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By Eleni Tavantzis

Read this uncredited AP article today and realized what a wonderful, completely conflicted society we live in. I can’t qualify that completely with what I am about to write but I’ll try my darnedest to do just that.

The article in question addresses a new trend in which grocery shoppers are bringing their own designer bags to store their items as opposed to using simple paper or plastic. Now on any other cheery, bubblegum blog you would find someone applauding and delighting in this trend and using words like “fashionista” to explain the “fabulous” people that carry these bags. Problem is, I don’t do bubblegum.

The green and environmental activist in me applauds this development. No more cutting down trees to store my food. No more using plastics that eventually end up in the ocean miles away, choking innocent dolphins. But I find it hard to reconcile that with spending at least $1,000 for a Hermes bag that is “Made of hand-wrought silk” and “collapses into a wallet-size pouch of calfskin”. I guess I’m not sold on paying that much for a bag just to store items that will make a mess of it (slimy vegetables anyone?). So it breaks down into two problems: problem 1, it is $1,000; problem 2, some animal still had to die for my groceries. Thus the aforementioned societal conflict rears its’ ugly head.

Stella McCartney’s got the right idea though. The article states that she has an organic canvas shopper for $495. A little bit more manageable and I’ll be less at odds with my environmental activism than purchasing some Hermes bag that will end up storing cabbage.

Here’s how the article ends:

“This month’s Vogue magazine urges fashionistas to become more bag-wise: ‘No loitering, girls,’ says contributing editor Sarah Mower. ‘Today, let us go out and harness the power of fashion to change the way the nation shops.’

ugh.

Read the full article here.

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The press can be truly unforgiving. Jane Ridley of The New York Daily News deconstructs Jessica Simpson’s conversion from beautiful, quasi-naive newcomer in 2000, into pornstar blow-up doll in 2007. I’m not paraphrasing, I’m not making this up. This is a direct quote:

“The 26-year-old starlet flaunted her enormous, unnatural-looking breasts in a flimsy silver sheath modeled after a Thanksgiving turkey trussed up to be roasted in aluminum foil.

She even came oven-basted - in a thick, gravy-colored spray tan that must have left greasy brown stains on everything she touched.”

And while I like to stay away from the celebrity stuff (it’s just not my bag), I have to admit Ridley has a point. Someone needs to fire her stylist, two days ago.

Read the Full Article Here