@morninggloria: I haz a jellus! She was in Ithaca last week, but the tickets were too expensive for this broke student! I need a Sugar Daddy who happens to love good folk music... hmm...
It would be nice if Jezebel showed a little consistency on the age-bashing front. Earlier today:
"Perhaps what seems problematic is the wrinkle as old as Ally McBeal: it's one thing to glamorize for entertainment, but at what point does that veer into disrespect for actual dames?"
@cirocco: This is a very difficult line to negotiate, but in the defense of the wonderful women of Jezebel, I think the reference was to the show "Ally McBeal," and not the age of the woman who once played the character Ally McBeal. I don't think that the word "wrinkle" was actually meant to refer to age, per se, but to a problem, ie: "a wrinkle in the plan," etc. I could be wrong, but given the enormous effort they make to err on the side of consideration and respect, I think we can give them the benefit of the doubt.
Having said that, to the author of the worstie I say: "creepy wrinkled skin"? Bish plz! That's what you get if you're lucky, and live for a long time. Bring it on!
Worstie, start the BoTox NOW!! I have unusually good skin and didn't look my age until I got fat, but I felt I really could tell I was aging when I hit 30 and went a couple of days without moisturizer. If I had cared and it had been around back then, I would've started teh Botox five years before.
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54 with crow's feet, those comma things and a weird chin wrinkle from grinding my teeth.
@gobblegirl: Er, ah, I was being sarcastic, my dear. The one thing we are all lucky to get if we live long enough is creepy wrinkled skin. If'n you don't want teh creepy wrinkled skin ya gotta start working on teh Joan Rivers look very, very young.
A letter to the Australian today said that research was the best reason yet to increase the old age pension. Congratulations LintTrap- a very useful item btw.
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Also, "The Pharaohs" reminds me of Joyce Carol Oates and makes me weepy.
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Is it time for drinking now?
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@Dodai: Sorry, doll, I just couldn't help myself.
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"Perhaps what seems problematic is the wrinkle as old as Ally McBeal: it's one thing to glamorize for entertainment, but at what point does that veer into disrespect for actual dames?"
[jezebel.com]
As old as Ally McBeal? Calista Flockheart is only 44. Can we get some guidelines on the exact numeric range in which age becomes unmentionable?
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Having said that, to the author of the worstie I say: "creepy wrinkled skin"? Bish plz! That's what you get if you're lucky, and live for a long time. Bring it on!
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Signed,
54 with crow's feet, those comma things and a weird chin wrinkle from grinding my teeth.
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