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…@oxo
6 hours ago ago by missyblog. Spam? Tags: omni, hot coworker, Lust, Affiar, dg, Date, oxo, Restaurant, anxiety, Smell, scent, Pheremones, Hot date!!, big night, Dinner
And so there we are. Him and me.
Me and him.
Me and NOT MR.
He met me outside the restaurant, pulled me straight out the taxi cab. He had kind of rough hands. He doesn’t moisturise. MR moisturises, his hands smell of pears. D&G smells of…that night, not D&G, something different. He has a kind of musky masculine scent on, but with a hint of fruit. I just wanted to bury my head in his shoulder, but I smiled sweetly and let him help me out the cab. It’s killing me. I want to know what it is. But for some reason at first I was unable to speak.
We took the elevator ride up to the Oxo Restaurant. It didn’t feel awkward. It felt, gentle, a short journey during which we smile at each other. He comments on my shoes. We both know we’ve never really spoken. Platitudes and comments about the weather (which as we all know is an English national past-time) have passed at work. Flirtation has been minimal. Conversations by SMS have been brief and never explored deep annals of greater meaning.
He has grey eyes.
I realised I was staring because the concept had dawned on me that I really didn’t know this man at all. I was working off pheromones here, fake pheromones, manufactured in a bottle and doused all over his impeccably tailored sweaters.
So when we exited the elevator I was about ready to make an excuse and leave, but I’d built no escape route, I hadn’t my cell, only one person knew where I was and that was because she spent 30 minutes attacking my nethers with wax and drinking my bubbly. And as far as she was concerned this was an anniversary diner for MR and I.
D&G took my coat and handed it to the server. That was it. Escape route erased. I was going to have to talk to him, flirt no doubt, say clever things, be funny and witty and all those things I am renowned for. But I kept thinking of MR, memories of our stupid fight, flashes of Claire and him, probably lying naked on each other. In my head she is snaffling popcorn and coke out of his crotch or reading something deftly intellectual like Nitche as she adjusts her expensive spex and they wax lyrical about the state of modern literature.
Fuck.
I smiled. All teeth and anxiety.
This was no way to start the show.
SAKSFIFTHAVENUE
3 days ago ago by fashionshops. Spam? Tags: Gucci, Prada, Armani, dior, Fashion Online, Shopping Online, Stores Online, Jimmy Choo, Designers and labels, Roberto Cavalli, Fendi, versace, Tods, miu miu, Saks Fifth Avenue, Online Shop!, designer dress online, dg
SAKSFIFTHAVENUE.com
Saks Fifth Avenue is one of the most prestige American chain stores. In fact, there are 54 shops all over the United States. Saks.com was launched in 2000 for online purchasing of clothes and accessories of the most prestige designers.
Brands: Armani Collections, Prada, D&G, Dior, Roberto Cavalli, Versace, Jimmy Choo, Gucci, Fendi, Miu Miu, Tod’s and many more…
Stock: On this site it is possible to find the clothes and accessories that are displayed in the Saks Fifith Avenue shops. The range is vast regarding the brands, the objects and the number of clothes available.
Reliability: This site in 100% secure. The brands are of the best quality and originality and is handled with maximum service.
Website Features: this site is elegant and has a nice layout. It is also easy and simple to use, just search for the item that you want under catogory or designer of your choice. There are nine departments to choose from, from women’s, shoes, handbags, accessories beauty to men’s, kids, home, gifts and sale. There is really a wide variety and all the goods are of the best quality, guarenteed.
Strengths: The guarentee of the authenticity of the brands, the quality and the wide range of products.
Weaknesses: To buy Italian brands from a online shop in America will be much more expensive than if you buy it from a online European online shop.
Metallic Gold Dolce & Gabbana Kicks!!!
3 days ago ago by fresh365. Spam? Tags: Uncategorized, Fashion, dg, “D&G SNEAKERS”, Dolce and Gabbana, “Dolce and Gabbana Sneakers”
WHAT DO YOU THINK…?
Dolce & Gabbana metallic hightop sneaker
5 days ago ago by yahdigg. Spam? Tags: Fashion, Yahdigg.com, dg
Step your sneaker game up .. $450!
…Coulrophobia — 1 comments
1 week ago ago by missyblog. Spam? Tags: omni, Fire, Mr. right, Lust, Mr. right, coulrophobia, Clowns, Fear, Affiar, fight, how to lose firends and alienate people, Pa, Argument, lover’s tiff, dg, dolce & gobbana
I had a virtual fight. Unfortunately not of the Street Fighter kind. I got K.Oed by mac mail.
