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

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
Please please please do not make me look at Rainbow brite anymore. It's bad enough that PJ's got that stupid "Boy from New York City" song stuck in my head (change that please). Step away from the cutesy. How about a macho avatar? The Hulk?

Fine, have it your way.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
Speaking of trendy drinks, People Magazine says ...

What is the point of this information? By the time People magazine says something is hot, it is already not. Tomorrow AM we'll probably turn on the Today show to see Katie Couric, in silk cargo drawstring capris and a pair of fades, tossing back a blue drink with Al Roker and Steven Cojocaru (sp?).

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by leagleaze
Due to the utter lack of help of the denizens of this board, I have decided to retreat to an Avatar I used a month or so ago.

Thanks for nothing. Jerks.

WTF? I'm trying to help and I get name calling? What the hell is that all about? Geez. OK, how about this, we all get sponsors and use brand names for avatars, and the sponsors pay and help defray the costs of the website. So I could be Starbucks, you could be Kellogs Corn Flakes or Martha Stewart Living, others could be Nathan's Hot Dogs or In-n-Out or whatever.

[MisterEbola]

Originally posted by leagleaze
Due to the utter lack of help of the denizens of this board, I have decided to retreat to an Avatar I used a month or so ago.

Thanks for nothing. Jerks.

Fuck you too. But since I'm such a nice guy and am writing this down as 0.5 pro bono hours, I present to you my work product:

[bilmore]

Originally posted by evenodds
Jeez. Everyone knows that the drink for Summer 2003 is the Pisco Sour.

Peruvian or Chilean?

(I mean, I don't want to pick the wrong one and then have some Chilean hit-mob all over me. The Pisco wars are getting nasty. Some bars are refusing to serve this, as they can't tell if they are getting approved Pisco, or the dread "Conflict Pisco".)

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Definitely bridezilla. But blame it on the registry, which must have forgotten to include your card with the gift.

A propos of inappropriate wedding-related antics, Dear Abby got to answer about the appropriate response to the following "invitation"

"Dear Family: I am asking for your cooperation and understanding. My wedding will be very costly, and this has caused me to make some unpleasant decisions.

"I hope you will see this as a request for a donation and not a charge for you to attend my wedding. I cannot figure out any way other than to ask each guest to contribute to the cost. If anyone is insulted by my request, I am sincerely sorry.

"Your $330 contribution must be received on or before June 30. Only postal money orders will be accepted. Please purchase it only from a U.S. post office. Thank you for your contribution."

These people deserve to have their parents refuse to attend, if for no other reason than to protest how obnoxious they turned out.

There is one thing worse - having a cash bar at the wedding. An asshole I knew in college had an obnoxious wedding in Napa a few years back which he obviously couldn't afford. He invited tons of East Coast people who did the arduous trek of flying four plus hours, waiting in line for a rental car and then having to stay at some cutesy b&b with shitass amenities but oodles of "charm". These folks got to the reception and discovered for the first time that there was a cash bar. Of course, being in Napa, there are no cash machines around, and being at a wedding, the guests had little, if any, cash. Many suffered a horrible night of involuntary sobriety at a wedding 3000 miles from home.

Moral of the story... accomodate guests above all else. If it comes to a decision of drinks/food/guest comfort or "cute" location, err on the side of pleasing guests.

Unless its a very close friend, I do not attend weddings which require me to stay at b&bs (of course, if you're wedding is on nantucket or something like that, that's an exception). I generally find the sort of people who throw such annoying soirees in remote locations are the sort I'd rather divorce from social calendar anyway.

S(b&b = stay in a shitty room with bad a/c but "charming" as hell)D

[mmm3587]

Originally posted by Anne Elk
Anyone see the episode of True Life on MTV that showed three couples planning their wedding? Very entertaining. My favorite was the couple from Brooklyn. The groom made a comment to the camera at one point that all the guests owed him a gift or cash in excess of the amount he was paying per person for the Reception. Other fun scenes included the groom going off on the limo driver and the bride trying to balance her tanning salon appointments and her peeling chest.

They did not break even.


Edited to correct the name of the show.

