celebs

people are saying that the brangelina baby will be super good looking cause of his parents. but gallery of the absurd wonders otherwise.

cate blanchett is slated to play one of the bob dylans in his biopic. seriously. i think this is genius (i say this entirely witout sarcasm). cate is a spectacular actress. but seriously. this is almost as good as larry king doing the voice of 'the ugly sister' in shrek 2.

hugh jackman just says no to waxing er... down there.

and in a major publicity ploy batwoman is now a lesbian. ...

men

men of cannes. skinny neck ties are in. and so, appt, are sideswept bangs on men. and i'm actually really surprised this gaspard ulliel looks as good as he does in a white suit. i'm not normally into those. but seriously, i wish those pants of his were baggier. eesh.

smile

it's love. :) a real life swan falls in love wit a swan boat. lol. but seriously, isn't that so cute?

target: tiki head tissue box cover.

btw, looking at these pictures of nelly furtado in her swim suit makes me happy. ...becuase we're the same body type. ...wtf were you thinking?

spades

+----------------- Bizarre Royal Deaths -------------------+  

Charles VIII of France was noted for his manners. On entering a tennis court at the Chateau d'Amboise, he bowed to his wife and allowed her to proceed first, but, as he raised his head from his gesture, he crashed it against a low wooden beam, fracturing his skull and killing him.  

Mithridates VI of Pontus in Asia Minor took small doses of poison throughout his life to develop a resistance should anyone try to poison him. He built up such a strong immunity that when he tried to take his own life to escape the approaching Romans, the poison he took had no effect. Instead he ordered a slave to kill him with a sword.  

Queen Eleanor, dutiful wife of Edward I of England, was so distressed to see her husband lying gravely ill after poison had set into a battle wound that she personally sucked all the poison from the wound. Her brave deed saved the King's life but killed her.  

King John of England died in an East Anglian abbey after a sumptuous banquet. The townsfolk of Lynn had just been awarded a handsome contract to supply the royal garrisons and, to repay the King, they rounded off the banquet with his favorite dessert, peaches in cider. He consumed such a great amount that he suffered violent stomach pains and died a few days later.  

Margaret, 'Maid of Norway,' was nominally declared Queen of Scotland in 1286 but it was not until 1290 that the Queen sailed from Norway to claim her new kingdom. Alas, on the journey across the North Sea, she suffered terrible seasickness and died in the Orkneys before ever setting foot on the Scottish mainland.

secrets

i think this is one of the worst things a woman can do. not just to a man, but to her child. she's using her child as leverage to get the man to stay. it's not as if therefore her child will be any less loved, or have an impoverished childhood or anything. but... also, to the man. i mean... sheesh! i haven't decided for sure yet, but i think i might feel that it's even worse than adultery. and raising a child is so tough. if he doesn't really love you, then he might not be able to stick thru it. and wat if your plan backfires and he leaves you anyway? he didn't want to be in this situation in the first place. you're forching somone who isn't ready, to be a dad. and really, you're sorta forcing yourself... if you make the decision to do this, it shows that still emotionally immature. :(

btw, i'm not like trying to attack the woman who sent in this postcard to postsecret. i'm sure she feels bad enough. i just... wanted to talk about it.

foxy!

        

foxy & winston. jane buck's hand screen printed paper goods. pretty. :)

doggies

     

the pamperedpuppy website has puppy purses. lol! saddest thing? even they kno they look pathetic. :(

falling thru

had a pretty good weekend thus far. friday night went to go see x3 wit reep and his friends. it was pretty good. oh, and if you go and watch it, remember to stay on after the credits, some stuff comes on. afterwards we went to norms for... uh... another round of late night dinner. it wasn't as awkward as i thought it might be, so that was really nice. i did realize, however, that reepal totally doesn't kno when i want to be taken care of. when ever go do stuff, like snow boarding he worries too much about me. but when i have a bad headache and a burning fever he's all nonchalant. eh. guess i've 'trained' him a little too well...

on saturday i met up wit ting, tsai and chang. we went to a bead shop out in rowland heights and had chinese dinner. :) then today (they slept over) we went and had chinese lunch and desert (shaved ice at 99 ranch). it was a very chinese weekend! we didn't, however, go ice skating as originally planned. which i am pretty sad about. i was really looking forward to that... i had four free tickets which expire at the end of the month. but anyway... there's always romrow...

news bits

ATHENS, Ala. - Cornelia Cottrell Smith received a phone call at work from a "nosy neighbor" who informed her that her husband was at their apartment with another woman. That's when Smith left work to go home and investigate. "She came in and caught her husband with another woman and she grabbed a can of Raid and went at it," said another officer, Capt. Marty Bruce. "She hit the husband in the back of the head with it and then turned on the woman and also hit her in the head." Smith was charged with domestic violence and released from the city jail after posting a $1,000 bond.

