the irish diet - gone shopping

only memories

2012-02-13T11:18:00.001-06:00

lacey lace lace lace. and more wallpaperey goodness. fringe fringe fringe. charleston anyone? tada! (tadashi shoji.)

{fall tadashi shoji fall, photos by yannis vlamos by gorunway.com by way of style.com}

wild wild

2012-02-13T06:48:00.001-06:00

this collection by nicholas k is clearly based on rango. i just know it. dad! you're gonna LOVE this collection.

oh the fringing. the fringing is fantastic. fringes are so satisfying to wear. it is a fact. the boots, particularly in image 2 (grrreeeeeyyyy) are my favourite. the turtle necklace is creepy as shit in a good way.

i also hope to wear under-eye orange eyeshadow like this. this is great. so dark and yet...

{fall nicholas k 2012, photos by yannis vlamos at gorunway.com by way of style.com}

randoms!

2012-02-12T20:36:00.001-06:00

some randoms that are great from shows i don't feel like talking about! too tired from reading all that 1Q84...

{fall juan carlos obando fall, photo by filippo fior at gorunway.com by way of style.com}

{fall m.patmos 2012, photos by alessandro garofalo at gorunway.com by way of style.com}

{fall rachel comey 2012, photos by filippo fior at gorunway.com by way of style.com}

{fall steven alan 2012, photo by amanda de simone at gorunway.com by way of style.com}

{fall z spoke by zach posen 2012, photo courtesy of z spoke by zach posen by way of style.com}

brillo

2012-02-12T19:58:00.002-06:00

i am sooooooooooooooo jealous of this hair. AHHHHH i want this hair. i want i want i want. tight frizz curls. just for a while at least.

i love the semi-sportwearness of this cynthia rowley. the sweater-dress with blouse. and the vortex pant print. you know. just a vortex on your knee. like you do. there is, of course the thumb-print sweater with its wavy sides. and then there is the matte on shiny. and printed gloves. too. (yes, em, you should've probably bought those hunting glovemitts. too bad they weren't your size.) (this kind of ankle boots, guys. notice. trended.)

{fall cynthia rowley 2012, photos by marcus tondo at gorunway.com by way of style.com}

sparkleshine.

2012-02-12T17:20:00.001-06:00

bahahahaha!

i feel like a bedazzler became sentient in the libertine atelier, and decorated the clothes at night when no one was around. but. you know. a classy sophisticated sort of bedazzler. (is that a thing?)

that peach coat, guys. is great. as well as the first skirt. the shiny sheer sparkles skirt. great job. and those boots are forever!!! (and more hair tucked in. yes. trend. don't forget.)

{fall libertine 2012, photos by yannis vlamos at gorunway.com by way of style.com}

in the wind

2012-02-12T14:43:00.001-06:00

i know i can get repetitive.

but.

sheer! colour blocking. colour blocked FUR!!! squareness. grey and peach and pleats. okay go! it's sunday. i can't make more words at this point. bcbg by max azria.

{fall bcbg by max azria 2012, photos by yannis vlamos at gorunway.com by say of style.com}

legs

2012-02-11T18:17:00.001-06:00

let's keep this simple here.

yes. yes to these tights. yes to these colours. yes to these jackets. gary graham fall.

{fall gary graham 2012, photos courtesy of gary graham by way of style.com}

sugar & spice

2012-02-11T11:53:00.001-06:00

sugary sweetness. and some kickass models. (eeeeeeyyyyyyeeeeeeeebrows on that first girl. jeeeezus!)
dressed in robin's egg blue and wallpaper. a little bit of ramona quimby. organic by john patrick fall.

{fall organic by john patrick 2012, photos courtesy of organic by john patrick by way of style.com}

the rabbithole

2012-02-11T09:06:00.002-06:00

alice (of wonderland) goes to college to major in women's studies and art history.

or that's what i see, anyways.

jil sander navy fall. those shoes? the ones in images 4 & 6? they make me crazy. not in a good way. they are soooo wrong in my books. which means i'll probably be mad crazy in love with them in, oh, 8 months time. damn it. but for now. they make me a little ragey. just not my thing. also. the shorts. image 3. sorta bike-short-like. is that a thing again? i was just looking woefully at all the pant-shorts i have that are that length and thinking 'oh god, why? why did we ever wear those?' and now they're back? bleh. ugh. shooooot. but everything else. good work!

i love the backpacks (although i'm not sure they're ergonomic or whatever). i want the red one i think. or the green. and that last dress? the peach one? a dream. just plain and simple. dream.

{fall jil sander navy 2012, photos courtesy of jil sander navy by way of style.com}

goofgoofgoof

2012-02-11T07:46:00.001-06:00

i. want. that. red. dress.

also the leather skirt.

thank you.

10 crosby derek lam fall.

(also, too. shout out to model hanne gaby odiele. because she is superb and i love her.)

{fall 10 crosby derek lam 2012, photos courtesy of 10 crosby derek lam by way of style.com}

slowly unravel

2012-02-10T22:35:00.000-06:00

there are times when i'm fairly certain that a designer is sitting down with his/her team and saying to them:

'with this collection, let's really work towards breaking erin k hooper right down to her core bits until she is curled up trying to hold herself together and crying and crying. yes?'

i'm sure. that this happens. i am sure they know about me and what fills me up and breaks my heart. they must. right? well. tse. (creatively consulted by brian reyes.) you win this round.

greyandgreyandgrey. and comfort and restriction and weight and space and trying to hide and being exposed and oh so much textureandtextureandtexture. this collection is hard on me. (and, also, i am completely ignoring the style.com review which says he missed the mark on this one. because. well. he didn't. for me. sure, i don't know the brand all that well... maybe it's off for the brand. but. whatever. it is beautiful.)

{fall tse 2012, photos courtsey of tse by way of style.com}

ff

2012-02-10T15:41:00.001-06:00

it's been a heavy-text time for the blog. so this is gonna be quick. (also my brain is fried from looking at fashion ALLTHETIME and i'm not gonna do a good job of making words be meaningful, i suspect. so.)

*goodbye sweet hilary. thank you.

that's all kids! have a super weekend and whatnot. stay tuned for 8 million fashion-posts!

grow slow

2012-02-10T10:42:00.001-06:00

shit is about to get CRAZY with the fall fashions up in here. there is sooooo much for to look at already! ah! AHHH! AHHHHHHHH!

life is good, my friends.

but we're going to start gentle, with some collections that look more like the pre-fall stuff. aka they aren't runway shot. ease in, you see?

first up! michael angel. it's a little alexander mcqueen from, what, 3 years ago? the print? but that's okay. cause i was a huge fan of it then, and i still am. and the skirts that are printed with the knit print... those are great. also WHERE CAN I GET KNITTING NEEDLES THAT BIG?! also, i'm gonna need some giant wool... and that electric teal, just sneaking over the shoulder of the watery blazer? and the last dress makes me want to cut my bcbg dress (from ab's wedding) real real short in the front. oooooof!

{fall michael angel 2012, photos christopher katke courtesy of michael angel by way of style.com}

a confession

2012-02-09T19:42:00.001-06:00

oh gosh, guys. this is hard for me.

see, my intention was to have my first official purchase post be quite light... you know: i bought a few organizational items from ikea! no big deal! my coffee looks so nice and orderly on the counter!

(i did.)

(and it does.)

but then. disaster struck. or. the best thing ever happened at the worst of times. megasale at nine west. oh yes. total mayhem. see, i have to walk past this nine west in my work building pretty much every day... and i've been eyeing a few pair of boots there, and sighing at the price and telling myself 'no' because i didn't need them, really, and they were too expensive, and all the other responsible things you tell yourself to not buy the boots that you love.

and then every pair of black boots i own fell apart. actually. this is not an exaggeration. on the ankle booties, the heels are barely holding on. they wobble and pull as you walk. dangerous! on the low calf boots the leather has shredded off the heels, AND the bottoms are nearly an inch shorter than they should be through constant wear. on the high-heeled thigh-highs, the caps on the heels have worn through and need replacing. and. finally. just this last week. the zipper on the flat thigh-highs busted.

boot massacre!

and i have plans to have them all repaired eventually. but that's not going to be cheap and i certainly won't be doing them all at once. aka. heartbreak.

so today. when i was walking back from the bank machine, just having taken out my spending cash for the next two weeks, i noticed that the nine west sale wall had once again been further discounted. well there is no harm in checking it out, right?

wrong! steals of deals!

the moral is i got some boots. they're great and well-made and comfy and work-appropriate and they were 40% off the already mega-sale price. at just over $80. i know i can't REALLY afford them, but it is probably just marginally more than repairing a single pair of my brokedown boots would be. right?

riiiigggght?

also, i did use my spending cash and not some crazy credit card, so i feel like i did the responsible thing. i'll just eat less. i really like rice and beans anyways.

i can say that there was another pair of boots that i loved just as much that were just as on sale (or almost... a little more monies, but not much.) and they were beautiful and came up to my knee and were oh so perfect. but i didn't buy them. no. i didn't. and that is progress.

don't you worry about me... i'm a grown up...

2012-02-09T10:44:00.001-06:00

jeff and i watched cassavetes' 'a woman under the influence' over two days this week. (it took us two days because i am an old person now and i flipped out a bit when i realized it was after 11pm and we still had 45 minutes left... nay! sleeps!)

i really liked this film. i'm not sure i could say i enjoyed it... there's an awful lot of heart-hurt in it, and i'm not sure exactly how i feel coming out the other end. i read somewhere it was supposed to be a more positive look at mental illness than was prevelant on screen at the time. to me it wasn't so much positive as tragically unresolved. there's a lot of love in the film, sure. but also a wild-ton of dysfunction, and all the characters seem to be rather ill, not just the mother-wife who is the focus. and nothing changes. i was left feeling like if you kept watching, you would see the same cycle of breakdown and buildup and plateau over and over and over. and maybe that's what cassevetes was after...

but it was good. and sometimes even beautiful. maybe.

