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I can only describe my musical interests as eclectic. There’s my Vladimir Horowitz and Donny Hathaway on vinyl. There’s Crystal Gayle and Miles Davis on compact disc. Last and definitely not least Pink Floyd on cassette. Oh I love modern music very much, but it’s hard for me to get past thinking Buddy Holly was a musical genius.
For all you television snobs out there...well I couldn't convince you otherwise.
I have a sort of unique perspecitive here. I'll watch "The Devil's Brigade". Which is a two gallon bottle of testosterone.
At the same time I'll tape "What Not To Wear" and "A Model Life" scheduled opposite it.
Toes
He painted my toenails red.
Lying in bed, my foot in his lap
Carefully applying polish to each nail
His face a mask of concentration
Trying to get it just right,
I had to laugh because he looked so intent.
He smiled and leaned over and kissed my knee.
'Are you always going to paint my toes? ‘
I had asked him and he just grinned and said.
'Forever, Baby.'
Today I looked down and saw the polish
Was cracked and worn and coming off.
I remembered that promise he made
And couldn't keep.
I set about removing the last of the polish
He had so carefully applied weeks ago.
I reached for the red polish,
But then put it away. Red was for him.
So I painted them pink instead,
My favorite color,
My toes again.
Sandra Brennan
The three words most likely to give a shoe lover goosebumps?
Jimmy Choo Shoes
SHOE ADDICTS
ANONYMOUS
By Beth Harbison
St. Martin’s Press, 336 pp., $21.95
Within the realm of “chick lit,†there is
a special category that might be called
“shoe porn.†Granted, regular chick lit
usually includes shoes as well as clothes,
boys, martinis, and shopping.
Shoe porn makes shoes a major plot point
(a stiletto, natch) if not a supporting character.
The first -- and most famous – example of
shoe porn is the story of Cinderella and the fabulous
glass slippers that won her the prince. A more recent
example is In Her Shoes. The novel, about two sisters
who have nothing in common except their shoe size, was
made into a movie with Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette, and
Shirley MacLaine.
Shoe Addicts Anonymous fits right into the sub-genre. In
this tale, four Washington, D.C.-area women bond over their
love of designer shoes. One is a debt-saddled shopaholic;
another an agoraphobic phone-sex operator. The cast is
rounded out by a young nanny and the glamorous wife of a
controlling senator.
All of them are lost and a little dependent on more than arch
support from their fancy footwear. But in a desperate attempt
to satisfy her shoe fix, one of the women starts a shoe swapping
night, which results in the fours strange friendship.
Start to finish—or heel to toe, as the case may be—Shoe Addicts
Anonymous is an entertaining read, including a shoe support group
that deals with bankruptcy, a gay “boyfriend,†and a blackmail plot.
As with much chick lit, Shoe Addicts Anonymous is not going to
challenge its audience’s worldview. But if it’s fairly predictable,
it’s predictable in a way that most readers will find comforting…
like slipping on a pair of fuzzy slippers after a night out dancing in
three-inch heels.
—Mary Cashiola
Warhol
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Bukowski
Rupaul
Mapplethorpe
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