it's late and i'm punchy....

boingboing had an interesting bit about photoshop f-ups that led me to bookmark this blog: photoshop disasters

this photo is horrendous but the caption is what makes it just so.



"By renormalizing the model's waistline, Maxim Mexico takes a bold socio-political stance in the ongoing battle of the politics of representation, clearly referencing the oppressive reification of male-gaze heteronormative modes of synthesis in a semiotic blancmange of post-structural teakettle barbecue hatstand fishmonger."

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question everything

i'm shopping in Kohl's and i notice a whole line women's clothing called Sag Harbor. i want to meet the brain trust behind that one? i mean, i realize this is probably a real place on the map, but women's clothing? really? this is especially cutting if you happen to be over 40....somewhere there is a group of marketing execs laughing themselves silly....