* oh yeah! also. there is the use of the swan lake theme in a few key scenes, which made me think about 'black swan' and how this - a.w.u.t.i. - was such a better picture of a woman struggling with insanity... interesting. i bet you could write a solid comparative essay. *

monumental momentum

2012-02-08T11:25:00.001-06:00

this is the last prefall collection i have clipped. and it might be the last i write about this season, seeing as fall-proper starts, like, NOW! (okay. well. new york starts on the 9th. so. tomorrow.) oh, fashion. how quickly you roll along. you silly, beautiful machine.

may as well end with a big name, as we began with one. YSL. yves saint laurent. you've maybe heard of this line? yes. you have. well. the originator of 'le smoking tuxedo', menswear cut for women. a bit of a legend. (and now in the hands of stefano pilati.) and. yes. i love the squareness. the boxiness. the deep-v's which manage to not look overly sexed. (in leather, even!) the coat which is actually a GIANT TIE. the pantsuitpowersuit. well done, and thank you. YSL.

{pre-fall yves saint laurent 2012, photos courtesy of yves saint laurent by way of style.com}

be a chatty cathy

2012-02-08T05:30:00.000-06:00

today is talk about depression day!!! which i think is so brilliant and so great and i just wanna hug clara hughes for putting her lovely face all over this thang.

i wanted to add my two cents to the conversation. because i agree that it's crazy the degree to which depression and mental health issues are stigmatized. even though i have probably the greatest most fantastically supportive families there is, i struggled with admitting that i was anxious at a completely unhealthy level and depressed for the better part of two years. it is just so hard to take your feelings and put them into the same space you put that giant gash on your foot. but now that i have started approaching my anxiety as a health issue rather than an emotional issue, dealing is just so much more unbelievably easy. i communicate with myself like i would any other physical problem.

my head hurts. why? not enough water? too much reading on a computer screen? too much laughing at videos of kittens? talking to an annoying human? okay! i can figure out how to deal with and treat each of those scenarios.

my heart is racing and i feel like the world might end. why? too much caffeine? not enough sleep? just watched a tv show with a lot of triggering high-anxiety scenes? (i'm looking at you, breaking bad...) okay! i can calm down. i can rationalize.

plus there's that helpful friend, prescription medication. balancing and balancing. not for everyone, i'm sure. but i'm happy with mine. (it took a little more than a month to settle into the meds, and that was an occasionally frustrating time. worth it.)

a friend on facebook recently posted a status about her depressive tendencies, and how she is finally able to understand that she doesn't have a 'problem', she has a chemical imbalance. and how helpful that understanding is day to day. i feel the same way. realizing that a) the way i've been feeling really isn't the way that everyone goes about feeling, and that b) that doesn't mean that i am failing at being a human. no one would think they were failing at being a human if they had a broken rib. (unless they broke that rib doing something stupid... like. ummm. street-luge.)

finally, i just want to say as clearly as i can:
there is a big difference between being sad and being depressed.
there is a big difference between being stressed and having an anxiety disorder.
it took me way too long to realize that, and i wish i had earlier and dealt with my situation sooner rather than believing it would go away when life got a bit better... when life calmed down. and i think, too, that i knew that all along. and maybe by 'us' talking about this a bit more, someone else out there who's in that same situation will get help a bit faster. and that would be great.

meanwhile. if you're feeling a bit low. this might help you cheer up at least for a minute!

and share your story, if you have one. send out questions or concerns. it's all cool, my darling lovely readers!

little echo voice

2012-02-07T13:00:00.000-06:00

remember that quote i brought up from e.l.a.i.c.? about feeling more feelings? i am thinking about it again today. (most days, really. such a great quote.)

today my heart broke a little reading about a blogger who is quitting blogging (for a while, for forever... who knows) because her marriage is ending. i don't know her. not really. not at all, really. but i look at photos of her life all the time. i know about what she thinks about every monday. i know her daughters' clameyes. and her goodbye post made me mega sads.

and sometimes i wonder about how heavily i feel things. how completely i can be taken over by other people's experiences. and i worry. it is easy to go around hurting all the time for everyone because there is always something happening that is bad or sad or unfair. and it is hard for me not to. go along. the bonus is, though, that i also get to steal the best bits of feelings. the happiest, sparklingest bits. i get to feel those too. like they are my very own.

and i bet that's better than not. at least that is what i tell myself. i wonder what it is like for the people who can just go around feeling their own feelings and that's that. i wonder if i'd like it...

{ranunculus by irving penn, photo from artnet}

while i'm on this sort of thoughtful-achey-heart track, i also had some questions i have been thinking about. for my artstuff. for so long i have made art about relationships, the spaces around and between people, the connections. you know i haven't been making much art for a while now. a drawing here and there, sure, but nothing substantial. and at first it was because i couldn't. i needed to not. for a while. but now i would like to again. but i don't yet have a language to go along with the kinds of things i want to be 'talking' about in my work. blah blah. here, art-friends, are some questions. and if you have any wisdom at all for me, i would be grateful for it. (in the comments, or in the email. ekhooper@telus.net)

* how do you make something about

nothingness
a void
a loss
movement

* how do you make something about this very moment and all that it is and is not

* how do you make something about things that have ceased to be

* how do you make something about a lack of action or a thing that was not done

????

if i can begin to consider answers for those questions, i think i can begin to make 'art' again. i think. i hope.

title

2012-02-07T10:39:00.000-06:00

my brain is not so much with the working. i can't think of what i had wanted to say about this jean paul gaultier prefall. (i am so tired that just now i typed 'john paul gaultier' instead of 'jean' jeeezuz! then i fixed it. don't worry. but then i told you about it. so. shoot. embarrassing.)

i do remember that i wanted to say that those flat platforms make me think of robyn, and i love robyn, so i love those shoes. even though i do not think i would ever in one million years wear them. and i should hate them. but. robyn!

and. i love non-funtional (or semi-functional) cold weather wear. like a hoodie. with inconvenient sections of sheer on the sleeves and hood. for example. good thing there's fur on there!

oh. and. pink! and. red!

okay. you look and have thoughts...

{pre-fall jean paul gaultier 2012, photos courtesy of jean paul gaultier by way of style.com}

saved my life

2012-02-06T10:53:00.000-06:00

i'm a-harkenin' back to a time 'ago.

this weekend's trip to vermont and back with em was a hoot! and. a nostaliga-fest. such as when (playing the 'listen-to-whatever-cd-is-pulled-from-the-bag' game) we listened right through spice girl's 'spice world'. and tori amos' 'under the pink'. it is disturbing - or possibly amazing - how we both remembered allllll the words on those albums. especially since em never listened to spice girls. it just traveled from my room to her brain, i guess.

it was a great trip, even though i was sickly like a lame-o. sisterly company and singing of musicals tend to distract from an illness better than any advil cold and sinus ever can.

family! you will be receiving your scripts for the 'hoopers-and-friends' production of 'ragtime' which we cast in the car. i think it's gonna be one hell of a show. janice, you've got some serious scenes to tackle...

and our video for the day is, of course, a reflection of my nostalgic-mind. enjoy. some spice.

thanks vermont. happy monday!

us, together

2012-02-05T14:00:00.000-06:00

i bet i know what you are dying for. you are dying for a dreamy dream post entirely of dresses i want so badly for to wear to marc&mel's wedding. all completely appropriate for a backyard wedding in nova scotia. (there is no such thing as over-dressing for a wedding.) yayyyyy! i can deliver on that wish you have!

why oh why can't i live in the land of my dreamiverse?!
(also, who is betting that we'll see jennifer lawrence in one of these for the oscars? particularly one of the last three. i am. betting that.)

{pre-fall elie saab 2012, photos courtesy of elie saab by way of style.com}

soon i'll be born

2012-02-05T07:00:00.000-06:00

somebody PLEASE buy me this print for my birthday, which is not so far away...

show me forgiveness

2012-02-04T18:00:00.000-06:00

i have a bit of a love/hate with stella mccartney. for me she's really hit and miss, and there are always those pieces where i'm all 'uuuugggh, what? why stella. whatwhy?' and then there are some of my very favourite things there too. being all insane and brilliant. i usually end up thinking that i don't much care for her line. but then i go back, and i remember that, actually, i do. lots. in places. most of the time. sometimes. i am soooo good at decisiveness.

the moral is that there is some pretty stellar (stella!) stuff in this here prefall. like the over-sized-pattern sweater which is just teetering on being jester-y. and the over-seized collar too. and sleeve-holes, for that matter. and all of the boots, but especially the brown ones. and oh-my-GOODNESS that silver on gold tuxedo suit. aaaaaaaaahhhh. oohhhhhhh. ugh. oooof. wow. that is practically perfect in every way. i would put that quite high on the list of things i want to wear to marc&mel's wedding. and also everyday. and then there is the lace which is maybe beyond my powers-of-words, so i will leave it there.

{pre-fall stella mccartney 2012, photos courtesy of stella mccartney by way of style.com}

flinty kind of woman

2012-02-04T14:00:00.000-06:00

oh, come now. everybody knows that the straightest way into my heart is to employ a prairie motif. (insert joke about flatness of prairies and trains and straight paths...) sure, it's a little more western usa than saskatchewan canada, but it still pings on my insides. and then there's graphic prints and trees and orange too?

fine. akris. you've pulled it off. you're in. damn this emo prairie heart of mine. i want to go drive through a field now. and have a glass of rhubarb wine at the huderite colony. (although i'm gonna go ahead and say that wearing clothes like these to a huderite colony would probably be deemed bad form. good thing i can't afford any of them. but maybe the loooong grey coat...)

