Our wish has come true!!!

And they mention dinosaurs!

- suse

P.S.  For all of you getting here through the ‘flirg’ tag, the most reliable or plausible things that I’ve seen are ‘First Lady Is Really Gay’ and ‘First Lady Is Really a Guy’.  Though I’ve also seen ‘First Lady I’d Rather Get elected’, but that’s not something Clinton/Poehler would want people to stop calling her.  Plus, where’s the ‘e’?

A Response to the GOP Jabs at Community Organizing

I thought I would give a shout out to a blog that has sprung up in response to the jabs Palin, Giuliani and Pataki took at community organizing the other night. I’m guessing some of you saw it or have heard about it by now, but it really just seemed strange. I would think that, in planning a speech, a politician might consider whether or not they are denigrating an entire profession and segment of the population. And on top of that, whether or not that segment of the population might have political influence or work with large numbers of people (like most community organizers do). But I guess this wasn’t considered.

http://organizersfightback.wordpress.com/

Lady Problems

The IT Crowd tackles Lady Problems. Not Sara Palin, but maybe they’ll have an episode about that in the new season. Start at about 3:40 and go to about 5:20 to get the best of “that time of the month” euphemisms that British TV has to offer. Watch the whole episode if you’ve got the time. There’s still a fabulous dance party yet to come!

Almost as awesome as Derelict

I admit to liking fashion. Yes, even high fashion couture unwearable stuff. But not because I ever think I’d like to buy most of it or want to fill my closet with Louis Vuitton bags (I take that back, if I could get the Murakami Louis Vuitton bags (that actually have Murakami’s pictures/designs on them, not just the Cherry Line or the Multicolore line) and fill my closet, I might). I am more intrigued with the creativity and what some of those designers are able to come up with. Hence favorite challenges from Project Runway tend to be the Gristede’s-esque ones. But in the midst of all this fashion loving there are always the ridiculously bad decisions. And this months winners are the editors of Vogue India!

Somehow, Vogue India editors thought that a fashion spread using every day regular citizens to model accessories was a good idea. Now, on the base of it, this doesn’t seem so bad. We like real people in fashion spreads. But as Jossip pointed out: we usually reserve our “thanks for not using anorexic models” applause for those who don’t substitute them with “skinny because of malnourishment” persons. And on top of that you then realize that the majority of the Indian population subsists on just over $1 a day and there isn’t a single item in the spread that is under $100. Meaning that to actually own any of the items in the fashion spread the people pictured would have to save months to years to actually purchase any of them.

Just another day in India with our Burberry umbrella!

Yes, India does have a burgeoning middle class. Yes, Vogue is doing some branding. Yes, there are numbers of people in India that can afford these items. I get capitalism. But why not use ‘real’ Indians from this middle class instead of individuals who appear to be from a much more working class background. I’m not even going to go into stereotypes and appropriation here (the magazine may be Indian, but the products aren’t).

But I guess another reason I don’t actually buy ‘high fashion’ is that I just don’t understand why if you have enough money to actually purchase such items you would when there are about a bajillion other things that the money could go to and actually do some good. Sigh.

- suse

P.S. Watched the Palin speech last night. Don’t remember which reporter it was, but she was talking to delegates and remarked about how women at the convention and across the nation seemed to be having a visceral reaction (meant in a positive way) to Sarah Palin’s speech. I know I can be counted in that category, as long as barfiness is a visceral reaction.

Now, that’s better…

Cause I couldn’t resist.

I find it interesting that I’ve now just inserted myself into the depths of the topics brought up in the flikr conversation. I just like playing with PhotoShop, does that count for anything?

- suse

There She Is…

I always, always think that lady politicians and first lady de facto politicians always get too much flak for their fashion.  Michelle Obama’s fabulous, but arm-bearing sheaths (gasp! the lady has arms!).  Hillary Rodham-Clinton’s primary color pantsuits (and the woman got it SO much worse when she was in the white house…only the cast of Friends, Farah Fawcett, and Bo Derek got so much hair talk!).  Barbara Bush’s gumball pearls and Queen Mother styling.  Christine Todd Whitman’s failure to find that perfect balance between the feminine and the political (spoiler alert: there is balance, ladies. they happen to be mutually exclusive in the US of A. it’s a game you can’t win.).

But this.  Is.  Amazing.  Attention must be payed.

...Miss America! Photo from Jezebel

So, you can have it all.  I feel a Grand Old Party/National Riffle Association collaboration calendar coming on here! Jindal, put on the Old Glory Speedo in service of your country.  And maybe you could be fixing our broken borders, which might require some sort of tool belt?

Can I just say that Alaska, the Second Amendment, and Family Planning are having the Best Week Ever?

- Ferrrosha