Sorry I have not had anything fun or that exciting on here in awhile. We are cleaning house around here and dealing with some rather serious business issues that have come up over the last 2 months.
I don’t really care to be damned if I do or damned if I don’t. As a very competitive, competent, hardworking person, failure is not an option. Especially due to someone else’s shortcomings. I cannot abide someone going out of their way to make life difficult. It’s just a business relationship, nothing more.
Incompetency and being inept at life get you no where. And the Old Boys Club won’t always be there to save your ass.
I will never be part of that club. And don’t care. I am not built for chest bumping and crotch grabbing. But I will get the job done.
Quite some time ago, I read a comment on a blog complaining that Tory Burch reminded them of Garanimals.
vs.
I can see where they were coming from. I consider Tory Burch to be “unthinking fashion”, but I love it just the same. I am not into hunting, thrifting, remaking, waiting, so it works for me. If you put on a Tory outfit you know, for the most part, you are going to look good. And I am still not tired of my collection of Reva flats. They are the reason I started wearing flats again.
The same thought process could be said for other brands too. But today let’s focus on Tory.
Thoughts?
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I was out last night, way to late for a school night. But I was seeing a friend I don’t get to see very often. Met at 7:30 and left at midnight. Tombstone Tea at Six Feet Under is so good, though.
But we were discussing how people just can not seem to do their jobs. A vendor of ours has failed us miserably and we have been dealing with the fallout from that for the last 6 weeks. He is so out of touch with reality I wonder if he switched meds or something. I told A. that every day is hard for me and I approach it like it is ripping off a band-aid. Just do it. No one else is there to help me, but me. That is the reality of it all.
I won’t see E3 till the end of the month when he moves home due to all of my work obligations and schedules always in flux. So, for those keeping score, it will be 6 weeks apart. Good times.
But on the bright side, JLA and Art Partners are starting up for me. And the white trash party for E3 will be going down too. Should be fun, but don’t know how I am going to fit all those people into the condo. Usually there are NO rsvps. Not so much. Everyone is coming. It must be the Pabst?
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Paper ‘reveals Banksy’s identity’
Mysterious graffiti artist Banksy is a 34-year-old former public school pupil called Robin Gunningham, The Mail On Sunday has claimed.
The paper says it has identified the “guerrilla artist” from a photograph taken four years ago in Jamaica, which shows a man kneeling by a spray can.
But a spokeswoman for Banksy refused to comment on the report. “We get these calls all the time,” she told the BBC.
“I’ll say what I always say: I never confirm or deny these stories”.
Banksy’s stencilled artwork appears unannounced in public spaces around the world.
In January a piece of his graffiti in Portobello Road, west London - which shows a painter finishing off the word “Banksy” - attracted a bid of £208,100 in an online auction.
But the artist is also renowned for his audacious stunts - such as leaving a life-size replica of a Guantanamo Bay detainee at Disneyland in 2006.
His fiercely-guarded identity only adds to his subversive appeal - and members of the Hollywood elite including Christina Aguilera and Angelina Jolie have snapped up his paintings.
‘Extremely talented’
The only solid biographical fact about the artist is that he was born and raised in Bristol.
It has often been rumoured that his real name is Robin Banks and that his parents think he is a painter and decorator - but no-one close to Banksy has ever verified these stories.
Now, the Mail on Sunday claims to have uncovered his true identity.
The newspaper says it traced the artist using a photograph purporting to show Banksy at work in Jamaica in 2004. Former friends and acquaintances identify the man in the picture as Robin Gunningham.
Scott Nurse, who went to the £9,420-a-year Bristol Cathedral School with Gunningham, tells the paper he was “extremely talented at art”.
“I am not at all surprised if he is Banksy,” he is quoted as saying.
Luke Egan, an artist who later exhibited with Banksy initially denied knowing Gunningham, but eventually agreed he had shared a flat with him.
Asked by the paper whether Gunningham was Banksy, he replied: “Well, he wasn’t then”. Gunningham’s father Peter said he did not recognise the person in the photograph, while his mother Pamela maintained she had never even had a son.
‘Crushing disappointment’
The picture the Mail claims is of Banksy was taken by Jamaican photographer Peter Dean Rickards.
It first appeared on the internet and then in the Mail’s sister publication, The Evening Standard, in 2004.
Banksy’s agent Steve Lazarides told The New Yorker that Rickards’ picture did not depict his client - although Colin Saysell, an anti-graffiti officer in Bristol who has followed Banksy for years, concluded the photo was legitimate.
Two years later, Banksy insisted the public should never discover who he is.
“I have no interest in ever coming out,” he told Swindle magazine.
“I’m just trying to make the pictures look good; I’m not into trying to make myself look good.
“And besides, it’s a pretty safe bet that the reality of me would be a crushing disappointment to a couple of 15-year-old kids out there.”
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/entertainment/7504132.stm
I bought this skirt from Ebay awhile back, tags still on. It is Tibi from a few years a go and I do not remember it in the retail world. But since I love anything remotely animal print and all things Tibi, I had to have it. It finally arrived yesterday.
Obviously, it is a bit over the top and MUCH, MUCH, MUCH shorter than I thought it would be. Think Pretty Woman, hooker dress short and then take off 2 inches. It is awful.
Maybe if I lost 5 more lbs I could pull it down some. The original plan was to wear it with tights, boots and a cashmere sweater in the winter. Yeah, right. Maybe if my second job was down at the Pink Pony or The Cheetah and I wasn’t going to wear it for long.
It is just not appropriate.
** UPDATE **
My mother wanted to know how I did not realize how short it was. I just didn’t. OK. I was blinded by the brand and the price.
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