{pre-fall akris 2012, photos courtesy of akris by way of style.com}

have ourselves a time

2012-02-04T07:00:00.000-06:00

i don't have anything particularly insightful to say about these two collections - ports 1961 and bally prefall. but i like them. they're wearable and nice. so. you should still look at them, even if there isn't anything particularly word-inducing.

{pre-fall ports 1961 2012, photos courtesy of ports 1961 by way of style.com}

{pre-fall bally 2012, photos courtesy of bally by way of style.com}

this pain in my chest

2012-02-03T13:20:00.000-06:00

where have you been all my life gabriele colangelo?! okay. so i understand this is your first prefall collection. that makes me feel a bit better about not having known you. phew! sure, there's a few pieces that look as though they might have construction/fit issues... hard to say for sure... but on the whole? i love love mad love this collection.

i clipped more pieces from this than any other prefall, i think. i couldn't stop clipping. and i'm not going to edit it down because it flows so nicely. it really is a collection, you know? with one strong thought throughout which is gently tweaked and twisted and beautifully realized. siiiigggggghhhhhiiiinnnnnngggggg.

ghost trees! shadows! wool and fur and fuzz and shag! crispness. airiness and weightiness. whiteness! greyness. those gloves. that shade of yellow green that i am sooooo glad i can wear. (sorry all y'all with more complex complexions. it is one of my great triumphs. but my insides are hopeless and frail, so i think you probably win. don't worry.) red... (in the voice of mandy patinkin in sunday-in-the-park-with-george.) and another camille-cole-like model.
those are some of the things. that are. so. great.

{pre-fall gabriele colangelo 2012, photos courtesy of gabriele colangelo by way of style.com}

ff

2012-02-03T07:02:00.000-06:00

***** i wrote the following post earlier this week, before the whole susan g komen disaster embarrassment shame fest. (i particularly recommend that last link.) i don't even know where to begin on the rage that comes along with this story. if anyone wants to try and tell me that women's health isn't disgustingly politicized, they can go ahead and jump in a lake. and not a nice lake. a gross, really cold lake. filled with the bite-ingest fish. that is all. *****

oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooof this makes me mad. and also so glad that i do not live in the states. and also so nervous about our own canadian government's conservatism and the possibilities inherent therein...

* birth control like pork chops

let's talk about this.

first of all, how incredibly sickening that that young woman was forced into ovarian cancer despite a proper diagnosis of a treatable condition. because of policy. sick sick sick.
and potentially fatal results aside, the number of women i know who are on birth control for one million reasons aside from stopping pregnancy is crazy high. for me it stops the 3 weeks of period that i would be having cause my body is mega messed, as well as the actually unbearable pain that came along with that. (i know. cramps are lame-o and pretty much everyone has them, and blah blah. no. these weren't normal. mom can tell you. me lying on the floor in the kitchen in a ball weeping and weeping. and i'm a person who chose to have her palm-skin ripped off over and over for the love of the trapeze. i can do pain.) and there's skin issues and hormonal balance issues and so many other things which are easily and effectively treated with this entirely legal drug. and yet. NAY! STOP THE SLUTBAGS FROM SLUTTING AROUND! MAKE THE SLUTBAGS HAVE THEIR SLUTTY BABIES!

aaaallllllsssssoooo. i hope that i am, in fact, correct on the following. (if i'm not. oh god.)
there are religions that will not take blood transfusions and the like, right? it's against their religion. now. if someone in such a religion decided that for whatever reason they did want a blood transfusion, would insurance companies be all 'i don't know...... your religion is bossy pants so we better not. even though YOU are making a choice about yourself and your beliefs and your health.'

does that make sense? i feel like i'm not explaining that example well enough. i guess what i want to say is HOW HOW HOW can 'we' allow any organization to have sooo much power over its members (or people who happen into their general communities due to whatever circumstance) that they cannot go ahead with their own perfectly legal decisions about their own bodies? in a country oh so so screamey about personal freedoms. it's absurd and terrifying. is what i think. be terrified.

BUT SOME GOOD NEWS!
this week i would like to shout out joyfully to charlie williams, brother in law elect, who has been a facebook-crusader for feminism!!! you win feminist of the weeeeeeek!!!

{photo by amanda putty}

thank you thank you for first, understanding and second, defending the fact that a gender-neutral title should BE GENDER-NEUTRAL! you are the best and i'm so glad you're part of our family. rock on!

i was lying to me

2012-02-02T11:10:00.000-06:00

i really thought i didn't want an ipad. i did. for reals. i thought so.

but. i was wrong.

i do.

damn.

see, with all the time i spend sitting around on style.com (let's call it a LOT of time. as an understatement.) it would be oh so lovely-handy. and. photo-editing on the go! i would love to be working on my photos during my lunch hour, but bringing my laptop to and fro work every day seems a bit excessive. especially when my laptop is so big (and beautiful...).

so. sigh. i admit defeat. i want one.

and now, cause i realized that i want one, i have have done my usual thing and immediately decided all the details of my desire. so. for you, lucky readers... here's my newest (sigh) dream.

{it would be white, of course, to match my iphone. and it would be engraved as shown. so i would feel like a blogger for reals.}

{it would live in either the hedgehog case from kate spade ny or the monogrammed damask case from zazzle, which would have a lower case 'e' on it. although i think the kate spade is more practical, and also if it was the monogrammed one, i'd have to get a matching iphone case, and that's just getting crazy!}

woe is me! heavy sighs every-which-where! i hate wanting things. you'd think i'd be used to the feeling by now. but nay. i am not. it still hurts so. isn't my life hard?! sigh sigh cry.

bunny

2012-02-02T07:52:00.000-06:00

thanks to eug for pointing me towards this oh so adorable collection. cacharel makes me wonder why on earth i'm not knitting these days. come on erin! get with the program already! cacharel also makes me wonder why on earth it hasn't been nearly cold enough for giant face-consuming scarfs this winter.

toronto. you are doing winter wrong. completely wrong. fix it. this is embarrassing for everyone.

fine then. i'm just going to go around wearing shorts in february like a total asshat. deal with it.

cute cute cute cute CUTE cute cute. (hey look! that word has no meaning now!)

{pre-fall cacharel 2012, photos courtesy of cacharel by way of style.com}

the hybrid

2012-02-01T17:21:00.000-06:00

future space wool human comfort pods. a more dignified blade runner. a blacker fifth element. with, of course, sprinklings of star trek and battlestar. (tell me those shoes are not the shoes the hybrid would wear if she wasn't, you know, in that goo.) and orange. that is all:

{pre-fall antonio berardi 2012, photos courtesy of antonio berardi by way of style.com}

the agony i'd rather know

2012-02-01T10:49:00.000-06:00

eug and i have been having some great little twitter-chats lately. about fashion. it is so good to have a fashionfriend for real on the internet. one of those chats was about fur, and how we should always wear fur (she and i). and oh how celine prefall is catering perfectly to that desire.

and here's my quick little disclaimer. i love fur. a lot. i know i probably shouldn't. i know it is bad and i should feel bad about it, and i should just wear faux. but. i love it. and faux can be totally awesome, but as a rule it isn't the same thing. and. well... i don't feel bad. i'm sorry. god knows i feel bad about a million things always, and am a walking ball of guilty feelings - mostly for things that i have no place associating with myself and feeling bad about. so. the fact that i don't feel bad about fur is just tough luck. i'm not about to go around trying to make myself feel bad. even if i should. i can't be perfect and i can't fight every battle. so there. i love fur! fine!

eug and i also talked a bit about the somewhat disturbing grunts of painful pleasure and heartache that we make when spending time on style.com. it can be upsetting to those around. this collection is for sure a sliding-out-of-your-chair-cause-your-muscles-can't-hold-you-up kind of collection. a sighing and sighing collection.

boxy. woolly. furry. such amazing textures. what is even happening with those pants?! especially image 6 pants. and that white dress. with the black scarf. i want to get married NOW in THAT. i don't need anything else. and i would also love for all of my floors for all of my life to be covered in that lamb-shag. i know margene would destroy it. so i probably won't cover my whole apartment like that. but. i'd like to. love to. love. finally, every bag, please. but especially the giant carmel brown bag with electric blue detailing.

{pre-fall celine 2012, photos courtesy of celine by way of style.com}

holler back home

2012-02-01T07:00:00.000-06:00

first things first. i realized today that i haven't had a link to malorie urbanovitch in the blogs-of-note section. this is being remedied right......... now. silliness. what a bad person i am. malorie is brilliant and i love her and you should too. buy her clothes gosh darnit. (also, nickol who does the makeup for her campaigns is a bit of a wizard. possible deals-with-devils type wizard.)

i was thinking of her because the row prefall reminded me of her line. the way it's shot, the models used... not the clothes SOO much, but the first look at least. and that connection made me like the row lots, and made my heart all warm and fuzzy. i think the dress with the cutout-sheer side panel is so mega-sexy. i was already thinking about getting a tattoo right about there. and now i am extra-double thinking about it. (sorry mom.) who wants to give me money to get a tattoo? and does that person also, maybe, wanna buy me that dress? jeeeepers! thank you!!!

{pre-fall the row 2012, photos courtesy of the row by way of style.com}

quickly quickly, i'd like to look at vionnet today too. there's something athletic about this model. the hair and clean-face makeup maybe. but also her stance and her jawline. i like that about her. the last look is my fave. so straightforward but so dramatic. (sheer.) and those great italianey boots. hard edged and functional yet feminine. i get a sense of womanly strength from these clothes. straightforward wit that allows for glamour without getting lost in it. yeah? wouldn't you say?

