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NOW IT CONSUMES ME.
08 July 2008 @ 05:41 pm
ebay
hi everyone! i've noticed there's been some ebay talk 'round these parts lately. i'm just beginning to get into it and i was wondering if any of you have some ebay-purchase tips for a girl like me. how do you tell if a clothing item is a fake, or what's the best way to ensure you're getting your money's worth? are there certain sellers that usually have great items? any help would be great!!
07 July 2008 @ 01:13 pm
I'm sure by now most of you have seen/heard of Vogue Italia's July issue, which has been dubbed "the Black Issue." It's the first issue to use only black models - the cover itself is a foldout with Liya Kebede, Naomi Campbell, Sessilee Lopez and Jourdan Dunn. 
I wanted to know your opinions on this issue. It seems to me that this is VI's response things like the US Vogue April cover (the Gisele/Lebron one) and Naomi Campbells complaints that the fashion industry is racist.
While I do agree that this issue is good in giving work to models that are typically underrepresented in fashion magazines, I also have to ask, is Vogue Italia going to use this as an excuse to underuse black models in future issues? eg, "you can't call us racist, what about our July issue?" There's also something unnerving about giving this issue a seperate title.
What do you guys think?
08 July 2008 @ 09:35 pm
Style Icons: Daphne Guinness
I've been promising this for ages, ever since my post about the Mitford sisters, when i pointed out that another of my loves and style icons is of course one of their descendants. Daphne Guinness is Diana Mitford's granddaughter - her father is Jonathan Guinness, 3rd Baron Moyne and Diana's eldest son from her first marriage - and you can definitely spot the resemblance between the two. Daphne is known, however, not only for her family connections but as a style icon, heiress, muse, socialite, designer and most recently, charity fundraiser. I LOVE her style and have been really impressed by how interesting she seems in interviews.
Daphne was born in 1967 and had an unconventional childhood. Some of it was spent in an artist's colony in Spain, where she was taken by her mother (a French intellectual), spending days in Salvador Dali's swimming pool. The rest was spent travelling between various stately homes belonging to her father's family, and watching the couture shows in Paris (again with her mother). After boarding school, she lived with her sister - who was PA to Andy Warhol - in New York, before marrying Spyros Niarchos of the Greek shipping dynasty at the age of 19. She and Niarchos divorced in 1999 after having three children together - Nicolas, Alexis and Ines, who live with her in London. Daphne's not just a style icon - before her marriage, she planned to train as an opera singer. She collects art, is extremely well-read, is interested in architecture and philosophy and has recently produced an Oscar-nominated short film as well as another called The Phenomenology of Body, 'a revolving journey of how clothes have defined, constricted and liberated women throughout history'.
Style
Daphne's trademarks are her black and blonde hair, the fact she generally sticks to black and white clothing, and her love of haute couture. Aside from her mother and grandmother, she names the writer and political activist Nancy Cunard and socialite and philanthropist Mona von Bismarck as her fashion inspiration. A close friend of the late style queen and magazine editor Isabella Blow, the two had a lot in common. Particular passions include ornate jewellery, armour as inspiration for clothing, feathers and crisp white shirts. Her love of haute couture saw her featured in a recent documentary for the BBC, entitled The Secret World of Haute Couture (really interesting if you're into fashion, check it out on Youtube!) In April this year, Daphne auctioned off part of her wardrobe to raise money for the charity Womankind Worldwide. The auction exceeded all expectations when it raised £143,790 ($283,142).
( lots of pictures! )
Links
Daphne's page at Storm Models
Scans of an article about Daphne which appeared in British Vogue this year
Heiress Apparent, an interview with Daphne
'My Life In Fashion'
SO many pictures of Daphne on GettyImages
The first part of The Secret World of Haute Couture
09 July 2008 @ 08:00 am
Wednesday One-Liner Are Better Than "Teen Spirit"
Lively black man: My sense of smell is back. I can smell pussy again!
--LIRR
Overheard by: meg
Black girl on cell: ...you know it smells like straight bootymeat!
--Times Square
Overheard by: patrick
Obese black woman wearing skin-tight World's #1 Dad t-shirt: This train smells like urine.
--Downtown A Train
Overheard by: World's #2 Dad
Guy on cell: Baby, all I'm saying is when you came home last night, you smelled like another dude!
--107th & Amsterdam
Overheard by: HuntingSnark
Woman to male friend: I'll just have to call you "anus breath" from now on.
