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Um, no Purity balls! Lotta problems with this one. Fathers-daughter purity ball dances, with young girls dressing up in gowns with their fathers as dates... seems uncomfortable. As for the "pledge" that said fathers publicly make, to "to cover my daughter as her authority and protection in the area of purity"? Not their decision to make! That's all. [NYT]

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Steampunk

Steampunk! According to the NYT's Thursgay Styles, it's a "subculture that is the aesthetic expression of a time-traveling fantasy world, one that embraces music, film, design and now fashion, all inspired by the extravagantly inventive age of dirigibles and steam locomotives." They describe steampunkers as fusspots with a taste for gaslight-era style: "he owns a flat-screen television, but he has modified it with a burlap frame. He uses an iPhone, but it is encased in burnished brass." But steampunk's been around for a while, of course. Despite the length of the piece, glossed over is the fact that this hot new movement started with a book called the Difference Engine—in 1990! More »

12:48 PM on Thu May 8 2008
By Sheila
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Latest by Elle Menopi: Geez, I fell in love with Steampunk back when Artemus Gordon fascinated me with his gadgets on episodes of "The Wild, Wild West". He made my panties bunch. more »