 

KINGSTON, Ont. - A 19-year-old man who stole an $80 hand-held vagina from an adult store and went around the corner to give it a test drive. Kingston police Const. Neil Finn said they found the teen after he used the toy and was arrested about 10 minutes after it had been taken from the store. The teen apparently dumped the toy after it was used, and it was not recovered by police. Video store employee Heather Baker said this was the second recent theft at the business, but that thefts of this nature are few and far between.  

 

BALTIMORE - Joshua Kelly and Lara Brook got lost after watching the Orioles play and stopped to ask an officer for directions. The kindly policeman arrested the lost couple for trespassing on a public street and threw them in jail. The couple told WBA-TV, Baltimore, the first officer they sought directions from refused to help, saying, "You found your own way in here, you can find your own way out." They flagged down another cruiser but the first officer jumped between them and said her partner was not going to "step in front of me and tell you directions if I'm not," Kelly said. They were ordered out of their car, cuffed and hauled downtown on a charge of trespassing on a public street. Really makes you want to visit Baltimore, doesn't it?

handpicked

   

 

handpicked has a nice selection of monogrammed jewelry for very reasonable prices. wat's nice too, is that you can pick your own monogram style and font. i'm a fan of the tiny disc necklace (like this one), their charms (esp the boy cutout), and their small square earrings.

aww...

i would just like to take a mintue and give a thank you to everyone who imed me about my previous post. i haven't gotten back to one of them yet, but yeah, i'm fine. reep said that he would try to do better and actually already i can see that he's trying. anyway. this weekend imma have a sleepover wit my girls. we're also gonna go ice skating. oh! and tonight i'm going wit reep and some of his friends to watch x-men. hope y'all have a great long weekend. :)

wedge

 

"That Manolo, he just has to stand apart from the crowd.  Always.  He tells Andre Leon Talley in the June issue of Vogue, "Frankly, I deplore the current craze for platforms!"  His alternative?  His new "heelless shoe," the Arunium ($3,145), which has metal studs inspired by medieval churches.  And it is beautiful, I'll give him that." - fashionoligie

awash

da vinci code just can't stop pissing people off. but seriously, i think lots of people are taking this movie way to seriously. some albinos for instance. they're pissed off cause now appt the general public is gonna think that all albinos are murderous religious nuts. ... seriously? i mean... if that's so then like why haven't white bald men complained about lex luther?

in a related article. this one albino guy actually auditioned the part. it's a pretty funny interview. :)

one more thing. connie chiu. she's a chinese albino actress / model (picture at right). pretty cool eh?

listing

oy. yesterday was rather... tumultuous for reepal and me. i had come to a conclusion of sorts the night before and had written some things down. two main points. after work he came over and we went thru my list. we didn't really settle anything tho. later he came up to eat dinner. after that he wanted to cuddle, but i really really wasn't in the mood. it felt like... he was trying to make me forget about our problems. 'see how well we fit?' anyway. i got really antsy and left the room for a bit. came back and was like 'if you're not gonna do your hw then i think you should go home.' he opted to go home. then i couldn't get my shoes on and couldn't find my keys and he said that he'd just walk back to his car and basically left. i threw my purse at the wall. there are dents. i then called ting and calmed down a bit. decided to go to 'our' beach. got to my car, drove down the hill, passed reepal walking, floored the accelerator, got to the freeway and missed the exit. ...wondered where to go. la? san fran? joshua tree? sd? remembered that the next day was trash day so decided to go home. then decided to just stay the night there. bah. anyway. reepal calls after midnight sometime to see if i'm 'okay' ... ting also called. to see if i was okay. damn do i love that girl. long story short. we still haven't conclusively settled anything. but reepal said that he'd do better. i'm hoping so.

lyrics

Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away.
Now it looks as though they're here to stay.
Oh, I believe in yesterday.

