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Jul.20.2011
After seeing a preview of the film Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, based on Lisa See's novel about the practice of female foot-binding in pre-revolutionary China, Arianna Huffington recently wrote a post on her thoughts about women's friendships and the ways that women are willing to deform...
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Jul.19.2011
A SAN FRANCISCO MEDICAL ADVENTURE
By the time Miki is groping for his first smoke of the day not only is my jaw raging constant pain but, due to sleep-dep and general exhaustion, I am convinced that I have an abscess under my tooth, that the offending molar is sitting atop a reservoir of puss that...
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Jul.13.2011
Charlston, South Sodding Carolina, 1979
We leave the waitress a large tip, well at least we leave our table looking like a large tip.
The club we’re playing is called The Galaxy 2000, all very futuristic at the time, and looks the part, being a huge rectangular building made entirely of burnished...
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Jul.13.2011
The question was....
How's it hanging? Write about something hanging in your closet you've had for a long time. Write what memories you associate with that item.
a friend asked
at first i was stumped because to be honest....most of my closet is filled with junk i can't fit anywhere else but...
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Jun.27.2011
At BBC Pebble Mill TV Studios, playing live on a Fashion show hosted by Toyah Wilcox (1979)
“Will you look at her!” a model slinks past me and Mulligan. We’re both grinning like ferrets.
I’m really missing Symiane. I’m definitely missing some parts of her more than others.
“Makes you wish you had...
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Jun.23.2011
Birmingham, 1978
I’m standing in a thin, freezing veil of drifting drizzle clutching a bucket of paste. Mulligan chatters beside me in skin- tight, black leather everything. He looks like an S&M garden gnome.
“Right,” he says, “paste up the back of this one, shin up that lamp post and slap it...
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Jun.19.2011
I'm going to be posting deleted scenes from my memoir Stairway To Nowhere - while I'm working on some new writing.
I have three novels in various stages that need my attention, as well as volume two of the post-Fashion memoir, Brumrunner.
I will also be making Mud Hut Man available as a...
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May.14.2011
After the untimely death of plus model Mia Amber Davis earlier this week, we were asked by AOL/BlackVoices via RedRoom, to blog on the subject of body image and black women. Having been plus size models in the 80’s, when the biz was in its infancy, and always prime for an opportunity to add...
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Apr.30.2011
It is ironic when large parts of the world suffer from malnutrition, women are encouraged to look malnourished to sell fancy clothes.
• On a damp rack inside a hut, a rusty tin can stood amongst the small packets of lentils and a lime and chilli tied together to ward off evil. The can was a...
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Apr.21.2011
This must qualify as a rather unusual way to mourn: by cloning Shakespeare. Ten face-lifts, ten months, US$153,000 will give Chinese author Zhang Yiyi the look he desires. He is using money from the royalties on his last book. But why look like the Bard? He says, “Life is a process of...
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