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    A Sneak Peek at a Fashionista Socialite's Important New Novel
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    Image of i'm a bottle i'm a bottle
    01/23/09

    In reply to A Sneak Peek at a Fashionista Socialite's Important New Novel
    @ Adam: "Politely shown the door."

    @ Wences: Like "taken out to the soccer stadium" for its utter wonderful absurdity. The one that just occurred to me is much more ominous, "Sent for reeducation."


    I would hate to be the editor in charge of this project. Just imagine having to meticulously go through these metaphors and try to unmix them. It's no easy task. I particularly like "the colors came together in a throbbing print that was so bad it was good." I'm sorry, but that makes no sense.


    Also, some factual contentions need to be explained, but I wonder whether she is really up to the task. For example: Is NY really the epicenter of fashion? I would argue that it really isn't.

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    01/23/09

    @i'm_a_bottle: Disregard those first quotes. That was for something else.
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    Image of shostakobitch shostakobitch
    01/22/09

    In reply to A Sneak Peek at a Fashionista Socialite's Important New Novel
    Thanks Stephanie Lacava, this is just the thing my life needs. Another target for frustration and anger. After that athletic woman threw the sledgehammer through my giant TV that showed Emmanuel Goldstein for 2 minutes every day I've been feeling creepily ok with my position in life.
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    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    01/22/09

    In reply to A Sneak Peek at a Fashionista Socialite's Important New Novel
    I know that game. When they cut to plaids and thick socks and mustard greens as a filler. They read in real novels how flavor is everywhere, like packing peanuts, so they throw it in at random. It's a good technique. Builds suspense or something. Technical background. Look what it did for Joe the Plumber!
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    Image of aurora*raby aurora*raby
    01/22/09

    In reply to A Sneak Peek at a Fashionista Socialite's Important New Novel
    Oh, these embodiments of feline virtue should stick to what they do best: writing unintelligible captions.
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    Image of FrankGoodness FrankGoodness
    01/22/09

    In reply to A Sneak Peek at a Fashionista Socialite's Important New Novel
    I am a troubled middle brother, my best friend at prep school was called "Chape" and I still have a pair of Bean rubber moccasins from the early 70s in my closet.


    Does that not make me the target audience here?

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    Image of TerseNursePornstein TerseNursePornstein
    01/22/09

    @FrankGoodness: That makes you anything but, I'm afraid.
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    Image of City_Dater City_Dater
    01/22/09

    In reply to A Sneak Peek at a Fashionista Socialite's Important New Novel
    I wonder if she typed this up all by herself or if she dictated it to an intern who had to mentally remove all the drawling "you know"s while her little fingers flew.
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    Image of Noun-Verb-7-Eleven Noun-Verb-7-Eleven
    01/22/09

    In reply to A Sneak Peek at a Fashionista Socialite's Important New Novel
    "...real, true pain." Ugh.
    It's wearing to hear writers try to infuse patronizingly glamorous premises with their idea of hardship in order to provide necessary plot conflict. It feels almost demeaning to have to follow a plot arc of trifles when so many of our lives have sincere struggles. I guess I'm just fed up with this literary formula.
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    01/22/09

    @Noun-Verb-7-Eleven: Well, she could be talking about the "real, true pain" of standing in manolo blahniks for an hour.
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    01/22/09

    In reply to A Sneak Peek at a Fashionista Socialite's Important New Novel
    also:


    1. brown purse with a black dress?
    2. did she steal those glasses from carrie donovan?

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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    01/22/09

    In reply to A Sneak Peek at a Fashionista Socialite's Important New Novel
    maybe president obama can make a law that fixes it
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    Image of Weegee's bored Weegee's bored
    01/22/09

    In reply to A Sneak Peek at a Fashionista Socialite's Important New Novel
    This book was assembled from particles shed during the creation of the antimatter Gossip Girls. If you put the two together gently enough yu can great a black hole that will east the Upper East Side.
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    01/22/09

    In reply to A Sneak Peek at a Fashionista Socialite's Important New Novel
    The words, commas, bile all came together in a throbbing headache that was so bad it was good I had my Hydrocodone.
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    Image of Oy Veh (Informality Reigns) Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
    01/22/09

    In reply to A Sneak Peek at a Fashionista Socialite's Important New Novel
    I bet her grandfather was Mr. Magoo.
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    Image of mkknyr mkknyr
    01/22/09

    In reply to A Sneak Peek at a Fashionista Socialite's Important New Novel
    "...back when Louis XIV issued his sumptuary, American was embryonic."


    haha, it's nice to see Microsoft Word's thesaurus function has such a strong impact on today's "poetic prose".

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    Image of leonleonleon leonleonleon
    01/22/09

    @mkknyr: Seriously. Her Shift + F7 keys must be worn clean
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    Image of Seeräuber Jenny Seeräuber Jenny
    01/22/09

    @mkknyr:


    Aren't "sumptuary" and "sartorial" adjectives?

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    Image of propertius propertius
    01/22/09

    @Seeräuber Jenny: Yes. Like the sumptuary laws of the Roman Republic, intended to curb the use of luxury items.
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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    01/22/09

    @propertius: Not to be confused with the sumptuous laws of the later Republic, which were like regular laws, only printed on velvet.
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    Image of Moff Moff
    01/22/09

    In reply to A Sneak Peek at a Fashionista Socialite's Important New Novel
    I don't want to jump the gun here, because it may just be synchronicity, but almost all of the excerpted copy appears to have been lifted from my science-fiction novel Pothead Space Ninja.
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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    01/22/09

    @Moff: Man! I thought the stuff about mushroom-hats sounded familiar.
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    Image of Moff Moff
    01/22/09

    @braak: And Emily, the very first person who made me want to manipulate my appearance in order to push through real, true pain.
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    Image of Moff Moff
    01/22/09

    @Moff: I shouldn't make fun. It's HARD to write a novel.


    Although not that hard to get published, if you're a wealthy East Coast blue blood.

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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    01/22/09

    @Moff: ...yeah...
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    Image of bringmemyTofu bringmemyTofu
    01/22/09

    In reply to A Sneak Peek at a Fashionista Socialite's Important New Novel
    Cubs win! CUBS WIN!
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