check out the link. if you have a strong stomach:
http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/25651517.html#cutid1
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
T-R-A-S-H-B-A-G
All I can say is trashbag.
check out the link. if you have a strong stomach:
http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/25651517.html#cutid1
check out the link. if you have a strong stomach:
http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/25651517.html#cutid1
French girls are superhuman
According to InStyle magazine, Harem Pants are super in. Okay, according to most fashion outlets these baggy, dropped-crotch pants are the it-item for girls who are like, so over skinny jeans.
Okay, full disclosure here, I love skinny jeans. I mean, I really love them. They just work on me. My butt looks great, my legs look long, they're hot and I never want to see them go away. I will be wearing them until they are super-uncool and would like to delay that moment with every tiny ounce of influence I have, meaning this blog.
But seriously, is there anyone who looks good in these pants? Counterintuitively, you have to be model skinny to pull off this loose look. Or French. French girls totally look good in this shit. How? I have no idea. Yeah they're thin, but even the not as thin ones look awesome in these over the top pants.
I suggest picking up a look like this at H&M or Forever 21. No use in spending ungodly amounts of money for the original Isabel Marant version when they're just going to be on the floor next to my mirror night after night while my skinny jeans are the ones going out on the town (and starting to break in the crotch).
Okay, full disclosure here, I love skinny jeans. I mean, I really love them. They just work on me. My butt looks great, my legs look long, they're hot and I never want to see them go away. I will be wearing them until they are super-uncool and would like to delay that moment with every tiny ounce of influence I have, meaning this blog.
But seriously, is there anyone who looks good in these pants? Counterintuitively, you have to be model skinny to pull off this loose look. Or French. French girls totally look good in this shit. How? I have no idea. Yeah they're thin, but even the not as thin ones look awesome in these over the top pants.
I suggest picking up a look like this at H&M or Forever 21. No use in spending ungodly amounts of money for the original Isabel Marant version when they're just going to be on the floor next to my mirror night after night while my skinny jeans are the ones going out on the town (and starting to break in the crotch).
I swear I'm way more shallow than this...
So this is a blog dedicated to pop culture/fashion/media/etc. but today I'm going to discuss something a little bit more serious: the stock market!
Except I don't think that the stock market is more serious than like I Love Money on VH1. The same kind of moral degradation in search of huge piles of cash happens but on Wall Street the contestants are gambling with our entire economy instead of just hoping for a boob job à la Pumkin.
![[pumpkin.jpg]](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijen-ltZ_sDhCpYOeg80UIh8BpPjxNCGrdIDnBm1p2-qwpP7EG4e8blKC0u1SnnNxrBmjM5nXwEUQMdeKmSnWGsghc89r2bsZYG_OXnbxRahDS5VEQRfwE2b75rSjs05iDUSM37nVmNO8/s1600/pumpkin.jpg)
I feel like the idiot managers at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were a lot like this money grubbing whore. They made obviously poor decisions (like buying mortgages that weren't exactly sub-prime, but lets face it everyone knew the housing bubble was going to burst eventually), they used their feminine wiles (okay, lobbyists) to get more money than they should have based on talent or performance, and they manipulated and lied to keep from getting voted off...or regulated, or whatever.
Okay, so maybe this metaphor is a little bit strained, but I think in some way its apt. Is our culture materialistic, shallow, and fake because of reality TV or is reality TV so debased because our society is? When the people making the most money ever can be compared to a bimbo who competed for Flavor Flave's love, then how do we get our priorities straight? Maybe it's time to take a serious look at our culture and say that the seriously fucked up stuff happening in the halls of power might be setting the tone for our completely debased pop culture and not the other way around.
Luckily for you, this blog isn't really going to get into that stuff. Mostly I'm going to talk about the completely debased culture so enjoy but in my wildest dreams I'd hope you take the stuff you read here and think about it in relationship to serious news. You never know, there might be a connection you never would have seen before.
Today's Trashbags:
Fannie Mae
Freddie Mac
Pumkin
Except I don't think that the stock market is more serious than like I Love Money on VH1. The same kind of moral degradation in search of huge piles of cash happens but on Wall Street the contestants are gambling with our entire economy instead of just hoping for a boob job à la Pumkin.
I feel like the idiot managers at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were a lot like this money grubbing whore. They made obviously poor decisions (like buying mortgages that weren't exactly sub-prime, but lets face it everyone knew the housing bubble was going to burst eventually), they used their feminine wiles (okay, lobbyists) to get more money than they should have based on talent or performance, and they manipulated and lied to keep from getting voted off...or regulated, or whatever.
Okay, so maybe this metaphor is a little bit strained, but I think in some way its apt. Is our culture materialistic, shallow, and fake because of reality TV or is reality TV so debased because our society is? When the people making the most money ever can be compared to a bimbo who competed for Flavor Flave's love, then how do we get our priorities straight? Maybe it's time to take a serious look at our culture and say that the seriously fucked up stuff happening in the halls of power might be setting the tone for our completely debased pop culture and not the other way around.
Luckily for you, this blog isn't really going to get into that stuff. Mostly I'm going to talk about the completely debased culture so enjoy but in my wildest dreams I'd hope you take the stuff you read here and think about it in relationship to serious news. You never know, there might be a connection you never would have seen before.
Today's Trashbags:
Fannie Mae
Freddie Mac
Pumkin
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