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08.07.08Finally! French Rolled Jeans Are Coming Back!
I’ve been waiting for the most flattering fashion statement of 1987 to come back. Ever since Junior High, I just haven’t figured out how to make my hips look 4X bigger than my calves. Katie Holmes to the rescue! Katie has been photographed a few different times in the last couple of weeks with this look (also known as “pegged jeans” to those who didn’t grow up in mid- Michigan). How much you wanna bet this is a grand social experiment on the behalf of some A-List Stylist? The stylist picked Katie because she’s just young enough not to remember what a bad idea this was… and set your timer to see how long it is before it’s mainstream. Last night it made the “evening news” on E! Someone needs to ask Katie if she wants to slow dance to “Lost in Your Eyes”.
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06.18.08Remember returnable bottles?
Maybe I’m absolutely positively dating myself. Of course, in the current age dating yourself is as simple as “remember when tv wasn’t HD?” “I’m sooooo 18″. But during my weeklong Bill Bixby Hulk Marathon my thoughts turned to returnable bottles. I have very fond memories of plopping down to watch The Hulk as a kid, and nothing went with the Hulk like a returnable bottle of RC Cola. You see, back in the era we call “pre-1985″ you used to buy a six pack and pay fifteen cents extra. Then you’d drink your cola shamefully devoid of aluminum flakes and take your bottles back to the store and they’d give you fifteen cents off your next six pack, or if you weren’t buying soda again, you got fifteen cents back to, I don’t know, buy a gallon of gas or put your kid through private school, I forget the inflation rates.
It just never has made sense to me that we’ve gotten more environmental, but gotten rid of the returnable bottle. How is paying people to collect it, sort it, melt it, and reform it into new glass easier?
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