I have committed a crime of fashion
Jun. 18th, 2006 06:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
todayiamadaisyOne of my friends once pointed out the general unhelpfulness to her (and me, come to that) of those magazine articles that have titles like "50 ways to have an extra $100 a week!", because one of the tips is always "Quit smoking". What do you do when you've never started? Flipping through a magazine today, I thought of her when I found an article that promised this: "With the right strategy, anyone can make a million - but you need to start now". So how exactly does the nameless journalist propose readers go about this? One simply invests $24,000 at 8% today, and leaves it for 20 years. Well, isn't that a super plan for that $24,000 just sitting idly in one's bank account? One's been wondering what to do with it. Stupid journalist.
The Good Weekend is the lifestyle magazine that comes with the Saturday paper and yesterday's edition was a "design and technology" special. I have a love-hate relationship with GW's fashion columnist/occasional journalist, Maggie Alderson; one week she'll write a moving piece about her experience with international adoption or echo my own thoughts about the ineffable sadness of toys in second-hand shops, then the next week she'll claim that it's a top idea - no, obligatory - to get one's hair set at a salon once a week. (It's not the fussing about the hair that gets me - do that, by all means, if that's what floats your boat. What bugs me is the expectation that everyone else should do it too.)
This week was Bad Maggie, writing about "The 10 deadly sins of interior design". I was totally with her on the ugliness of the stand that comes with the TV (my TV's on one, and it is horrible), the pain of shin-barker beds and the ubiquity of annoying cuteness that is Alessi kitchenware (especially the Philippe Starck lemon squeezer (you can't tell me the juice doesn't just run down the legs). I don't share, but can live with, her dislike of knotty pine. But not this!
10. Unarranged books
Books do not always furnish a room. Not when they're all pushed to the back of the shelves, or flung on irrespective of their shape and size. Really, books need careful arranging, according to a strict taxonomy of size - or, if you are marvellously aesthetic, by their spine colours. However you do it, they must be brought forward to the front of the shelf, so all the spines are in a straight line. This is vastly more pleasing to the eye...
She would hate my house. :-)
The Good Weekend is the lifestyle magazine that comes with the Saturday paper and yesterday's edition was a "design and technology" special. I have a love-hate relationship with GW's fashion columnist/occasional journalist, Maggie Alderson; one week she'll write a moving piece about her experience with international adoption or echo my own thoughts about the ineffable sadness of toys in second-hand shops, then the next week she'll claim that it's a top idea - no, obligatory - to get one's hair set at a salon once a week. (It's not the fussing about the hair that gets me - do that, by all means, if that's what floats your boat. What bugs me is the expectation that everyone else should do it too.)
This week was Bad Maggie, writing about "The 10 deadly sins of interior design". I was totally with her on the ugliness of the stand that comes with the TV (my TV's on one, and it is horrible), the pain of shin-barker beds and the ubiquity of annoying cuteness that is Alessi kitchenware (especially the Philippe Starck lemon squeezer (you can't tell me the juice doesn't just run down the legs). I don't share, but can live with, her dislike of knotty pine. But not this!
10. Unarranged books
Books do not always furnish a room. Not when they're all pushed to the back of the shelves, or flung on irrespective of their shape and size. Really, books need careful arranging, according to a strict taxonomy of size - or, if you are marvellously aesthetic, by their spine colours. However you do it, they must be brought forward to the front of the shelf, so all the spines are in a straight line. This is vastly more pleasing to the eye...
She would hate my house. :-)
