I, for one, welcome the return of the polka dot. The rest can stay away.

I find fashion mystifying. (This is not news.) Luckily, I am also a cheap bastard, so fashion can mystify all it likes and I will spend my money on bicycle fenders.

Yeah, I went shopping last weekend and came home with nothing for the first time in ever. So much fug right now. Although a couple of weeks ago I did spend way too much money for a teeny tiny denim mini-skirt and a big, studded leather belt. I love that the big, big belts are making a comeback. That is an 80's fashion I can get with.

Polka dot toaster: [link]

Jars, do you wear them tucked into boots? And/or with leg warmers?

Finally, are you old enough to have dressed yourself in the 80s?

No, no I do not. Tucked into boots is the trashy way to wear skinny jeans, imo. Oh God, I'm such a fashion snob, apparently. I do have friends who wear legwarmers, but usually with skirts. I don't think I could get away with them, however. I have been known to wear sweatbands on my wrists though. My bad.

SO not old enough to dress myself in the eighties. Well, maybe towards the end, but that usually ended badly.

Luckily, I am also a cheap bastard, so fashion can mystify all it likes and I will spend my money on bicycle fenders.

Wearing bicycle fenders sounds like some very Avant-Garde fashion.

A $64 toaster? It better go to the store and buy its own bread for that money. (And if it does, I totally want one!)

Tight legged jeans and ruffles have no place on my body. But I do like the big shirts from the 80s. Since I'm top-heavy, it's nice to find button-front shirts that don't gape.

::stands in flea's polka dotted corner::

I'll give up my polka dot corset when you pry it off my cold, dead body. All the other stuff can go away except maybe the ruffles

I did wear legwarmers and like them a lot in the 80's, but, in my defense, I was actually taking dance classes at the time, in a cold and drafty auditorium on one of the foggiest hillsides in San Francisco, and I swear I never wore them outside of class.

I swear I never wore them outside of class.

Uh-huh.

ION,

TAMPA - Changing locks on her campaign headquarters and accusing her staff of disloyalty and her own party of spying on her are signs of erratic behavior that some Katherine Harris staff members say has worsened since her father's death.

Harris is restaffing her campaign and will announce new key staff members today, a campaign spokeswoman said Monday.

But in the past 10 days, Harris has:

•Had locks changed and posted a security guard at the door of her campaign headquarters in Tampa and had former staff members escorted in to retrieve their belongings.

•Told a gathering of supporters in Cocoa Beach on Saturday that the Republican Party had "infiltrated" her campaign staff to put "knives in my back."

•Told a reporter that a longtime, trusted political adviser had leaked a story about her staff members quitting, then called back to retract the comments.

•Announced hiring her new staff without identifying them.

Those events come atop previous reversals and contradictions, including her announcement last month that she would spend her inheritance from her father on her campaign, which she changed, saying she would sell her assets.

Former campaign manager Jim Dornan, who left in November, called the most recent events in the campaign "unbelievable."

"It smacks of real paranoia," he said of the headquarters lockout and comments about infiltration. "That campaign staff was so loyal to her, and to be treated like that is absolutely unconscionable."

In interviews over the past few weeks, speaking in confidence, former employees from Harris' congressional and campaign staffs said the trauma of the unexpected death of her father has taken a toll.

"She's in total meltdown. The campaign is in chaos," said a longtime Republican operative who worked closely with Harris until recently. "She hasn't mourned for her father." Like many other former staff members interviewed, that GOP operative didn't want to be quoted by name.

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Bummer about her dad dying. OTOH, she's evil.