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

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Flinty_McFlint
RP

I have to admit, I'm not "down" with all the hip lingo (even though I know that even using the word "hip" is unhip, much like Paigow's theorem on the use of "classy"), so I appreciate any and all updates you can give me, fishizzle.

Regards,

Flinty (your lingo challenged pal) McFlint

"Hip" is now trendy, which is in for now. Keep up.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Cynthia Nixon is just plain funny looking, though probably a nice person;

Cynthia Nixon reached her peak lookswise as the hippie girl in Little Darlings. At least, that's the way I remember it.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
I can see Carrie being friends with Samantha (though explain how that got to be a deep, meet twice a week friendship, given Samantha and the age difference), and maybe Miranda (though every sitcom throws the "high-powered downtown lawyer" character into the mix without ever giving a glimpse of how, as a practical matter, it's difficult for a high-powered downtown lawyer to participate in the fun, telegenic activities required by sitcom formulas, like meeting for a lunch date without rescheduling five times).

Not Charlotte, though. If Charlotte and Carrie were college roommates, they might have had some awkward conversations, found they had no worldview or priorities in common, and that would have been it.

Then again, I was always the guy wondering what the fuck Elaine was doing spending time with George and Kramer.

1. I'm the guy who said Sarah Jessica Parker was Daltrey with tits.

2. You missed my point entirely. Whether or not the show is believeable has nothing to do with the fact that its an overhyped faddy pop tart of a program. A show can be utterly unbelievable yet well done.

My gripe is that the show is not really intended to be popular because of its plot or writing. Its intended to be popular because its always on the cutting edge of hip. The writers go out and hunt down topics from the local style pages and place trendy brands and references to brands through the show because they know most of the crowd is really only interested in what shoes Carrie is wearing.

SATC is made to appear like the very possible lives of four chicks in the city because that makes the fantasy seem almost reachable to the viewers. Its staunchest fans love the show because they're enraptured by the idea of four chicks hitting all the right clubs, wearing the latest stuff and being part of the "scene." "If not for X, that could be me." I guess in some warped sense certain people find the idea that Carrie has thoughts not unlike theirs while at the same time hob-nobbing with Ibankers in the Hamptons and fashion designers empowering. No one idolized Seinfeld or wanted to be one of the characters because the characters were all loathesome fuck ups. I'll bet everything that 70% of the folks who love SATC secretly wish they could be Carrie. That's pretty gay.

[Flinty_McFlint]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
"Hip" is now trendy, which is in for now. Keep up.

Cool. Can I continue to use "fresh" and call things "da bomb" while drinking my Pisco Sours and discussing my metrosexuality? It's so hard to keep track, I don't know how you guys do it.

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield


My gripe is that the show is not really intended to be popular because of its plot or writing. Its intended to be popular because its always on the cutting edge of hip. The writers go out and hunt down topics from the local style pages and place trendy brands and references to brands through the show because they know most of the crowd is really only interested in what shoes Carrie is wearing.

SATC is made to appear like the very possible lives of four chicks in the city because that makes the fantasy seem almost reachable to the viewers. Its staunchest fans love the show because they're enraptured by the idea of four chicks hitting all the right clubs, wearing the latest stuff and being part of the "scene." "If not for X, that could be me." I guess in some warped sense certain people find the idea that Carrie has thoughts not unlike theirs while at the same time hob-nobbing with Ibankers in the Hamptons and fashion designers empowering. No one idolized Seinfeld or wanted to be one of the characters because the characters were all loathesome fuck ups. I'll bet everything that 70% of the folks who love SATC secretly wish they could be Carrie. That's pretty gay.

What? Are you kidding? Who wouldn't want that life? Let's see...I go out to lunch with my friends, spend about an hour typing an article which is a rehash of today's lunch conversation, which pays me enough for this hugh rent controlled apartment in in Manhattan and I spend the rest of the day smoking, drinking and shopping. Geez.

[evenodds]

Originally posted by Flinty_McFlint
Cool. Can I continue to use "fresh" and call things "da bomb" while drinking my Pisco Sours and discussing my metrosexuality? It's so hard to keep track, I don't know how you guys do it.

Dammit, Flinty. I told you last week "metrosexuality" is passe -- since the NYT featured an article about the lifestyle. The new term is "prosumer."

I haven't heard that one yet. What does it mean?

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by ThrashersFan
You and me both. I was a prosecutor before I followed my true calling into corporate/transactional booshit and the defense lawyers always intrigued me. In school I clerked for a judge and we had 2 capital murder cases. I don't know how defense attorneys do it. I remember when I was clerking this one child molestor who was sooooo guilty that I stopped watching the trial after the first break. I know the blather about everyone being entitled to a defense, but I think I would "serve fries with that" before I got into that area of the law. But hey, someone has to do it I guess so I do give some props to my homies in the criminal defense world.

Defending criminals for corporate crime or victimless crimes (drug trafficking, insider trading, etc...) is easy. In fact, as a libertarian, I view people who prosecute drug sales as criminals interfering in a valid market wrongly illegitimized by provincially minded politicians who do not represent society as a whole. But that's a whole day's worth of writing there...