Suddenly, I'm not half the man i used to be,
There's a shadow hanging over me,
Oh, yesterday came suddenly.

Why she had to go
I don't know she wouldn't say.
I said something wrong,
Now I long for yesterday.

Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play.
Now I need a place to hide away.
Oh, I believe in yesterday.

Why she had to go
I don't know she wouldn't say.
I said something wrong,
Now I long for yesterday.

Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play.
Now I need a place to hide away.
Oh, I believe in yesterday.
Mm mm mm mm mm mm mm.

sporties

+--------------- Bizarre Sporting Failures ----------------+  

Wallace Williams (Virgin Islands) ran in the 1979 Pan-American Games marathon, but was so slow that by the time he reached the stadium it was closed and everyone had gone home.  

Reigning Tour de France champion Pedro Delgado of Spain only finished third in 1989 after losing three minutes at the start signing autographs.   (idiot deserved to lose...)

Preparing for a bout at the 1992 New York Golden Glove Championships, boxer Daniel Caruso psyched himself up by pounding his gloves into his face. In doing so, he broke his nose and was declared unfit to box.  

Batting at Kalgoorie, Australia, in the 1970s cricketer Stan Dawson was hit by a delivery which ignited a box of matches in his pocket. As he tried to beat down the flames, he was run out.   (...wtf?!)

Russian athlete Ivanon Vyacheslav was so thrilled to win a medal at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics that he hurled the medal high into the air in jubilation. Unfortunately it came down in Lake Wendouree where, despite a frantic search by Vyacheslav and his teammates, it remains to this day.  

At the 1929 American Football Rosebowl, California center Roy Riegels ran nearly half the length of the field with the ball - but in the wrong direction. 'Wrong-Way Riegels' became an overnight celebrity, receiving an offer of marriage in which he and his bride would walk up the aisle instead of down!

qualified

so i've been sending emails to different tutoring places in taiwan. recently i got a couple emails back requesting a photo. now, i kno why they're asking for a picture. they wanna see if i'm white. well, i'm not. so most likely i won't be getting those jobs. bah. several issues ago in newsweek there was an op ed peice on some african american woman doctor who said that often when she went to visit patients they thought she was the nurse, even after she explained she was the doctor. she blamed it on her sex as well as on her race. even at the time i could sympathize. and after this incident, well... damn. =\

 

btw, if you haven't figured it out yet, that photo at right was the picture i sent out. i think i look pretty 'american'. not that that'll be enough tho...

posters

        

i love vintage illustrated posters. galerie montmartere has an amazing collection for sale. now if only i had like thousands of dollars to spend per poster... anyway, the site is also arranged really well, which makes it a further pleasure to go thru. :) btw, tonight's selection is from their food, wine & tabacco.

cars

video of bmw's 2006 concept coupe mille miglia.

 

new porsche cayman to be released this summer. bad news: it looks just like every other porsche.

 

 

another reason to hate hillary clinton: she wants to lower speed limits to 55 mph. why? cause it saves gasoline. ...but... it also takes all the fun out of driving...

aldo

     

 

who knew aldo had such great accessories? i'm not a huge fan of their shoes, mind you. but i really do like some of their jewelry. the leafy dangly earrings are $10, the necklace is only $8 and the hooped earrings are on sale for less than $5!

quotations

up at the top of this site there's an ad. it changes. but i noticed it tonight cause it was a ruth's chris ad. and i'd just like to take a moment and say that I ENDORSE THIS AD! ...okay.

"I'm very, very jealous. Sometimes I walk down the street and I see a beautiful woman and I think to myself: "I'll bet my boyfriend would like to sleep with her" and I get SO ANGRY. I run right home and smack him, and say, 'How much more of this do you think I can take?'" - Denise Munro

"Sometimes I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me." - Zora Neale Hurston, U.S. novelist

open equations

i am turning a blind eye towards it. he seems to 'get himself into these situations'. ting says that he seems to do it rather often. ::shrug:: it's easier to change yourself than it is to change others. so i look within myself to see if the problem lies there. and even if it doesn't. maybe i've contributed. and if i have, then maybe, even if i'm not able to solve the problem, i'm able to lessen it, at least a little, by 'fixing' myself.  

