Chicago: Totally hands-free!!!

Even though he is renegade Earthman, he still needs special gear to breathe space air.

he can breathe their air just fine, but he cannot get used to the smell of the space apes. Really rank stuff.

He's wearing waders.

the real question: what's he gonna do with that giant syringe?

Blast the shit out of some motherfucking aliens!

keep a giant turkey moist inside while cooking

toby got really obsessed with good tea last year, we brought over like 2 grocery bags of tea when we moved. and he's listening to the twenty 20 cricket online every day at the moment.

just to reinforce stereotypes, you know.

I had to google twenty20 cricket. It's a game. I thought it was maybe a band, like matchbox 20, only there's twice as many matchboxes, and inside each one is a cricket. My mind works in discursive ways.

it's like supershort cricket, i think. like instead of playing for 3 or 5 days, they play for several hours. it's apparently more exciting, and more like baseball... i still don't really understand cricket, though!

I find fetishizing dead, beaten, and murdered women's bodies and portraying them as sexy to be way not okay and beyond disturbing. I care because every few years some dipshit photographer or fashion designer (or TV show, I am looking at you America's Next Top Model) decides that depicting murdered women would be super edgy! And hip! And then we have to have this fucking conversation about how glamorizing violence against women is unacceptable all fucking over again.

It makes me tired, all this having to repeat myself over and over again.

Ms. Sunshine Happypants strikes again!

I love you though, Jenny. Does that make it a little better?

Do any of you know of a song called "To Be Gone" that my very unhip middle-aged boss would be familiar with? He refuses to provide the name of a singer or songwriter. I found a song by some Swedish woman but I can't imagine that he's up on Swedish singer/songwriters.

xp - Yes. Love makes the world go 'round, Laurel.

new record store @ cermak and state is WACK

its a new branch of record breakers and it is v. strange how they pull up right across the street from the projects yet sell maybe the most racist selection of music i have yet seen. its so weird!

I don't think anyone thinks it's ok, just that that thing in particular is so patently-stupid-edging-over-into-parody-and-beyond that I can't even give it the time of day. If I saw that on AMTM I'd balk, because people watch that show, but I shrug I guess because I saw it on the internet, and the clothes are ugly and nobody's ever going to buy or wear them and Laurel is OTM it's TOTALLY up it's own ass.

that was an xpost to jenny, obv

actually, it may BE parody, come to think of it, what site did that come from?

I think Altman ran up against that problem in that "scathing" movie about fashion that he made, because you can't make up things more ridiculous than what these wankers already do in order to satirize them.

Srsly, Jenny, I love that you can't let the subject just blow past because you're RIGHT, and I just don't always have the energy for the whole tirade but it's a cold drink of water when you step up with the goods. And I love that you refuse to "get a sense of humor" about it, or let it go, or whatever people say who think you/I/we/women take the cause too seriously, because it IS a matter of life and death.

But this fashion guy, he's an idiot, and the fashion press is pretending that he's doing ANYthing new, I guess, because they need something to write about, but no one is really fooled. And no one that you or I will ever know will buy his clothes. I gleefully reject his contribution to the zeitgeist or whatever, but ultimately his impact will probably be v small, and there are far more pervasive and less obvious battles to fight against the stupid and short-sighted, which is why LE SIGH OF UGH it's just hard to work up a lot of indignation and not feel incredibly tired.

Fashion is pretty much always up its own ass, but people take it very seriously (even lay people, as evidenced by the discussions here on ILX). And Kenan, just because you think something is stupid or below your notice doesn't mean that it's not important to someone else, that it's not offensive to someone else, or that it's not worthy of my energy or attention.

America's Next Top Model Crime Scene Victims

xp - yes, it is hard not to feel incredibly tired. I'm certainly not going to go out and picket or anything, but typing a couple of paragraphs about why I think it's bogus is pretty easy. Plus getting to hassle Kenan is like the cherry on top.

holy shit that antm

"Miss J: What's great about this is that you can also look beautiful in death."

Which, Laurel, isn't to say that I think you should react in a specific way or that you shouldn't be tired or whatever. Just explaining why I didn't let it slide.

I must run, yet again. Peace, people.

I just thought it was totally vile that to this fashion designer man, it's a "macabre mystery", like we're talking about beautifully gothic (and fictional!) horror novels or something -- but what he's talking about are murdered, buried children -- male and female -- and it's just gross. Corpse fashion is gross regardless of what gender we're talking about.

xp No, no problem, I like that we get to take turns being outraged. I'm just too tired today to work up to it, so thanks for stopping by.

xxp Amanda, I agree with that too, but on the scale of real evil...it's not compelling, it's not even CONVINCING, and that guy is either an imbecile or just so far away from the real world of life and Doing Stuff that I don't have the energy to build a bridge to him etc etc or take him too seriously. I'm glad you do, though, because someone should.

Well shit, I wouldn't even have noticed it if I hadn't spent all day feeling like shit for giving my friend, who just had a baby, a copy of The Little Friend for a, I dunno, birthing gift? It's a book all about a dead child. It was 100% accidental, and it turned out not to be a big deal, but I felt bad about it all day. So maybe I'm just extra sensitive to dead kiddies today.

Overall I don't even notice what people do in the fashion world as I swore off fashion magazines a long time ago because they made me feel bad about myself.

I would not characterize this as outrage. It's more like revulsion.

What's really good Chinese food in Edgewater, close to me? Not Thai, not Vietnamese, just Chinese. Possibly searing hot Szechuan.

I would not characterize this as outrage.
It's more like revulsion.

I'm singing this to myself as a Morrissey song.

because you can't make up things more ridiculous than what these wankers already do in order to satirize them

This is why the Sacha Baron Cohen fashion guy (Bruno) is funny, because he just turns the camera on designers/fashionistas and only gives them a little prodding before the most ridiculous shit falls from their mouths.

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2006/12/morrisseyREX2_355x450.jpg
I would not characterize this as outrage,
it's more like revulsion,
because you can't make up things more ridiculous
than what these wankers already do in order to satirize them

Overall I don't even notice what people do
I swore off fashion magazines a long time ago,
this fashion designer man, this macabre mystery,
I like that we take turns being outraged
I like that we take turns being outraged

i think you just became my new favorite person

oh hey cool do you mind if i borrow those lyrics for $TOP_SECRET band, Eazy? we need a morrissey songs

Y but you have to credit all of us.

It's all yours, but you'll owe these folks a drink.

i probably do anyway

Panda Panda Chinese Restaurant is the spot, I decided. The recent online reviews say that it used to be a scary place with awful Chinese food, but they got new management and now they are THE BEST delivery place in the area and the spicy garlic pork is not to be missed. And if this is all true, awesome, it's a block away.

ps i'm gonna call the song DEAD BABY FASHIONSHOW

cool?

not morrissey enough

"This Fashion Designer Man"

"The Svengali of the Runway"

"Booed in Hampstead Heath"

okay

Fashion, You're Revolting

"Your Trick Wears Your School Tie"

Spam title today: "Good Evening Mr. Groove"

"Last Night In Soho"

"The Svengali of the Runway"

"Svengali in Platforms"

Damn, I had a feeling there was one already.

"samurai of king's road"?

guys do i see bob log or cococoma??