tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6409329.post759062141268447113..comments2023-10-18T05:21:05.766-07:00Comments on pagooey: Suzy Dorm-makerKimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04986083061824260700noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6409329.post-20898503329942911222010-07-21T00:16:14.157-07:002010-07-21T00:16:14.157-07:00Oh, and, @Mike--how true, the BB&B layouts don...Oh, and, @Mike--how true, the BB&B layouts don't feature any people either. No one vomiting into your color-coordinated popup hamper, or TYPING. SO. FREAKING. LOUDLY. AT. TWO. A.M. IS THAT REALLY NECESSARY, GOD!Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04986083061824260700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6409329.post-11859119130608731442010-07-21T00:13:48.981-07:002010-07-21T00:13:48.981-07:00Oooh, Seventeen B-T-S! Yes. If they'd told us ...Oooh, Seventeen B-T-S! Yes. If they'd told us that Friar Tuck haircuts and covering your blemishes with scratch-n-sniff stickers were the hot new trends, I'm sure I would have at least given it grave consideration.Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04986083061824260700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6409329.post-33045799419007435892010-07-19T15:32:06.715-07:002010-07-19T15:32:06.715-07:00I used to feel similarly about the Seventeen Magaz...I used to feel similarly about the Seventeen Magazine back-to-school issue.astruchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00109967875971570309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6409329.post-2799629037664207522010-07-19T13:26:03.931-07:002010-07-19T13:26:03.931-07:00The Village Tower Records? Wow, I haven't thou...The Village Tower Records? Wow, I haven't thought about that place in ages. R.I.P.Sethnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6409329.post-59474328297747597162010-07-17T11:49:25.635-07:002010-07-17T11:49:25.635-07:00Funny. That very catalog arrived in my mailbox a c...Funny. That very catalog arrived in my mailbox a couple days ago. I wondered if my address was on the mailing list as it's a studio just off-campus I'm subletting while attending summer courses. Thankfully, I managed to avoid the Indiana University dorms.<br /><br />I admit that I did flip through the catalog, but didn't pore over it the way you did. Perhaps I have less interest as I actually am living the back-to-school dream this term?<br /><br />I could still retrieve it from my recycling pile, if you need extra copies for your collection. :)<br /><br />DavidDavid V Wonghttp://davidwong.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6409329.post-90019496636249434832010-07-16T14:30:20.874-07:002010-07-16T14:30:20.874-07:00HA! I edited Elmer out of this, but now see the er...HA! I edited Elmer out of this, but now see the error of my ways. God, after 20 years of washing those were more comfortable than any bajillion-thread-count sheets money can buy. They finally disintegrated my senior year.<br /><br />Okay, your anonymity is titillating, Anonymous. Who are you and how do you know about my sheets? (And if that's you, Mom, AWKWARD.)Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04986083061824260700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6409329.post-56772473083880634082010-07-16T12:58:46.561-07:002010-07-16T12:58:46.561-07:00Have you forgotten about the Elmer Fudd sheets? Ho...Have you forgotten about the Elmer Fudd sheets? How could you?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6409329.post-76422824568474606082010-07-16T00:53:58.597-07:002010-07-16T00:53:58.597-07:00This might (??) be something akin to what Caitlin ...This might (??) be something akin to what Caitlin Flanagan describes as the appeal of Martha Stewart, at least as represented in her magazines:<br /><br />"he photography in her various publications seems to reduce all of female longing to its essential elements. A basket of flowers, a child's lawn pinafore draped across a painted rocking chair, an exceptionally white towel folded in thirds and perched in glamorous isolation on a clean and barren shelf: most of the pictures feature a lot of sunlight, and many show rooms that are either empty of people or occupied solely by Martha, evoking the profound and enduring female desires for solitude and silence. No heterosexual man can understand this stuff, and no woman with a beating heart and an ounce of femininity can resist it. I can unpack a paragraph of Martha Stewart prose with the best of them, but I also fall mute and wondering at the pages of <i>Martha Stewart Living</i>."<br /><br />There's more as well:<br /><br />http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2002/09/home-alone/2559/mikehttp://www.mikepope.com/blog/noreply@blogger.com