The Message Board: It’s Over, Now What?
Video #2
Giulia Rozzi’s series of videos about brides on message boards is hilarious. As someone who is planning on planning a wedding sometime in the near future (wow, that was about as vague as possible) I haven’t wanted to even glance at wedding message boards for fear my eyes may bleed. The only complaint I have about these videos is that Rozzi doesn’t make them fast enough. Give me more!
On sunny mornings a building near my office makes this really cool shape out of light on the building across the street. I’ve been meaning to take a picture for a long time.
Quick question…
How do the men and women that wear suits to work every day handle the heat?? I’m seriously impressed when I take the subway, sweating buckets in as little clothing as is decent, and see people wearing full suits and looking comfortable with out a drop of sweat. My dad once told me that business suits are one of the most impractical clothing items ever invented because they don’t keep you warm in winter nor cool in summer. So do people simply get used to it? Or is there some secret to suit-wearing in the summer that I’m not aware of? Let me know because obviously this is extremely important to my life.
I love the Tolerability Index and this week I find the “Have you heard of curling?” one hilarious. Actually, curling is very popular in my hometown and we’ve had at least one Olympic athlete and several high school students go to national competitions. I don’t curl, but it was the sort of thing I assumed EVERYONE in the U.S. knew about until I turned 7 and realized that no, not every town has at least one curling center.
I also thought that our local news was broad casted nationwide, so I was DEEPLY scarred when my uncle in California didn’t see a short clip on the local news about the summer camp I went to that I was in. Ah, to be young and think the world revolves around your town of 1500 people.
My fiance informed me last night that he enjoyed Twilight (the movie). He didn’t understand when I laughed uproariously, so I explained the craziness that happened in the U.S. and why I didn’t have any interest in seeing it myself (too much whining). He shrugged and said that he just thought it was “pretty good” and wanted to see New Moon. I think I may have to buy him an Edward poster.
rant: so uncomfortable
I know I mentioned the strange (at least to me) bra habits of porteñas in an earlier post, but a sighting yesterday has forced me to return to the issue. Now, visible bra straps, like a regular bra with a racer back or tube top, while somewhat tacky are understandable. I generally hate using convertible bras because I find that they pinch and twist so I understand that other women think “fuck it, I’ll let the world see my glitter straps today.” Also, those clear bra straps will never be found in my drawers even if they’re spun from moonbeams. They make me think of those weird plastic loops that are sewn into some shirts so they don’t fall off the hanger in the store. Anywhoo, in short, I sympathise with the visible straps.
However, I DO NOT sympathise with what I saw on a youngish woman on the subte yesterday. She was wearing a regular shirt with sleeves, I think a v-neck, with what I presume was a cami underneath. Perfectly normal, right? Except for the fact that she was wearing a clear strap bra as a halter bra and the straps were so horribly twisted that my skin pinched in sympathy. Why would you do that? She could easily get away with wearing a regular bra, but instead decided to show the world that a) she was wearing a bra and b) she is incapable of putting on said bra correctly.
It probably doesn’t help that my own shoulders and collar bone region are so badly sunburned that any kind of bras make me writhe in pain and itchiness. Which leads to interesting days at work.
