I have been shopping. Make no mistake. I do not care for shopping. My idea of an ideal shopping experience is to walk into the first available store, see the perfect item, try it on and be out of there in five minutes. This has happened to me exactly once in my life, so you may extrapolate my general feelings on shopping from there. That said, it was a relatively successful shopping experience. I hadn’t gotten new glasses since before we moved to Ireland, which wasn’t a particularly big deal…
Old Races Short Story Project
So in preparing to get started on the ORSSP, I got a horrible head cold which has left me exhausted and in a foul mood. No, wait, those two things don’t really have anything to do with one another. Except for my intentions of having the story done by Valentine’s Day being derailed by being sick, which no doubt adds to the bad mood. Anyway, the point actually was that I thought I’d go check out the Old Races story ideas people had requested when I put it up to…
fashion
In wandering through the shops recently, looking at all the diaphanous, flowing, meant-to-be-layered and untailored fashions which looks good on the very young and sylph-like and on no one else, I found myself thinking “Forget fashion. Can’t we try *style*?” Now I want to start a classic clothes fashion line with that tag line. “Forget fashion. Embrace style.” Of course, as Ted said, I’d be in direct competition with J. Peterman, but that’s not the point. :)
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The J Peterman coat is splendid. The skirt is, unexpectedly, too big (go me, I guess!). The shirt is not flattering, but that was a long shot anyway. So the skirt and shirt go back and the coat goes on. :)
A Political Manifesto
The world is askew. There is revolution in Egypt while that bastion of the free world, America, leads its national news with the announcement that Farah Fawcett’s red swimsuit will be going into the Smithsonian Hall of Fame. My adopted home country is in the throes of election campaigning where the campaigns are led by a newly appointed milksop, a milksop who has been his party’s leader for some time, a sell-out, and a former terrorist, the last two of whom, and the last of whom in particular, I think…