Mr Right and I had an argument last night, via email. My heart is breaking. Being away from each other so much is difficult. He down there. Me up here, under there, in out in out shake it round about…
It’s hard to share those ins and outs of the day to day. I spend so much of the day talking the last thing I want to do in the evening is gas about it, and so long at whatido that when I finally get through to the other side of the day I can’t talk about it, not about work, not about play, not about doing what I want to do. Saying what I want to say becomes the last thing I have to achieve and the first thing I forget to do. Too many people to see, too little time to see them. Living how I want to live is hard on the people I claim to Love (he says, hence the fact I have had MC Hammer in my head since last night). That was what started it. Not MC Hammer. He said, “Living how I want to live is hard on the people I claim to Love”
He think’s I’m condescending. I’m not. It’s all in his head. He’s just…hummm…I don’t know, jealous? MR isn’t what people would call confident, or sociable. He doesn’t like company (typical writer) except of the people he stakes a claim on. He won’t propose, and I don’t want him to, but he has staked a claim on me, planted a flag between my butt cheeks for me to wave at him as I pass by. HAILTHECONQUORINGHERO. When he’s here, with me, he is my world, every last gorgeous bit of him. Truth is though that I have to be shared. I have to see other people. I might have a burning brand saying ‘property of Mr Right’ on my soul but my work forces me to be pleasant and sociable, flirtatious, to make friends and influence people. I don’t talk about MR with them because I need to seem attainable.
I know I’m the one in the wrong here. I know I am. I’m not a nice person. I should be with him more often. I shouldn’t flirt. I should tell the world I am in love because I am. My beautiful Mr Right, who I love and adore and who …
Love List entry #6) wrote a love note and got PA to deliver it me on Monday in amongst the morning mail. (the PA is interesting, will tell you all about HIM asap.)
So we had a fight. I said things. He said things. I may have mentioned I was toying with the idea of fucking a professional clown…
As far as nails in the coffin of an argument go, admitting to crushes on children’s entertainers who smell of sex and make your knees tremble is sort of a period point. Especially given that it turns out MR has an irrational fear of clowns. Who knew. It’s called Coulrophobia.
And so I made a decision. Love be damned.
I called D&G. Friday, dinner at a prominent London restaurant. Clowning is paying (if all the desperate housewives knew what he was spending his money on). Should be interesting.
New D&G Men’s trenchcoat.
1 week ago ago by yahdigg. Spam? Tags: Fashion, Yahdigg.com, dg
Sophisticated, Simple, but still Clean.
Freshen Up
1 week ago ago by mfjoe. Spam? Tags: Fashion, dolce & gabbana, dg, the one, Edward Said, Cologne, Drakkar Noir, Stetson, racism
Remember in 7th grade, when cats would just shower in Drakkar and pick up mad chicks? Shiiiiit…that stuff is one step from Stetson. While I will swear by my D&G classic ’til the day I die, they released a new cologne, The One (wtf?), with only minorly racist marketing copy: “spicey, oriental perfume” (r.i.p. E. Said).
(Via Acquire)
A steal of a deal!
1 week ago ago by missbebe08. Spam? Tags: Accessories, Marc Jacobs, designer, trend, Sunglasses, dg, Burberry, costco, shades, Low Price
want designer shades? but don’t want to pay full price? While alot of people go on ebay or other online sites, sometimes when spending massive amounts of money on small items I want to make sure I am getting authentic items.
Costco has CRAZY deals on tons of designer shades, Burberry, D&G, Marc Jacobs, and soo much more, they are more than 50% off of prices that appear in Sunglass hut or other specialty places. My sister just bought a sweet pair of Burberry sunglasses for $119!! They retail for almost $300! They had crystal D&G’s for $199, I cant believe the prices on these. So make sure you check our your costco, they get new stock in all the time so check back frequently until you find the shades of your dreams.
Update BaselWorld 2008: Fashion — 2 comments
3 weeks ago ago by alonbj. Spam? Tags: Baselworld, basel 2008, discussion, Fashion, fashion watches, Hermes, Gucci, dior, Basel, Events, Valentino, guess, dg, Breil, Sector, richemont, yema
Today was my fourth day in Basel and my last day on the fair. The day was completely filled with meetings with jewelry manufacturars and we ended the day with the finalization of the packaging of the Ace Watch (for updates, keep track of www.aceblog.info). Before we started in Hall 2.0, we did a quick round in Hall 5.0 to see what is happening in the Fashion sector of the watch industry. In this post I will show some pictures of the booths (maybe fun to see if you never have visited BaselWorld) and in the second part some fashion watches (we wrote an article about what watches should or shouldn’t be labeled as fashion: “Couture Watches vs. Fashion Watches“. In this post I name the watches that are designed by fashion houses and produced for the price range that people should wear them as fashion accessories (buy a new one every year), fashion watches.
