A thing to blog about

RACHEL the maven of fashion and retail has informed me of one the greatest secrets you will ever hear.

People with small to regular sized feet can simply purchase their socks in the children's department and enjoy HUGE SAVINGS!!!!!!

HUGE SAVINGS!!!!!

HUGE SAVINGS!

And they fit your feet. Also, there is only ONE TAX on children's garments. I can't wait to get me some Jo-Bro socks.

lululemon

what we missed.

Mrs. O

I heard about this website on CBC radio (west coast edition). They were talking about it as if perhaps it has gone too far. Well I totally love it. I love when the fashion of older people especially older women is promoted. By older I mean older than say 30.
Honestly Michelle Obama is amazing. I am not ashamed of loving her clothing. She promotes affordable clothing and local up and coming designers, as well as high fashion. Check what she wore last at Mrs-O.org.

Zara Union

My mom likes to send me emails about issues she thinks i would be interested in because they are more relevant to my life. Mostly young women work at ZARA. Really its not that different from my place of employment. H&M is not unionized. If it was there are a verity of complains i would have already made about conditions. I would at least do something about that bloody cash beeping.

Zara workers joined UNITE HERE in Fall 2007 in order to improve working
conditions at their store. They were tired of their unpredictable
schedules, working shortstaffed, bosses' favoritism, and disregard for
seniority.

Instead of respecting employees' right to join a union, since Fall 2007,
ZARA has engaged in conduct which may have violated the Quebec Labour
Code, including:

* *Firing four employees* who supported the union at ZARA's Rockland
Mall store in April and May 2008
* *Demoting two employees* who led a union drive at ZARA's downtown
Montreal store in August 2007
* Holding anti-union meetings at three Montreal stores in 2007-2008,
*in one case telling employees that joining a union is "treason"
against the company*.

TAKE ACTION TODAY!

Send a message to David Pastrana, President of Zara Canada, add your name to the petition.

Fashion ICON

my new Fashion icon is Lady GaGa. Check out those shoulder pads, seriously creative and HOT.

SuperPost

Rachel and I have set up a heck of a lot of categories in this here blog. Time to cram them all into one SUNDAY SUPER POST, random point-form style.

AFRICA

• As much as I agree with Palin that her fellow republicans are jerks for spreading rumours about her dumb questions during her debate prep, I have to profusely thank Americans for not electing a V.P with such a pitful understanding of Africa.

ART

• Hey! art’s great! Am I right?

BOOKS

• Currently reading Watchmen, thanks to Rachel. It’s starting up pretty slowly so far, and I’m looking forward to more action. I have to say that Rorschach was a great idea for a character, visually.
  

CAILIN

• I wonder how many people are actually called Cailin in Ireland? (It’s Irish for “girl”)

COMEDY


COMIC

• If it is at all possible that you are not yet aware of The Perry Bible Fellowship, get reading.

ENGLISH

• I had NO IDEA James Joyce was such a dirty, dirty man. If you’ve seen his love letters to Nora Barnacle, you know what I’m talking about.

ENVIRONMENT

• I wonder if the fact that my new low-flow shower head requires me to take about three times as long to wash my hair as it used to cancels out the water I’m supposed to be saving in the first place...

FASHION

• You know how JFK destroyed the hat industry by strutting around bare-headed? I’m hoping Obama also makes some huge male fashion impact. At the moment, I’m rooting for him just bringing the hat back.

GOSSIP GIRL

• haven’t seen the show yet, but that one brunette looks like a doll. This is my insightful observation!

JAMIE TUBBS

• I just accidentally typed “Jamir Tibbs.” That would make a great alter ego.

JOKES

• D.L Hughley’s are not funny.

LOGO

• At least if you got McCain's campaign logo tattooed on your body you can pretend you were in the navy or something...

MOVIES

• Anybody seen that “Nick and Nora” Micheal Cera one? How was it? I can’t see it because the title alone enrages me. Nick and Nora Charles forever!

MUSIC

• It’s been pretty great listening to civil rights movement music this week.

POLITICS

• I missed the last Liberal leadership convention since I was abroad at the time, so I never saw how handsome that Gerard Kennedy is. I mean, he’s no Justin Trudeau, but you take what you can get.

• Also, did anyone ever chant Hur-RAE, Hur-RAE for Bob Rae?

POLL

• Ah, how I will miss CNN’s POLL of POLLS.

QUOTES

• “ Just had a great lunch. Wham, bam, thank you ham!” - Jordan Morris, via twitter. He makes me laugh.

RACHEL

• What a pal! What an asset to civilization!

