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Shamelessness
Sometimes, the news sets an avalanche of accumulated epiphanies snowballing down into the abyss. I'm thinking about shamelessness apropos recent news -- some from villagecharm, that the former governor of CT, John Rowland, is bragging as a matter of resume-building that he became a born-again Christian in prison.
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Queer Theorists, A Query Please
I would like to know, if, in the vast gasbag annals of queer theory, any body like Judith Butler (who can be lucid, especially on Israel) has deconstructed "reading". Is it related to the dozens? I'm trying to track down RuPaul's citation of reading in Paris Is Burning, which certainly would suggest that reading originated in the black vogueing ( Read more... ) -
Reading Granny Chic
I'm very interested in y'all's take on granny chic, or, as fj stipulates, The New Frump.
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Fashion Police: Boho Chic vs. Manic Pixie Dream Girl Granny Chic
I have a deep, deep, Boho streak which would have me dressed in lacy white ruffled cotton petticoats, bright colored prairie skirts, rose-embroidered off-the-shoulder peasant blouses and buckskin fringe, with orange and magenta embroidered touches, perhaps on the handknitted stockings, from the Estonian crafters on the island of Muhu, Frida Kahlo ( Read more... ) -
Girls, Larry David, & Anachro Porn
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Stoics
Clever me. This was the link in my geriatric dating post. Stoics are the essence of hott. And much more, including Shakespeare. Who might could have read Seneca in his English translation just before King Lear.
If you want to know what people were thinking you must find out what people are reading. Years ago, Professor Ruth Kelso took the trouble ( Read more... ) -
Girl Power
Lena Dunham's Girls has been on the tom toms for about a year, I think, with spreads on the actresses in the ladies' magazines and Gen Y buzz based on Dunham's indie film success with Tiny Furniture.*
Alessandra Stanley, who has had her own Carrie Bradshaw life in Manhattan, comments wonderfully on the differences and similarities between the ( Read more... )
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