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Dec.23.2010
It was meat meeting meat to convey the predatory nature of pop culture.
Raw meat racks hanging from claw-like hooks at the butcher’s are just bits of carcass ready to become food. Food for thought they aren’t. Not until Lady Gaga wrapped the scraps of the pink flesh splotched with congealed...
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Dec.17.2010
Bookworm Chic: Wearable Literature
You can’t judge a book by its cover—but you can wear a book for its cover. Skip actually having to read Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters To A Young Poet, and bring it to your holiday party instead. French designer Olympia Le-Tan has caused a sensation over first-...
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Nov.11.2010
Let’s face it. A woman can’t have too many pairs of shoes. Flats. Wedges. Sneakers. Stilettos. Platforms. Mules. Slides. Sandals. Boots. Pumps.Slip-ons. Loafers. Clogs. Espadrilles. Loafers. Galoshes. Mary Janes. Skimmers. Moccasins. Oxfords. Mukluks. Slingbacks. Slippers. The right pair of shoes...
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Oct.04.2010
When they say: You’re never too old, here’s proof they really mean it! Sally Gordon was recently honored as the female exemplar of Outstanding Oldest Worker 2010. Sally is 101! The daughter of Russian immigrants, Sally is one of Nebraska’s treasures. She became the first female assistant sergeant-...
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Jul.05.2010
PAPER DOLLS
Linda Grant chooses the best-dressed women in fiction, those "whose clothes say as much about the wearer as their narrative fate" ...
From INTELLIGENT LIFE Magazine, Spring 2010
Who is the best-dressed person in fiction? I’m not talking about novelists, who don’t leave the...
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Jun.11.2010
Silly Bandz: A Sonnet
In the old age bracelets were not plastic crap,Or if they were, they came not in such stupid shapes:But now have Bandz caught parents in a buying trap,And jewelry’s been slandered with consumer rape,For since each hand hath put on Bandz's power, Fouling the fair at a trendy,...
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Apr.20.2010
I find it so interesting that guys are still wearing baggy pants they have to hold on to. Did "Pants on the Gound" not show them how ridiculous this fashion is? Not to mention, it proved to me that guys absolutely dress for other guys, not for girls. How many girls see a boy with his...
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Mar.08.2010
This year, I just couldn't go to the Academy Awards to hang out with all my good buddies. I love to mingle with George and Meryl and Steve. They've been so good to me over the years. They've just given me so much! I am sure they missed my support.
Really, if I had just managed to buy that ball...
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Feb.26.2010
Goth Loli Girls in Sacramento
It's been a few years since my last trip to Japan, but a few days ago I was having some Tokyo flashbacks right here in Sacramento. My husband and I were driving in Midtown when we passed a group of young women all in Goth Loli garb. We pulled over, and I jumped...
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Feb.07.2010
One of my favorite parts of the Morbid Curiosity reading at the Hypnodrome was to see what the performers chose to wear. Russell Blackwood sported an exquisite black on black smoking jacket, which imparted a nice sense of decadence to the evening. Dana Fredsti went with courtesan chic to read...
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