Many people are very into MAC makeup. They love the brand, they love the makeup, the brushes - whatever. I myself have some MAC products, but I was never a die hard junkie, or as I like to call it, a MACaphile.
I recently bought some lipsticks from them, which I have to say was quite a task! All the different finishes and colors, I bought them when I was in a rush, but had I not been -- I think my head would have exploded from the amount of choices!
Anyway, here is the thing about the lipstick. I am in LOVE with the bullet. (for those of you who don't know, the bullet is the shape of the lipstick). It makes it so beyond easy to apply the lipstick that I just can't get enough of it. I use the very tip to line inside my lip, and then the flat part to fill it in. I end up with perfectly painted lips. The texture is really nice and smooth as well. It literally just glides on. And it doesn't move. Which is great for when I'm in a rush (which seems to be a theme in my life lately). Unlike my other lipsticks, which I apply with a lipbrush for perfection, I literally just swipe and go.
I always thought that robots were really cool and fun. When I was little there was this cool little white robot toy....it would talk in its robot voice and ask you questions and you would press buttons..it would move around on its little wheels. The whole thing was very 1980s. My best friend had one, and I would go over to his house just to play with it. It was THAT so fun.
Fast forward to 2008...the latest robots are SCARY. As in Nightmarish. I can't describe them...so if care to take the risk...check out these videos of the latest in Robot Technology....Oooh. I have shivers going up and down my spine!!!
I always thought that robots were really cool and fun. When I was little there was this cool little white robot toy....it would talk in its robot voice and ask you questions and you would press buttons..it would move around on its little wheels. The whole thing was very 1980s. My best friend had one, and I would go over to his house just to play with it. It was THAT so fun.
Fast forward to 2008...the latest robots are SCARY. As in Nightmarish. I can't describe them...so if care to take the risk...check out these videos of the latest in Robot Technology....Oooh. I have shivers going up and down my spine!!!
I am sooo angry about this Pastor Wright situation that I don't even know where to begin. So let me start by saying that I first read about Wright's sermon's a year ago in the New York Times. I was bothered then, but I let it go. But now..NOW..with sermons about 9/11 that include things like "G-d Damn America" and that we brought this on ourselves. Oh the blood pressure is rising.
What's worse, is that Obama doesn't seem to feel like he has to leave this church. He says that he had attended this church for 20 years, and that he was never present when Wright made these sort of comments. He says he is going to continue going to this church, because Wright is retiring.
All I can think of is: Liar Liar Pants on Fire!!!
Check out some bits and pieces I picked up on the web about Wright and Obama.
To start it off: Obama's Video Response:
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Really Obama?! You didn't know your pastor's opinions? Check out this article from the NYtimes in 2007...
Disinvitation by Obama Is Criticized
By JODI KANTOR
Published: March 6, 2007
CHICAGO, March 5 — The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., senior pastor of the popular Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago and spiritual mentor to Senator Barack Obama, thought he knew what he would be doing on Feb. 10, the day of Senator Obama’s presidential announcement.
After all, back in January, Mr. Obama had asked Mr. Wright if he would begin the event by delivering a public invocation.
But Mr. Wright said Mr. Obama called him the night before the Feb. 10 announcement and rescinded the invitation to give the invocation.
“Fifteen minutes before Shabbos I get a call from Barack,” Mr. Wright said in an interview on Monday, recalling that he was at an interfaith conference at the time. “One of his members had talked him into uninviting me,” Mr. Wright said, referring to Mr. Obama’s campaign advisers.
Some black leaders are questioning Mr. Obama’s decision to distance his campaign from Mr. Wright because of the campaign’s apparent fear of criticism over Mr. Wright’s teachings, which some say are overly Afrocentric to the point of excluding whites.
Bill Burton, a spokesman for the Obama campaign, said the campaign disinvited Mr. Wright because it did not want the church to face negative attention. Mr. Wright did however, attend the announcement and prayed with Mr. Obama beforehand.
“Senator Obama is proud of his pastor and his church, but because of the type of attention it was receiving on blogs and conservative talk shows, he decided to avoid having statements and beliefs being used out of context and forcing the entire church to defend itself,” Mr. Burton said.
Instead, Mr. Obama asked Mr. Wright’s successor as pastor at Trinity, the Rev. Otis Moss III, to speak. Mr. Moss declined.
In recent weeks, word of Mr. Obama’s treatment of Mr. Wright has reached black leaders like the Rev. Al Sharpton and given them pause.
“I have not discussed this with Senator Obama in detail, but I can see why callers of mine and other clergymen would be concerned, because the issue is standing by your own pastor,” Mr. Sharpton said.
Mr. Wright’s church, the 8,000-member Trinity United Church of Christ, is considered mainstream — Oprah Winfrey has attended services, and many members are prominent black professionals. But the church is also more Afrocentric and politically active than standard black congregations.
Mr. Wright helped organize the 1995 Million Man March on Washington and along with other United Church of Christ ministers was one of the first black religious leaders to protest apartheid and welcome gay and lesbian worshippers.
Since Mr. Obama made his presidential ambitions clear, conservatives have drawn attention to his close relationship to Mr. Wright and to the church’s emphasis on black empowerment. Tucker Carlson of MSNBC called the precepts “racially exclusive” and “wrong.” Last week, on the Fox News program “Hannity & Colmes,” Erik Rush, a conservative columnist, called the church “quite cultish, quite separatist.”
