Tragedy! Bad Idea Pot Luck Review of Fashion

The incomparable Anna Sui makes an affordable clothing line for Target, only to ruin everything with a dumb Gossip Girl TV tie-in. Was this really necessary? What was the thinking on this? I know television is going through some kind of huge cultural renaissance and all that. Maybe if I wasn't determinedly sleeping through it this would make more sense to me. All I see is a brilliant opportunity squandered.

I was in Target today, so I can inform you that the clothes are totally wearable and appear to be getting snapped up. I just don't think I can go there. I'd feel like I was in elementary school again trying to look like Clarissa from Clarissa Explains it All. It's back to the sewing machine for me.

Funnest Art Opening Ever

Check out the show at Vacation Gallery for the next month. Abby Go Go and the hula hoopers probably won't be there but David Bowie playing Scrabble with himself definitely will.

Art!

This art opening promises to be the event of the season and I'm not just saying that because it is the first solo show of an awesome friend. She's been talking about these works for a long time and I'm so excited to see them I might faint before I get within range.

Friday night from 7:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. at Vacation Gallery and Boutique, 674 A N. Highland Ave.

I can't believe it stopped raining

The Krog Tunnel is so beautiful when it floods. (The Krog photo comes from Chad in Atlanta. Sailor by Pierre et Gilles.)

Get yourself a college girl

I want to see this movie. Mostly, I've just been watching parts of it on Youtube. Nancy Sinatra is in it, plus the Dave Clark Five, the Animals and the Standells. And, of course, lot's of great '60s hair.

I needed this today:

Technically, the name for this game ought to be "Cheese or Typeface" because the word "font" refers to a typeface at a specific size, but I won't hold it against this guy. As for the rest of you: be warned.

Uncool

This is the website Bad Idea Potluck wants to be when it grows up: The Uncool Hunter. It is chicken soup for the hip-overloaded soul, a kind of anti-Vice, if you will. Nothing on the site will ever be the next big thing. It is a great comfort to me in my crotchety old age.

Bye Summer. I'll miss you.

This is on the Dekalb Ave. underpass at Whitefoord Ave.

Amoebas? Flowers?

You'll find these beauties blooming along Moreland Ave. on the Dekalb Ave. underpass on the side opposite the Edgewood Shopping Plaza. I like these because they are small and full of detail.
I wasn't sure they were even a wheat paste piece until I got up close. From a distance they looked like some kind of smudgy marking left by maintenance workers or something.

New Technology Keeps Cats Off Couches!

No animals were harmed in the making of this technology.

So Dirty

Some fairly amazing bands add me on Myspace. Now that there is absolutely no other life on Myspace, listening to the random bands that add me has become a relaxing pastime. I log in for that sole purpose. Dirty Dancing added me recently and not only has this duo a great name but you can actually listen to them without wanting to punch someone. At this point, that's all I ask. Check them out. I should really post more of these.

http://www.myspace.com/drtydancing

Crystal Baller

You didn't hear it from me, but Fucked Up's next album is going to be all Auto-Tune. Wait and see.

Satan's Angel is America

I've been a little heavy on the naked lately and I know that but the bad idea icon for the month of September is still Satan's Angel, one of the official old-time legends of burlesque and still performing.

She's also famous for one of the best bad ideas of all time: she lights her tassels on fire and twirls them around, with style. She calls it "tatas flambe" and even encourages others in this through instructional videos. Bad Idea Potluck is dizzy with admiration.

Your Monthly Male

This month's dudecake was chosen to honor the makers of Cycles Gladiator wine who are proudly standing up to persecution in the state of Alabama for their supposedly obscene label.
Clearly, wings and nakedness just went together with bikes in people's minds during a certain era. I think this one is very tasteful.

New note:

Wings, bikes, naked ... having thought about it in light of some books I've read dealing with the early history of cycling I realize that the wings and the naked went with bikes because, when they were first invented, they symbolized a kind of magical freedom for people. Sort of like how you feel when you first get a bike as a child or realize as an adult that, actually, you don't need a car after all.

Doomed!

This one comes from Julia in Charlotte. Dino Run is the only video game I have ever played and reached the third level. That means absolutely anyone can play and enjoy this game. Or maybe it's just that I particularly understand the psychology of this one. Run as fast as you want, you are probably still doomed.

Another Month, Another Beer

This month's beer isn't incredibly exotic. Like the month of September, it is just cheery and refreshing. If it was a person it would be a friendly looking girl in a canary yellow dress, who you might consider marrying. I really like this beer and I am not usually a fan of wheat beers. I like it because it is different and complex but not at all intense.

Introduced in March, the kellerweis hefeweizen is a new addition to the Sierra Nevada beer family. I'm told the name kellerweis means "cellar beer" and the Sierra Nevada web site informs me that it is made using the open fermentation process. That must be why it is such an open, friendly kind of beer.

I have chosen it as this month's beer of the month because I haven't yet gotten around to trying Sam Goldman's recommendation: the dark and mysterious Peak Organic Espresso Amber Ale.
But mark my words, I will.