An Atlantic piece on Brazilian Wax Jobs bares all with this little hooded nugget:
Then, in 2000, one groundbreaking episode of Sex And The City made the Manolo Blahnik demographic sit up and take notice: Heroine Carrie Bradshaw found a new swagger in her step after waxing it off. And once Carrie was bare down there … well, remember when the Sex And The City girls ate cupcakes? Let’s put it this way: There’s now a cupcake bakery on every other corner in upper Manhattan.
Yup. A TV sitcom about four neurotic losers (but, let it be noted, losers “in the City”) has them eat cupcakes and the big news flash instantaneously jumps across the brains of the New York Times readership: Abjure the Arugula! Nix the Nouvelle! Shun the Sushi!
It’s Cupcakes All Around!
So the next time you read something in the Times, maybe a thoughtful exegesis of something by Paul Krugman (something you thought you understood until he explained it to you) that sounds like a rant by South Park’s Cartman just consider for whom he is writing it.
Because fashion isn’t what one wears. Fashion is what one is.
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…I have a 13-year-old daughter And that’s all I hear, “That’s not fair,” she says. “That’s not fair! That’s not fair!” And one day I snapped, and I said, “Honey, you’re cute, that’s not fair. Your family is pretty well off, that’s not fair. You were born in America, that’s not fair. Darling, you had better get down on your knees and pray that things don’t start getting fair for you.”
Oh! You were thinking of something else…
Here’s TWT
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Hmmmmmmm. There is a wonderfully concise, brave, and truthful piece in the Autumn 2011 City Journal. Concise because it is well-written and miraculously brief for it’s topic, brave because it flies in the face of the current orthodoxy which proclaims that bean-counter diversity makes up for having one’s troops slaughtered in their mess hall, and truthful because it records the thoughts of people who are laborers in the vineyard rather than talking bobble-heads.
But that’s for another time. For now we’re into cheap shots because sometimes they can be quite rewarding. From the article:
It’s likely no coincidence that the World Economic Forum now ranks the U.S. fifth among industrialized countries in global competitiveness, down from first place in 2008.
Hmmm. First place in 2008. Now in fifth place. Too far behind for even a pastel-colored ribbon. And what happened in 2008? What big, trans-formative, thing?
(abandon all?) hope
We may be into a trend here, what say, Watson?
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Well, it’s been a while, but I still remember it. We didn’t have a lot of money. And I DID lose my new mittens the first day I had them.
Millions — MILLIONS — of Americans are praying for a chance to get their lives working again and this sad puppy is tying up traffic in his obsessive desire to convince Mommy that it wasn’t his fault.
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