The 80s Just Won’t Die

Things from the 80s that have been “fashionable” in the millennium:

Giant plastic earrings.
Leggings.
More specifically, stirrup leggings.
Boxy jackets.
Side ponytails.
Off-the-shoulder shirts.
Huge belts.
Jelly shoes.
Legwarmers.

And now…
Hypercolor.
I’m so not even joking.  If I remember anything about the 80s — the few years I was around — it’s that Hypercolor shirts were all the rage.  For those of you who are [...]

“I cannot pretend and I will not defend; why, this good old girl’s so tragically unhip!”

Last night, after successfully scoring a parking spot on campus — which, given our student population, was a miracle unto itself and prompted a fit of gloating since my husband spent an hour earlier that afternoon trying to (unsuccessfully, might I add) get a parking spot — I had a little over an hour to [...]

“High thoughts must have high language.”

steenface dot com brought to you by the letter “S.”
As in, “Do you mean my spank bank?”
(True sentence uttered by my husband.)
spank bank [spangk-bangk]
- noun
1. The catalog of men and/or women in one’s mind one uses to masturbate to. [see: "masturbaceous"]
a. The bank is only temporary storage and is inferior in many ways to [...]

“It’s Levi-OHHH-sa, not Levio-SA!”

Internet, I have a confession. Please don’t hate me.
I haven’t started reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows yet.

I know! I know! I spent about three hours at the bookstore waiting for it — well, actually, I was book-shopping for about an hour of that and snagged a graphic novel of Anita Blake, [...]

“When you sell a man a book, you don’t sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue – you sell him a whole new life.”

I’ve been hitting up the bookstore a lot lately — I finally broke down and bought a Barnes & Noble membership card, which is huge because I’m such a cheapskate when it comes to these things — and, every time, the same book is heavily advertised and damn near thrown at me: Middlesex by Jeffrey [...]

“Look, we’re as fucked up as you are. It’s like the blind leading the blind.”

I drink fruity martinis. I lust after shoes with price tags resembling my monthly income. I peed a little when Proenza Schouler cropped up at Target as part of the GO International line. I firmly believe that, if there is a Heaven, it resembles a Tiffany & Company storefront. I have [...]

“Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.”

When did it become fashionable to be so publicly naked? You can’t get through a page at The Superficial without a headline ending with “forgets her bra” or a black-bar across some celebrity’s cooch.
Case in point:
Over the last week,
Janice Dickinson flashes her pantyhose.
Rose McGowan forgets her bra.
Lindsay Lohan shows off her naughty parts.
Lindsay Lohan [...]

“Cinderella was the original Oprah.”

It wasn’t until I was in about 8th grade when girls my age started wearing skimpy clothes, lots of make-up, and high heels. It was a weird change of fashion; one day, girls were wearing t-shirts and jeans, the next they were wearing miniskirts and tank tops. Until the schools caught on and [...]

“You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.”

I don’t know how many of you listen to the radio but there’s this annoying McDonald’s ad I hear at least once on my way to work.  (I listen to a morning radio show, despite my burning hatred for them.  It’s good to know if there are any blazing seven-car pile-ups on my route to [...]

“The Internet is… the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.”

Because MySpace isn’t bad enough, the Internet has so lovingly decided to give us the Zwinky. It seems to be a cross between anime and South Park, producing bobble-headed dolls with big sparkly eyes. Or you can opt for the anime doll, not unlike one of those obnoxious “blinkie dollz” adorning many, many, [...]