Random Outbursts

“ Betsy Fisher, the owner of the eponymous clothing store in Dupont Circle, says Palin and her people managed to straddle the line. “She does not look like she is wearing particularly expensive clothes,” Fisher said. “She looks like you could be her, too.

— Stylists: Palin’s fashion buys worth it

Must remember to check out this Chicago bar next time I’m in town.

“ America, we’ve met Sarah Palin before. It was in junior high. She was that snarling evil god-obsessed nut who punished you constantly and enjoyed nothing more than torture — seeing you tortured, that is. And your parents would never quite believe it because she ‘seemed like a nice lady,’ from a distance, with her squeaky voice.

— Via Gawker - though I also like my sister’s analogy, that she’s the head of every temp hiring agency, smiling oh-so-sweetly as she inquires whether your Excel is up to date.

Miami, 1972

“ Past a certain age, to paraphrase Catherine Deneuve, it’s either your fanny or your face. In other words, if your body is fierce (from yoga, Pilates, and the treadmill), your face will have no fat on it either and it will be … unfierce.

— Reading a recent New York Magazine and contemplating pastries.

Home again, home again.

Preaching to the Perverted: Guinevere Turner Signature Edition released Wednesday!

“ I think the easiest way to make a good film is just to write three dimensional women, you’ll already be way ahead of 98% of movies these days. And it’s not just talking about art films, 10 or 15 years ago, in big movies you had great women, Die Hard, great, Point Break, Aliens, and its not like these ladies are such brilliantly rounded figures, but they at least have some spunk, some personality, a sense of humor, and a degree of humanity to them, unlike the cardboard cut outs they’re serving up today. Even in the better blockbusters, Spiderman, Pirates of the Caribbean, these women are total nonsense, even if you’re just going to write a damsel in distress to motivate your dude hero, you got to give him something to fight for with a little personality.

— Benh Zeitlin. (via karinalongworth)

“ Man, don’t you miss the early nineties? There’s no way Ellis (or McInerney) could have predicted that Rielle Hunter would find her way into the national spotlight for a different kind of flameout. But now that it’s happened, doesn’t it make your head kind of want to explode?

— New York Magazine