internet friends

oh, hi, no big deal. i'm just feeling like the coolest ever because you remember snpsnpsnp who i love so much and talk about all of the times? yeah well. 

this is me at mel's wedding this past summer, yeah, you know. with my long skirt from joe fresh and my bustier top. bein' a champagne fairy princess or whatever.

{borrowed from marc&mel's most lovely wedding blorg}

and here is snpsnpsnp at a party somewhere sometime last week or something wearing the dark-princess samesies-version. 

{borrowed from here, obviously, duh}

yaaaayyyy hahahahahahaha yaaaaaaaaaay! and not to be the creepiest of creeps or whatever, but member how i dyed my hair dark a few months back? member? well. you'll notice. her hair too. dark. recently. if only i had all the tattoos i dream of having. a-sigh. 

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they are as we are

there's been some heavy black and white happening. and i have to say i am looooving all the white. alexander wang, for example, did many of his pieces in both black and white versions and pretty much every time the white ones made me gasp and grin. snp wrote a piece on the white t-shirt recently, and about how it is dangerous and simple, begging to be made dirty. daring you to try and keep it clean. there is something in that that i really enjoy. (also, friend of the blorg nurse jake is in the accompanying video. so that's fun!)

{bcbg max azria, photos by yannis vlamos at gorunway.com by way of style.com} 

{alexander wang spring 2013, photos by monica feudi at feudiguaineri.com by way of style.com}

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atop this head

the fall is coming! there is some time yet. sure. but... before long it will be october. and there will be important decisions to decide. i would like your help with these decisions. or. at least one of them.

the hair decision.

i am growing my hair out just a bit. here's about what i'm aiming for. give or take. long-bob.

{katie nescher}

and here's the thing. i'm so hair-happy these days. i love all of the hairs! whatever do i do? a while back i was going to do my roots and keep on with this lightish blonde, but then a friend said the magic words ('you are looking awfully snp with those roots...') and i decided not to touch. a little dirty-messy for summer. great. but. i'd like to do a good ol' dye job come the fall and i can't choose. so. help! here's what the choices are:

{the white-ish hairs option} 

{the mixed hairs option}

{the darkest hairs option} 

{the red hairs option}

so please vote! and feel free to tell me your thoughts by way of comments-town. okay cool thanks.

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ff

 oooooooooo! celebrity drams or whatever!

time to jump on the bandwagon and start a discussion of aaron sorkin's newest vehicle, 'the newsroom'. hoooray and hooorah! i love tv!

i'll say it once more. i love tv. really and truly. and i'm really enjoying 'the newsroom'. i look forward to sunday nights. but that doesn't mean it is a gooood show - i love a lot of bad tv. backstory:

i've never seen 'west wing'. but i have every intention of watching the whole thing basically in one sitting one day. (mono? can i have you again?) everyone smart and funny and great iknow loves west wing. so. i bet it is pretty amazeballs.

i loooooved 'sports night'. which wasn't around nearly long enough if you ask me. heartbreak.

and i was suuuper excited for 'the newsroom'. until this happened...

* aaron sorkin is rude to one of my favourites and internet girls everywhere furrow their brows

so i thought 'shoot. that doesn't seem very cool beans. sorkin seems to be a bit of an asshat... poop.' but, you know. separate the art from the artist *to a point* and go on living.

and after the pilot episode, sarah-roommate and i had a great chat about how haha, the women were actually pretty freaking great and the super-powerful-white-men-with-their-ideals were pretty reliant on the women who were competent and smart and got shit done. blah blah. not bad. okay!

but. as the show has gone on a few more episodes, the female characters are getting weaker... flakier. manipulate-able. really good at one thing or another, but then pretty crappy at, you know, being well-rounded living things. and ooooh how sad i was when jim 'rescued' maggie from her panic attack. damn it! damn! ugh. i was so hopeful for their relationship and then he went and tooook caaare of her.

anyway. what it comes down to is that i like the show. but also, maybe, aaron sorkin's not-so-developped idea of women is showing. and that's a real shame. or...

* the newsroom is incredibly hostile towards women

poop.

but here's a fun thing! i sure do love a meme.

* hey internet girl...

(also. one more thing. quickly. i'm glad that this trend of scrutinizing shows has emerged. you know. like it did with 'girls' and 'bunheads', both of which i love. too. and obviously this sort of conversation could be happening around a TON of shows, and maybe maybe maybe it will start to spread, and, omg, things will improve!!!??? it could happen. so. i'm glad.)

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ff

i am feeling overwhelmed by words these last few days. so i haven't been reading much. instead. all pictures. pictures and pictures. because let's be truthful. emma is the one of us who is best at words. and i am the one of us who lives in a visual world. (good thing i write such a wooorrrdddddy blog, huh?)



so today. not much for words. just some girl-crushes. because having girl-crushes is, i think, so so so so important. respecting and loving other women. when we are taught to not trust... to compete... to be catty and callous. here are some of the girls (and women, shhhh) i'm mad crazy in love with, which you probably already know, but, yes.

{sarah nicole prickett; chloe sevigny; grace coddington; jennifer nichols; robyn; cat deeley; joanna newsom; kristen wiig}

 

 

plus there is the girl in the office across the hall who is soooo classy-beautiful and has the loveliest smile and seems to take up space in this commanding way that i can't understand.

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ff

tra la la. i will never stop loving tavi genvinson. sorry! i won't! she's so much cool.



this comes at a good time, too, as sarah and i had a great little talk about tv and what happened to women on tv, yo? i'm talking mainstream tv. sarah is re-watching ally mcbeal. and she said she's floored how often they use the work 'feminism'. like. all the time. it isn't a dirty word or anything! and characters are shameful and embarrassed when they get it wrong. you know? when they DON'T get on board with the feminism. i cannot think of a show today that would dare do that. maybe maybe on hbo or showtime? maybe? can you think of any? on normal-tv? i can't.

what happened, dudes? another point on my 'sexism is back, worse, insidious, and we had better be aware' campaign. even from 15 years ago...

and here's a cool little thought piece. too. about tv. and wives.

*snp watches some 'real' housewives and thinks about beyoncé

happy friday, fighters. go rent some movies or tv shows from the 90's and feel empowered!

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to see and see through

i have stolen the following from the place where i steal so many things (like the idea to read joan didion and break my heart into a million, god damn) : snp.

reminds me a bit of the questions i was asking not so long ago, here on this very blorg. hmm.

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