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[rm]

- You know, I keep trying to come up with the conclusion to my sentence that starts, "It's hard to be bitter about not being at Comic Con when...." but the lack of discretion that necessarily completes the sentence sort of prohibits me from going there. So that's all you get.

- They lost Patty's luggage.

- Stick class tonight.

- I know I have good genes and don't particularly worry about aging, so my perspective might be off, but seriously?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/24/fashion/24skin.html
SERIOUSLY?
If someone asked me to get breast implants to make their wedding look perfect, I'd stop talking to them, because CRAZY.

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[redstapler.livejournal.com]

Next year, we do Comic Con. However we have to get there.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I have to say, I've started to watch some of the TW panel videos that have started making their way around the net, and there's a part of me that's glad I'm not there, because the whole let's scream for the rock stars vibe of it makes me feel both old and full of inner conflict.

[quatredeathlady.livejournal.com]

Ugh, that NYT article is fucking depressing. If any of my friends had the gall to ask me to get implants, botox or other cosmetic prodecures, I would punch them and promptly stop talking to them.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Seriously. If someone offered me the botox as part of some spa bullshit, but it wasn't like important to them, we'd be okay, but beyond that, and it would be no. I can't imagine I know anyone who's boundaries would be bad in that particular way though.

Botox

[nex0s.livejournal.com]

These people are fucking NUTS.

NO NO NO NO NO.

And I say that having been a bride less than 3 weeks ago.

NO.

Honestly - you can always tell when people do this to themselves and they ALL look OLDER with the treatment.

If people want nice skin, they should exfoliate, eat healthily, and moisturize. Geez.

N.

Re: Botox

[rm.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there's a reason I look ten years younger than I am -- no smoking, no sun, very little alcohol.

[eac.livejournal.com]

"If someone asked me to get breast implants to make their wedding look perfect, I'd stop talking to them, because CRAZY."

Heh. In no way would I agree to be saddled with larger breasts to make a bride happy. Or inject myself with things to make me look younger. *shudder*

I do sort of feel - as with the Philadelphia magazine article about waxing 10 year olds - that maybe if we shun these people they will disappear into a hole in the earth.

Also, glad you're not in a position to be bitter about missing comicon. ;)

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't it be a lot easier (and less potentially friendship-destroying, because PLEASE!) to just Photoshop the wedding pictures?

[mangosteen]

As someone who has a side business as a wedding photographer, it would actually be more expensive to Photoshop all the wedding pictures, if you have someone do it who knows what they're doing.

Even if that person is you or a friend, it will take an inordinate amount of time, and that's worth something. Just getting all the curves consistent from picture to picture is a PITA, much less figring out how to make the curves look plausible in the first place.

[But I now realize that I didn't answer the question. It'll probably be a lot less wearing on the friendships (unless they think that you're MONDO CREEPY for re-shaping them in post-production). As for easier, well, you're back to cost.]

[christinenorris.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's freaking ridiculous. Age spots? They make foundation that covers them. And any photographer worth his or her salt will get rid of blemishes on pictures.

How someone could even ask her friends to inject themselves with a toxin for HER wedding is beyond me. The mani/pedi - yes. Buying them facials - sure, I dig a good facial. Permanent-type things. No f-ing way.

And we wonder why the divorce rate is so high - everyone spends all this time and energy on the wedding, none on the marriage.

[gement.livejournal.com]

I've noticed that the life and arts section of my local paper has become rather schitzophrenic. The front page will alternate between something like this ($500 haircuts for nine year old girls, gourmet pet consultants) and cooking tips for how to zest up beans-and-rice when you can't afford meat.

My interpretation is that the 1000 people in the world who are still rich and shallow enough to ramp up their conspicuous consumption are now on bread-and-circuses duty for the rest of us.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

I suspect that number is somewhat low, especially if you include those who wish to be thought rich.
Of course, there are rich and shallow people who have no wish to entertain the rest of us, but that's usually Old Money.

[redstapler.livejournal.com]

what.

That NYT article is so, so offensive. Why would you do that to people? That's egregious.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

It's contemptible.

[rusty_halo.livejournal.com]

That right there is why I stopped reading the NY Times. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THOSE PEOPLE?

The Fuck What Is Wrong With Those People.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

They are tacky, and they have money.

[blackbird-song.livejournal.com]

I had not heard of such wedding demands until you linked us to the NYT article. What a horrid indication of how far down we have sunk as a society (and maybe as a species) when it comes to relationships. Any friendship that would be lost due to a refusal to undergo cosmetic medical procedures in order to enhance a person's wedding photographs was never worth having in the first place, imho.

I am cursing myself for not taking the plunge and going to Comic Con. It would have been worth all the crowds and inconvenience to be at the Torchwood panel, yesterday.

Catherine

[rm.livejournal.com]

I haven't watched any of the vids of the panel, but everyone seems to be swooning with the awesome.

[drfardook.livejournal.com]

Last weekend they had a series on consumer debt and now they have an article about cosmetic surgery being a 'popular' option for weddings.

I try to keep in mind that the Times isn't a monolith but a series of editors, assistant editors, journalists, and people who like to think they're journalists. However you have to wonder if the other parts of the paper hasn't noticed that the fashion and lifestyle editors seem content to snort china white with a bunch of rich white women and turn out some seriously crack headed shit like this without a single moment of irony.

[imaginarycircus.livejournal.com]

But the styles section people are not connected to reality or the rest of the paper, you know.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

I read that article and was full of horror, from the breast implant thing to the woman telling her future mother in law she needed some botox before the wedding. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

Further Deponent saith not.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you're not too disheartened about that. I thought you wouldn't be.

CRAZY.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

That would isn't not talking to someone ever again wrong. That's somebody is going to get a hurting wrong.

Re: CRAZY.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Some people aren't worth the bullets.

[imaginarycircus.livejournal.com]

Sick and wrong. Also who the hell has 9 bridesmaids? O_O

[these-3-remain.livejournal.com]

That's super nutso crazy. I wouldn't get plastic surgery for my life partner (aka, someone who sees me naked on a regular basis and shares bank accounts with me), let alone do it for the sake of a friend's WEDDING PICTURES. Good lord.

[used_songs]

I have been trying so hard not to be jealous about all the folks at Comic Con. I had planned to go with a friend, but it fell through. It's becoming increasingly hard to rise above my baser nature with every squee filled post of pics and videos that appears on my friendslist, though.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I have a lot of inner conflict about what is totally appropriate, but sort of foreign to me fan behavior at events of this scale (the rock star thing really freaks me out), so while I'm bummed not to be there, I know that I would have been uncomfortable and overwhelmed in general (I'm gregarious as hell, but not an extrovert, and that I would have been working would have meant that I'd have to hide in my room a lot to recharge). Also, seriously, I can't imagine having to have waited another three days to see Patty.

Crazed Craziness of the Rich and Crazy.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

I taught six puppies how to sit this morning, so I care naught for the entire lot!

[1-mad-squirrel.livejournal.com]

I'm with you. I'd be like, "Fuck your implants, fuck your wedding and fuck you!"