{pre-fall vionnet 2012, photos courtesy of vionnet by way of style.com}

break

2012-01-31T17:17:00.000-06:00

let us step away from the fall of our future, briefly, and look to the spring which is just right around the corner!

not that we've had winter at all here. lame to the max! although yesterday there was, at least, some snow on the ground for a short while. (note. toronto. if y'all don't stop salting everything and start shoveling or at least sweeping... we're gonna have to have some strong words between us. because you are being ridiculous.)

aritzia! sent me a 'check out our spring preview' email this morning, and i was all 'okay, but i have no monies with which to buy anything, so don't have any expectations'. sigh. if i did have monies, though, this is what i would buy:

because it is a)orange b)sheer and c)great. okay! that's all for spring for now.

arms want to carry, heart wants to hold

2012-01-31T10:56:00.000-06:00

warning. these models do look mega young. i wanted to look them up, but their names weren't listed. so i don't know how young they actually are. but. here's the thing. i love them. i love them i love them. because they look like amazing witch-lion children. they look otherworldy. the one who's lips turn up at the corners (image 1 etc.) so she is always smirking at least a little... the one who's lips are a straight line through the centre with an unbalanced downward arch on top (image 5 etc.) so she is severe and and skeptical and wise-looking... the one who is so indescribable except to say that she looks like camille cole just a little grown (image 4 etc.)... their eyebrows. yes. i am taken by them. they should all be in paintings. any one of them would make a brilliant re-imagining of my still-favourite painting of joan of arc by jules bastien-lepage. also, i do so love groupings of people. even if it is a grouping of one person. maybe even especially if it is a grouping of one person.

as for the clothes. rust and red earth and blue-black... it's like using the dead palette, just saturated a little more. the way the textures and patterns are layered, fur over pleats. smoothness over wrinkle. it's so structured but somehow quite wild - possibly because of the girls used. and, (say it with me) SHEER! lace. in such wonderful places. okay, enough with the words. look look.

{pre-fall giambattista valli 2012, photos courtesy of giambattista valli by way of style.com}

oooooooooooooooooooppps!

2012-01-30T21:51:00.000-06:00

well this is awkward... alexander wang used the same floor for both his lines this pre-season. oooof. what a faux-pas!

jokes!

this stuff is so ridiculous and stellar. completely absurd see-throughness, including the last boots. ah! haha! great. weird metalics?! weeeee! men's tailoring/suiting all just a little wrong? tralalalalala! yesssssss. and tucked in hair. of course.

and the models are sooooo good too. boyish grown out pixie cut? yes. how does that look so good? no one knows. and elise crombez? (images 5 and 8...) i think i love her. i do think.

{pre-fall alexander wang 2012, photos courtesy of alexander wang by way of style.com}

saved my life

2012-01-30T19:46:00.000-06:00

today was great! guuuys.

(whoa. one minute. kurt browning is on my tv selling red rose tea and canadian warmth... wha?! i love him.. sorry. back on track.)

i was gonna be all cranky at monday cause last week it stole my buspass, and this week it put a hole in my favourite navy tights right after i got in to the office... and THEN the woman at the bay who sold me new navy tights was a mega-downer... BUT but. but. then i went to a talk about fashion careers or some such. by sarah nicole prickett. (remember? from feministe friday? why i write like a girl? you remember.) i sort of snuck into this thing. part of a youth employment services series of courses. technically you're supposed to have done their classes to get perks like these talks. but it was all upons on twitter, and i got myself signed up. anyways. it was grand. a) cause i think snp is great. b) cause she's as genuine in person as she is in her writing, which is oh so nice to see. c) cause it reminded me about the scary insecurities of undergrad and art careers and even of working with sarah jay and wondering how and why and where and not being able to form a complete sentence about your feelings cause oh man there's a lot of feelings!

i still have a lot of feelings. (SHOCK AND ALARM!) but i feel oh so good about them, and about my choices and what i've done and where i am. hoooorayha! and it is good to have a scene like that, with all these young (or some my age, i suspect. okay. maybe one.) things who are so confused and excited and nervous and new. to remind me that i am exactly good where i am and i don't miss that feeling of insecurity or excitement at my 'boring' non-art job because i get to actually be creative and thoughtful now. weeee! right? also. how lucky was i to work with sarah jay? what a magical wonderful thing that i got to stumble into. people would kill for that job. and rightfully so. she's the greatest. truly.

but. sorry. monday keeps turning into the big-write post. the big unedited word-vomit post... and it's supposed to be about videos! SORRY! sorry.

here's your video! since i'm feeling all wonderfulgreatinspiredcomfy, why not return to our old friend who started this whole s.m.l. thing in the first place, and helped get me here.

your friend and mine. girlfriend to robots. robyn!!!

happy monday!

explodeexplodeexplode

2012-01-30T12:14:00.000-06:00

pow pow! graphic novels and comic books! pow!

here's what i like about phillip lim's pre-fall. squareness. comic/graphic. model being almost like a paperdoll-all-the-same. shoes in the second image (!!!). sheer skirt. sheer pants that remind me of myrtle&pearls. sheer long sleeved undershirt (and the hospital gown over top). mustard. hook-rug sweaters. and so much more.

{pre-fall phillip lim 2012, photos courtesy of phillip lim by way of style.com}

the leaves have lost hold of the branches

2012-01-30T06:45:00.000-06:00

prettyprettyprettyprettyprettypretty. pretty. light and trees and crispness.

in the continuation of 'things i want to wear to marc&mel's wedding', i would be just fine and dandy with either that black dress with the ruffles on the skirt OR the cinnamony silk number. okay? cool! THANKS! thanks, dior. i would also be happy if my face could always have that chilly-air brightness that the makeup artist has achieved so beautifully. le sigh.

{pre-fall christian dior 2012, photos courtesy of christian dior by way of style.com}

les random

2012-01-29T20:45:00.000-06:00

hey pre-fallers. here's a little pile of pieces from various collections that i wasn't really interested in writing about. but these pieces i like. so. here! lookat'um.

{pre-fall elie tahari 2012, photos courtesy of elie tahari by way of style.com}

{pre-fall azzaro 2012, photos courtesy of azzaro by way of style.com}

(i feel a bit badly putting proenza schouler in with the randoms, but i couldn't think of anything particular to say about the collection, and i know lots of people WILL have things to say about it. so. listen to them. enjoy these. jeeeeez.)

{pre-fall proenza schouler 2012, photos courtesy of proenza schouler by way of style.com}

helpless helpless helpless

2012-01-29T10:48:00.000-06:00

i have been sitting on the no. 21 collection for a while, and trying desperately to think of something to say that sums up the way it makes me feel.

i'm failing.

sigh.

i will say that i didn't know no. 21 (headed by alessandro dell'acqua) before this collection, and i'm gonna spend a lot more time and attention on it in the future. magical? magical. i give up.

and, of course, the shadows. the heartbreaking shadows.

{pre-fall no. 21 2012, photos courtesy of no. 21 by way of style.com}

jerk

2012-01-28T20:49:00.000-06:00

hey givenchy! remember last year when you were all 'check out my panther cats and irises! pretty cool, huh?!' and i was all 'OHHHHHHH YYYEEEEEESSSSS COOOOOOOLLL I WAAAAANNNNNTTT YOOOOOUUUUUUU!!!'. but then you were all 'i'm mega-expensive, and you can't afford me. silly!'

that was rough. when that happened.

but then, givenchy. then you go and toss out this little collection here... and you're all like 'hi again! i think maybe you love me! check out all my great equestrian sass!' and i say nothing back because i DO love you, and you can't keep doing this to me because i have FEELINGS, GIVENCHY!!! and also debt...

sigh. whatever. no big deal. i'm over it. i'm just gonna put up a bunch of sucky pictures of your sucky clothes that are suckilly shot in a sucky way. (unless, givenchy, you wanna give me any of the things ever for free. then i am very sorry for getting so worked up. sorry... everything is great! i love you!)

(pssst. notice a trend, please. that orangey pinky red. it's back. i'm calling it. blamo. hot for fall!)

{pre-fall givenchy 2012, photos courtesy of givenchy by way of style.com}

a talking to

2012-01-28T10:41:00.000-06:00

first things first! dean and dan? smoking is gross! come on... i know it looks cool, but it ONLY looks cool because we've been told for years that it looks cool by people like YOU constantly perpetuating it's coolness. kids? don't smoke. you might look cool, but probably not, and much more importantly you'll smell gross and your teeth will be gross and your skin will get gross, and oh yeah, you'll DIE!

which is gross.

okay? okay. but that being said. i do believe that this girl-character is a totally spoiled rebellious rich-kid type, who's super 'badass' and THAT'S why she's smoking. right? right guys? cause she's kinda a shitty stupid kid? that is what i will say so that i'm not annoyed at you.

also... the cigarette is just an awkward prop in many of the photos. so maybe MAYBE you're making a point about nicotine dependency, and how NOT cool it is that she's stuck with this cigarette in EVERY SHOT... which is very subversive of you. see? now i'm really quite over my anger!

also, great work on the toggle buttons. and awesome pop-y jewel tones. and i love a short pant with a pointy pump. so. all good there.

{pre-fall dsquared2 2012, photos courtesy of dsquared2 by way of style.com}

the grass was so green against my new clothes

2012-01-27T17:48:00.000-06:00

bahahahahaha! this is so great. so fun. just you wait... for the yellow outfit?! AHAHAHAHA! i love it. nicely done kenzo. way to be the most of the funs. also the all orange skirt-suite number? stellar. i would rock that so hard at the office. COLOUR!!!

we talked about wearing pattern-on-pattern, and we talked about wearing head-to-toe one colour. what about wearing head-to-toe one PATTERN?! yes. approved. go and do it please. and the heavy sorta oxford shoes that remind me of robyn? hilarious. and the last look that knocked me off balance a little and winded me a bit? oh so so yes. (and the casting! and the bands of colour/print on the top and bottom of the photos! and the purse straps!)

{pre-fall kenzo 2012, photos courtesy of kenzo by way of style.com}

and while we're feeling playful and colourful... here's some lacoste that fits in nicely. functional. wearable. sweet. (sorry, i didn't grab any of the boy looks, cause BORING! ha. not really. just. you know. less my thing...)

