Liamlicious

What could be more kawaii then my nephews? Least you think only Jack gets an update here is Liam in his fall time best!

And the winner is...

Falafel tastes better with PETA!

Clearly this isn't a politically minded blog.

A Jacktacular weekend!

I did a lot of sleeping this weekend- in part because I knew the week ahead was going to be insane- but also because my god it's the weekend and I COULD.

Here are some pictures of my awesome nephew Jack and Grandpa Ira.

My weekend in pictures

Stupid America $hit

Some club, somewhere in the US....This is what we're contending with people- behold our glorious future!

Something is fishy

I'm not koi- here is my latest illustration.

Gosh I love bad puns.

Fur is murder

In a move that has PETA smoking an after-glow cigarette, Miss Universe (Riyo Mori of Japan) has decided fur is evil except when attached to cute bunnywunnies. I personally am pro fur. I have fond memories of winter coming and my mom getting her fur coats out of cold storage- just the smell of them. Of course they always made my cat run in fear.

"That's right Nigel, that's what happened to the last cat who didn't use the litter box!"

Now a days I have a hard time believing celebrities who get up on a soap box for PETA. Especially someone who is such a feminine figure as Miss Universe. If Riyo admitted she loved eating illegal whale meat and walked around with a rifle that would be a new and refreshing kind of publicity.

Which all begs the question- are you proPETA?

March Madness

I'm a March baby, an Aries to be specific. I'm not always enamoured with my zodiac. Yea it could be worse, a virgin, a scorpion...cancer. But a ram still doesn't have that je ne ce-something that a Leo or Gemini does. Even when smothered in diamonds. But when Hello Kitty does Aries - well that's a totally different can of worms! Behold the kawaii Hello Kitty Aries pendant- a rip off for $950- still it's cute, has gold, silver, diamonds, and that certain something only a Japanophile could love.

http://shop.sanrio.com/hello-kitty-zodiac-necklace/57223-200709,default,pd.html

And this man is famous why?

Maybe Marc Jacobs is renowned for his crazy lifestyle- because this mess four Louis Vuitton doesn't show diddley.

Look my bag has contracted herpes!

Even the fabric on this nightgown gone bad is cheap looking

Cold CoCo

If CoCo was alive to see this mess it would certainly kill her! What is the theme? Where is the consistency? Does Chanel want me to struggle with the whole Virgin/Whore complex?

Puhleaaaaze!

Hermes Summer 08

Hey Hermes- quit piggy backing on Summer 06 Ralph Lauren!!!!

Galliano Summer 08

Poor John. First his Dior pirate collection was picked apart- now his own line is being run through the rocks. Personally I think it is AMAZING. Ok, so he based it on Grey Gardens- not original enough screams the press- but jeez man- if I'm willing to dress like "little Eddie" Galliano did something right!

Sonya Rykiel Summer 08

This is one kawaii old brawd! If I could design this sweet and be a senior citizen I would!

Jelly Helly

Gift giving and the honor system on "On" is alive and well in Japan. From the simple act of giving a business card, to gifting an exquisitely wrapped present, everything has meaning and layers of thought and attention that presents in the West lack. Unfortunately this attention to detail can lead to horrible things when ignored. This week in Tokyo "a disgruntled Japanese worker smashed up his employer's office in a fit of pique after his boss ignored his gift of jelly desserts...When the employee realized that his boss had left the box of jellies unopened under his desk, he smashed 22 computers in the office with a truncheon..." The employee also didn't apologize feeling his honor and "on" had been hurt by his boss's cruelty. In Japan HE, not his boss, is almost the one in the right. It probably would have been more cut and dry without the whole smashing computers thing.

Iie domo arigoto Mr. Roboto!

In Tokyo "A Japanese bureaucrat has been reprimanded for shirking his duties to make hundreds of Wikipedia contributions about toy robots". The poor guy works for the agricultural ministry, sounds like he's in the wrong career after comenting over 200 times on "Gundam, a popular, long-running animated series about giant robots".

Not a bad thing

It's a tie- of the four of you who gave a racoon's ass in hell the only consensus was fake bags aren't bad! Take THAT big business!
HA!

Well I didn't think it was half bad....

Apparently Posh and Dita didn't like the Chanel show- why else would they have such "happy" expressions?

"Gee I have millions of dollars and beautiful looks.... AND I'm front row at Chanel. But GOD I am so unhappy. No one understands!"

I'd expect a 'tude from hungry old Posh- but Dita? C'mon Dita, frowning is so unkawaii!

Time for tasteless comments

The most Kawaii thing about these photos is 1) the costumes (I would go around all day like this if I had the body) 2) those crazy moves! These girls must have been training in utero to do this.





So yea I had to go and ruin it by finding the most off color photos and making jokes. That's what I do. Move on.

This looks like Bondage meets giving birth

No joke, just impressed she can do 5 things at one!

Yea we all know what the coach was thinking when he told them to do this move.

The Virgin WILL be sacrificed for the motherland!

Johnny Apple Perve

I've never thought twice about Johnny Appleseed being an American legend if not a hero. Aparently today is his day so I wikipedia'd him. Turns out he was also an ascetic who was into pedophilia/incest.

"Now we had always heard that Johnny had loved once upon a time, and that his lady love had proven false to him. Then he said one time he saw a poor, friendless little girl, who had no one to care for her, and sent her to school, and meant to bring her up to suit himself, and when she was old enough he intended to marry her. He clothed her and watched over her; but when she was fifteen years old, he called to see her once unexpectedly, and found her sitting beside a young man, with her hand in his, listening to his silly twaddle.
I peeped over at Johnny while he was telling this, and, young as I was, I saw his eyes grow dark as violets, and the pupils enlarge, and his voice rise up in denunciation, while his nostrils dilated and his thin lips worked with emotion. How angry he grew! He thought the girl was basely ungrateful. After that time she was no protegé of his."

-Wikipedia

How American we should have a day fro the creep!

OH MY

Fashion week is upon us here in NYC and for the most part the collections are uninspired, and don't even make the models look good.

The above comes from Diane Von Furstenberg's "letsalllookfatandfromtheyear2020" collection.

So far the clear "winner" is Ralph Lauren- with a jaw droppingly beautiful collection- and a killer runway show for his 40th anniversary as a designer.

Ren Faire

Copy cat

Apparently most of us would like to be "abroad" right now (I concur). Thanks to everyone who voted in the poll! Now for a new poll topic....

Copyright infringement is the topic du jour in the fashion world right now. The new york times recently featured an article whose ultimate answer was- as long as poor women can't afford the overpriced designer goods brands like Forever 21 and H&M will thrive.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/04/us/04fashion.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Hell yea if I walk into a chain store I usually know if I'm checking out a "knock off". But it doesn't bother me because it's usually made just as well, and who wants to spend $1500 on a trendy skirt or pants that will be dated in 2 weeks? The Times is actually rather late in covering this topic- fashionista.com has been covering it for the better part of a year. Fashionista unsympathetically decries the middle class copies and insist we invest two months rent on bags and clothing made in the same exact factories and their lower end knock offs.

(why does you Fake LV bag look so good? It's no accident- that "Made in France" tag can cloud over the fact that unskilled child labor in China stitched it together)

So our new poll is "How do you feel about knock offs in fashion?"