I’m at work at an ungodly hour, waiting to schlep boxes downtown to a place located three blocks from my apartment, so I thought we could use some silliness to start us off today. Bubblegum!
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By the way, it’s surprisingly hard to find good bubblegum pictures on the net. Or maybe I’m just persnickety in the hours before coffee. Hmm.
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Really love this tunic from Neneee’s Etsy shop. So playful! I could totally see myself wearing this, but I vaaaaaaaaguely suspect I would look absolutely ludicrous in it. Such a tragedy. Shall have to think of some other way of drawing inspiration from this look, something that doesn’t involve me looking like I’m trying to look like a two-year old. Or maybe I’ll just rock a look like this, throw up some pigtails and just revel in making a laughing-stock of myself.
Or then again… nah. I’ll stick to random acts of public, shameless song and dance to cover that basis. I’m enough of a fool as it is.
BTW, oh three readers, posts this week are likely to be on the sporadic side. Crazy times at work. It’s a tough life, being a photocopy-wrangler.
If you’re anything like me, you might occasionally have trouble defining yourself, figuring out who you really are. You might be able to don an identity for a day, depending on who you’re meeting and what you’re doing, but come time to label yourself in one manner or another, your mind goes blank. Thank goodness that we have perfume around to define us in ways that we cannot.
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These last three really dig into the meat of what it means to be a woman. Thank heavens for perfume!
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Breaking: Grills are not an original concept.
This Maya skull, found in Chiapas, Mexico, is an example of this early practice of inserting semi-precious stones into one’s mouth. These decorations apparently were common to all classes, and were thought to be inserted with the aid of of an obsidian drill. Hopefully, they used some sort of pain reliever– I’m cringing at the thought as I write this. Also having a good deal of trouble picturing the result. It’s disconcerting enough when you see a person with a grill or with a diamond on their tooth– a whole mouthful of jade and other stones would be even more distracting. I’d be too worried about one popping out and being accidentally swallowed to have a coherent conversation with the person. At least their dentists were presumably skilled. Yikes.
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This ad above easily could have been the inspiration for American Apparel’s advertising campaigns. Minus the hearty dose of wholesomeness that seems to come with doing the skate. These kids are so white and all-American that they clearly will never be engaging in any of the deviant acts that the AA models seem to engage in on an hourly basis, between spates of thrusting their crotches out at you from the pages of magazines and unzipping their jumpsuits on website sidebars. Yes, little bit annoyed at the fact that I feel as though I’m looking at soft-core porn whenever I use a website with one of their ads on it.
Rant aside, I am now sorely saddened that I am not among the elect that is blessed with the knowledge of how it is exactly that one does the skate. Is it like the mashed potato? Or am I displaying my sore ignorance of eras and their dance movements? I fear I will never be able to capture the ideal of joy, as seen in the strangely awkward poses here. I shall have to temper my sadness with viewings of the other ads below, in their full cheesy vintage glory.
[source] Just look at these two thugs. A regular pair of Bonnie and Clydes.
[source] I think I used to own this very shirt, as a joke.
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