In Monday’s interview, Mr. Wright expressed disappointment but no surprise that Mr. Obama might try to play down their connection.
“When his enemies find out that in 1984 I went to Tripoli” to visit Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, Mr. Wright recalled, “with Farrakhan, a lot of his Jewish support will dry up quicker than a snowball in hell.” Mr. Wright added that his trip implied no endorsement of either Louis Farrakhan’s views or Qaddafi’s.
Mr. Wright said that in the phone conversation in which Mr. Obama disinvited him from a role in the announcement, Mr. Obama cited an article in Rolling Stone, “The Radical Roots of Barack Obama.”
According to the pastor, Mr. Obama then told him, “You can get kind of rough in the sermons, so what we’ve decided is that it’s best for you not to be out there in public.”
Patrick Healy contributed reporting from Washington.
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If that wasn't enough to convince you that Obama knew...check this out...
March 14, 2008
Read More: Barack Obama
Obama's Wright: 'White folks' greed'
The heart of Obama's defense of his relationship with Jeremiah Wright today is that the minister, as he knows him, is much less provocative than those recent sermons, and that specifically, the straightforward anti-American notes, and some of the racial edge, weren't visible to Obama as he attended the church.
There will, no doubt, be lots of reporting out of Chicago on this, but Obama's own first book suggests that some elements of Wright's style that are now controversial — particularly on race — aren't really new.
On Page 293 of my edition of "Dreams for My Father," Obama recounts Wright's "The Audacity of Hope" sermon. (I linked a version of this earlier today.)
Obama quotes this passage:
"It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks’ greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere…That’s the world! On which hope sits!"
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Next: A sermon about Hillary and Obama. Are you telling me that Obama didn't know about this either?!?!?!
I was really looking forward to Pierre Hardy's shoe line for the Gap hitting the US. I even had a countdown going on my facebook page. (yes, its completely nerdy, but that way all of my friend's can know about these fun things too!!) So since today was THE day, I went to the Gap.
I headed straight to where they were displaying the shoes. Or rather, NOT displaying the shoes. They actually just had some boxes piled up on a shelf. If I wasn't looking for the shoes, I would never have found them. They also didn't have a sitting area near the shoes to try them on. The closest thing they had was a bench a display and a half away from the shelves. They also don't have the designer's name on the shoes - they just call them "Designer Editions", which really doesn't do much for them from a marketing point of view. Then again, hiding them in a corner set up like a warehouse doesn't do much for them either...its not like the Gap doesn't know how to merchandise!!! And this was the 34th street/Herald Square location in NYC, its a HUGE store. It isn't the flagship, but its on that level. In fact, its one of the few gaps that carry the same merchandise as the flagship store. (interesting how not all of the Gap's carry the same things - isn't it?) Anyway, I would seriously fire whoever came up with the idea not to put Pierre Hardy's name on the shoes or boxes and whoever merchandised the collection. But, thats neither here nor there. Had the shoes been amazing, I would have bought them and would have snarkily been glad that I knew about it and therefore picked them up before EVERYBODY else could.
Alas, the shoes were anything BUT amazing. One of the pairs looked exactly like a pair of Michael Kors sandals that I had bought last year. One pair looked like a shoe straight out of the year 2003. You know, the super pointy flat with the little mary jane strap in the very front? (see pic on bottom) Who didn't have those back then?!?!?!! Then there were two more pairs that caught my eye. One was a flat sandal with an ankle strap, not so cute in the box, but it could have been cute on (see pic below), and then a silver pointy pair which I thought had potential (sorry girls, but I couldn't find a pic of these). That was before I put them on my feet. The silver flats fit, but they didn't feel like they were made well. In fact, they didn't even look like they were made well. It was more like cheap but fun looking. I couldn't believe the label when it said that it was made of real leather -- thats how cheap they looked. I would have bought them just to have a fun flat, but then I looked at the price. $98. Seriously?!?!?!?! I could go into payless and pay $19.99 for shoes that look more designer than these did!! So I put them back on the shelf.
Next, I tried on the flat ankle strap sandal. I took out my size which is a 6 and a half. (and note, that the silver shoes that I tried on were a 6.5 as well). Forget about how they looked for a second -- they were HUMONGOUS. You could have fit another half a foot between where my toes ended and where the sole ended. I checked to make sure that the shoe was in fact a 6.5. IT WAS. I would have looked for a 6, had I not noticed that once again the shoes looked and felt really cheap. And the color of the leather, well, lets just say that its something you would expect to find in an outlet or overstock store because it was "damaged". Only, it wasn't damaged. That was the actual color. And how much for these horrible plasticy (but are actual leather) wierd sized sandals? A mere $78.
Seriously, if I am going to spend that kind of money on shoes, I expect a certain quality. Otherwise, why bother?
Luckily, the time wasn't 100% wasted because I did get to pick up a few cute items for spring/summer. A really great pintucked dress, a cute little jacket, a sweater, and some pajamas.
The Pierre Hardy "MaryJane" pointy flats. YAWN.Pierre Hardy Leather (I know, its hard to believe) sandal.
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