They were funny, but I enjoyed the 23 year old princess marrying the 35 year old CEO. She was prone to long monologues about what was wrong with the initial cake, why she needed to marry someone who was already established (i.e. rich) instead of still in school, why she needed to quit her job to plan the wedding and how hard it was, etc. There was also a scene of her marching into his office and interrupting some meeting while screaming his name at the top of her lungs.

[Mister_Ruysbroeck]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I reserve the right to choose 10 cds (not in order of preference):

1. Sublime - 40 Oz to Freedom
2. Grateful Dead - Dick's Picks 18
3. Jane's Addiction - Kettle Whistle
4. White Stripes - De Stijl
5. Stones - Get Yer Ya Yas Out
6. Widespread Panic - Live in the Classic City
7. Led Zeppelin - How the West Was Won
8. Allman Bros - Anything from 1970-1973
9. Grateful Dead - Dick's Picks 15
10. Neil Young - Live Rust

Good list. I would replace Sublime with the Beastie Boy's - Paul's Botique and the Allman Bros. with Audioslave. And, if you're gonna pick a Neil Young album, why not Decade?

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
Speaking of trendy drinks, People Magazine says (no flaming, I read it on the plane last week) the NEW HOT DRINK for summer of '03 is something that looks and sounds suspiciously like a Blue Hawaii, but it's got a hipper name, although I can't seem to remember it now. Anyway, it's prepackaged and it's blue. Hot. The Hollywood chicks are all over it.

People Magazine is for genitalia-less imbeciles. And for prepackaged, blue drink-drinking Hollywood chicks who would not know a Pisco Sour if someone cracked open their skulls and poured it into their empty fucking heads.

[leagleaze]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
WTF? I'm trying to help and I get name calling? What the hell is that all about? Geez. OK, how about this, we all get sponsors and use brand names for avatars, and the sponsors pay and help defray the costs of the website. So I could be Starbucks, you could be Kellogs Corn Flakes or Martha Stewart Living, others could be Nathan's Hot Dogs or In-n-Out or whatever.

Sigh, why is it when I am mean people get so fucking sensitive.

And hey, there's a good idea, except for the Martha Stewart Living, cause, well, she's not gonna have much money.

[leagleaze]

Originally posted by MisterEbola
Fuck you too. But since I'm such a nice guy and am writing this down as 0.5 pro bono hours, I present to you my work product:

Damn that's pretty freaky.

Impressive!

And why is it people say fuck you, but they never do it? That's not right.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
What is the point of this information? By the time People magazine says something is hot, it is already not. Tomorrow AM we'll probably turn on the Today show to see Katie Couric, in silk cargo drawstring capris and a pair of fades, tossing back a blue drink with Al Roker and Steven Cojocaru (sp?).

When is Frank Black of the Daily Show going to do a bit on the absolute worthlessness of the Today Show and utter vapidity of Katie Couric. If I have to endure another minute of her softball interviewing and mindless "What about the children" horseshit while waiting for the local weather, I may drive to NYC and hold up a huge sign that says "Katie Couric was a whore in high school" at the next Today show taping.

And someone please tell Matt Lauer to bage the chemo look. Just go with the bald thing or get the fucking hair plugs, but make a decision already.

S(how Lauer doesn't slap Couric across the face every morning amazes me)D

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by leagleaze
Damn that's pretty freaky.
Impressive!

Leagl, I do hope you don't plan to use that picture as your avatar, as the human arm appears to be clad in an acrylic sweater.

The horror!

[leagleaze]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Leagl, I do hope you don't plan to use that picture as your avatar, as the human arm appears to be clad in an acrylic sweater.

The horror!

Oh. My. God. You are so right. I almost committed a horrible fashion faux pas. Thank you for saving me.

(Actually no, that picture makes me squirm)

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by evenodds
Jeez. Everyone knows that the drink for Summer 2003 is the Pisco Sour.

The drink of this summer and every summer since man fermented sugar into alcohol until the day the sun implodes is whatever booze you like on the rocks with a splash of whatever mixer you like with it.

I don't drink anything that looks like windshield washer fluid unless I'm certain it will make me hallucinate.