Blogger? Not so much....

I'm not really a blogger... at least not a tried and true one. Mere is a newbie, but a born blogger. Dooce is...well, Dooce, the primus of blogging. I've tried the narrowly focused 'fashion blog' which went well for a while, but I realized that I wasn't seeing anything very interesting or noteworthy in a positive way, and though it's among my favorite hobbies, snarking on people because of their ridiculous attempts at 'fashion' was seeming to be a little negative...

However, maybe I'll strive to connect some sort of fashion/clothing tidbit appear in every entry I bother to do....

In that case - if you have time and have a busybody bone in your body, then you might like the Style Network's "How do I Look?" A fashion 'victim' is identified and the host, Finola Hughes gathers what she calls her 'accomplices' to help make-over the victim. Sometimes with completely hilarious results... The makeovers are supervised by Hughes and feature actually three distinctive makeovers created by two close friends and a professional stylist. It's always very interesting to see how 3 different people with varied relationships with the 'victim' approach the process of a makeover.
Fun show!

So ttfn (ta ta for now) and remember - keep that full length mirror in use and remember that a smile can be your best accessory.

HOt! hEatherEtte.....lukewarm 'Pro-ject'

Hot...Heatherette...

I just came across an odd commercial for MAC cosmetics/Heatherette featuring Ms./Mr.(?) Amanda Lepore. S/He does modeling regularly for Heatherette's fashion line. The commercial (NSFW-nudity) was posted on YouTube. There were other links to their recent fashion show and so I watched those too...

The *theme* for their recent show was "New York", and there New York themed songs and dancers in mohawks at the start of the show etc. So fun and showy, and over the top the way you want Heatherette to be. It does beg a question in my head.... If the 'soon to be' HOT designers on project runway have less to lose than a real design line, why was the last episode so B-O-R-I-N-G???? The project runway designers were challenged to design an evening gown that would represent their line for Olympus fashion week. Two of the four designers used the phrase 'hollywood glamour' OMG! please!

Even when I was in fashion school at the trade school/community college I attended, top 10 in the fashion schools in the country though it was, none of us were so 'trite' to design gowns inspired by 'hollywood glamour'...!!!!

It's so sad to me that these last few remaining designers on project runway couldn't do something more like THIS!

sad, sad, sad. They have the entire nation watching their every move and they attempt and put to shame Edith Head by claiming 'hollywood glamour as their inspiration!

If a lawyer falls in the trees will a Cardinal hear it?

Not if they're drunk and disorderly!

So apparently it got so embarrassing to wear a tree costume, that the woman who dressed as The Cardinal masoct (they dress their mascot for the Cardinal (singular) teams as a tree - for very un-obvious reasons...*) got ripped! It's a sign that you might want to meet Bill W. if you're stripped of your duties for using Alcohol as a coping mechanism. Because really... "[Stanford wouldn't] want to risk our core mission of rocking out and bringing funk to the funkless," riiiight.

And then there's Dick ""one beer at lunch" Cheney....yeah, alcohol & guns, great coping mechanism. Seriously tho- that's what I call showing your spirit! Has anyone considered in all of the conspiracy theories a foot that maybe poor Dick just has same goal as those kids in P.A. - "...rocking out and bringing funk to the funkless."

oh the injustice, oh the humility!

*The Cardinal has been the color of Stanford athletic teams since 1892. In 1930, Stanford officially adopted the Indian symbol and nickname for its teams. In 1972, the Indian mascot was dropped at the request of American Indian students, and the color cardinal was adopted as the name of Stanford athletic teams.

p.s. this post is up for an award for "the most randomly linked news topics in a single blog entry done with great panache" at
www.nowi'mreallyreaching.com/awards/votenow!

Quote of the Day - rebeccamead.com

"Blogging, it turns out, is
the CB radio of the Dave Eggers generation."

It doesn't get more right on than that.

**Today's compliment was brought to you rebeccamead, by the a sister-queen of analogies and a Celebrity Math* addict. a.k.a. Catwalker at the Fashionable Commute

*(Celebrity Math as in a people watching game where you peg the way a regular person looks with their combination of two different stars, possibly divided by another.)


UpDATE: No wonder I liked that article so much! It was in the November 13, 2000 issue of The New Yorker - such a great Magazine! I can't tell you how fun it is to see things about our city and moreso about people of my generation, that I've actually interacted with before, in such a well read magazine. Then I realize that I live in San Francisco, of COURSE that should happen. This city seems so small sometimes for being so "big."

PILLOW FIGHT!!!!

Here is a Slide Show on Flickr.com of the Pillow fight in Justin Herman Plaza on Valentines Day.

I wish I'd stayed at work a bit longer as we have the BEST view of the Plaza from our office. But alas - I had to rush home to my cute, cute Valentine! However, it seemed like a ton of fun....

I just only wonder... how did it all get cleaned up?

What NOT to wear (Valentines Day Edition)

Togas.

It would seem like something one should know... but based on my experience 3 Valentines days ago, where I was taken to a 'romantic' comedy at the bargain matinee and then home to his place to enjoy a homecooked meal... I learned that I was being asked to don a toga and enjoy a "Roman Feast". (While viewing the movie Old School...) And, while there may be girls out there who might find the idea "creative" and "romantic" and quite possibly sexy.... (who these girls are I frankly do not want to know...)

So, here's the breakdown - if the occasion of Valentines comes around and you're spending it with someone you've been casually dating, with no chemistry to be found beyond a few rated G goodnight kisses, you should probably hold off on the suggestion of toga wearing until you're with someone who really does it for you - where the two of you can barely keep your clothes on around each other, and you end up using the bedsheets as togas to cover yourself up while you nourish yourselves in preparation for "Round Two".

Oh, and if you think I'm harshing on that poor sad guy who served me the roman feast, you obviously don't know that he arrived to pick me up for our date with carnations and a Winnie the Pooh Hallmark. I can honestly say it blew my mind. (This is why I'm known in some circles as the cynical bitch! a.k.a. cb#1)

Folks... bottom line - be safe this valentines and beyond, do yourself (and your potential date) a favor and step away from the Toga!

Like I should complain!

There are a handful of blogs that I'm totally addicted to - in that waiting for the next Sweet Valley High book to come out sorta way. (you'll see a list at the right, left?... no right. -yes I'm directionally dislexic. You should see me drive, holding up both hands in "L's" to determine which hand - direction is Left or Right...admittedly, FRIGHTENING!)

I digress....

So - I just checked in on my own little piece of internet real-estate and found that I hadn't updated since the month turned to February! Bad bad girl.

Anyway - all I really came here to do is tell you how much I wish it was Spring... it's time.