Speed-reading: Ms. Alaska
Miss Wasilla 1984.
Take a closer look at McCain’s veep choice in Timothy Egan’s “Ms. Alaska” article here in the NYT.
Speed-read skim round-up of the piece, followed by the same for comments:
She hunts! She fishes! She eats moose burgers!
“Sarah Barracuda,” as she’s known
took on the kleptocracy
Second, she rejected the “bridge to nowhere,”
But she has her own ethics concern
Could Palin take on Putin?
the pork-loving congressman
Track, Bristol, Willow, Piper and Trig
“hockey mom,”
Militantly anti-choice and evangelical
Palin favors drilling for oil
also the echo of Dan Quayle
Comments:
this is a no-brainer, thumbs down, and pure gimmickry
Don’t forget her husband works for BP also.
baldly patronizing attempt to pick up votes from disaffected supporters of Hillary Clinton
Personally, I’m pro condom.
What a lightweight, but I like her!
I fail to see why abortion and her child with Down’s Syndrome are being so quickly linked.
Her attacks on corruption IN HER OWN PARTY are incredible.
Looks more like Gina Davis.
I was going to also ask who takes care of her Down’s syndrome child? The nanny?
I am giddy, excited, enthused and finally feel excited about this election. Brilliant move…. So long obama.
Palin = Game, Set and Match.
Such a complex woman…gives her kids names that you would expect to be given to a sled team.
Barack who????
You have got to be kidding.
Can you be in on one hand pro-life and on the other hand … enjoy hunting? (Ed. note: Good point!)
Don’t make this about that tired old abortion topic…
I am totally pleased with McCain’s choice for VP as it will now guarantee that Obama will become President.
She took on big oil up here and beat them soundly (no small feat considering their influence up here).
When I heard the Palin announcement this morning I felt truly ill.
pro-life,pro-energy, pro-family, pro-christian, pro-business, pro-strong military
Take McCain’s age and life expectancy
One pantsuit does not fit all.
I voted for Hillary – I’l vote for McCain.
You Go Girl
What a joke!
Palin is repulsive from the word go.
she sounds a bit like Erin Brockovich, only cuter
Frankly, at 43-44 and after 4 kids, she would have done better using birth control.
the beauty queen image is pretty, but the implications are really ugly
I happen to think she’s a breath of fresh air for all Americans!
LOL, one day as mayor of a town of 9000 gives her more executive experience than Obama, who has never run anything in his life.
As a woman, I feel as if my intellect has been insulted.
I think I’m in love.
Super Sonic
No big plans this weekend? Philly Fringe Fest and backyard bbqs seeming a little highbrow for your tastes?
Then head on over to the new Sonic in Bensalem (north on 95, exit Street Rd, turn left, after a few lights you’ll see it on the right). If you’re from PA, you’re probably familiar with the TV ads that have tormented us for months but totally unfamiliar with the fast food yumminess. Well, get ready, it’s good stuff! Tater tots, burgers, onion rings, malts, sodas…and…here’s the real show stopper…THEY USE CRUSHED ICED IN THE FOUNTAIN DRINKS.
My expert suggestion (I’m a Texas native so, believe me, I’m a Sonic EXPERT): Cherry Limeade. The diet Cherry Limeade is yum too. Real maraschino cherries and lime wedges. And crushed ice, of course!
Icon: Wanda Jackson, Rockabilly Queen
Check out this video to see what we mean. Believe.
If you know nothing of Wanda Jackson, Queen of Rockabilly, bathe yourself in God’s spittle and haul your fingertips to Wikipedia, her official bio page.
I Gotta Know on Tex Ritters Ranch Party.
The Wanda part of a documentary on women in rockabilly.
An interview from just a few weeks ago.
Passing internetinterest: Bagsportbill
Researching the upcoming Fringe show about vampires set to the tunes of Paula Abdul brought me to this guy, who has some kind of show he’s DIY promoting by lip-synching into a camera and posting to youtube. Works!
