Have a Happy Happy and a Merry Merry

Wishing everyone a happy happy and a merry merry. Whatever occasion you want to be happy and/or merry, enjoy it, cherish it, and be a source of happiness and merriment for others. Being the font of good times beats the alternative, though being the recipient of somebody else's good cheer is good, too, and even if you spend this time of year alone, enjoy that solitude, solitude has its pleasures (and if by familial responsibilities you are forced to be in the presence of a bona fide Grinch/Scrooge/Spreader of Ill Tidings, be forgiving, and be above their emotional crap, their misery will likely last all next year, while the misery they cause you will only be temporary).


























(and yes, I can still rock the multi-hued tam o shanter when needed)

(and yes, pretty much nobody made it through the early 70s without taking a picture with some questionable clothing or interior decorating choices on view)

(back to blogging, hopefully, just haven't had much to say, but rather than worrying about whether or not my thoughts and notions are interesting, insightful, or engaging, I'll be like everyone else and post away any way, it's up to you to read or not read it, you can't ignore what isn't there, so I hope to give you plenty of material to ignore throughout 2009 which will likely be an interesting year)

Seth Green Can Get Away With ALOT . . .

. . . but is a fullblown 70s pornstache one of those things?

(You Make the Call)

(definition for pornstache, here)

I'm Sure All You Noticed Was That Most of These Boots Are Kind of Ugly (Except for the Green Lace-ups)

Yeah, me too, all I noticed were the boots

That's the point of posing the model that way, right?

(and the link is safe for British newspapers, but it might be borderline NSFW here in the United States)

You Wan't Your F*ing Pantyhose, I've Got Your F*ing Pantyhose, Right Here . . .

. . . f*ing Motesto, a new brand of pantyhose in Japan. Countering the decline in the sales of pantyhose in Japan.

I like the idea of a company marketing a brand called, f*ing Motesto, though.

That's f*ing great!

They should sell this brand in FCUK.

Speaking of not quite dirty words, more quotable Ken here regarding Airport codes.

I'm a fan of the Fukuoka, Japan to Samcheok, South Korea flight, myself (or the return flight, doesn't matter, they're both good).

If It Weren't For Alcohol, The Species Would Be Doomed!!!

Seriously, I mean it.

To Link, Or Not To Link, That Is The Question

(the title to this blogpost should be heard as if read by John Lithgow in his most obnoxious voice)

I'm a huge fan of the Gawker weekly feature Blue States Lose. One of the main sources for the photos there is the LA scenester/photographer Cobrasnake. One of the disturbing aspects of Cobrasnake, besides the name, the hair, and the clothes, is his "intern" Cory Kennedy.

Cory Kennedy is quickly becoming an international phenomenon in the fashion world. She's had spreads in big fashion mags, is talked about here and there, and hangs out with the rich and famous.

Here's an LAWeekly article about her from a few months ago. Here's a little love being shown her way at Trashionista.net. Here's a disturbing little Sims2 mod for some in-game Cory Kennedy action. Fashionologie comments on the Cory Kennedy phenom, as well. Here's an overview someone (natzmeister) posted at Livejournal, with lots of pictures.

Also, Cory's a blogger, and her blog is charmingly (disturbingly?) lacking in coherence.

Did I mention she's sixteen (or seventeen, or twenty-one, guess it depends which fake ID she's using that day)?

Anyway, I'm tempted to include a link to her blog cause she represents something, whether that something is sad and disgusting, or charming and hopeful, or charming and disgusting, or sad and hopeful depends on who is reading it I suppose.

Sometimes she seems to be in on the joke (like in this video, which despite being jokey, still seems very inappropriate if she really is under 18) other times I get the feeling that she IS the joke.

I can't help but seeing a lot of Edie in her (and Ciao! Manhattan is a pretty good film if you ask me), and that's not a good thing. If they had blogs back in the Factory's hey-day, I bet they'd be a lot like her blog.

Also, I knew her back when I went to Samohi. Not her specifically, but girls just like her, who hung out with guys like Cobrasnake, and it never ended well for them (the girls, that is, not the pervs, the pervs seemed to get along just fine).

Anyway, back to the point of this post. She would seem out of place linked in my blogroll, but then again, she seems to be representative of something bubbling up in this culture (or lack thereof) and she also happens to be from Santa Monica.

I'm leaning towards linking. Afterall, it's only a line of text with a few html tags, it doesn't cost anything, and nobody actually has to follow the link over there if they choose not to.

I will listen to arguments pro and con, however. Argue away in the comments, if you care. And remain silent if you don't. Or even argue away, even if you don't care, just cause you enjoy arguing. And then I guess there are those who care, yet choose not to comment cause they feel powerless to sway my decision-making. For those folks I feel sorrow.