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Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 1:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
THE LIST: What's Out and In for 2004?

By Hank Stuever
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, Jan. 1, 2004; Page C01

Here's your List for 2004, and it's been 100 percent metrosexualized by yet another bossy sissy. We'd stick around and explain it to you, but everything on our List has already (already?!) been griped about and refuted on somebody's smarter-than-thou blog. (Drat!)

So we'll be down in the spider hole if you need us, with our neat new friend Scarlett Johansson (in!) or maybe Elijah Wood (out?), hiding from Fox News, orange alerts, the next 50 Cent album and that creeeeepy-looking Mel Gibson Jesus movie. We're also dodging any more essays about Paris Hilton and/or the effect of the celebutante on modern culture. It's safe down here -- no Blaster worms, flu superstrains or Karl Rove. Plus we have time to write children's books, practice our frog march, unstitch the cholo monograms from our cigarette pants, and work on our robot. (Our girl robot.)

You can handle it from here, and if you can't, there's always Google.

Like the banner on the big boat says, Mission Accomplished! Cheers, queers.
OUTIN
SkankyLovely
UndercoverNon-Official Cover
RemixesGuitar Solos
SnowboardingKiteboarding
Letting Your Boyfriend Videotape ItLetting A Major Network Videotape It
The NBAAnd-1
Martha Stewart LivingSandra Lee Semi-Homemade Cooking
BelvedereCointreau
RocawearThrowback Jerseys
Arianna HuffingtonDer Gropenfuhrer
MTV2Fuse
HiltonsOlsens
British IntelligenceBritish Television
Gourmet Cotton CandyHomemade Marshmallows
Jessica LynchShoshana Johnson
Flat HairWavy Hair
Spike JonzeSofia Coppola
Glaceau Vitamin WaterPom Wonderful
The StrokesThe Shins
Mutual FundsGoogle's IPO
"Elimidate""Lingo"
Clay Aiken WHAT?Barry Manilow
"Jesus Is My Homeboy" T-ShirtsTank Tops With Yiddish Sayings
Bobbi Brown Beach Body OilLush Back For Breakfast Shower Gel
Mini CooperScion XB
Celebrity Crime"Celebrity Poker"
Overscheduled KidsUnrestricted Playtime
Bleached Denim WrinklesBaked Denim Wrinkles
Grady LittleSteve Bartman
"28 Days Later""30 Days of Night"
PowerPointHandouts
PaparazziHelicopterazzi
Trucker HatsIntellectualizing The Trucker Hat Dilemma
Avoiding AlbacoreFinding Nemo
Homeland SecuritySocial Security
Friendster CliquesStepford Wives
Jimmy FallonJack Black
Zipzap CarsBeyblades
Wire-Fu Fight ScenesCatfights
BachelorsAverage Joes
JackassesBadasses
Siegfried & RoySuddenly Siegfried
John MayerJack Johnson
Lettuce-Wrapped HamburgersCheeseburger-Flavored Fries Made of Meat
Jimmy ChooHolly Dunlap
Paul Smith Throw RugsTodd Oldham La-Z-Boys
The White StripesWhitening Strips
Josh HartnettGael Garcia Bernal
Jennifer GarnerMischa Barton
David BeckhamFreddy Adu
SushiCrudo
SegwayHonda Ruckus
"Shake It Like a Polaroid Picture""My Milkshake Brings All The Boys to the Yard"
"The Matrix"Metrics
"Suh-Weet!""Crisp!"
Listening to ColdplayMarrying Coldplay
"K Street""Avenue Q"
Von DutchOriginal Penguin By Munsingwear
Tiny DogsHairless Cats
"Nip/Tuck""The O.C."
Sharpies in the End ZoneCell Phones in the End Zone
James CarvilleGollum
Martha BurkCode Pink
Ten PenhBuck's Fishing & Camping
Infant GreensIceberg Lettuce
YellowcakeHafnium
ViagraLevitra
Botox InjectionsToe Reductions
Donatella VersaceViktor & Rolf
Kids Who Read "Eragon" BooksKids Who Read "His Dark Materials" Books
Saying Something Is "Ne Plus Ultra"Saying It's "Sui Generis"
Combing Through ItunesSubscribing to Activaire
Flash MobsHoward Dean Mobs
AdidasY-3 by Adidas
Enormous ScarvesUgg Boots (Warning: Expires Feb. 7)
Jack NicholsonBill Murray
BachelorettesQuirkyalones
Bands Who Look Like BlondieBands Who Look Like the Allman Brothers
"Rich Girls""Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica"
SondheimKushner
Us WeeklyThe Star
"While You Were Out""Clean Sweep"


Mamie316

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 2:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Well, I still prefer some of the outs over the ins but the James Carville/Gollum is too funny!

Tishala

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 2:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Some of these are so obviously OUT that it is OUT to even write about them any longer. Paris Hilton is terribly three weeks ago, and trucker hats are more like 6 months ago (but this is Washington we are dealing with, so maybe trucker hats are de rigeur right now). That semi-homemade woman will NEVER be in; Barefoot Contessa is in. Crudo and "The OC" are definitely in (unless you live in Chino), but Sondheim will never be out.

JMHO

Grooch

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 2:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
What exactly is a toe reduction? (shudders at the thought)

Tishala

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 2:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh Grooch, it's a GREAT surgery that shortens your toes so they can fit into your Monolos or your Jimmy Choos!