I could never defend a child molester, but a murderer - yep, that ain't hard.

[NotFromHere]

So did any one else see Pam "Kid Rock and I are just friends" Anderson on Leno last night? What is wrong with her? Does she not have a mirror? Her implants have been pumped up so big and so tight that she now looks like Dolly Parton with huge Hobbit feet! When asked about her former engagement to Kid Rock, she stated that I'm all about being a mom now. A mom who can no longer hug her kids due to the large implants that have deformed her figure to a new freakish proportion.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by leagleaze
The really cute ones were to piss off TM...

No one (not even you) believes this.

TM

[ThrashersFan]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Defending criminals for corporate crime or victimless crimes (drug trafficking, insider trading, etc...) is easy. In fact, as a libertarian, I view people who prosecute drug sales as criminals interfering in a valid market wrongly illegitimized by provincially minded politicians who do not represent society as a whole. But that's a whole day's worth of writing there...

I could never defend a child molester, but a murderer - yep, that ain't hard.

Now don't go insinuating that I have a conscious and you don't, I am just as conscious-free as the next person (I am, of course, in the 5th circle of hell for being greedy and unrepentent don't forget). I think what I would hate the most is dealing with bad facts ALL of the time and looking like a fool (at best, and an animal at worst) with some of the arguments they make. And although I am certainly no hep-cat when it comes to fashion and such, I can honestly say that the attire of your average criminal defense attorney is hideous. In that child molester case I mentioned earlier, I spent the time until opening arguments thinking that the lawyer was the defendant and vice versa -- he had fucking paint drops on his shoes for fuck's sake. And what is this pony-tail thing that so many male defense lawyers do? :wtf:

Originally posted by NotFromHere
So did any one else see Pam "Kid Rock and I are just friends" Anderson on Leno last night? What is wrong with her? Does she not have a mirror? Her implants have been pumped up so big and so tight that she now looks like Dolly Parton with huge Hobbit feet! When asked about her former engagement to Kid Rock, she stated that I'm all about being a mom now. A mom who can no longer hug her kids due to the large implants that have deformed her figure to a new freakish proportion.

Pictures please. I thought she had them removed or shrunken or someting. I know trends are passe, but I dont think breasts are meant to change sized periodically to suit the new fashions.

[LessinSF]

Originally posted by evenodds
[whole buncha reality TV comments responding to mine]

My favorite reality show, to the horror of all my friends, is: the world poker tour they are currently airing on the travel channel. How could you not watch "Devil Fish" Elliott?!!

I watched all two hours of the championship last night. It makes me want to learn to play hold-em really well.

I realized I left some shows out last night, so because I know you all care:

Meet The Folks: Unwatchable.

WWE Tryouts (or whatever the fuck it is called): Unwatchable to me, but I suppose I could see the interest if one was enough of a mental midget to watch the WWE.

American Juniors: Unwatchable.

Fame: Unwatchable.

Surf Girls: Best with the sound off.

Making the Band: Unwatchable.

Boarding House - North Shore: I watched this for the first time last night and found it oddly compelling. The two girls are cute and the one who tries/cares did well in the first tournament, and the one who just parties because she is a "Roxy girl" paid basically to model surf gear sucked, satisfied my sense of justice on one hand. On the other hand, though, I was appalled at the behavior of Sunny Garcia and left wondering how much Mark Burnett paid the guy Garcia assaulted to not sue so that Burnett could use the footage. Garcia's explanation that the guy looked at his wife on the beach somehow in the wrong way is the kind of stupid, male, macho behavior that embarrasses me on behalf of my sex. His wife's response was almost equally moronic, though. If I was the DA in that county, I would charge him to the fullest based solely on the videotape even if the victim wouldn't cooperate.

Paradise Hotel: After saying yesterday that I didn't think it could hold my interest because there was no purpose and you don't get to see any of the good bits, I watched it anyway (before going out, Bilmore). Also oddly compelling, but the premise of allowing audience members to replace the original contestants could backfire if they got too many dorks like the one they added last night. He was a fish out of water, a bull in a china shop, a paramecium among flatworms. He was both unattractive physically and personally that I realized why these shows carefully screen contestants. Still, I was left wondering why they all wanted to stay on the show so bad because I could only take so much sitting around a beach hotel doing nothing with a bunch of strangers. What have they promised them?

[MisterEbola]

I would love to get busy with her - not.

[SlaveNoMore]

NotFromHere
So did any one else see Pam "Kid Rock and I are just friends" Anderson on Leno last night? What is wrong with her? Does she not have a mirror? Her implants have been pumped up so big and so tight that she now looks like Dolly Parton with huge Hobbit feet! When asked about her former engagement to Kid Rock, she stated that I'm all about being a mom now. A mom who can no longer hug her kids due to the large implants that have deformed her figure to a new freakish proportion.

a) She is 36 and looks amazing
b) Her chest is no bigger than its been the last few years. It was because her blouse was cinched right below them
c) How can anyone not like her - she clearly doesn't take herself seriously and seems genuinely friendly.

Hell, we need more Hollywood types that can say "No one cares what I think about the war, they just want to see me naked"

not7y(everyone is a Hata)S