Check out this entry on Poppy’s blog. I was in stitches reading it. Oh, Lordy — the Prada thing (and the implied reference to Anna Wintour of Vogue), followed by the direct reference to Vera Bradley’s ugly-ass crap that looks like the quilted diaper totes that Park Slope and West Village mommies use . . . Too funny.
Who knows how I got on the Vera Bradley catalog mailing list? I’d never heard of it before it started showing up in my mailbox sometime last year. I’ve never bought anything that looks even remotely like Vera Bradley crap, so someone’s messed up a customer database selling/trading list.
Sorry, folks, but I stick with plain old classic Coach leather goods, which wear like cast iron skillets, for decades. My last two purchases, besides groceries, were a coach belt for S, for Christmas, to replace a really old one, and a fairly inexpensive bullet-type Weber smoker. The Weber will also last for at least a couple of decades. Does that sound like Vera Bradley frou-frou to you?
Aside from the hilarity in the “Pope Interview” blog entry, what struck me most is that Poppy and I have the same hair color and style, right down to the ponytail. Mine’s longer, though. I thought Poppy looked pretty cute for someone being arrested — a bit tired, and groggy, yes, but that happens to most of us at one time or another, who get startled awake. Groggy . . . need caffeine . . .
Poppy’s previous entry mentions a few comments that attacked him personally on one or both of the Times-Picayune articles. I read all the comments up until two days ago. The negative personal attacks were few and far between, I’m happy to report.
Anyway, rock on, Doc!
I saw some shitty comments when I looked earlier, but they got shouted down. Just classless whines.
How dare someone with ’sins’ turn to Christianity!
Yeesh.
Always fascinates and pisses me off that when I see a religious topic, a bunch of anti-religious people turn up and spit on everything. Especially when they so often accuse religion of preaching hate, so they tell everyone how much they hate religion, and of hypocrisy.
I’m not religious and I’m more than aware of what has been done in religions’ names, and in the names of race, nation, politics, etc.
But it so clearly eats these people up that they have to comment, even on a thread specific to a local issue.
Oh my that even made me laugh out loud and send one of my cats scurrying behind my new computer monitor (old computer has gone to silicon heaven) to peek at me with wide eyes.
I don’t get the attraction of Vera Bradley stuff myself. I buy cheap purses that catch my eye, and once they break after a few good years of use I don’t feel bad tossing them in the trash and breaking out a new one. I just ask for room in my purses to carry a paper back book and make a soduku puzzle book for those boring times waiting.
OT: I’m weak, I posted on SL. Sometimes the publicity there can be helpful! I’ll try harder to be a good boy lol.
Vern.
Yo Rusty, go check Writer Beware concerning this “firstimeauthoress” character praising Michele Glance Rooney. Her grammars atrocious but unintentionally hilarious. Besides Victoria’s recent entry, check the comments section. Go to her letter boasting of a romance novel set in “the Shetland Islands”, promising jiggly jerk jerk love scenes with jostling between the sheets. Not to be outdone with hallucinating descriptions of landscapes. Oh yeah, her character’s name is Armando, the Norwegian pilot. Oh and bttfw (by the fucking way), anybody tell me where the hell’s Birmingham, Michigan? Is that place or did somebody just made that up? Curious minds really wanna know. And yes, I’m lookin’ for more Lulz.
Getting back to PZB, I can only say this is fucked up. This is one of the reasons I don’t care for religions that much.
@Vern occasionally there’s a thread that can be interesting enough to warrant a post, but mostly I just like force-feeding logic to Philbin… I imagine him screaming after each serving like a vampire that’s just discovered it’s victim has been devouring large quantities of garlic boiled in holy water since it was old enough to eat solids.