He also does Berlin, Brian McKnight and Amy Grant and kind of looks like my friend Matt.
Breaking: The House Bunny’s stupid
AND peddles generic misogynist stereotypes!
Popmatters breaks it down. Damn. And it looked so clever.
Eakins plaque trashed by Blick?
Bummed.
Friend of PW CAConrad wrote a protest Tuesday that makes sense in this mixed up, corporate-everything world. Basically, it appears the new Blick art store on Chestnut between 13th & Broad yanked a plaque commemorating Thomas Eakin’s old studio space.
Then today, CA wrote in this update:
“During the construction of the new art store a heavy metal fence was put up around the doorway, and I took a friend new to the city to see the plaque and to look up at the studio. The plaque was THERE, and we read it together through the fence.
A week later when walking by the construction site the plaque was GONE! I kept waiting for the plaque to return to its home, but it didn’t. And when the art store opened I finally realized the TERRIBLE IRONY of it being an art store selling canvas and paint who had removed this VERY IMPORTANT artist’s plaque.
I wrote about this on PhillySound: http://PhillySound.blogspot.com which you’ll see includes a photograph of the art store, and I point out how you can notice the marking in the photograph to see the missing plaque.
Yesterday I went to the store and spoke with a manager named Sean. I asked him to please walk to the top of the steps with me so I could show him what I was talking about. While walking up the steps I asked him if he knew who Eakins was, and he said, “Oh that famous writer.” When I told him Eakins was a painter it jarred his memory and he mentioned the GROSS CLINIC situation.
But once Sean realized what I was talking to him about his initial reaction was, “Someone probably stole it!” But of course as I’ve already told you in this email, I saw it BEHIND the heavy construction site fence.
This is a situation which needs to be addressed.”
Groovy alternative to Oscar de la Renta?
Thursday Styles section has a puff pastry piece on Michael Kors.
Here’s your speed-read skim highlights:
“highly marketable personality,”
improbably pink, cherubic face
folksy wit and fastidious eye
“We were competing for fashion victimhood.”
infatuation with the traditionalism of the Eastern Seaboard haute bourgeoisie
a near fetish of affecting a patrician ease
more than $600 million in wholesale revenues and 60 stores.
“This is his moment.”
cat spots and mink
alternately boyish and avuncular
“You think to yourself,” Mr. Kors marveled, “This is the very same dress that is hanging in the closet of Jessica Simpson and Barbara Walters.”
MacKenzie Phillips back
on drugs. The LA Times reports Phillips was arrested with “a small amount of heroin and cocaine” in LAX this morning. Shit!
I was always kind of annoyed at her, about how no matter when or where she was forever talking about how many years/days/hours she’d been sober.
Now that I’m BFF with Michelle Phillips from the Mamas and the Papas, I feel bad.
Yikes! A tabloid TV story began with the “MacKenzie Phillips is taking it one day at a time–behind bars!” You can’t embed but you can see it here.
Louis Vitton = trash
The Louis Vitton trend has long been a mystery to me, even before the knock-offs were everywhere. I went to a wedding last year where the clearly disposable fans had little LV-esque patterns on them, which I thought was hilarious and intentional but maybe not.
Anyway Design You Trust has a great collection of photos of some of the knock-offs. And present company toting retahd totes? You’re included. Goes for the Coach pattern, too.
Random footnote: Don’t miss Design You Trust’s link to the video of a man born without any arms playing the Beatles’ Let It Be on guitar with his feet. Regrettably, it’s called “toe jam” but it’s really amazing and makes you feel like a whiny jerk.
Project Runway Episode Seven: Sponsored by Saturn
The product placement in Project Runway has always been a little … heavy-handed. Constant references to the Bluefly accessories wall and Loreal cosmetics are one thing. Even the weekly snippets of Saturn-inspired designs during the commercial breaks are acceptable. But having an entire challenge clearly sponsored by one of the show’s key monetary supporters? We were a little skeptical.