I dressed in a hurry on the morning of January 13. Had a laugh out moment when I finally noticed what I was wearing. The combination of clothes would've slayed a fashionista, not that I have any remote interest in being one. (I'd much rather buy books than clothes.)

The fun about watching the Globes or the Oscars is not about who wins what. It's all about the gowns. Menswear with the tuxes are all similar to some extent, with some notable exceptions, where the man does more for the tux than the tux does for him AKA Clooney. So it's all about the gowns. But more fun is to be had by snarking the gowns, the ( Read more... )

Hitler founded the Deutsches Modeamt, Institute of German Fashion, to promote German Aryan-designed and manufactured traditional garb as the height of fashion for German women. "Dirndls, bodices, and Tyrolean jackets all the rage" for him ( Read more... )

In the wake of the Oscars, Angelina Jolie's right leg has taken on a life of its own ( Read more... )

Yes, very shallow of me, but I start watching the Oscars at 3pm with the terribly annoying Ryan Seacrest. I put up with him and his slightly less annoying partner-in-crime Giuliana for their coverage of the gorgeous gowns showing up tonight. (The bodies inside the gowns are incidental, well, important only in the way they make the gowns move ( Read more... )

If you were in a mind to give me a Christmas/Hanukkah gift, I wouldn't say no to one of these Book Purses.

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In case Charmin' is too rough for your delicate bottom, Waitrose of London has come up with a quilted version with cashmere fibers. The ad claims, that "it is designed to put a smile on your face." To which the Consumerist responds dryly, "No matter what we're using when we're doing our duty, it's unlikely to make us smile ( Read more... )

We left for San Francisco on Thursday noon. The trip to the airport was uneventful. Having scoped out the lay of the land on Wednesday with a 4WD, we had reasonable confidence of an easy trip. Every time it snows, the worst of it for us is our driveway, the neighborhood, and the mountain(hill)side we live on. The rest of the city and the ( Read more... )

What's appopriate clothing for a female writer? Shapeless long cardigan over nondescript faded skirt, scruffy shoes, and cat hair? Since I own neither of those things, fooey go my plans of looking properly authorial. Then again, the new wave of author like Melanie Benjamin, Alice I Have Been, debunk these frumpy tendenciesIn other news, the trip ( Read more... )