THEY DON'T ALWAYS LIVE HAPPILY OR EVER AFTER...

All season I said I wanted to do this because it seems to me that this season was particularly rough on TV characters. It used to be that certain characters were sacred - say - the stars. But this season it seemed that anything went in the land of TV deaths.

I would however like to point out that they left out a few - mainly the show "The Supernatural" (although I guess the cliffhanger didn't really specify WHO died yet).

And, you can join me with a big fat cheer "Yeah! Marissa Cooper's Dead!"

And now . . . your past season's deceased - TV Squad

THESE BOOTS WERE MADE FOR MOSHING!

My entire life I have been in love with shoes (and I hope to feature a number of the more interesting ones in this space.) When I say shoes, I don't mean pumps or tennies, designer ankle-breakers, or other run of the mill shoes worn by TV and movie starlets and featured in the pages of Vogue. I mean SHOES. Works of art, form and function. Shoes that make a statement, say "look at me (I am so much fucking cooler than you)!", attract strange men with foot fetishes and at times, say "Ouch!"

I dress from the shoes up.

When I was in grade school I used to sneak into my mom's closet and walk around in her platforms. It was the 70's and she sang in a rock band. She had cool shoes. My little feet rattled around in them and I couldn't wait to get old enough and big enough to wear her shoes and/or be able to get my own platforms.

In what seemed like a year later (and 350 gallons of milk) my feet actually passed those of my mother. It was sad. So, I then aspired to own my own pair of platforms. My mother promptly said "no!" (meenie...)

So I bought my own through misappropriated funds (something I won't go into but have since made amends.) The sad thing was that they were too small for me about 5 minutes later. (Can you say Karma?) But nonetheless, I consider the year 1978 to be the beginning of my shoe obsession. I guess my annual shoe budget - er - debt to be in the thousands.

These boots above - which I call my "Ace Freely Grenade Heel Boots" were purchased about 5-6 years ago for $250 at a store in NYC called "Religious Sex". I love these boots - however as seems to be my MO - they were also a pinch too small. I suffered through a number of wearings but they have since become the latest in a long line of eBay victims.

So join me as I say farewell to the coolest boots I've ever owned.

I will miss them so...

THE LITTLE SKIRT THAT COULD...

Sadly, there comes a time in ones life when they have to realize that they just can't wear that anymore. Recently, that has happened to me. I'm not talking about gaining weight or something being out of style, but just: "As a self-respecting 40-yr old woman, I should not leave the house wearing this item."

You know - you've seen those women (and men) wearing something two sizes to small, two decades out of style or - er - two generations too young for them. Don't get me wrong - more power to the Madonna's of the world who feel comfortable leaving the house in just about anything. But, I do not make $20 M a year, I did not make a book about Sex! (or did I? It's all rather fuzzy now...) and I have to edit myself before walking out into public.

This skirt is one of those items. A real authentic "vintage" Lip Service skirt from about 1988. This skirt embraced everything about me - I was edgy, I was living life dangerously, I was punk rock and, I was a size 8.

I have put this skirt on eBay with the rest of my former life - short (SHORT!) skirts, big (BIG!) boots and a number of other memories. Memories of chance meetings of semi-famous musicians, memories of staying out until sunrise, memories of the myriads of interesting people that these items lead me to...

Aaaahhhh...if this skirt could talk, what a story it would tell.

And boy, could it!

Hopefully, some young eBay-er out there will write about it fondly with their own spectacular memories.

AND I THOUGHT I KNEW CUTE...

Well, as if I needed any reason to completely waste even more time on the Internet (but I NEED those shoes). But this site is better than those emails with all of the pictures of cute animals and babies that although you don't want to receive, you do, and you look and you smile.

This site is a whole bunch of that.

Cute Overload! ;)