Last year or so, somebody here shared a link to an article (was is Slate or Salon?) about a woman who worked long overtime hours as a high paid hair colorist (a salon speciality) in order to afford ultra-expensive couture clothes. Does anyone remember this and can link me up again?
Aren't they something. They're like butterflies, or little pieces of wrapping paper blowing around.
Kaylee ,'Shindig'
Natter 41: Why Do I Click on ita's Links?!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Theodosia - Jan 09, 2006 12:19:58 pm PST #8849 of 10002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
JZ - Jan 09, 2006 12:22:55 pm PST #8850 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Huh. The Yahoo!News page linked to an article about thesmokinggun.com's just-posted investigation of memoirist James Frey, which I'd just a few minutes ago found from a link on Salon.com.
Fraudulent writers are weirdly fascinating: all that time and energy invested in the persona, the invented past, propping it all up. Or cheerfully playing with it (like JT Leroy) or stubbornly withholding any information at all aside from the words themselves (like blinvisible playwright Jane Martin, who may be Jane Martin but also may be a man, a husband-and-wife writing team, or a collective). And the journalists and researchers who can cause such terrible harm -- and again with the huge amounts of time and energy, along with high visibility and the high likelihood of getting caught and of really awful consequences.
Compared to someone like the Korean cloning researcher whose lab research and thousands of pages of findings have fallen in like a house of cards over the last few weeks, Frey is terribly small potatoes. But, still, weirdly mesmerizing (to me, anyhow).
juliana - Jan 09, 2006 12:33:01 pm PST #8851 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
like blinvisible playwright Jane Martin, who may be Jane Martin but also may be a man
It's a man, baby! (I'm totally convinced it is, and as such, rant every time Martin is included in women playwright anthologies.)
flea - Jan 09, 2006 12:33:48 pm PST #8852 of 10002
information libertarian
I remember it, but want to say it was a New York Times article. Alas that I am not your Nilly, Theo.
tommyrot - Jan 09, 2006 12:42:55 pm PST #8853 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Alas that I am not your Nilly, Theo.
Now I'm imagining a country song,
I'm sorry, honey, I just can't be your Nilly
You'll just have to find that stuff on your own
JZ - Jan 09, 2006 12:44:10 pm PST #8854 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
It's a man, baby! (I'm totally convinced it is, and as such, rant every time Martin is included in women playwright anthologies.)
What tipped you over? I'm in the vague and fuzzy probably-a-man-but-not-totally-convinced camp, with one foot in possibly-a-collective.
Also, seriously impressed at the ability of the person or persons behind Martin's persona to maintain total blinvisibility for so long.
juliana - Jan 09, 2006 12:49:23 pm PST #8855 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
What tipped you over?
Wossname from Louisville always directs the world premiere (except for the latest one, which my friend Michael Dixon is directing - I think), and speaks for "her", and.... It smells.
ChiKat - Jan 09, 2006 1:08:56 pm PST #8856 of 10002
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
AARG! I bought a tagless t-shirt only to discover that it has a tag on the side seam at my waist. It's driving me nuts.
(It really is the little things that moves people to killing sprees.)
Trudy Booth - Jan 09, 2006 1:23:13 pm PST #8857 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Hilary Swank and Husband Chad Lowe Split
And now they can both go be gay?
Seriously, the news makes me oddly sad. They always seemed so sweet.
Kathy A - Jan 09, 2006 1:36:56 pm PST #8858 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Gahh! I'm trying to figure out the details of wireless pay-as-you-go plans, and they're stupid. According to Cingular, I have to give them, say, $15 for the base rate. But, if I only use $5 of phone time and don't give them any more money that month, then they can take the other $10 and keep it! Doesn't make any damn sense.