February 2012
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June 2010
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WatchQE II with exciting hand-waving action!
April 2010
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March 2010
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Rings of Fire and Ice
The Olympics came to a close last Sunday in a blaze of lumberjacks, fur trappers, dancing Mounties, and giant beavers and moose. A fairly typical Sunday evening in Canada but quite a spectacle for anyone not used to our quaint traditions.
We love the Olympics - both summer and winter - because we get to see young men and women who have invested so much time and effort for this one opportunity...
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January 2010
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December 2009
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Air Travel Past and Future
Thanks to the Testicle Bomber (“O Testicle Bomber, O Testicle Bomber, how crispy is your nut sac?”), air travel will be that much more unpleasant for the foreseeable future. In case anyone needs a reminder of how far we have fallen when it comes to air travel, let us compare visions of the past and future.
The Past: Behold the world of the 1950s “Stratocruiser”. Canapes,...
November 2009
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Variations on a Theme
While we were on our way to work this morning, looking very St.Joan from Mad Men with our between-the-bosom pendant watch (sorry, we don’t own a gold pen… yet), we spotted a member of generation hoodie heading south to deepest SOMA dressed in the t-shirt version of this:
(which is available here. Only $20 with $5 going to charity! Get one now!)
This, of course, is a variation on...
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Don't Get Your Spanx in a Twist
We enjoy our daily dose of Gawker and there was a precious gem today. Who knew that Spanx was causing such an uproar? We overlooked how odd it was that this appeared on Gawker’s umbrella site rather than on Jezebel where all things estrogen-y and self-loathing are relegated and just enjoyed the lively commentary. MisterHippity, always a treat, posted this:
(via MisterHippity)
To which...
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October 2009
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Play Misty for Me, Italia
Now that we’ve been back in the US from Italy for almost a week we’ve had time to think about the things that we will always remember, and regret a few things that got away.
Things we’ll always remember:
- a bottle of wine with lunch and dinner every day. Extremely civilized. Also makes the day much more pleasant and bearable.
- being groped on the 64 Termini bus. Sounds a lot...
September 2009
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Salsaccio Fiorentino
One thing that is unavoidable in Florence is sausage in both its literal and metaphorical forms.
The farther north one travels in Italy the more meat specialties one encounters. In Florence the ‘menu turistico’ typically feature ‘ragu’ sauces, hearty stews and some lovely sausage. At the family-run and thus highly entertaining Trattoria Buzzino, located at the exit to the Uffizi, we enjoyed a...
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No Money, No Honey
While in Rome we’ve been staying around the corner from the Campo dei Fiori. Famous now for its daily open-air market, this square was famous a few centuries ago for being the site of public executions, including that of freedom-of-speech icon Giordano Bruno who was set alight by the Inquisition in 1600. The Inquisition may be long gone, but torture is still taking place near the Campo, only...
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Basta!
We’ve been in Italy for just over a week now, and we’ve certainly got a feel for the street fashion popular right now. What we like, which is true throughout continental Europe really, is that it’s perfectly acceptable to remain an attractive and well-dressed woman at any age. Plastic surgery is frowned upon, but non-invasive procedures are A-OK. In Italy, at least, the most...
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Dirty Feet and Lamb Chops
One of the things we wanted to do in Rome was visit the Caravaggio paintings that are still located where they were originally meant to be, in church chapels here and there around the city. We’re not fans of the Baroque, but we like Caravaggio. A supremely talented but hot-tempered and violent bad-boy, he was always that close to jail or the wrong end of a sword. Living to a ripe old age was...
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Benvenuti a Roma!
For the next two weeks we’re in Rome, doing as the Romans do. Already we’ve learned that that means eating your main meal at lunch with wine (very civilized), smoking a lot while doing everything (questionable), and pressing your groin into anyone you please on a crowded bus (not so nice unless it’s welcomed by the party on the receiving end).
Since some of us have never visited...
July 2009
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I Love a Man in Uniform*
The past few weeks have been tough. One long meh. I have a long list of potential blog topics: Macrame is back - and it’s chic and expensive! How much more awful can the clothes on ‘The Fashion Show’ get? Who’s behind the return of distressed, acid-stained jeans (I mean, if you know, please let me know)? But they all left me, well, meh. Until recently, that is. Maybe...
May 2009
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Harem/mer Pant Update... via Hammer
MCHammer
Times Square….Hammer Pants !!! WoW !! See Her Face !
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It's Harem/mer Time!
“Harem pant is just the couture name for Hammer pant.” Reco, contestant on The Fashion Show
Ah, the harem pant. A spawn of the disco 70s, harem pants were at their best when you were twirl- twirl- twirling under the mirror ball on the dance floor! They let you do the electric boogaloo without revealing your knickers or your knicker-less privates.
Norma Kamali, French Elle c. 1980...
April 2009
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Questionable Fashion: The Full Cleveland
These days I read the Wall Street Journal to get the print version of the “news” I can’t bring myself to watch on Faux Gnus (I can’t sit through more than a few seconds before pulling a Really!?! with Seth and Amy), but today the WSJ taught me a phrase for a questionable fashion pairing that is back in fashion. Not only that, I learnt this from the Golf Journal...
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1980s Bad: Tiny Shorts
Tiny shorts were hangover from the 70s, along with satin jackets and really tight, waist high jeans. There was no escaping tiny shorts in the early 80s, particularly if you did any exercise at all. To make things even worse, I think these belonged to my mother before I got them:
I’ll save my comments on the hairdo(n’t) in this photo for another time…
Tiny shorts look bad on...
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1983 Topshop Horror
The New York Time’s Critical Shopper slid down the slippery slope of her fashion past on a recent visit to the newly opened Topshop on Broadway. Oh, the horror!
“I found it ironic that the thumping soundtrack, when I walked in, was “Natural’s Not in It,” by Gang of Four: The problem of leisure/What to do for pleasure/Ideal love a new purchase A market of the senses/Dream of the perfect...