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Rslover
| Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 1:58 pm
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.
OUT | IN | Skanky | Lovely | Undercover | Non-Official Cover | Remixes | Guitar Solos | Snowboarding | Kiteboarding | Letting Your Boyfriend Videotape It | Letting A Major Network Videotape It | The NBA | And-1 | Martha Stewart Living | Sandra Lee Semi-Homemade Cooking | Belvedere | Cointreau | Rocawear | Throwback Jerseys | Arianna Huffington | Der Gropenfuhrer | MTV2 | Fuse | Hiltons | Olsens | British Intelligence | British Television | Gourmet Cotton Candy | Homemade Marshmallows | Jessica Lynch | Shoshana Johnson | Flat Hair | Wavy Hair | Spike Jonze | Sofia Coppola | Glaceau Vitamin Water | Pom Wonderful | The Strokes | The Shins | Mutual Funds | Google's IPO | "Elimidate" | "Lingo" | Clay Aiken WHAT? | Barry Manilow | "Jesus Is My Homeboy" T-Shirts | Tank Tops With Yiddish Sayings | Bobbi Brown Beach Body Oil | Lush Back For Breakfast Shower Gel | Mini Cooper | Scion XB | Celebrity Crime | "Celebrity Poker" | Overscheduled Kids | Unrestricted Playtime | Bleached Denim Wrinkles | Baked Denim Wrinkles | Grady Little | Steve Bartman | "28 Days Later" | "30 Days of Night" | PowerPoint | Handouts | Paparazzi | Helicopterazzi | Trucker Hats | Intellectualizing The Trucker Hat Dilemma | Avoiding Albacore | Finding Nemo | Homeland Security | Social Security | Friendster Cliques | Stepford Wives | Jimmy Fallon | Jack Black | Zipzap Cars | Beyblades | Wire-Fu Fight Scenes | Catfights | Bachelors | Average Joes | Jackasses | Badasses | Siegfried & Roy | Suddenly Siegfried | John Mayer | Jack Johnson | Lettuce-Wrapped Hamburgers | Cheeseburger-Flavored Fries Made of Meat | Jimmy Choo | Holly Dunlap | Paul Smith Throw Rugs | Todd Oldham La-Z-Boys | The White Stripes | Whitening Strips | Josh Hartnett | Gael Garcia Bernal | Jennifer Garner | Mischa Barton | David Beckham | Freddy Adu | Sushi | Crudo | Segway | Honda Ruckus | "Shake It Like a Polaroid Picture" | "My Milkshake Brings All The Boys to the Yard" | "The Matrix" | Metrics | "Suh-Weet!" | "Crisp!" | Listening to Coldplay | Marrying Coldplay | "K Street" | "Avenue Q" | Von Dutch | Original Penguin By Munsingwear | Tiny Dogs | Hairless Cats | "Nip/Tuck" | "The O.C." | Sharpies in the End Zone | Cell Phones in the End Zone | James Carville | Gollum | Martha Burk | Code Pink | Ten Penh | Buck's Fishing & Camping | Infant Greens | Iceberg Lettuce | Yellowcake | Hafnium | Viagra | Levitra | Botox Injections | Toe Reductions | Donatella Versace | Viktor & Rolf | Kids Who Read "Eragon" Books | Kids Who Read "His Dark Materials" Books | Saying Something Is "Ne Plus Ultra" | Saying It's "Sui Generis" | Combing Through Itunes | Subscribing to Activaire | Flash Mobs | Howard Dean Mobs | Adidas | Y-3 by Adidas | Enormous Scarves | Ugg Boots (Warning: Expires Feb. 7) | Jack Nicholson | Bill Murray | Bachelorettes | Quirkyalones | Bands Who Look Like Blondie | Bands Who Look Like the Allman Brothers | "Rich Girls" | "Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica" | Sondheim | Kushner | Us Weekly | The Star | "While You Were Out" | "Clean Sweep" |
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Mamie316
| Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 2:03 pm
Well, I still prefer some of the outs over the ins but the James Carville/Gollum is too funny!
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Tishala
| Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 2:09 pm
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
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Grooch
| Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 2:40 pm
What exactly is a toe reduction? (shudders at the thought)
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Tishala
| Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 2:48 pm
Oh Grooch, it's a GREAT surgery that shortens your toes so they can fit into your Monolos or your Jimmy Choos!
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Texannie
| Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 2:56 pm
Heck..I don't even know what some of the outs are!!! LOL
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Grooch
| Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 3:05 pm
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.
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Max
| Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 3:27 pm
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!!!
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Hippyt
| Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 3:31 pm
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.....
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Tishala
| Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 3:34 pm
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!
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Max
| Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 3:45 pm
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?
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Tishala
| Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 4:05 pm
Max, I think it's a radioactive substance, based on its relationship to yellowcake uranium.
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Max
| Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 4:09 pm
Ahhh!! Thanks, Tish. See, I figured Yellowcake was something you ate! LOL
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Twiggyish
| Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 6:50 pm
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?)
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Hippyt
| Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 6:53 pm
No,lol,and not in Texas either.
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Hippyt
| Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 6:54 pm
Ugg boots

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Twiggyish
| Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 7:00 pm
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.
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Max
| Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 7:02 pm
Looks like there be some sweaty feet there to me!
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Cathie
| Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 10:36 pm
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!
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Goddessatlaw
| Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 6:59 am
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."
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Fabnsab
| Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 2:31 pm
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!!!!!!!!
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Twiggyish
| Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 5:39 pm
Gal, those boots would look great with a camel colored coat!
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Melfie1222
| Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 9:07 pm
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.
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Scorpiomoon
| Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 11:59 pm
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.
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Jhezzie
| Thursday, January 08, 2004 - 11:30 pm
Oh, I think the idle rich in general is so 2003. I do, however, agree with Yiddish tanks and homemade marshmallows.
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