Radioactive hotspots are popping up around Japan.
The border does not need alligators.
Everyone's talking about "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs," which I saw last spring. First of all, I have to agree with Steve Jobs in terms of "it's complicated." It's not like Apple can single-handedly improve wages and labor conditions in China. It reminds me of the ever-backfiring anti-sweatshop campaigns of the late eighties/early nineties, where the sweatshops shut down, driving the people--including kids--who still needed work, into even grimmer work, such as prostitution. I couldn't agree more with Mr. Daisey when he says, “It's absurd to live in a world where you don't know where things come from,” but I wonder whether he's ever thought about where his food comes from, and what working conditions are associated with that.
I don't look at frumpy married women or moms and think, I won't get married or become a mom because it's the road the frumpdom, but I do look at them and think, when I get married/become a mom, I'm sure as hell not going to let myself go like that, and I don't care what anyone says about how it's inevitable, because I've seen plenty of moms maintain a sense of style. But Petula Dvorak's greater point is, parenting is expensive.
Fantastic Modern Love column about the sociobiology of hard-to-get.
I bring you some hard-core shoe porn.
Whole Foods shows its true full-of-$hit colors.
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Re: Moms - Well, you have to let yourself go for a while just to recover. Then maybe six weeks in, you have the somewhat valid problem of not knowing how to dress for your new body type. That was my hugest obstacle and how I ended up "discovering" Anthropologie -- every time I asked a fabulously dressed women who looked to be around my weight where she got her dress, she'd say Anthro. Then you spend a lot of time beating yourself up for not losing the weight as quickly as celebs (supposedly) do. Then a lot of moms become unwilling to shell out money for clothes at the new weight. So they're in sweats, swearing that they'll get a new wardrobe when they're thinner. Then by the time you lose the weight, it's time to get pregnant again, so you don't buy new clothes, b/c you'll just have to toss them for a year or two. Then you have the second kid -- mind you 3-5 years have gone by at this point. You've become used to being a frump. Also, you have to do a lot of physical activity and every time you put on something nice, your kid(s) find a way to stain or mark it. So wearing leggings and a t-shirt everywhere just becomes way easier than putting in impractical effort.
I had to fight really hard to not make the first mistake of not dressing well at my new weight. And right now I'm cussing b/c I'm going to have to get my first pair of jean shorts in years, b/c I have to do so much physical activity with my now toddler-aged daughter that my much beloved skirts and dresses have become impractical.
This is all to say, moms don't let themselves go because they're lazy, but because their bodies have drastically changed and because a lot of pre-mom wear is just really effing impractical.
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