--Jewish Theological Seminary, 122nd St & Broadway
Overheard by: Sticking to mouthwash from now on
Woman: I smell dick. (licks her hand, sniffs it) Sho 'nuff!
--R Train
09 July 2008 @ 07:38 pm
George Orwell's 1984, me loves.
Geez, now I remember what I wanted to post about, George Orwell's 1984!
I wanna share this excerpt from George Orwell's 1984, which, heh, is an excerpt of a book written by a character called Emmanuel Goldstein. I won't say anything about him so as to not spoil his role in the novel.
( From THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF OLIGARCHICAL COLLECTIVISM by Emmanuel Goldstein ... )
Wanna read the rest? Go get George Orwell's 1984. It's worth it. :>
I wanna share this excerpt from George Orwell's 1984, which, heh, is an excerpt of a book written by a character called Emmanuel Goldstein. I won't say anything about him so as to not spoil his role in the novel.
( From THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF OLIGARCHICAL COLLECTIVISM by Emmanuel Goldstein ... )
Wanna read the rest? Go get George Orwell's 1984. It's worth it. :>
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contemplative09 July 2008 @ 07:00 am
Forward Motion
Part IX—Lessons Learned
Author: just_slummin
Disclaimer: Don’t own ‘em. Just playin’ in Joss’ sandbox.
Rating: PG
Summary: BlueSun’s experiment continues, and Simon must find a way to save his family.
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( Read more... )
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pensive
pensive09 July 2008 @ 06:00 am
Let's Talk About Wednesday One-Liner, Baby
Serious tween girl: I wanna get my braces off. I'll be able to chew gum and be sexually active.
--1 Train
Old Italian man to young, really drunk Asian date outside of a restaurant: So, you wanna eat or you wanna fuck?
--17th & 7th
20-something girl on cell: So we get done and he's like: "That was amazing. I don't even want to know where you learned to do that." Is that a rhetorical question? Seriously, am I supposed to answer that?
--LIRR
Girl to friend: But I didn't mean to have sex with him!
--Washington Square Park
Hot bald guy: I would have thought hurried bathroom-floor sex to have little ambiguity.
--Columbia University
Overheard by: McFreaky
Woman to mailman: I never reported my mailman, and I was banging him!
--68th St b/w Lexington & Park Avenue
09 July 2008 @ 12:03 pm
Current Mood: stoked
Current Music: Good Charlotte
09 July 2008 @ 06:13 pm
Confirmation!
From Ausiello at Entertainment Weekly:
Well, there ya have it, people. Rikki's coming baaaaaaaaaaack! :D :D :D
I find it interesting the word few has quotation marks around it. Does this mean Rikki will be appearing in a lot of episodes? >:)
Question: I'm hearing Rikki is coming back to CSI:NY. Is it true? — Jessi
Ausiello: 'Tis true! A CBS spokesperson confirms that Jacqueline Pinol will return for a “few” episodes this season.
Well, there ya have it, people. Rikki's coming baaaaaaaaaaack! :D :D :D
I find it interesting the word few has quotation marks around it. Does this mean Rikki will be appearing in a lot of episodes? >:)
Current Mood: 
ecstatic
ecstatic09 July 2008 @ 04:00 am
Wednesday One-Liners Are So Archaic and Bourgeoise
20-something woman to friend: Man, can I just tell you how absolutely bizarre coffee shop conversations are in this area?! I am never ever getting married if this is the sort of stuff married women talk about all day.
--Smith & Bergan
Overheard by: Mako Shark
30-something to older woman: I can't get married yet! I haven't experienced even... half of the women in the world yet!
--86th & Broadway
Overheard by: Carol
Tween boy getting into the face of another tween boy: (loudly) I'll be your fucking wife!
--Morgan's Market
Overheard by: Akiko
Little boy: We saw a peanut marrying a princess!
--Penn Station
Overheard by: blue
Girl to friends: I think my husband's gonna divorce me now that gay marriage is legal.
--N10th & Bedford Ave, Williamsburg
Overheard by: Non Hipster
Woman in a wedding dress and veil, on cell: Yeah, I got kicked out.
--Penn Station
09 July 2008 @ 04:40 am
Hmm...
I finished Queer as Folk. I must admit to being rather unimpressed with the series finale. It just...kind of let me down. Granted, I watched the entire show in the span of like a week, but I was underwhelmed. Oh well, can't please everyone.
I guess I wanted it to wow me or make me feel like...I don't know. I hate that I feel disappointed right now. Finishing the series should have been a good thing, now I kind of wish I'd stopped watching a while ago and not gone through to the end.