Texannie

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 2:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Heck..I don't even know what some of the outs are!!! LOL

Grooch

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 3:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
It sounds very painful to me and I think it would be a LOT easier to pay the designer to make larger sized shoes.

Or better yet, since these people have so much money to waste, why not have the designers make custom made shoes fitted just for your feet. That sounds very exclusive and snobberish to me. :)

Max

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 3:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Toe reduction is the modern equivalent of the old Japanese custom of wrapping a young girl's feet so that they remained small. It's mutilation, IMHO, pure and simple. By removing bones in the toes, women can fit their feet into pointy shoes with really high heels that are deemed "fashionable", usually by men who never have to wear the darned crippling things. Other times, women use this method so that they can buy shoes that are actually too small for their feet - again in the name of 'style.'

There have been stories in the media about this lately. Your feet are SO integral to how the rest of your body functions! Some podiatrists refuse to do this kind of surgery because there are severe complications that can result, including losing feeling in the entire foot.

Unfortunately, until women (especially women who spend tons of money on the latest fashions) rebel against clothing that cripples them, this kind of thing will continue to go on. It ranks right up there with removing a rib so you can have a thinner waist (and, yes, there are folks who do that, too).

UGH! Give me a pair of Birkenstocks any day!!! :)

Hippyt

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 3:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yeah,I'm with ya on that Max! Excellent rant! Imagine,you're feet are tiny,but you hobble around like an old woman. How very fashionable.....

Tishala

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 3:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Well, I love my Jimmy Choos and I hate my long toes, but I haven't had them surgically reduced yet! Heehee! I would say that it's not like Chinese [not Japanese] foot binding, because it is a choice women can make and it doesn't infantalize women. But that's neither here nor there, I suppose.

BTW, I adore "in" and "out" lists almost as much as "Best of" lists!

Max

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 3:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
WOops! Cultural faux pas! Sorry 'bout that. :)

I did my time in high heels and "fashion" shoes. I agree they look great, but they sure don't feel good if you have to do much walking or standing. I had plenty of corns and bunyons and what not until I switched to wider toe-boxes and shorter heels. Now, I have a couple of pairs of low heels in my closet for special occasions, but other than that, you'll find me in flats or wedges that are less than 1" tall.

Once I finally gave up "fashion", I discovered I really needed a size 11 shoe -- I'd been cramming my feet into size 10s. At least I can GET shoes in that size now. When I was a kid and needed size 10s, I usually had about three pairs to choose from. Thank goodness the shoe industry finally acknowledged that there are a lot of us with large feet. :)

Okay, now, what the heckfire is Hafnium? :)

Tishala

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 4:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Max, I think it's a radioactive substance, based on its relationship to yellowcake uranium.

Max

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 4:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ahhh!! Thanks, Tish. See, I figured Yellowcake was something you ate! LOL

Twiggyish

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 6:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Toe reduction sounds like torture.

I like Sandra Lee Semi Homemade Cooking (Made her yummy pizza recipe tonight)

I don't know some of the other IN things..LOL (Do you wear Ugg boots in Florida?)

Hippyt

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 6:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
No,lol,and not in Texas either.

Hippyt

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 6:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ugg boots
uggghly

Twiggyish

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 7:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ok, I prefer flip flops for beach wear. (wonder if they're in or not..LOL)

It's too warm here to wear boots like that..but I'd buy them for up north.

Max

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 7:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Looks like there be some sweaty feet there to me! :)

Cathie

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 10:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Now I will have to give my daughter credit for the homemade marshmallows she made over the holidays. My reaction was...WHY? Now I know she was just a few steps ahead of the pack, lol.

p.s. they were very, very tasty, the melt-in-your-mouth kind!

Goddessatlaw

Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 6:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I would wear the hell out of those boots today if I had a pair, except I'd be wearing a full-length camel (not camel's hair - camel!) coat, fox wrap and rabbit earmuffs to complete the fashion statement. My fashionable self would be stating to all onlookers: "Serious well-diggers ass action going on here. This ain't South Beach, it's Indiana and it's below zero. Screw Mr. Blackwell and everything he stands for."

Fabnsab

Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 2:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Once Oprah put the Uggs on her "favorite things" episode, they flew off the shelves. They are on backorder till April, and are going for over $300 on ebay, which reg price is about $110.

I find that most things go "out" once the general population gets wind of them. But in order to not get tons of strange looks in Cleveland or Milwaukee by being a trendsetter, you almost have to wait till things are more mainstream, which is exactly when they go "out." Its a vicious cycle!!!!!!!!

Twiggyish

Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 5:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Gal, those boots would look great with a camel colored coat!

Melfie1222

Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 9:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm just grateful that I've never said "suh-weet!" in my life, otherwise I would have had to start saying "crisp!" instead. yikes.

Scorpiomoon

Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 11:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Jennifer Garner is out? NO WAY!

Thank God sushi is out though. I hate sushi.

"Rich Girls" out? I never knew that show was "in"?

The Olsens are in? I don't think so (unless you're under the age of 16, in which case they have been in for years).

Can you actually hear someone saying "Crisp!" in reference to anything other than bacon or letuce? Please!

I agree about "Clean Sweep" being in.

Jhezzie

Thursday, January 08, 2004 - 11:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh, I think the idle rich in general is so 2003. I do, however, agree with Yiddish tanks and homemade marshmallows.:)