{pre-fall lacoste 2012, photos courtesy of lacoste by way of style.com}

ff

2012-01-27T10:49:00.000-06:00

time to take a break from fashion!

remember, it is important to keep a thoughtful head on those well-dressed shoulders.

and so back to life, back to reality, back to feminist friday and readings for all!!! and this week... we have teasers! snapshots from each article. check this out:

and then...

{links are, of course, below. but i don't want to go and NOT give any credits here,

so i'll say right away that the top quote is by agustin fuentes, and the bottom is by dov linzer}

i am quite excited about today's articles. first up. SCIENCE! this article is for dad. hey dad! you LOVE scientific american, right?

i, too, am a fan of science. (like bill nighy says, the great thing about science is that it is true!)

and so, this is also for all the morons (sorry friends) who say to me "but what about (blah blah blah) in 'men are from mars, women are from venus'?!" as a relevant counterpoint to anything i have to say (or link to) on gender-essentialism and its lame-o lameness! a) that's possibly the worst book ever in the history of time (maybe) and is anti-partnership, anti-cooperation, and encourages the out-witting of one's romantic partners, which is boooo... and b)

* BLAMO! SCIENCE, MOTHA-SWEARWORD!

sorry. sorry. i just get so excited about science.

and then. something about (shock!) sexism in other worlds than my own! because focusing on change in my little part of the world is super important to me, but there is so much more to this feminist movement than that. oh yes. of course. so.

* woe to the girl...

and there you have it. thanks for reading! (you better be...)

back to pre-fall posts!

happy friday!

razor

2012-01-27T06:41:00.000-06:00

this one is for emma. here are some nice sophisticated WOMEN models! who look like women, and not like girls. cause, you know... you're into that sort of thing. and also the clothes are pretty amazing. too. (the very very last dress in this post? posen... will BLOW YOUR MIND!)

{pre-fall lanvin 2012, photos courtesy of lanvin by way of style.com}

{pre-fall zac posen 2012, photos courtesy of zac posen by way of style.com}

thefuture is now is thepast

2012-01-26T19:44:00.000-06:00

in honour of blade runner which i just re-watched this evening...

and. the internet is forever... (just like 'criminal minds' told us.)

balenciaga, you and champion of fashion hilarity! what is the WHAT?! so funny and so great. i would for sure wear: bright red sweater with bright pink pants, black jacket with garbage-bag-y belt, copper shirt, yellow turtleneck with over shoulder bag, every piece of jewelery presented, every shoe presented... ALL OF THE HAIRS! bieu bieu bieu! lazer sounds!

{pre-fall balenciaga 2012, photos courtesy of balenciaga by way of style.com}

and is there not something a little bit starwars-y about this missoni collection? there is. brick-socks! too.

let it be known that i am ALWAYS convinced that i hate purple even though i don't. it is weird. anyways...

{pre-fall missoni 2012, photos courtesy of missoni by way of style.com}

sacred space

2012-01-26T11:02:00.000-06:00

remember how with thakoon things weren't black and white?

well. with roberto cavalli they are.

see what i did there? genius blogging.

this model (daphne groeneveld) makes me very very happy indeed. and i've decided, now, to wear my long black leather gloves over everything. seems like a good trend.

{pre-fall roberto cavalli 2012, photos courtesy of roberto cavalli by way of style.com}

and while we're in a rather black and white mood (please ignore the above leopard print...), let's look at some badgley mischka. oh how i wish i had somewhere particularly glamorous to go. these dresses pull on my heart a bit...

{pre-fall badgley mischka 2012, photos courtesy of badgley mischka by way of style.com}

under the pink

2012-01-26T06:53:00.000-06:00

prabal gurung. this collection. broke my heart open. it hurt me. achey ache ache ache. also it is important to say how much i love alana zimmer. the other girls are brilliant too. but i LOVE in capslock alana zimmer. (she is the first model. right here. below...)

{pre-fall prabal gurung 2012, photos from style.com}

you bought it, you're broke

2012-01-25T18:00:00.000-06:00

i have a plan!

i am stealing this brilliant idea from heart of light which she borrowed from simple lovely.

this year i will blog about everything i buy.

okay, no, not EVERYTHING (and y'all are all 'i can't WAIT to hear about whether or not she bought cilantro!' i did. i did buy cilantro...) just the non-normal-life things. anything 'special' or outside the norm.

this is an effort to think very carefully about how and where i'm spending my monies. since i know how much i love shopping, clothes, and THINGS! i love things. but i do have a lot of things already. and if i'm blogging about the things that are coming into my home, then i'm going to have to be completely comfortable justifying them to the internets. you see? accountability! in accounting!

unlike the version i'm stealing from, i won't be posting gifts i'm giving. unless i get something super-mega-cool and i'm extra-bigtime excited about it. i feel like i'll feel weird about posting about things i'm giving like 'check me out i'm mega generous yo!' which i am. but i'd like to PRETEND to be modest about my spectacular gift-givery.

i will also occasionally post about things i'd very much like. now is definitely a time for me to wait on purchases and consider them and be sure i'm getting the RIGHT ONE. so. before long you'll start seeing posts about boots i want. there are a lot of great-and-useful boots out there, and most of mine are falling apart. so i'll moon over some for a while. and then maybe one day you'll see some boots that i've bought thoughtfully, and we can all high-five and feel great about it!

okey-doke.

to start this thang off, we have a special sort of purchasepost. gift-card purchases! post-christmas-continuation-purchases! yayyeeee!

from lee-jim-and-kids i got a card from the bay. and with it i bought a solo cupcake stand!!! (picture to come when i make the below-mentioned vegan cupcakes this weekend...) the first in what will surely be a spectacular cake and cupcake stand collection. its first week it held one orange. this week it houses rubber ducky. soon it will hold one spectacularly decorated vegan cupcake at an engagement part for marc&mel. (assuming i pull it off... otherwise it will hold one disappointing and tragic vegan cupcake. but let's keep things hopeful, yeah?)

aaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnd. from chris&janice&declan i got a card for joe fresh and it was the BEST SCORE! hooray for season-change sales on everything i wanted!!!!

clothes clothes clothes! and SHOES! work appropriate adorable shoes! and. i love love love that shirt!!! it is ACES! also there is a pale pink-peach silky t-shirt, but margene bumped me and coffee got on it. so. no photo right now.

midspace

2012-01-25T13:30:00.000-06:00

things are not black and white.

no. things are grey. and beige. and cream. and peach. and dusty. and stone. and parchment. and dry earth. and cabled. and rug.

except that one dress... which is... black and white.

{pre-fall thakoon 2012, photos courtesy of thakoon by way of style.com}

this just in!!!

2012-01-25T10:00:00.000-06:00

breaking fashion news!

in for fall: embellished collars.
out for fall: VISION!

according to alberta ferretti, at least.

also worth noting: those shoes are freaking disgustingly good.

{pre-fall alberta ferretti 2012, photos courtesy of yannis vlamos/gorunway.com by way of style.com}

warming

2012-01-25T03:00:00.000-06:00

i'm not 100% sold on marni's pre-fall yet. i think that i will be, a bit more at least, with time. i think it is a collection that needs to be looked at a few more times before i start to connect with the bits and pieces. not to say that i don't like it at all. there's some greatness in there for sure. but i'm just less WEEEEEE for these shots on the whole... than i've been for other collections this pre-season.

anyways. what i DO love. those gloves and mitts! i like how prada did the wader boots a while back, and now marni is all 'know what else is super cool? electrical gloves! don't get electrocuted next fall!'. utility chic. or, falconer, i guess. also. and i have always wanted a falcon. falcons are so hot for fall 2012. you heard it here first.

the earrings/jewellery overall is KICKASS too. and i'm sure i'll kick myself in a few weeks when i suddenly have something totes awesome to say about the clothes. but for now, looking.

{pre-fall marni 2012, photos courtesy of marni by way of style.com}

emily jane

2012-01-24T19:30:00.000-06:00

'the night is darkening round me,
the wild winds coldly blow;
but a tyrant spell has bound me,
and i cannot, cannot go.

the giant trees are bending
their bare boughs weighed with snow;
the storm is fast descending,
and yet i cannot go.

clouds beyond clouds above me,
wastes beyond wastes below;
but nothing dear can move me,
i will not, cannot go.' (brontë)

or, you know. anything by edgar allan poe... would do. otherwise, this victor & rolf collection pretty well speaks for itself. i think.

{pre-fall victor & rolf 2012, courtesy of victor & rolf by way of style.com}

set ope' the door

2012-01-24T13:54:00.000-06:00

balmain. this. is. tight. (both in terms of the concept for the collection as a whole, and, well... the garments and fabric-to-skin. generally.) i have never really wanted a leather jacket. now i want one so bad. particularly the one with the white denim (?) pants... TEAL!

and seeing as i will be learning to ride a small amazingly cool motor bike this summer, (sorry mom. i promise to be MEGA safe.) i should probably have that particular leather jacket. for safety.

meanwhile. so so ornate and yet somehow so dignified and maybe even almost quiet... pretty magical.

{pre-fall balmain 2012, photos courtesy of balmain by way of style.com}

no need to panic

2012-01-24T10:27:00.000-06:00

not to be hyperbolic, but, um, the casting for the louis vuitton pre-fall is THE GREATEST CASTING IN THE HISTORY OF TIME! except for maybe that girl for alexander mcqueen pre-fall... okay fine. i loved her a LOT.

pre-fall is sure making me capslock a lot this year. jeepers!

so. all three of these girls are just so bang on perfect. and. the hair! all tucked in. and the eyes! and the lips! you get my drift. well put-together from beginning to end. full concept fulfillment. good work.

and i think i might have actually thrown up just a little when i saw the second dress below. (thrown up with love.) with the grey and the sequin and the layers and the white. and the fading into yellow/gold. it is tears-worthy. museum-worthy. giving-up-your-first-born-worthy. (remember when i said 'not to be hyperbolic'? i think i've done a good job of that, yeah? perfectly non-hyperbolic, this post.)

finally. fur collars. that is all. look and love.