I guess I wanted it to wow me or make me feel like...I don't know. I hate that I feel disappointed right now. Finishing the series should have been a good thing, now I kind of wish I'd stopped watching a while ago and not gone through to the end.
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disappointed09 July 2008 @ 12:50 am
One//name: Jewlie
Two//age: 20
Three//location: Los Angeles
Four//five things you can't leave the house without? Keys,Glasses,book, pen,busted up sidekick.
This is my bag. Its a Jonas Brothers tote bag and its my favorite bag only because I think its funny to carry around a JB bag. I'm not really a label whore and I am cheap as fuck. . so enjoy the bag of cheap shit . . :)
( High heels
All by yourself
Gotta catch my breath )
Two//age: 20
Three//location: Los Angeles
Four//five things you can't leave the house without? Keys,Glasses,book, pen,busted up sidekick.
This is my bag. Its a Jonas Brothers tote bag and its my favorite bag only because I think its funny to carry around a JB bag. I'm not really a label whore and I am cheap as fuck. . so enjoy the bag of cheap shit . . :)
09 July 2008 @ 09:47 am
Fic: Family Tales 6/15
Title: Family Tales
Series: sequel to Family Ties
Author: Swift tales
Fandom: CSI: Miami
Category: AU, Romance, Family, Angst
Pairing: Eric/Ryan (a little Horatio/OFC)
Rating: PG
Warnings: If you can't handle brutally mauled dead bodies, don't read
Spoilers: Everything before and during Curse of the Coffin
Disclaimer: I obviously don't own
Summary: Horatio sees something and makes a discovery
Chapter 6
Series: sequel to Family Ties
Author: Swift tales
Fandom: CSI: Miami
Category: AU, Romance, Family, Angst
Pairing: Eric/Ryan (a little Horatio/OFC)
Rating: PG
Warnings: If you can't handle brutally mauled dead bodies, don't read
Spoilers: Everything before and during Curse of the Coffin
Disclaimer: I obviously don't own
Summary: Horatio sees something and makes a discovery
Chapter 6
09 July 2008 @ 02:00 am
WOLing Me Softly
Grandma to kid: It's really hard to kill people, you know.
--West Village
(20-something sits down and stretches his arms out in a yawn)
Man sitting one seat away: If you touch my leg I'll kill you.
--1 Train
Middle-aged beefcake on phone: Oh yeah? Well he's not trying anymore because he's dead.
--42nd & Lex
Overheard by: bildita
Suit on cell: He was a great guy, until he decided to kill someone.
--Smith & Wollensky
Loud woman on payphone (very angrily): Well what the fuck am I supposed to do with her? Mausoleum? What? What the fuck?
--96th & Madison
Overheard by: grateful undead
Seven-year-old black boy: I'm goin' to Iraq, to kill Obama!
--125th & Amsterdam
Overheard by: The Drummey
09 July 2008 @ 01:59 am
Mood theme?
09 July 2008 @ 02:02 am
Queer as Folk: I wish I knew how to quit you...
If Brian hadn't said "I love you" before the series ended, I was going to choke a bitch. As it is, it fucking TOOK HIM LONG ENOUGH! *spaz*
Yes, I pumped my arms and cheered - silently, though, since it's late.
Current Mood: 
relieved
relieved08 July 2008 @ 10:36 pm
Summer ICONS!
Yep, i've been slacking....no 4th of July icons....no summer icons....i've been a mess! :D
These icons are summery, but old. They're from my old icon journal, and also from THIS icon journal.... :D
Hopefully within the next couple of days i'll have some NEW icons for ya! :D
PREVIEW:
(1)
(2) 
(3) 
( LOADS under the cut! )
These icons are summery, but old. They're from my old icon journal, and also from THIS icon journal.... :D
Hopefully within the next couple of days i'll have some NEW icons for ya! :D
PREVIEW:
(1)
(2) (3) ( LOADS under the cut! )
Current Mood: 
devious
devious08 July 2008 @ 10:07 pm
09 July 2008 @ 12:36 am
Jumping Off The Edge, NCIS, Tony/Tim, PG13
Jumping Off The Edge-July 9th!
Author: Lil_Jei
Fandom: NCIS
Characters: DiNozzo/McGee
Rating: PG 13
Author Notes: So the characters, kink, and sentence prompt aren’t mine. And I do apologize for the mostly angst little sex fic that came about…it just all spiraled out of my control.
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Current Mood: accomplished