 

i like to give credit where it's due. and not point fingers at others when i deserve equal blame. but this thing between us. i can't 'fix' myself anymore. ..that's misleading. i have, in part, given up on myself getting over this. and i have decided to just to not address it. i deal wit it when i need to. and ignore it otherwise. occasionally i am wracked wit an unbelievably obsessive paranoia. but i get over it. i always do. but in the day to day. i'm really good at forgetting. i do a fantastic job of putting on mental blinkers.

 

anyway, i think he takes me for granted. and altho i’m quite sure i do the same  i doubt that i let him down as often as he does me. oh, another thing. reepal. he’s not very dependable. which actually bothers me quite a bit. i hadn’t really realized this before. or… i hadn’t ever formulated it, so it was just a feeling. but anyway. i don’t really see myself ‘taking action’ anytime soon, whatever that may be. so! for now, it’s just thoughts to ponder.

quotations

Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin

"Don't Eat Anything You Aren't Prepared to Kill."
"Don't Kill Anything You Aren't Prepared to Eat."
"Don't Kill."
"Don't Eat."

"Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains -- Flaubert"
(We must not touch our idols: the gilt comes off on our hands)

"Dieu s'est fait homme; soit. Le diable s'est fait femme -- Victor Hugo"
(God became a man, granted. The devil became a woman)

"Women have curious ways of hurting someone else. They hurt themselves instead; or else they do it so the guy doesn't even know he's been hurt until much later."

"'I'm not senile,' I snapped. 'If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.'"

news

HONOLULU - An 18-month-old girl was touring a chocolate factory with her family when her hand was caught in a conveyor belt and cut off. Employees at the Menehune Mac Factory Gift Center worked quickly to bandage the girl and retrieve her left hand before firefighters even arrived.  "Our guys just put it in a bag on ice, just to preserve it in case doctors are able to do anything with it," Fire Capt. Chris Ah Mook Sang said. The incident occurred during the company's Fifth Annual Mother's Day Candy Making Event, which is a fundraiser for the Hawaii Children's Cancer Foundation.  

LONDON - The BBC is issuing a big "Whoops" after it interviewed the wrong man live on TV. Thinking the man sitting in reception was Guy Kewney, the editor of a technology website, a producer brought him into the studio, sat him down, and clipped a microphone on him. However, they literally had "the wrong Guy." He was Guy Goma, a graduate from central Africa, waiting to be interviewed for a job. The presenter introduced Goma as the editor and asked if he was surprised by computer company Apple's victory in a trademark dispute with The Beatles' Apple Corp, Yahoo News reported. Goma, clearly shocked, answered the question and struggled with two more questions about music downloading before the presenter thanked him and moved on. It was discovered later that he was the wrong Guy

 

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Shortly after poisons were supposed to be pumping through the body of a double murderer being put to death, the condemned man sat up and told his executioners, "It's not working." CNN.com reported that the execution was delayed about 90 minutes because technicians had trouble finding a site in Joseph Clark's arm for the intravenous line carrying the chemicals. After Clark let executioners know it wasn't working, officials determined that a vein had collapsed. The curtains were closed to block witnesses' view until technicians were able to locate a vein in his other arm. They were then parted to reveal him dying, witnesses said.  

 

TORONTO - A Canadian family is horrified that someone broke into a funeral parlor and cut off their mother's head, leaving behind her earrings and a cash donation. The family of 68-year-old Cecile Lemay is offering a reward for the return of their mother's head, which was hacked from her body by a thief or thieves last summer. "Each morning, when we get up, we ask ourselves: 'Where is the head? Will it show up on our lawn one morning?'," the Globe and Mail newspaper quoted Lemay's sister Carmelle as saying. Information leading to the return of the missing head will earn a reward of C$10,000 ($8,900). "We think about it each day. We can't find closure and we want to know who did it and why," another of Lemay's sisters, Ghyslaine, said. 

weekend

went to my first ever baseball game yesterday: angels vs dodgers. twas fun! see, i don't like baseball. it's my least favorite sport. it's always so boring! but! it's so much better in person. seriously. waaay better. and we had good tickets to boot. :) my mom had won a pair from something at her school. anyway, twas good.