{pre-fall louis vuitton 2012, photos courtesy of louis vuitton by way of style.com}

so soft and so sweet

2012-01-24T04:00:00.000-06:00

a softer, pastel melancholy from erdem, and a little from t by alexander wang, too. peach.

{pre-fall erdem 2012, photos courtesy of erdem by way of style.com}

{pre-fall t by alexander wang 2012, photos courtesy of t by alexander wang by way of style.com}

backed into the corner

2012-01-23T12:10:00.000-06:00

prefall, tra la la. shall we some more? yes.

ooookay. chloé. i have the love, of course. first of all the models are so stellar-great. the one with her sort of charlotte gainsbourg-ness. and the other like a cat. these things are good things. and who (WHO?!) doesn't want an oversized easter-yellow blazer. i do. very much. also, emma, great news! it looks like gingham is hot for fall! i know how much you love the gingham. and finally i want all the shoes all the time. especially the second pair. (actually, if i could have that whole second look, please, i would be right thrilled.)

{pre-fall chloé 2012, photos courtesy of chloé by way of style.com}

and next up we have a little valentino. no big deal. i will say this: yes. and then i will say this: that saturated red-orange-pink coulour (which is pretty right on with my orange colourbug hair colour...) is sick amazing. and. velvet. the last dress below? it is brilliant. pure, simple, stunning, brilliant. also, i think i should really start wearing head-to-toe one colour more often. it is great. and an excellent counter to my sarah-caused pattern-on-pattern obsession. enjoy enjoy.

{pre-fall valentino 2012, photos courtesy of valentino by way of style.com}

saved my life

2012-01-23T10:52:00.000-06:00

well shit buckets. i'm cranky. which is a real shame because i was in the BEST mood this morning, and i was GONNA write all about how wonderful this weekend was, and how happy and great and wonderful life is and BLAH BLAH HOORAY!

but then somewhere in the 2.5 blocks between my apartment and the subway, my buspass fell out of my pocket. i immediately turned back, of course, and searched the streets for it. someone must have picked it up and taken it. (and no, they didn't turn it in at the station. i asked.) i KNOW that i had it in my hand in the elevator at home, and that i put it in my pocket in the lobby. (and no, it wasn't in the elevator or lobby or even on our hallway floor. i checked.) also. it was pouring rain. and i had been having a great hair day. but. i didn't have an umbrella. because it is WINTER in CANADA and it's not supposed to be freaking RAINING!!!! AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

so now i have to find monies in my extremely tight new cash-budget system to get myself to and fro work between now and february 1. effffff. i only, technically, have $27. left for this month. and i was planning on using that to eat, you know, dinner.

BUT, but, but... things could for sure be worse. i am cranky and sad, sure. but more sad/angry about em's bike being stolen (DIE STEALERS!). AND. i did have the best weekend ever. so. bleh. fine. life is not soooo bad, i know. punch the air, move on.

still. this first video works well for today. (i mean. i wasn't gonna kill myself, don't worry, but. you know.) thanks to emma for this one. she is a runner. and i do like a drummer. (me and my drummer!)

aaaannnnnnd. special bonus double-day! this one is for chris. because he is a runner. (CRAZY RUNNER!) and i am my father's son. (?????!!!!!!) (wolf parade!)

happy monday lovelies. may it only go uphill from this morning!

if i were dean

2012-01-22T09:02:00.000-06:00

this is what uni should look like. i don't discount that sweat pants are comfy and great... and loungewear CAN be fashionable if done well... but. oh, wouldn't you love to learn in a world that looked like this? i would. certainly. HOUNDSTOOTH FOR ALL!

{pre-fall jil sander 2012, photos courtesy of jil sander by way of style.com}

i'm about to be undignified here, and mix seasons to show you a little of jil sander's spring 2012 collection. because i meant to and never got around to it. and it is definitely worth looking at. gosh DARN it i love this design house (headed by raf simons. fyi.). wartime nurses?! brilliant. maybe my favourite collection from spring 2012... all that white on white. and then when there is colour it is so saturated and bang-on.

{photos courtesy of style.com}

this side of the blue

2012-01-22T08:44:00.000-06:00

{pre-fall sonia rykiel 2012, photos courtesy of sonia rykiel by way of style.com}

sorry, there are no words for this set. just tilty wonder magic.

soda pop

2012-01-21T10:45:00.000-06:00

{pre-fall opening ceremony, 2012. photo courtesy of opening ceremony by way of style.com}

fizzy fizz fizz fizz. but. with a whole lot of booze in there too. whiskey ginger anyone? yes. please!
(the shoes you are about to see? on the right-side girl of the first picture? SICK! sick. so sick. so good so so good. also the very last picture of the long dresses? i would like very much to wear one of those to marc&mel's wedding. if anyone wants to arrange for that...)

{pre-fall jonathan saunders, 2012. photos courtesy of jonathan saunders by way of style.com}

ff

2012-01-20T16:53:00.000-06:00

just because you look like a princess doesn't mean you can't be a kickass rapper.

so so true.

learn some lessons from these awesome little humans.

and remember to take a little you-time this weekend. cause there is nothing wrong with being self-sufficient and enjoying some alone time. fact!

(special thanks to roommate for sending me the above link and making me glad.)

and. a little something from my favourite feminist fashion writer and twitterer (tweeter?) sarah nicole prickett:

if i were to make a thing

2012-01-19T16:43:00.000-06:00

{pre-fall no. 21. 2012, courtesy of no. 21 by way of style.com}

i think i've decided that the pre-fall collections/campaigns are my favourite of all the seasonal shifts of fashion. of course i love the crazy crazy quantity and spectacle of spring and fall with their runway shows and big ad campaigns and so on. of course of course. but i don't get to SEE the shows LIVE, except for maybe a few here in the toronto, which would be the coolest best thing. meanwhile, pre-fall is quiet. simpler. it sort of sneaks up and in and out again. you can miss it completely if you aren't watching closely. i feel like the ideas that will be fully explored in fall are better distilled down to their essence in pre-fall. there's a tightness, i guess. and then there is the inescapable moodiness of fall. all this appeals to me.

also, the way that most pre-fall campaigns are shot really sits well with my personal artistic aesthetic. one or two girls, usually. almost a story. sometimes. quiet or stark or mysterious or closed spaces. non-spaces. yes. i would like it if i were making images of this kind. again.

alright. now let's look a lot. may as well start off big. mcqueen. mcqueenmcqueen. i am loving what sarah burton is doing. consistently, constantly. tim blanks, of style.com, says this is 'the kind of museum-worthy stuff that sustains the legend with its almost operatic lavishness.' yes. i do agree. i do very much so.
and this model? she is amazing. she is exploding my heart. who is this girl? i will find out and let you know. she is brilliant.

{all photos courtesy of alexander mcqueen, by way of style.com}

i want to go to there

2012-01-18T15:44:00.000-06:00

i know this whole 'me being a (not-just-family) blogger' thing is largely a joke, cause, um, seven to twelve people read my blog and no one comments except maybe two of them (AHEM!), and i'm technologically useless, but man i wish i was off and going to this this weekend!

alt looks sooooooo wicked cool! i bet the people there are gonna be mega crafty, arty, stylish doers of THINGS! i bet there's gonna be bunting EVERYWHERE! i could take that session 6 workshop about growing my readership!and who doesn't want to go to DESIGN CAMP?!?!?!?! I WANT TO GO TO DESIGN CAMP!!!!

next year, guys. next year i am going to alt. you try and stop me! (but don't. actually. try. please. cause i would really like to go. and i'd rather you did not, in fact, stop me.)

saved my life

2012-01-16T17:22:00.000-06:00

careful everyone. today is blue monday. the 'saddest day' statistically, what with the lack of light, length of cold still ahead, and christmas come-down really setting in. so take extra care of yourselves today. so something nice and special maybe. eat some candy.

but. for myself. i have to say i'm feeling pretty darned chipper this blue monday. maybe more of a bright cerulean than a tragic navy-grey... my radio-alarm was playing gotye when i woke up this morning. and i somehow managed to be super-early-ready despite staying in bed an extra few minutes, which meant cuddles with margene on the couch while i drank my coffee. a pretty great way to start a week.

not to mention yesterday was the first meeting of twin peaks club! we watched the pilot and it was rad. even though it's only been a year since i watched it, i was DYING to see it again. pumped.

and on to videotimes!

try and watch this and then not want to go out immediately and find yourself some pet sloths. just try.

and. let's not lose sight of obama and the fact that he's pretty great even though he didn't manage to do all that much because the US government is a mess of bureaucracy, and also he did sign that one really not cool bill about holding citizens... but. HOPE! remember? and lady gaga!

okay! happy saddest monday!

ff

2012-01-13T11:39:00.000-06:00

hey girl.

*listen to feminist ryan gosling.

hey boy.

*don't be a manarchist ryan gosling.

(and for some actual reading, cause y'all ain't getting off with only hilariously intellectualized eye-candy meme jokes...)

*'yes, but...' and learning not to. (me too, me too.)

**BONUS!

with my head so full of worry

2012-01-11T16:57:00.000-06:00

i am a heavy-hearted girl today.

{photo by kristina and borrowed from her beautiful beautiful lovely morning blog.}

saved my life

2012-01-09T12:53:00.000-06:00

oh lana del rey. you have stollen my heart.

also, i love tigers. and i really really want that white leather fringed jacket. very much. oh please!

happy monday! welcome back to real-life-legit!

iphone-d holidays

2012-01-08T14:21:00.000-06:00

sooooo many photos of so many good memories. starting things off with the iphone-hipstamatic-edition!

ff

2012-01-06T14:09:00.000-06:00

welcome back! since it's just after the holidays, and i'm way behind on my reading, there's just one reading for you today. (so, dad, you certainly can find the time to read it. it's even quite short!)

