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#4 2010-09-15 10:52:29
- Rip Rig & Panic
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Re: Boycott Birnbach
Thank you. I do not want to appear disagreeable, but John is one of our own and should be boosted and protected. This Birnbach thing is either reissue or rehash and can have no more value than York's offering back in the 80s.
#5 2010-09-15 10:55:43
- Rip Rig & Panic
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Re: Boycott Birnbach
I can't imagine she will sell well in the UK.
#6 2010-09-15 11:09:14
- farrago
- Ambassador Of Ivy
- From: Now in SFO
- Posts: 1087
Re: Boycott Birnbach
The stereotype of the people that she lampoons are an insufferable lot.
That some people aspire to this "standard" gives way to pause and reflection...and an inevitable retreat in the opposite direction.
#7 2010-09-15 11:15:35
- EastVillageTrad
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- From: Manhattan
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Re: Boycott Birnbach
EVT...arriving.
"Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes..." - Thoreau
#9 2010-09-15 11:19:41
- Hard Bop Hank
- Ivy Soul Brother
- From: land of a 1000 dances
- Posts: 4923
Re: Boycott Birnbach
I still didn't even read the first one...
“No Room For Squares”
”All political art is bad – all good art is political.”
"Would there be any freedom of press or speech if one must reduce his vocabulary to vapid innocuous euphemisms?"
#10 2010-09-15 11:21:32
- Rip Rig & Panic
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Re: Boycott Birnbach
I would like to be charitable here. I would like to think that this kind of stuff only appeals to the impressionable young. If I was eighteen or nineteen and attending college in, say, New Hampshire and wanted to date, I might well buy my jumpers in interesting pastel colours. I might even subscribe to the 'ethos', such as it is, in order to get kissed in the surf. Ho hum, as macabee would say.
#11 2010-09-15 20:34:06
- shamrockmonkey
- Member
- From: chicago
- Posts: 1418
Re: Boycott Birnbach
college kids dont go around wearing pastel sweaters. the richer they are, the less preppy they look. the only people wearing that over- the- top trad goofery are (besides the aaat weirdos,who exist only in the aethernal realms of the intranets) middle aged guys on the golf course and a few fashionistas somewhere in the gay/hiphop crossover zone.
I brush my teeth with minty paste/I hate when Liquor goes to waste.
