Archive for the 'Fashion' Category

The Philosophy of the East Meets Big Sur.

Monday, May 31st, 2010

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Images: (Tai-Chi) via arthritisfoundationwpa.wordpress.com;(Ying-Yang) via cribfashion.com; (Esalen logo) via vernonbush.com; (Esalen massage) via women.timesonline.co.uk;

Art Imitates the Oil Bidniss

Saturday, May 29th, 2010

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Images: (Matisse) via maangchi.com; (Fortuny) via rhonavalentine.co.uk; (oil) I believe AP Photo; (BP logo) via open.salon.com

Woman Fined For Wearing Burqa In Italy–Brisbane Times headline, 5/4/2010

Thursday, May 6th, 2010

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LJUBOMIR MILASIN
May 4, 2010
AFP
Italian police have fined a woman 500 euros ($A712) for wearing a full Islamic veil - the first punishment of its kind in Italy but the latest in a wave of sanctions against the burqa in Europe.
The 26-year-old Tunisian woman was walking in a street in the northwestern city of Novara on […]

I wonder what he’d look like viewed through beer goggles.

Friday, January 15th, 2010

New Osama Bin Laden PICTURES: FBI’s Digitally-Enhanced Images Of How He May Look
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TodayHuffington Post/AP First Posted: 01-15-10 11:32 AM   |   Updated: 01-15-10 12:23 PM
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Osama Bin Laden may look drastically different today than he did just a few years ago, and the FBI has released new pictures showing what he may look like today.The digitally-enhanced images […]

Why does G. Gordon Liddy wear a bushy moustache?

Sunday, July 26th, 2009

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Could it be to hide model-perfect ‘come hither’ lips?

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Images: (Liddy) news91.blogspot.com;(lips) via grazie.9msn.com.au

Calvin Klein ‘Threesome’(?) Billboard In SoHo Too Sexy, Say Some–NEW YORK DAILY NEWS headline

Sunday, June 21st, 2009

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Calvin Klein billboard in SoHo.
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Could this have been the original concept?
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J. C. Penney catalogue–The Man About Cleveland Collection
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Image: (Penney) via double3.com (Klein) via thegenderbenderblog.files.wordpress.com; (Klein plus)–(ad) images.teamsugar.com via fabsugar.com(Invaders from Mars Jar) via ihousephilly.org;(goat) animals.nationalgeograhic.com; (Beetlejuice characters) via iwatchstuff.com

Some folks don’t have time to check the mirror before leaving home.

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

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Image: I believe this is from huffingtonpost.com and it is a news service photo.

“To the Crescent Moon, Alice!!!”

Monday, May 11th, 2009

Updated 10:15 p.m. EDT, Sun May 10, 2009
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By Mohammed Jamjoom
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CNN(CNN) — Husbands are allowed to slap their wives if they spend lavishly, a Saudi judge said recently during a seminar on domestic violence, Saudi media reported Sunday.
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It is OK to slap Saudi women who spend too much, a judge has told an audience.It is OK […]

You saw it here first…

Sunday, April 5th, 2009

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Image: (pope) bp0.blogger.com via acatholiclife.blogspot.com; (Liberace) via iz95.org

Wisconsin’s New Slogan Faces Some Pushback–AP headline, 3/17/2009

Friday, March 27th, 2009

LIVE LIKE YOU MEAN IT

is the new tourism and business slogan.
Sadly, it sounds somewhat stilted–despite the intended meaning.
One would have expected to have found the slogan in the last century.

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While there are complaints about its meaning,
there are other, more problematic slogans.

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Images:(Buster Brown) via memoriesandnostalgia.com; (explosion) rosscairn.gnn.tv via blog.wired.com; (Ragnar) fearthegooberzilla.com via gooberzilla.wordpress.com (Missouri) […]