I hate to always be the bearer of bad fashion news, but boxy crop tops are back in.
Image from Urban Outfitters
Start Doing Sit-Ups Now
Gonna Keep Sending These Posts into the Cyberspace Abyss
It's hard for me to believe that anyone reads this - my own brother doesn't read it, even though I keep telling him about it repeatedly and helpfully sending him multiple emails with the link attached. All he has to do is click, but I digress.
Anyway, he suggested a brilliant t-shirt idea and I took the liberty of making a mock-up, which you'll see below.
Hating on Flyover Country
I have family in upstate New York and I feel it is such an overlooked part of the U.S. I only go there in the summer when the weather is nice, mind you, but it's just lovely there. Everyone buys corn from roadside stands, the major holiday in the town where my family lives is "Hot Dog Day" - all very quaint. So I'm always interested to hear about upstate NY in the mass media, and I saw that one of the documentary films in this year's SILVERDOCS festival is about a family living there. Here's the Washington Post article about the film:
"This haunting documentary situates its audiences in the lives of a working-class family in rural Upstate New York. Four generations grapple with a host of America's most entrenched social ills: joblessness, abusive relationships, teen pregnancy, post-traumatic stress disorder and child molestation. Seeping through each gorgeously shot scene is a painful sense of listlessness. The lack of hope within the family is juxtaposed with the natural beauty caught by the filmmakers' cameras."
That doesn't exactly make you want to get in a car and visit, does it? The painful listlessness of Hot Dog Day...
"This haunting documentary situates its audiences in the lives of a working-class family in rural Upstate New York. Four generations grapple with a host of America's most entrenched social ills: joblessness, abusive relationships, teen pregnancy, post-traumatic stress disorder and child molestation. Seeping through each gorgeously shot scene is a painful sense of listlessness. The lack of hope within the family is juxtaposed with the natural beauty caught by the filmmakers' cameras."
That doesn't exactly make you want to get in a car and visit, does it? The painful listlessness of Hot Dog Day...
Fed and Me
I'm on this tennis email list and they made it look like Roger Federer himself sent me a message. Look in my gmail - it's Roger's name in the sender category! I wish he would send me emails for real, not just mass mailings. He could be on my gchat contacts, maybe our convos would go like this:
Adele: Hey, what's up?
Mild Curses, Volume Two
- May your cable company change the order of all your channels and you have to memorize them all over again.
- May you get a small stain on the sleeve of your favorite shirt that only you will notice but still it will be really annoying.
- May you lose your cell phone charger.