           

and today i went to see the da vinci code wit my godmother. that too was pretty good. altho it was rather pointless. i think i may have had the same problem wit the book, altho i no longer remember. but okay, so you found the crypt. and so now you can compare dna. and prove wat? that she's jesus' decendent? uh, no, for that you'd need his dna. all you can prove is that she's mary's decendent. which proves wat exactly? oh, that's right, nothing. all it really proves is that mary had a kid. but with whom? could've been anyone. so all this secrecy, all the killing, all this conspiracy is around something that doesn't even matter. the story is that mary's supposed to be jesus' wife and that they had a child. the point is that jesus had a child. and mary's dna can't prove that, now can it? ...so silly! wat would be a more important find is jesus' dna. his body. altho that was supposed to have risen to heaven. without his dna you can't prove he had a kid. ...duh.

shoes

         

 

i love summer shoes. i simply adore these lace-ups from old navy (they come in gold and silver) [pic1]. i have last year's version wit sequins in black and just bought the gold pair this last friday. and i also really like these gap online exclusives [pic 2] which also come in metallic brown, silver and gold. recently i've really been into t-strap sandals. but maybe something less fancy than the old navy pair [pic 3]. i do like the simplicity of the gap ones [pic 4] but seriously, how ick are jelly shoes?

 

and btw, do these black madras wedges look burberry-esk or is that just me?

faces

lol, so i kno we're not supposed to laugh at drug addicts. they have a problem, after all, but seriously, how can you not laugh at these pictures? appt they are 'the faces of meth' and are supposed to be the same people. but lots of these people barely resemble who they used to look like. and in all such short time!

 

        

 

pic 1. i literally cannot believe that this after picture was taken take less than 3.5 years after the before. she's aged like 35 years! pic 2. the after picture makes me laugh because he looks like a really sad version of william dafoe. and his before looks a lil like chuck norris. 3. his before reminds me of popeye and after reminds me of brutus. teehee. 4. holy cow woman! wat happened to your hair?!

desperate

*kathy griffin: desperate to get off the d-list. well, she aint gonna do it by pulling a stunt like this. *is katie holmes suffering from postpartum depression? one can only hope (not because i'm a bad person or anything. i would just totally appreciate the irony.) *woman rips off husbands balls! appt she's bi-polar and a bit paranoid. but i disagree wit her husband, she doesn't belong in jail. she should be in a mental institution.

bug's life

   

ah finally, a post that isn't about fashion! anyway. jacquelyn mcbain is an amazing painter who use insects on flowers as her subjects. it sounds pretty gross, but it's actually pretty cool. this coming from someone who hates bugs...

helping hand

i might be gone this whole summer. in fact, i'm counting on it. i want to go to taiwan and teach english. altho as a job this time. not like last year in china. anyway. i've already filled and sent out a couple applications and also emailed over 30 job employers trying to set this up. but all this means that i probably won't be here for dragon boat this summer. which sucks because i think this'll be the first long beach annual tourney i've missed. and actually. it sucks even more because phil (our team captain) is thinking about stepping down because his work might make him travel a lot. the last time he missed a tourney i took over as captain. and i'd love for that to happen again this year. unfortunately... and like, if phil does step down. and if i'm not here this year. then if this ever happens in the future then i won't be captain. it'll be whoever it was this year . :( i guess is okay. i'll still be an officer. and of course i'll have the women's team: pms. :) i wanted to be 'no seamen' but decided that might be too witty. anyway, out of pms (putting men to shame), woot (women on one team), war (women are rowers), pow (power on water), and wtf (we the females), our team voted for pms. :) and lol, yeah, you can see that i help come up wit a couple of those team names.

 

anyway, so our team has always had a bit of a problem wit fundraising. we usually only have one car wash. and that's it. it brings in quite a bit, but still, you can never have too many funds, right? so this year i was thinking a book sale. i kno, it won't bring in much. but it's easy to set up, it doesn't take many people to run, and watever we don't sell we donate. so even if we make near nothing at least 1) people cleaned off their bookshelves and 2) some library gets pretty lucky.

 

the point is, tho, that some people think it's a little weird i'm setting up this fundraiser even tho i might not be here this summer. i think it's perfectly normal. i mean.. i've always been part of this team. i've always beenan officer in it. and it's not as if i'm quitting. i just might not be here to participate. but i'd like to. if at all possible, i'd love it if i could fly back the weekend of and row my ass off. course. that's not reasonable. anyway. i just wanted to explain myself a lil.