*smutty schmucks of media

now i think this one is really quite interesting, and a good conversation could come out of it. so. go on and read, and then let's chat! blogfolks. tell me what you think!

erinagain

2012-01-05T10:49:00.000-06:00

oh hmm. the tricky time that is the start of a new year. how do i go about writing about the new year without writing a NEW YEAR'S post? without being contradictory? shall i look back or forward, or both?

you'll maybe remember me saying, last year, that i hated resolutions. but then, of course, i went ahead a made a few loose, undefined ones, anyways. and now i look back at all those things i said i'd do (make art being the big one...) and didn't... and i'd be sad about it, except that i'm not. i wish i'd done more with last year. surely. sure. but. it wasn't for lack of wanting or trying. (not completely, at least.) it just happened that last year came along and kicked me super super hard in the teeth, and the eye, and stepped on my wrist, and took all my money, and spit on me... so... i had that to deal with. instead. of making art.

blah blah! see? sigh. new year's posts are gross! ugh. okay! but there is a point. a non-lament-y point. and it is a good one, so keep on keeping-on!

i could be looking back and thinking about all those not-done things. but. instead what i'm doing right now is i'm thinking: good gosh i'm happy. here. now. so happy. i made it through that beating and it was the worst that i've been through yet, and i'm hoping it will be the worst ever (fingers crossed i be so lucky), but really it is over and gone and i am happy. so. whatever! haha! sometimes i will live better and sometimes i will be lazy and cranky, but right now is good. (and compartmentalizing everything into little year packages with beginnings and ends is a bit silly anyways... what with the fluidity of everything and whatnot. as much as i love to compartmentalize.)

this is the first time since i started living 'away' i can remember being happy to come home after christmas. i miss everyone and it was grand. i wish we could do it more. but i'm not reeling in post-holiday-tragi-sads. i missed my life here. i am home here. i started taking down my decorations last night and even THAT didn't make me sad! because life after christmas is magic too.

and that is something new. so. new year! happy! there.

{also, because i have a real job now, i got a christmas bonus! most of it is going towards dept-repayment... but a little bit is buying me a chloe sevigny for opening ceremony monokini. because my old bathing suit got stolen and because it is the most awesomest replacement ever.}

{pictures from style.com and openingceremony}

ring in, ring in

2011-12-31T19:51:00.000-06:00

new year. new agenda... my beloved red moleskines. they've done me well for the last three years...

there is much to say about 2011: mostly bad, sure, but brilliant at the end. i will try to say those things in the upcoming days. meanwhile. i'm going to try and find something champagne-like in the parental's basement. ring in 2012 quietly and happily at home with these magic people. xo.

saved my life

2011-12-26T19:31:00.000-06:00

hey! i know this tune...

how creepy is that video?! awesomely creepy. light in the cheeks!!!

happy (HOLIDAYS!) monday!

ff

2011-12-24T08:50:00.000-06:00

* hey girl! you're a moron for getting raped!

sigh.

way back, when i was in munich, natalya and i went out (with a pile o' peeps from the hostel) to the hofbrauhaus. temple of beer and lederhosen. an incredibly tourist-in-munich thing to do. i had two of their giant-pints. probably somewhere around equivalent to 3.5 pints? maybe 4? a lot for me, but nothing too bonkers... especially considering the stomach-full of rich rich german food i was putting those beers into. sure, i was drunk. but i still had my wits about me. we had a nice time, and stumbled back to the hostel with one other hostel-er while the others continued to party into the night. we got a little lost, but made it home just fine. natalya went to sleep.

i went to the bathroom and cried for about 2 hours. i was sick with guilt and shame. because i'd been so irresponsible! because i had let loose a little, and therefore put myself and (much more importantly) natalya in danger. think of the horrible things that could've happened! how could i have been so stupid?!

it was not a good night.

and we all know i am a 'sensitive soul' and that i maybe feel things a little more deeply than most. but. what that night was was the product of years and years of being taught that it would for sure be my fault if i or natalya had been attacked.

anyways... the article above covers the topic of maybe blaming rapists from raping rather than blaming girls/women for being 'stupid/careless/slutty/naive'... it maybe isn't a 100% perfectly written piece, but it (and others like it recently) have made me think a lot about my own deep sense of guilt and fear, and how maybe i should start to redirect them... just sayin.

but... MEANWHILE!!!

here's something rather beautiful for you to read! about love and acceptance and gender-identity and growth and change and mothers and fathers and sons and daughters... there's some sadness in there, for sure. but if you zoom right in on the family? one of the best stories ever. wow. yes.

* i maybe cried a little at the end...

favourite mistake

2011-12-21T16:01:00.000-06:00

sometimes when i mean to go to tinyurl.com, i make a typo and i go here instead:

tinu

hi! i love tinu. i keep using tinyurl even though i don't have to, just so that i can, occasionally, accidentally, visit tinu.

saved my life

2011-12-19T21:29:00.000-06:00

it's a kimrup!
a mashra!

kimbra is back yo! mashup stylez.

i wonder if i am the leader in kimbra-blogging in north america? probably.

happy monday y'all!

pup around the village

2011-12-18T08:00:00.000-06:00

margene post!!!! HAHAHAHAHA! she is endlessly hilarious. no jokes. (all jokes...) man i love that dog.

ff

2011-12-16T10:37:00.000-06:00

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

stereotyping is hilarious!

(okay. sometimes. a little stereotyping is hilarious. sometimes. and. actually, generally, i do have a sense of humour. i swear! sarah can tell you! this week i laughed at my own 'gary sinise' 'bless you' joke so hard i cried. twice. on different days. even though NO ONE ELSE found it even a LITTLE funny. it was. mega funny...)

but, sigh. i'm a bit put off by the trendy new viral video sh*t girls say. ugh. i kinda really hate linking to it at all... but. ugh. anyways.

i've seen a few friends on facebook post things like 'OMG! i DO say that! HAHAHAHAHA! best!!!'
but, um, dudes. almost every one of those lines can be said by ANYONE EVER! okay. anyone middle-class-y and western at very least...
and it's not that this video is the WORST THING and i'm SUPER MAD and it's MEGA SEXIST! it's just that i'm tired of the whole gendering of everything all the time to the maximum. i'm tired of the 'you are over there and we are over here, we're SO DIFFERENT HAHA!'.

gender-essentialism boooooo!

and on that note. here are this week's pieces for to think on:

* the brits are starting to get it?

* parents being jerks. **

*thanking bowie for his gender-bending rocking ways.

i do love bowie so.

read read read my lovelies. (because boys and girls can both be lovely... and feminist!)

** oh man. so many things about these videos that make me crazy. like. dude. your kids sure are horrid ungrateful little things. i wonder how that happened?! and. um. language, children! but. that's totes off-topic. so. shhhhhhhhh. nothing!

warm glow

2011-12-14T10:18:00.000-06:00

i've been hunting the last two weeks for a work gift-exchange challenge: a used copy of a favourite kid's christmas book. challenge indeed! see, most of the books i loved most are out of print and crazy hard to find... i had ordered 'morriss's disappearing bag' on amazon, but then instead of shipping it, the seller canceled my order after a few days. jerk. i was all in a panic.

but. oh! then! yesterday! just in time!

i found the greatest thing at seeker's books on bloor!

remember this gem?! i had forgotten. i loved this book so so so much. and the person receiving this book has a little boy and a little girl... and he's from winnipeg, so there's a bit of prairie in their blood. oh. it is perfect. i'm so so happy about finding it. i almost started to cry in the bookstore cause my heart got so big so fast...

i can't wait to be home for christmas. i can't wait. it is the most magical thing.

saved my life

2011-12-12T14:02:00.000-06:00

oh, the national. thank you thank you.

last thursday night jeff and i were lucky enough to catch the national live at the a.c.c. here in toronto. it was an amazing show. they put on a crazy good performance.

highlights included the lead singer wandering through the crowd, his long long mic cord being passed above the heads of all the people on the floor, and right up into the 'stadium' seats. he was singing at the same time, of course. walking on seats. and. them bringing owen pallet on stage to play a few tunes with them. chills... and. a killer pair of brass players - trumpet and trombone. such a great time.

so. here is one of their new songs. (the one owen pallet played along with... SOOOOOOooooo beautifullysadly!) and also an older song with a hilarious video. sigh. thank you.

happy monday!

around home

2011-12-11T12:11:00.000-06:00

some fall-times that happened before at bikini village.

{hey look! three of my favourite creatures!}

holiday times at bikini village

2011-12-10T11:49:00.001-06:00

finally! y'alls about to get hit with a few photo-posts. bikini village is in order! it is clean and decorated and photo ready! (or it was last weekend. it's a bit untidy again. maybe i'll do something about that today...)

{we had a little drop-in thang. there was food and drink and peeps.}

{sarah jay brought me this most wonderful magic little tree! nightmare before christmas meets the grinch. sooooooo fantastic. she's the best.}

i love my home SOOOOO MUCH! finally finally finally. i feel like i am home in this place and in this city. it is the best. love love.

ff

2011-12-09T10:31:00.001-06:00

straight into it kids! this week is exciting. we're gonna start with something pretty big.

