Hey, have you seen that Star Trek movie yet? You should probably go see that Star Trek movie. It’s pretty excellent. Wear sunglasses. I was warned about the gratuitous use of lens flare, but, Jesus, nothing could have prepared me for how shiny that Starship Enterprise was. Also Youthful Spock is So Totally Hot, but in a way that worries me because he looks kind of exactly like what you’d get if you crossed my one ex-boyfriend with my other ex-boyfriend and gave the result a bowl cut. Troubling, that.
Another thing I want to let you know about: maxi dresses. They are in this season, apparently. I heartily disapprove. There is just so much fabric. And it’s usually unforgivingly jersey knit. Nobody looks good in one of those. (Unless you are six feet tall and a waif, or maybe if you are, say Iman, or something. But even Iman can only really gets away with it because she is married to David Bowie.) Also, let us pause and remember the last time maxi dresses were in style. You know, THE SEVENTIES. An era that is an affront to the aesthetic sensibilities of all smart-minded individuals.
So, I had actually bought a maxi dress a few weeks ago, at my favorite vintage store. I bought it because it was purple and had really cool pleating around the waistline, and I was really distressed at its floor-length-ness, but I bought it anyhow, because of the purple. And today I got out my fabric shears and chopped two feet off the bottom of it and hemmed it up and now it is Super Cute Length instead of Why Commemorate the Seventies? Length and I was so gleeful as I snipped away, thinking of how stupid everyone will look this summer, tripping over their hemlines, while I will be totally cute and better than everybody else THE END.
Expect a forthcoming post about Friday afternoon’s Nautical-themed tour of Koreatown. I was going to write about it here, but the impenetrability of Cafe Jack deserves a blog post all its own.
Re: Bowl cut
Ha!
-Tanya
I too have a crush on Young Spock, but not the actor Zachary Quinto. I find Mr. Quinto attractive only when he’s wearing his Vulcan make-up. This fact disturbs me greatly. Fortunately, none of my ex-boyfriends are Vulcans.
Re: Ha!
I know, right? You’re the only other person who has met both of them so YOU KNOW.
- Xandra
Zarah! I also do not have a crush on Zachary Quinto. I looked him up on teh interwebsss as soon as i got home from the movie and was so disappointed at what a douchewad he appears to be as non-Spock. I don’t think you should be disturbed, though – I similarly have separate crushes on Han Solo and Indiana Jones that are distinct from each other and from my feelings for Harrison Ford; and also I have a crush on Fox Mulder but less so David Duchovny. I think with Spock it was the sexy, sexy logic that did it for me.
I agree about the maxi dresses. If I wanted to cover up my legs for the summer, I’d wear pants. That’s not what dresses are about.