finally finale

feminist friday will happen tomorrow. sorry kids. today. the last of the resort fashions...

{mara hoffman resort 2013, photos courtesy of mara hoffman by way of style.com}

{wayne resort 2013, photos by jeremy williams courtesy of wayne by way of style.com}

role call

{dsqaured2 resort 2013, photos courtesy of dsquared2 by way of style.com}

{giulietta resort 2013, photos courtesy of giulietta by way of style.com}

fast cars

new york fashion week is just about upon us and i still have some clipped resort shows for you. ugh! fashion, man. endless! i'm just gonna throw it all out there. go go go!

{gabirele colangelo resort 2013, photos courtesy of gabriele colangelo by way of style.com}

kids who also feel inside and stuff

oh my god oh my god oh my god guys.

did you KNOW that when kids are sick they can't do the hiphop no more?!!!???

DID YOU KNOW THIS AND NOT DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT EVEN?!



a brilliant amazing project for cure kids.

go there. buy the song so you can helpa the kids! HOLY CRAP DO IT!
many thanks to janice for making me aware of this, but look, guys, you're gonna need to make more kids for the bowls of teeth. i will work on the traps for robbers.

(and also i think that kid has a better idea of how the banking system functions than i do.)

*** hmmmm... now that i am trrryyyyying to buy it myself, it doesn't look like you can in canada. BOOOO!***

saved my life

tonight is ballet class and thank god because i need it. i wish i was good enough to dance out the painful stuff... the heart stuff... the life stuff... (and yes, yes, anyone can dance their feeeeelings, but not actually. because i believe in dance and i believe in dancing well, and worst of all i believe in ballet, and there is no doing ballet poorly, no sir, it will not do.)

so i will watch this, instead. and then work harder in class.



when i first saw this ballet, wrapped in my ikea duvet in my ikea room, all in white and wood, in a grey and cold edinburgh, i cried so hard i thought i might die. i wonder if i will ever ever manage to make something that moves me as much as this ballet did? (as ballet does.) i am pretty certain i won't, but that is okay because that is a very very very big demand to make on my little art and even if i make something a quarter as moving... well... that will be good too.

happy monday. the world is hard right now. steep in the beautiful things when you can.

ff

in an epic case of 'hahahaha ooooops!' todd akin said the worst ever thing this week. and of course the internets. is. talkin. bout. it. (and republicans in general.)

* this one is particularly good so i'm setting it on its own...

i could post 18 bazillions more links, but i'll spare you all that underlined text.

i didn't reeeeally want to talk about this. because it is insane and so rage-inducing and beyond comprehension that i'm all 'nooooooooooo!' about blorging on the subject. but. then again.people who refuse to call themselves feminists, even, are posting alllll about it in a mad fervor.

this is one of a million and ten things that being a feminist means to me: believing that people in power positions should be educated about the things that are asserting power over. being outraged that there are people in 2012 who do not know the most basic details of how the female reproductive system works who are attempting to assert any level of power or control over those female reproductive systems. i don't think that is a radical point of view.

oh! and also a point for BETTER SEX EDUCATION IN THE US. (and we ain't sooo wise here either, canada. i do have a friend who believed that a headstand after intercourse was functional birth control. a sexually active friend. and a pile o' other crazy ideas about how our baby-makers work. that is to say that this whole thing, sadly sadly, did not surprise me. heaviest sigh.)

kathy

{me & kathy in 1990}

no amount of words can explain what music means to me, and what being taught to listen and internalize has done for me far beyond my musical undertakings. i am so grateful for the gift of music that i was given so early in my life. i can't come up with anything to say that doesn't sound trite and cliched.

so. just. thank you. kathy. for your kindness and generosity and patience and joy and for everything. my suzuki ear is truly the greatest gift i have ever been given. so much love and so much thanks and so much sadness. the world lost a truly special woman this week.