*hillary clinton's LGBT speech

although it makes me sad that some of this even needs saying, it doesn't change the fact that it DOES need saying. and she's done a superb job of saying it in a kind, respectful, gentle way. although she is firm in her message, she allows room for the difficulties associated with great change. she doesn't just plow through with THIS IS WHAT YOU SHOULD THINK GOD DAMN! what a woman. thank you, hillary. thank you tahnk you for your wisdom and courage and conviction. (i know it's a rather long read, but please do give it a good going-through. this is so so so so so so important.)

and now! some fashion-thoughts.

this week there has been some buzz about models and weight in the fashion-land. coco rocha, canadian super-model-extraordinaire, gave a speech about the pressures of the modeling world. (read it! i think she's pretty great...) and there was some positive and some negative backlash. this is a good little intro into something i've been thinking about a lot.

along with this:

*h&m cyborg models

so jacob, canadian fashion retailer, has this add campaign featuring coco rocha. and the main premise of the campaign is that it hasn't been photoshopped. hoooray! this is coco as coco is!

and i think that's super. a great start. except. there's still a bit of a problem there for me. yes, i love coco, and yes she's a brilliant and smart model, and yes she is working towards some change in the fashion-land, and yes she looks fantastic not photoshopped and hoooray and gladness! but. she is still a MODEL. she is not the smallest in the world of high-fashion models, sure. she is 'older' for a model. (i think she's 25?) but MODELS, even the healthiest among them, are not what could be considered the average body. or even, really, normal. it's not that they're these broken sickly freaks, the lot of them. far from it! i've worked with lots of girls who i would consider to be incredibly fit and healthy and that is just how they are. they work hard, sure, but they're also genetically pre-disposed to be a zillion tall and a zillion thin. like my dear brother... same sort of build. (i've also worked with girls who are clearly unhealthy, and it's super sad and tragic to see up close... but that's a whole other post.)

and there's nothing wrong with that! these thin-magic-girls. i love that shape. i admit. i'm super into the model aesthetic. but to tell little girls (or women, frankly) 'look it's a real person!' but have it still be one of those super magical few... well... i'm not sure that that is necessarily sending a perfect message either. so i'm a bit weary of this campaign, for all its good intentions.

i guess, without getting too wordy about it, what i'd like to see is diversity. unphotoshopped. give me super models! sure! but give me, too, a girl who has hips. a girl who i short and petite. a plus sized girl. a girl in that average category BETWEEN 'model' and 'plus sized' (aka me! damn it!). a girl with a giant bosom. show me what your clothes look like on those bodies. that is the dream. i guess. because there are women out there making clothes look amazing on their bodies everyday. so you can too, fashion land. i know it's a different challenge. but i have faith in you! you can do it! you're mega-smart and powerful!

okay. glad we had this chat.

oh! and going back to the h&m thing. yeah! that's okay too... make a cyborg model. but honesty. be honest about it. and maybe try to diversify your cyborgs a bit too. and also. photoshop if you want! but TALK ABOUT IT! oh man. that's a whole can of worms i am too sleepy to go into, and i'm sure y'all don't feel like reading this for EIGHT YEARS! okay. done for today!

happy friday, feminist warriors! HAHAHA!

cph

2011-12-06T10:31:00.001-06:00

today is the day, 34 years ago, that my ma and my pa officially started the greatest family ever in the history of time. that sounds excessive, maybe, to some of you. but that's cause you haven't met us. we are unreal.

anyways. the family got a great start with the birth of the chris.
the parentals, they didn't know yet that he was going to grow up to be a super cool and supportive big brother. they didn't know that he would be a crazy talented athlete. and they might have hoped, but couldn't have been sure, that he would one day build his own greatest-family starting with a tiny-human-man who would be, no jokes, the most awesomest baby born.

all they knew, then, was that he had a funny-shaped head. but they loved him anyways. and thank goodness for that.

happy birthday big brother. thanks for everything ever.

{if you google image search brother's name, this comes up. a premonitional drawing made by some small pre-chris in scotland. he was born to love bikes...}

saved my life

2011-12-05T16:52:00.001-06:00

finally!

another gaga-fest of dance and costume amazement! PHEW! just in time for y'all to learn the dancemoves for grimas eve... dancing starts about 10 minutes in?

happy monday!

ff

2011-12-02T08:58:00.001-06:00

hi team!today is pretty busy, so i won't write much. mmmm. in fact. i can't think of anything in particular i HAVE to say.** so! just straight away to this week's mandatory readings:

* why the ladies be crazy?

* i told you, emma... spice up your life!

* happy great good news!

see? this week is pretty cheery, here in feminism. tra la la! light and fluffy and friendly! (except, maybe, for that first one... i suppose.)

** i actually have a LOT to say about siri's lack of female-related programming, but i think my brain might explode if i think too much about it. so i won't go into it. i won't talk about the sadness in my heart when i think about this 'female' 'assistant' who is made especially to cater to male needs like so many female assistants before 'her'... ... ... i won't say that it makes me sad to BE a female assistant, even though i work for awesome men, and i love my job... ... ... i won't say that i really wanna punch siri right in her beautifully designed interface... ... ...

i will simply say that if any of the people i assist needed an abortion, i would assist them in finding appropriate information. because as an assistant, assisting is what i do.

home

2011-12-01T22:24:00.001-06:00

you guys are gonna flip when you see how amazing mine and sarah's apartment looks!

we're finally having an open-house (warming) for the holiday season, which means i've finally done all the doings i had planned. and it is bonkers bread awesome. i never want to leave here ever. i want to live here foreverandever.

pictures soon!

saved my life

2011-11-28T10:35:00.001-06:00

this weekend ruled. hardcore. it was a champion of a weekend.

there was an 80's party. there was dinner at a fantastic AND hilarious german restaurant. there was watching of 'another earth', which is really great and you should see it. (that brit girl? she's impressive. wrote it and starred in it, and is... um... about my age. sigh.) there was lots of relaxing and good company. there was a hilarious video of a polarbear. (WATCH OUT!!!) there were eggs and there was toast and there was coffee (including eggnog coffee in the shower).

and this morning? this morning my boss brought in the leftover birthday cake his wife made him. carrot cake. with homemade cream-cheese icing. and it was a layer cake with MORE CREAM-CHEESE IN THE MIDDLE!!! how is that not the best monday ever? it is. it just is. i ate that for 11am snack instead of my usual half tea cup of almonds. i maybe also ate a second piece for my lunch... screw you pasta salad!

and this week is gonna be nutso, but in a great sort of way. planning and scheduling and organizing. all good things. much business.

okay. anyways. to the real point.

this week's video! is so smart! this is how i see music. pretty much exactly. reading music? bah! not a thing! it doesn't make sense to me like this does. if you gave me a starting note, and told me to play along with the viola part i could. no problem. pretty much first time. it's brilliant!

the soft edges around the brass?! AHHH! VISUAL! i love it. and of course this particular piece always makes me think of the funeral scene/opening of beethoven lives upstairs. so. also wonderfully nostalgic.

okay puffins! happy monday!

(HAPPY FIRST WEEK OF ADVENT! TOO!)

ff.

2011-11-25T18:03:00.001-06:00

guuuuuuuuuuuuuyyyyyyyys! guys. really. guys.

twice in the last few weeks i have gotten myself pretty worked up and shouting at friends. i'm not normally one for shouting at friends. unless it's about food. cause i do feel strongly about food. BUT. yes. the yelling.

first time was because i was having dinner with three friends - two ladies and a man - and the man was the only one who would allow himself to be classified as even a little feminist-sympathetic. um. wha? these girls. they are smart. fierce. funny. bold. sweet. passionate. driven. open. FANTASTIC WOMEN! and they, apparently, are anti-feminist. i tried to explain that, actually, i don't think they are. i think they just have an ill-advised notion of feminism. but nay. there was shouting and i got so mad and sad. sigh. LADIES!

second time i was shouting at a feminist man who said that any reasonable intelligent human would willingly classify themselves as feminist. right? NAY! i say! i mean, i WISH! but. see shouting-one! they don't. they don't because we are told that feminism is scary and gross and means having bad sex and being whiny and annoying and hateful and angry and blah blah. eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

sooooooooooooo. the moral is. a) give your heads a shake, people! and b) friday is now feminism day.

you had better read these articles, blog-readers. i will be one mega-pissed blogger if you don't. THEY. ARE. IMPORTANT! so seriously. read them. READ THEM OR ELSE I WILL SHOUT AT YOU! (read them because these people are maybe better at writing about feminism without using so many CAP LOCKS! and being articulate is good. too.)

* why boys should be taught about feminism!

* hey penn state... what gives?

* secondary education... in sexism!

also, just, you know... to say. i have been getting cat-called and whistled at from cars since the age of 14 at least. probably earlier. and. in highschool there was a guy (who was one of the sweetest guys in school) who thought it was totes hilarious to slap me on the ass. one time he did it so hard that i was slammed forward onto a desk, bruising the crap out of my hipbones. he laughed, looking at his red palm, and said 'shit, that hurt!'. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! these are just a few examples of the CONSTANT displays of sexism that i have barely registered as being things because there are so so many of them being things all the time, and really they're nothing compared to the terrors of abuse that so many women experience. so. HOOOOORAY!

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2011-11-24T22:23:00.001-06:00

hooray!

i've had a job for three months! and that means my probation is over!

today i had my unofficial 3 month review-lunch. and it was great AND delicious.

and i love my job. and i love my life. and i am a happy girl. because.

i have health benefits!

i have a salary!

i have cool and fun and kind and reasonable co-workers!

i get to do little logistic problems!

i have room to grow!

i get to plan a christmas party for kids and go present shopping for TOYS!!!

i have a great dog! (that lets me do stuff like this:)

i had an awesome ladies date this week with some of my favourite ladies seeing an amazing movie!

i have been spending time with a really cool dude!

i cleaned my kitchen last night and it is a magical dream!

christmas is on it's way!

and this morning when i woke up, this is where i was:

{it's a rubbish photo, but come on! i couldn't disturb the puppy! my left arm was under her, too. awwwwwwwwwwww.

i stayed in bed an extra 20 minutes because it was just so awesome. and i still made it to work on time! blamo! hazah!}