Posts by Jolisa
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Ha! Of course that would be an SUV.
Sorry, SUV-shaming. Not cool.
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And who doesn't want a Nissan Cedric (named after Little Lord Fauntleroy)?
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See now, this is a nice school uniform: crisp white shirts, sensible long socks, skirts with built-in undershorts to enable freedom of movement without sacrificing modesty.
I would give that blonde girl in the front a detention for the dark red lipstick though. So wrong. It should have been candyfloss pink.
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School uniforms (for girls, anyway) seem to be expressly designed to take the female form at maximum peachiness and reduce it to a frumpy blob. Good luck getting most right-thinking girls to settle for that.
We had the kneeling-skirt-length rule, and the trick was simply to lean forward a bit when the measuring happened. Or to have a regulation-length skirt but to wear your jumper around your waist so you could ruck it up a bit. Not rocket science. Not even 3rd form science.
I was a "good" girl, so I never shortened my skirt past just above the knee. Also, too self-conscious, having come last in a casual "sexy-legs" lunchtime contest* in my first term at high school, after which I never showed my thighs in public again until... well, I'll let you know if it ever happens. (The tragic hidden epidemic: not-slut- enough -shaming!)
But I knew exactly how to take in a seam and where to place a dart. Turns out the Twiggy lookalikes get all the disciplinary attention while the Joan Holloway tailoring sneaks under the radar. Result!
*judged by a boy I'm pretty sure was gay.
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There is kind of a snow-blindness effect from that large square of white on the right, though, eh?
The old PA wasn't all about the white and the right. Well..
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Hard News: Do you like what we've done…, in reply to 3410,
Do not like.
Sorry. No offence; I appreciate all the work and all, but... I gotta keep it real.
Shhhh. Dude. It's like a baby . If you wish not to offend, you oughtn't say "I do not like that baby." Inoffensive alternatives include "Would you look at that baby!" or "Well, that is some baby."
love,
Ms Manners -
Good morning from the other side of the world!
Wow. Amazing transformation, and a lovely thing to wake up and see! It’s like that one April Fool’s Day when we rearranged all my sister’s bedroom furniture, including the bed. While she was asleep. In the bed.
Just like that, except without the waking-up-screaming bit.
(Bug-spotting note: from where I sit, everyone apparently posted “seconds ago.” Or is it a late-night PAS clusterhug, NZT, and you’re all still awake?)
(And echoing Lucy & Steve – the hovering “flag as inappropriate” prompt is catnip to the subconscious, or the too-quick clicky finger)
(Speaking of catnip, beta testing of new site so far suggests urgent demand for a Kitteh of teh Day corner)
Edited, because I could.
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Baby otters learning to swim. With rubber duckies. Caution: near-fatal levels of cute!
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Another reason to read the Zadie Smith piece: it's very evocative of time and place. (I was teaching a freshman class at Yale the semester that "The Facebook" arrived on campus and was immediately adopted and spread like proverbial wildfire -- mainly as far as I could tell, by the female students. I still have the paper somewhere that one student wrote about her first encounter with it, and how it had taken over her life. Should have bought shares!)
Another fave bit:
If it’s not for money and it’s not for girls—what is it for? With Zuckerberg we have a real American mystery. Maybe it’s not mysterious and he’s just playing the long game, holding out: not a billion dollars but a hundred billion dollars. Or is it possible he just loves programming?
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Yup, The Social Network is a good film.
Seconded - it's riveting. It's taken a bit of stick for its portrayal/deployment of women but Aaron Sorkin made a fairly credible defence of that choice. It's descriptive rather than prescriptive, apparently. At least one reviewer dubbed the film The Homosocial Network -- ZING!
I was surprised at how autistic they made Zuckerberg -- that's never been my impression of him -- but it's a groovy piece of cinema.
Have you read Zadie Smith's take on the film in the NYRB? She takes the film apart in a way that's quietly brilliant, but not before summing up its appeal to archetype:
Simply put, he is a computer nerd, a social “autistic”: a type as recognizable to Fincher’s audience as the cynical newshound was to Howard Hawks’s. To create this Zuckerberg, Sorkin barely need brush his pen against the page. We came to the cinema expecting to meet this guy and it’s a pleasure to watch Sorkin color in what we had already confidently sketched in our minds. [..]
It’ll be a long time before a cinema geek comes along to push Jesse Eisenberg, the actor who plays Zuckerberg, off the top of our nerd typologies. The passive-aggressive, flat-line voice. The shifty boredom when anyone, other than himself, is speaking. The barely suppressed smirk. Eisenberg even chooses the correct nerd walk: not the sideways corridor shuffle (the Don’t Hit Me!), but the puffed chest vertical march (the I’m not 5'8”, I’m 5'9”!).