 

one more thing. if you have any books or magazines you'd like to donate please contact me! or if you just like to read and would like to support us by showing up and buying something then i'd be forever indebted to you. :)

fame

+--------------- Bizarre Celebrity Trivia  ----------------+   
Clark Gable had no teeth; he wore dentures - which bothered the actresses he worked with. "His false teeth were just too much," complained Grace Kelly. And Vivien Leigh swore she would quit doing love scenes with him in Gone With the Wind "unless he washed out his mouth."  

Hugh Hefner was still a virgin on his 22nd birthday.  

Charles Bronson got his first part in a movie, "You're In the Navy Now," because "he could belch on cue."  

Jerry Lewis never wears the same pair of socks twice.  

George Reeves, the star of TV's "Superman," was buried wearing the grey double-breasted suit he wore when he played Clark Kent.  

Bela Lugosi, who played the vampire Dracula in many films, was buried in his Dracula cape.

mixco

mixco! some pretty interestingly cool stuff. funiture, lighting, accessories, house ware, clothing, rugs... they got it all. the official site isn't all too great. alto they do have a cool looking 'whistle chair'. hat trick is where to go. :)

   

1. clam handbag 2. butterfly rings 3. delight lampshade 4. rainbow handbag

introspective

reepal was telling me last night that i'm so cute. i'm pretty sure he meant my mannerisms and not my appearance. but either way. cute. it's definitely not something i strive for. in fact, it isn't even something i want to be. i was asking ting about this and she agrees. in fact, were we to choose the adjectives we'd want people to use when describing us physically, ting wants 'beautiful' and 'glowing'. i want 'attractive' and maaaybe 'good looking'. but i like attractive best. because it doesn't actually say much. and yet it's actually quite specific. btw, i find beautiful too obvious. it's not like cute tho. i don't want to be cute. i don't like it when people think i'm cute. it's too trite. beautiful. well. i don't particularly want to be beautiful but i wouldn't mind if people found me to be that way. altho, really, i'm sure i'm much closer to cute than beautiful. but anyway.

 

this got me thinking about how if we were to choose five adjectives to describe ourselves they most likely wouldn't be the five we want to be. nor would it be the five we want others to think we are. but i find it most interesting that the five we want to be, aren't the five we want others to use to describe us. i haven't given this way too much thought yet (altho i am using a dictionary to make sure i get things right). but thus far, i want to be:

knowledgeable
broadminded
altruistic
gracious
perceptive

 

i want people to find me:
intelligent
easy to talk to
empathetic
amicable

interesting

 

bah. this is so hard! i mean, i’ve narrowed it down to these, but i also want to be… contemplative, creative, adaptable, spontaneous, appreciative, forgiving, etc. and i want others to find me dependable, trustworthy, funny, thoughtful, insightful, easy going… but i guess the main differences are that i want to be generous and kind, altho i don’t care if others think that i am. i also want to be polite and gracious, but it won’t bother me if no one knows. i think… in general, the things i want to be make me a bigger person. they affect a larger group of people. but i want others to think of me treating them individually.

 

but anyway, if you haven’t yet, please go help me to fill out my johari window. thanks. :)

makeovers

some idiots have decided to ruin a great looking car (the mercedes sl) by covering it wit diamonds. ...i kid you not [pic 1]. and in other weird makeover news. mcdonalds has also decided to go extreme and turn some of their fast food resturants into lounge like places. ...why? [pic 2 & 3]

       

btw, i'm going to try to post more pictures on here (like on my snapshots). i think it looks more interesting? it'll be a little difficult considering the number of links i post and how unrelated they are. but anyway. lemme kno if you like it better?

slumming

   

maybe it was isaac mizrahi who started it (well, big wise). but now we got luella and tara jambon at target and lagerfield and mccartney at h&m. but remember tara subkoff for easy spirit? i remember seeing her gladiator sandels which i absolutely loathed. altho her wedges [pic 1 & 2] aren't bad (altho they do remind me of chloe's spring 06 platform wedges [pic 3]). anyway. i think it was the same season that maria cornejo from zero also paired up wit keds to create some really awsome shoes. anyway, i had forgotten about these shoes until the other day when angel and i were at fred segal sm and i saw both the chloe wedges and the zero keds laceups [pic 4] in black. finally went online and decided to look them up and here they are! they don't look awesome on the keds site. but they looked really good in the show, and also in person. if only they weren't nearly $140! but seriously. i want these.