
I'm not really a big bumper sticker guy. Nor am I particularly into blessing people. But I sure do like Johnny Cash, and when I saw this sticker I was smitten. It will look just beautiful on my crappy little truck.
Gabbana walked around behind him, nodding approvingly at the fit. Then he scooped a few pieces of jewelry from the baskets of bling that were on a table behind him and draped them over the model’s chest.A long time ago there was a song, remember that? People liked it. Then everyone discovered that it was fun to say "bling-bling", and it made them feel kind of sassy. Then their were "bling-bling" sales at the jewelry store in the local mall. That was kind of funny, maybe. Then every journalist, writer, social commentator, man on the street, woman on the street, casual conversationalist, child, and grandmother said the phrase several times. Then it was dead.
"She has made the world safe for people with overdeveloped inner lives."On the opening of the Prada store in SoHo:
"She is an artist: she would rather hide than speak."
"No one needs Prada to gain access to the work of Louise Bourgeois or Anish Kapoor."
"Prada's cultural projects interest me chiefly because they help to clarify the personality and intentions of a fashion genius. "
"We admire her for the same reason we have always admired Italians. No one can match their talent for engineering mythologies of daily life."
"If there was luxury in the air, it wasn't coming from the clothes, the fancy in-store technology or even the fabulous blocklong space. The luxury was making contact with people you hadn't seen together in one place since 9/11. It was the experience of being with the most solipsistic people on earth and loving them more than ever."On MoMA's "Tall Buildings" exhibit:
"Frank Lloyd Wright created luxury from empty space, Chanel from jersey sportswear, Louis Kahn from poured concrete. Prada creates it out of the desire to be rescued from the isolation that a creative life demands."
"Disembedding without re-embedding: that's how I'd summarize the general thrust of architecture during the period covered by this show. Ulrich Beck, the German sociologist, wasn't thinking about architecture when he coined that phrase. Mr. Beck was talking about the impact of globalization on individual identity. But the impact on design has been roughly the same."Bless his heart.
"Fecundity of form gets great play here, but that is a different matter. We've come a long way from the time when 'modern' signified identical glass boxes. Some skeptics deplore the heterogeneity of today's design as a manifestation of ego, the flaunting of signature statements by star architects. What it actually reflects is the recognition that the city is a libidinous proposition, an experiment in desire."
"Americans are easily shamed these days into renouncing habits. And we are quick to thwart the desires of those who won't go along with our disapproval. Skyscrapers need no justification. But it would be worth building higher merely to disembed ourselves from fear."
Geez! 3 out of 8. That really is kind of crappy. But trust me. Neither apathy nor Dioxin poisoning can prevent me from fulfilling your wishes. Probably. Maybe.
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The Neat 'N Tidy | The Biker | The Goatee |
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A small, well trimmed mustache. Not too flamboyant. Popular with straightlaced engineer and ex-military types. | More popular than you might think. Big among the fellows cultivating a Southern outlaw / Harley-Davidson image of which there are quite a few. | Mostly worn by younger, not so redneck-y guys who watch a lot of sports. Generally kept closely trimmed. |
The Southerner | The ZZ | |
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In the mode of Hank William Jr. Sported by the true Southern gents. Sometimes reverts to the Biker or Neat 'N Tidy in warm weather. | There's actually only one guy wearing this look and he appears to be working equal parts deep-woods hillbilly and wizardy computer guru. A strange combo. |