I want undies!!!

Pleasure State

Pleasure State

Agent Provocateur

Agent Provocateur

Huit

Huit

Honey Birdette

Fauve

Wheels and Doll Baby

Wheels and Doll Baby

Purdy

Reblogged from dailysquee.com

Lindsay Lohan in Court

Sketches of Lindsay Lohan in court, by courtroom artist Mona Shafer Edwards

Reblogged from the lovely Victoria Vogue:

http://victoriavogue.tumblr.com/post/1198233447/sketches-of-lindsay-lohan-in-court-by-courtroom

Sonia Rykiel

Happiest photo from Paris Fashion Week 2011. I want stripes and big hair too!

Bonsai

D and I just bought Bonsai trees in a challenge of natural instincts. It's a bonsai off! Bring it!

Go Delilah!

Some inspiration:

Chronic City - Jonathan Lethem

Chronic City - Jonathan Lethem

In Short: A child-actor in his youth, protagonist Chase Insteadman inhabits a marijuana-afflicted New York simulacrum, populated by vindictive hawks, crooked politicians, three-legged dogs, a giant tiger, a ghost writer and mystical chaldrons. Haunted by his absent astronaut fiancee, Chase struggles to remember (anything) while embracing a new-found friendship with the even more eccentric Perkus Tooth.

First Sentence(s): "I first met Perkus Tooth in an office. Not an office where he worked, though I was confused about this at the time. (Which is itself hardly an uncommon situation, for me.)"

Likes: The book is set up to deal with some complex ideas. Lethem grapples with notions of reality, virtual reality, simulacrums (word of the day), censorship, government corruption, all kinds of things really. It has a mosaic feel in that Perkus Tooth is fascinated by EVERYTHING. And it works, making me interested in everything Perkus has to say.

Chase Insteadman is a wonderfully vacant character, perfect for the part. His voice is distinct from other characters, and he appears to be just as fascinated by Perkus Tooth as I am. Even as he regurgitates some of Tooth's more outrageous theories, Lethem allows them to feel awkward and misplaced in Insteadman's tone. Very clever.

Through the all-pervasive drug use in this book, the characters have a tendency to forget things. Lethem establishes this fun little technique exploiting this. Information which you receive early on is contradicted and contrasted later through retelling.

Dislikes: Ending felt rushed. Throughout the book, the plot has this rambling quality which just plods along. Lethem then tries to summarise everything in the last chapter, and it just doesn't feel right to me.

Also, one (or two?) chapters are written from the perspective of another character. Although this makes sense in that Chase Insteadman couldn't have seen what is narrated in these chapters, I was a little put off by the new voice.

Some character names are also a little jarring. I like Perkus Tooth, Chase Insteadman and the Hawkman as character names, as they feel a little caricature-esque. Didn't like Oona Laszlo. Even typing it I can't help but grimace and shake my head. Bleh.

Overall: I enjoyed it. It took FOREVER to read, but it's fun, and silly, and clever, and - hell - I enjoyed it.