argument. Setting the Sauerbeck trade aside -- weren't the deals you were talking about at very different times? -- let's look at the Schilling situation. You're saying that the D-Backs asked the Yankees for the sun and the moon, and when NY said now, they took a couple of asteroids from the Sox. (Or will, if Schilling agrees to an extension, etc.) The question is, did they talk to the Yankees about something less? Just the sun? Just the moon? I just can't believe that they didn't explore other deals. In fact, I find it more plausible that someone working for the Yankees told the media, off the record, that they're not doing a deal for Schilling because Arizona was asking for too much.

I concede that Steinbrenner is a maroon who acts irrationally, but it's usually just with his players and management. He's consistent and rational when it comes to making deals. He wants the best and will pay for it.

Yes. But we can all share in the fun of mocking him.

Your comeback sounds good, but you haven't really said anything.

I'm happy just so long as I get those style points.

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
My recollection is more akin to yours Anne- people who come home to manhattan go drinking. it loses the transients who move to town seekign fame and fortune but gets back its home people. I am just trying to ascertain exactly how fucking late I am going to be meeting people.

As long as you don't need to negotiate the area near Central Park West or need to get through the Lincoln Tunnel you should be fine. Once the airport/train station rush is over there should be plenty of cabs.

[LessinSF]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Onion Quotes[/url]

But who knew the New York Times was writing satire now?

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/23/fashion/23PARI.html

"Yet another videotape of Paris Hilton surfaced on the Internet last week, casting an inconvenient light on her Fox TV reality series, "The Simple Life," which is to premiere on Dec. 2.

The grainy videotape, poorly lit, shows Ms. Hilton and a man identified as a senior fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., developing mathematical models for a low-cost irrigation system to be used in the developing world. In one scene that has provoked wide discussion online, Ms. Hilton's cellphone rings, but she does not answer it.

In a statement last week, Ms. Hilton said, "I feel embarrassed and humiliated, especially because my parents and the people who love me have been hurt." She added that she "never, ever thought that these things would become public." Fox executives insisted that the tape would not change their plans to broadcast the seven-episode series about an Arkansas farm.

Ms. Hilton's supporters said the release of the tape was meant to damage her reputation as a vapid, self-involved rich girl, which is the premise for the Fox show. In the "Paris Math Tape," Ms. Hilton appears to be wearing a modest skirt and a Mensa pin. "It's very obvious that whoever did this is doing it to hurt her," her spokeswoman, Siri Garber, told reporters.

Celebrities in the past have been able to live down revelations about their philanthropic or intellectual lives. Babe Ruth, for instance, engaged in months of public carousing after reporters caught him visiting a sick boy's hospital room, promising to hit a home run for him.

But few celebrities have worked as hard at pure tabloid notoriety, or built reputations so unsullied by accomplishment or circumspection. Since she was the subject of a Vanity Fair profile in 2000, Ms. Hilton, whose great-grandfather Conrad Hilton started the Hilton hotel chain, has been seized upon by gossip columnists as a chance to construct a celebrity from scratch, using only the raw clay of her wealth and indiscretion. Though she has done little more than go to nightclubs, her name has appeared in more than 90 New York Post articles this year alone.

In a famous New Yorker article, E. J. Kahn noted that even compared with her attention-seeking peers, Ms. Hilton possesses a "positive reaction to the camera" and "makes no attempt to curb the imaginative press."

If the math allegations were proven, Mr. Kahn warned, "she would stop being the most unproductive public figure of the era," and "become just another celebrity, a word she dislikes having applied to herself. `I'm not a celebrity,' she says. `I don't deserve all this. I haven't done anything spectacular. I haven't done anything at all. I'm just a debutante.' "

Last week Ms. Hilton's friends said it was not fair for one amateur videotape to undermine years of public canoodling, cheesy outfits and conspicuous flaunting of wealth. One friend, the publicist Lizzie Grubman, took the long view, telling Fox News: "I don't think it's that damaging in the long term. I think that it is personally embarrassing, a complete invasion of her privacy. But she does have a show to promote, and I think it will help sell the show."

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[Tyrone Slothrop]

Tuesday Morning Quarterback has yet another new home. That would be on nfl.com, home of the National. Football. League.

[ThrashersFan]

Originally posted by purse junkie
A nation of people getting wasted in anticipation of seeing the loved ones? Now who says Americans aren't all in touch with good-old-fashioned family values!

The Thrashers are playing at home on Thanksgiving night and unveiling their new third jersey (I saw it on a sneak peek and I l ike it) so I told everyone when the schedule came out that I was neither traveling for Thanksgiving nor hosting visitors. My parents, being the family-value kind of folks that they are, graciously accepted the fact that I had to make a tough choice (family or hockey) and are now sunning in the Keys.

Happy Turkey Day