jessica j

i read the latest issue of GQ from cover to cover tonight, er, earlier tonight (and watched an episode of the office, scrubs, and fraisier, oh, and coyote ugly and what not to wear…you know, quality time with the family), and i felt a bit jealous. jealous that this stuff wasn’t written for me. jealous that i wasn’t writing this stuff. but then that passed because these guys (and girls) are so cute…so dorky-classy-smart-awesome cute. and josh is right, is there really any other way to be cute?

• Jim Nelson manages to write a few hundred words without the words, “In so-and-so’s article…”
• a pocket square is actually cool and a must-have, and not a handkerchief? ah, form over function. Oh! and no cuff links! my fashionista mother went to an antique store a few months ago to buy these jade cuff links…so she could turn them into earrings.
• i wasn’t going crazy when i went to D.C., people do dress “differently.”
• the image of a guy and a notebook.
• i know she’s legal, but vanessa hudgens in GQ kinda didn’t sit right with me…that and the quiz about all those disney channel kids. apparently hannah montana could have just as easily been alexis texas…phewf, dodged that bullet. [oh, and see those montana meth campaigns? watch them, they're a real pick-me-up.]
• “The almost comic nature of [bro] has led to its being creatively morphed into bromance (two straight men who kinda dig each other), broho (a bro’s girlfriend), brodozer (a lifted pickup truck), bromagnon (a jock), and so on. But you wouldn’t want to know this, because if you’re reading this magazine, you would never use any of these words. Right?” …then he said something about “bitch” being okay, but i’m really hoping it was a joke.
• i’m voting for Hillary.
• i’m imagining what it’ll feel like to read about my big fashion designer son saying he feels nothing about my absence. nancy imagines i’ll be a horrible parent. my dad agrees, “you have a strange sense of humor.”
• “I never saw the bigger Marc” “The fat guy that I kicked?” “The fat guy that we’d beat up if we saw him on the street.”…”We’re BFFs.”
• Karl Rove is kind of [positive adjective]…is that okay to quasi-say?
  “Off the record?” “Please don’t go off the record.” “Off the record…” [Yeah, it's good. Sorry.] “Damn! Now say that on the record.” “No. Nope. Nope. Nope.”
• uh, mila kunis? macaulay culkin? 6 years?
• “I try to remember the name of the province Benazir Bhutto is from, like that will somehow prove I have some business being here, but I can’t make the word appear. What an idiot.”
• the 32-oz Kobe ribeye I conquered? May not have been Kobe, rather, a “hybrid of Wagyu and American Angus”? Whatever, it was good; and apparently, $160 for 8 oz of the real thing isn’t worth it.