1. Fashion Booths in Hall 5.0:
In my opinion the most successful stand in Basel is the one of Patek Philippe, but if we look at the stands of fashion watches, the stand of D&G won by far (in my opinion):
D&G: One moment the stand is completely blue-ish…
The next moment the complete stand is red!
Guess believes sex sells…
And Breil doesn’t (anymore… Remember the commercials?!)
Dior thinks: J’adore Montres!
Hermes is understated elegance.
Ferregamo started making watches too…
… And, Moschino finds itself “Cheap & Chic”!
2. Fashion watches presented in Hall 5.0:
Storm
Yema
Sector: Is it a fashion brand?! (Sorry for the bad picture & reflection).
Valentino: Like Gucci made a complete black watch for ladies!
Tomorrow I am off to Geneva to visit the SIHH. Stay tuned for a report of all the Richemont brands plus AP, GP and Parmigiani.
Negotiating Deleuze
3 weeks ago ago by corplit. Spam? Tags: advertising, Literature, dg, Deleuze, immanence, Marx, capitalism, Globalization, Negotiations, Philosophy, concept creation, Politics, Political Philosphy, control societies, home-schooling
Deleuze, Gilles. Negotiations, 1972-1990. Trans. Martin Joughin. New York: Columbia UP, 1995. This is the kind of book that one could go to for some plain-speak explanations of Deleuzian (and Guattarian to a certain point) concepts. I’ve chosen to read part one (from AO to 1000 P), and part five (Politics), and skim through part three (Foucault). I’ll be looking at part four (Philosophy) after/while reading his/their other books. Basically, there is a lot of doubling, since the aim seems to be to reflect back and explicate further some of the more salient notions developed by D(&G). The reason I had bought this book in the first place was the very last essay, “Postscript on Control Societies,” in which Deleuze describes his view of corporatism. In no particular order, and with no claim to coherence, I’m just going to jot down things that I found interesting.
The role of philosophy: “Everyone knows that philosophy deals with concepts. A system’s a set of concepts. And it’s an open system when the concepts relate to circumstances rather than essences. But concepts don’t, first of all, turn up ready-made, they don’t preexist: you have to invent, create concepts, and this involves just as much creation and invention as you find in art and science. Philosophy’s job has always been to create new concepts, with their own necessity… A concept sometimes needs a new word to express it, sometimes is uses an everyday word that it gives a singular sense” (32). Well, I feel justified in creating new concepts out of existing words now (because it’s all about me and my project, of course).
And again: “I see philosophy as a logic of multiplicities (I feel, on this point, close to Michel Serres). Creating concepts is creating some area in the plane, adding a new area to existing ones, exploring a new area, filling in what’s missing. Concepts are composites, amalgams of lines, curves. If new concepts have to be brought in all the time, it’s just because the plane of immanence has to be constructed area by area, constructed locally, going from one point to the next. That’s why it comes in bursts: in A Thousand Plateaus each plateau was supposed to be that sort of burst. But that doesn’t mean they can’t be taken up again and treated systematically. Quite the reverse: a concept’s power comes from the way it’s repeated, as one area links up with another. And this linkage is an essential, ceaseless activity: the word as patchwork” (147).
On political philosophy: “Anti-Oedipus was from beginning to end a book of political philosophy” (170). “I think Félix Guattari and I have remained Marxists, in our two different ways, perhaps, but both of us. You see, we think any political philosophy must turn on the analysis of capitalism and the ways it has developed. What we find most interesting in Marx is his analysis of capitalism as an immanent system that’s constantly overcoming its own limitations, and they coming up against them once more in a broader form, because its fundamental limit is Capital itself” (171, my emphasis). Can one disagree with the master? I’m afraid I don’t see Marx’s analysis of capital as immanent, and I wish Deleuze had said more about it in this conversation with Antonio Negri – in which, btw, one can read the germs of Empire taking form, in 1990 – or elsewhere. They sure don’t say or even suggest Marx’s immanence anywhere in Capitalism and Schizophrenia. On the contrary, one gets the impression that they’re talking back to Marx.