ROMANCE

• So many great romantic tales seem to hedge on circumstances that could have been altered by the slightest thing, like missing a certain bus or leaving a party early. Makes one wonder if, say, an ill-timed Steve Irwin impersonation might have cost one one’s soul mate. One would feel like a real jackass if that were true. One would indeed.

Good thing God doesn’t ever confirm such things. "THOU HAST TOTALLY BLOWN THY ONE CHANCE FOR TRUE LOVE, THOU IDIOT.”


SARAH PALIN

• She should get to keep the clothes. Come on!

TELEVISION

• I miss Mad Men.

TRAVEL

• I just watched a video of Obama playing basketball, and it looks like his buddies are letting him win. Unless he is the best at all things?

• The travel connection: I’m pretty sure traveling is something basketballers do.

VIDEO GAMES

• I could go for some treasure mountain.

ZIMBABWE

• is Ewbabmiz backwards!

Phew, this was difficult. Good Night.

Fashion from the Hill

one of the original intentions for this blog was to occasionally talk about fashion, but i have not said much, so here is a short update.

has anyone seen either the Lauren Conrad, or Heidi Montag fashion lines? Lauren, boring as hell. Heidi, sluty as hell. Even the name is sluty, Heidiwood. yuck. Heidiwood is priced from $10-$60, where Lauren Conrad is in the tripple digits. Also has everyone heard her song Fashion. It is as bad as it sounds, perhaps worse. Turns out according to Dose magazine, Heidi has given up her fashion line "in order to concentrate on her shudder - music "career." I enjoyed when during the second season of the Hills they would pop-up-vidio the disirers they were wearing during the aftershow.

also i totally love Bona Drag, currently i want the feature dress.

Because the Fundamentals of your Hearts are Strong, and there is No Recession of your Affection

Hello readers.
You all love me very much, right? Why not express your love in the form of a fancy new camera for me, and some expensive hair products?

In these trying economic times, you owe it to yourself to invest in me, because I have secret financial advice which may save all stock markets. I certainly can't share it, however, with dull, dry hair and no fancy camera to capture world leaders' astonished and relieved faces.

YOU can make this happen!

Birthday

I want this t shirt, and i want to wear it and run into the Vangart. Turthfully i would take any Kate Beaton t shrit.

Fictional Fashion Updates

I just discovered The Cherry Blossom Girl, a charming blog created by a Parisian fashion student named Alix. I'm enjoying it so far, although it's making me miss Paris to a painful degree. I also just recently watched Marie Antoinette after meaning to see it for the last two years, so I'm in the mood for Pretty French Things.

Luckily, The Cherry Blossom Girl is in the business of providing just that. Her most recent post takes one of my favourite movie characters, Amélie Poulain, and recreates her look with clothing available in 2008.
I also like her take on Little Red Riding Hood.

Jamie Tubbs

In His correspondence with H&M readers Scott Schuman of the Sartorialist says "I deliberately try to shoot the widest possible variety of people." This sounds inclusive, yet as Ann of feministing says most of his people are white, young, sucessful...

It has been brought to my attention the Brock University has attempted to do something similar to what Ann requested. They wrote about kids who had there one style, and didn't pay attention to trends, or expectations of their peers. Best of all, the male featured is great friend Jamie Tubbs. Now both brother and sister have been featured in fashion blogs.

If schuman is correct, I want to go to Milan. Apparently it is stuck in the 1930s. What could be better than being stuck in the 1930s!!!!!
well not maybe with the Great Depression, Though I would like to live in the times of great horror films like, Dracula, Frankenstein, Jekyll/Hyde, King Kong.

guilt-free

the day after I appeared in a fashion blog,
I read an article making me feel guilty.
maybe, if i ever make some kind of fashion blog, i will attempt to fulfill the authors request,
"And in the meantime, if someone out there knows of (or wants to start!) a street-fashion blog that actually makes a concerted effort to highlight the awesome style of non-white, non-skinny, non-able-bodied fashionistas, let me know about it! I'd love to add it to my daily reading, guilt-free."

ironically, the article linked to a few fashion blogs i have never seen, that I have now bookmarked.

I love the fantasy worlds that surround nerd culture, unfortunately i don't have the memory, time, or intelligence to play the games.
the Warhammer Online game launches soon, and friends of mine are anxiously anticipating it. Jack (the roommate) had me watch the trailer today, it looks cool, and as he explains the world, I am super intrigued. I wish i had the time to just read about the world. but i hardly find the time to read books for school.

http://mythicmktg.fileburst.com/war/us/home/flash/WAR_cinematic_08.html