Tara’s greatest legacy will be that she got away with incorrect edging on her jumps. She got away with it and coaches became less interested in teaching proper technique. The result is a current generation of skaters who can’t do a proper lutz and may or may not get an edge call depending on who the technical… Read more
I was a master at getting yelled at by my teachers for reading Star Wars books in class. Read more
Michelle Kwan was robbed! Read more
Somebody explain that thing under the girdle to me. Is it one garment? Like, a full slip, except with pantalets on the bottom instead of a skirt? Or is it a tank top-type top with bloomers on the bottom, and the girdle just covers the place where they meet? Either way, what kind of fuckery is that? It would take an… Read more
I think there are some bigger questions. Like, what is this? Are they modelling? Why are they dressed so differently from each other? Why do some have hats? Why does one get to sit? Is she the leader? There are two other chairs. Why isn’t anyone else using them?
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I don’t know. They all look pretty miserable to be there...
It isn’t just one. Three women are giving her some kind of look. I want to know the whole story!!! Read more
“Tilt that pie tin you call a hat at me one more time sister and see if I don’t stuff it up your bustel.” Read more
It’s because she can never get her pearls to hang straight.
The woman in the middle is the only one involved in all this that doesn’t look like she’s counting down the seconds until she can reconnect with the flask of gin in her purse. Read more
The bustle was considered to be a huge leap forward for women’s fashion in its time, compared to the earlier hoopskirt. Both of these devices gave a pleasing fullness to the hips and skirts which made the corseted waist seem even tinier. However, the hoopskirt was dangerous in a time when most houses were heated with… Read more
I thought this was why so many Victorian chairs had open backs, so you could scoot your bustle through when you sat? Read more
Stonehenge? Really? Damn England first you steal the American language then you steal our proud Carhenge and make a mockery of it by using rocks?!? Where does it stop? You should be glad you’re not our colony anymore... Wait guys hang on my sisters talking to me. Read more
I agree. And it’s not entirely random- according to some legends Merlin IS trapped asleep in a rock somewhere. It also seems unnecessarily dismissive to refer to a complex and fascinating legendary figure like Merlin as a “comic book character.” But then, I would say that, I’m Welsh.
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This seems like a lot of fuss about nothing. I’ve been to tintagel, like half the shops are already tacky/wonderful king Arthur tchotchke shops, and it’s not like they have a shortage of rocks that a small carving is going to completely change the beach. I’m not sure what the huge deal is. Read more
Just started watching “Poldark.” Feel inexplicable desire to show up on set in Cornwall (which I previously only associated with historical rebellions, that wall where Ms. Musgrove fell in “Persuasion,” and Cormoran Strike) and make sweet sweet love to Aidan Turner. That show is SO GOOD! Read more
Has anyone read “Romancing Miss Bronte”? I thought it was very good, but also completely heartbreaking. I also thought it was COMPLETELY unfair that Charlotte Bronte, who wrote a literary masterpiece still studied over a hundred years later, lived and died in poverty, while her publisher was incredibly wealthy and… Read more
I do like the cut of this Mary Taylor’s jib. But then — Read more