On control societies: “We’re definitely moving toward ‘control’ societies that are no longer exactly disciplinary… New kinds of punishment, education, health care are being stealthily introduced… One can envisage education becoming less and less a closed site differentiated from the workspace [lifelong learning, team building, and other corporate pet activities] as another closed site and giving way to frightful continual training, to continual monitoring of worker-schoolkids or bureaucrat-students” (174-75). Can the increase in home-schooling be attributed to the same tendency? After all, the patriarchal family does not afford to fade away with the disciplinary society, and what makes it more interesting is that home schooling becomes yet another non-remunerated task that women have to undertake. In the plane of immanence of corporatism, no direct connection can immediately be made between corporate appropriation of biopower and home schooling, but one can see how home schooling can eventually undermine the public school system and universalize itself as yet another of a good, responsible mother’s duties.
Žižek on Deleuze (part 3 – last one) — 2 comments
3 weeks ago ago by corplit. Spam? Tags: dg, Deleuze, Empire, Hardt and Negri, Marx, capitalism, Globalization, zizek, Psychoanalysis, Résistance, revolution
So, I finished reading Organs without Bodies yesterday, or, more precisely, I finished reading what I chose to read from it – not very scholarly or me, eh? Anyway, I am ambivalent about Žižek’s move to interrogate Deleuze (and Guattari, in spite of Žižek’s antagonism towards him) with the help of psychoanalysis. This move appears throughout the book, e.g., when Žižek discusses D&G’s view of fascism (187-92). I can’t decide if it’s a fair thing to do. Firstly, D&G reject psychoanalysis outright – see the common subtitle of Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus which serves as a common thread – because of the negativity that psychoanalysis induces and of its complicity with capitalism in subjugating desire and hindering the lines of flight and the creation of bodies without organs (simplistically put). So, is it fair to try and verify Deleuze’s claims by introducing a parameter that he had discarded as problematic? Secondly, is this interrogation valid because it should serve as a verification of Deleuze and Guattari’s theses? In other words, even if they throw it out, can psychoanalysis still be a tool in validating their own schizoanalysis?
If I’m not making sense, it’s probably because I’m confused myself. So please disregard. I think Žižek is somehow trying to reconcile Deleuze and Guattari with psychoanalysis, which, again, seems futile, given their rejection of it. If Žižek succeeds in this project, it means that their whole project doesn’t stand. Or does it? As Heather would say, I’m probably splitting hairs right now, and consequently wasting time (mine and yours). Moving on: Žižek offers a critique of Hardt and Negri’s Empire, arguing that “Today’s global capitalism can no longer be combined with democratic representation: the key economic decisions of bodies like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) or World Trade Organization (WTO) are not legitimized by any democratic process, and this lack of democratic representation is structural, not empirical” (195). In other words, Žižek faults Hardt and Negri with coming up with an idealist solution, one that is both inapplicable and too vague (or inapplicable because too vague and idealistic). Žižek remarks that “Their wager is to repeat Marx. For Marx, highly organized corporate capitalism was already a form of socialism within capitalism (a kind of socialization of capitalism, with the absent owners becoming superfluous) [a citation/footnote would have been greatly appreciated here], so that one need only cut the nominal head off and we get socialism. In an identical fashion, Hardt and Negri see the same potential in the emerging emerging hegemonic role of immaterial labor. Today, immaterial labor is ‘hegemonic’ in the precise sense in which Marx proclaimed that, in nineteenth-century capitalism, large industrial production was hegemonic as the specific color giving its tone to the totality – not quantitatively but playing the key, emblematic, structural role. This, then, far from posing a mortal threat to democracy (as conservative cultural critics want us to believe), opens a unique chance of ‘absolute democracy’ – why?” (196).Thank you, sir! Basically, Hardt and Negri’s ingrained Marxism renders them irreconcilable with D&G’s immanence, in spite of their efforts… and Žižek has put it so much more eloquently than I ever could.
Ultimately, Žižek becomes Deleuzian in spite of himself, as he asks “What would the ‘multitude in power’ look like” (198), and starts to exemplify this impossibility by imagining the possibilities of the Zapatistas’ rhetoric of identification with any subaltern from around the world, in the case of their gaining power. The same rhetoric that serves a rebel group would be construed as the harshest of totalitarian demagogy. Thus Žižek does away (or suggests, at least) with the possibility of organized resistance, with the old Marxist panacea of the revolution of the proletariat. As Žižek asks in a dramatic end to the book: “How, then, are we to revolutionize an order whose very principle is constant self-revolutionizing? Perhaps, this is the question today” (213).
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