Should A&A get rid of the Question of the Week?
Date: 1.13.03
This one I'll answer. Give it the boot, ladies. Same with Frank's "column."
Why doesn't anyone answer our Question of the Week?
Date: 12.11.02
That would be because I am so lame that without Ashley here at work I rarely remember to do anything, much less check your website. L
Perhaps if more pics were uploaded. . . ;-) I do like the boombox pic, even if you are hiding in the background.
--Larry
Should Ashley get a new job?
Date: 10.17.02
as we discussed, you should go into nude modeling....
joanne
Must we ALL turn into hippies with flowy clothing as the fashion industry would like us to?
Date: 8.20.02
I'm glad you asked, as I've been thinking about this since I went shopping this weekend, looking for work clothes.
I'm OK with the aesthetics of these new trends... I like the flowing fabric, the embroidered flowers, etc, but here's what really disturbs me... everything that is in fashion right now is designed to make you look fatter!!!!! Tons of flowy, white material? Ruffles? Wide belts slung around your hips and pants halfway down your ass? What the fashion industry is telling us is that, in order to be fashionable we need to be so thin that we need to camouflage our bony bodies!!! We are encouraged to starve ourselves to the point where our emaciated frames must be swathed in fabric that hides the prepubescent look we have worked so hard to achieve. Secondarily, these clothes are highly unprofessional, and ill suited to any of the offices in which I have worked, thereby undermining one of the greatest legacies that the hippies gave us: women’s liberation. I’m gong to take it as a compliment; the men controlling the fashion industry are threatened by us! We are too strong, too successful! We must be undermined with malnutrition and a silly, immature, superfluous look. Well, too bad! From now on, pass the Corona and the loaded fries; I’m not spending a dime at the mall. My “womanly” ass and out of date clothes have become a badge of honor!
Is the Washington Monument a phallic symbol???
Date: August 11th, 2002
Ladies--
What, are you kidding? I mean, what else could it be? But maybe not for the reasons most people think. My theory is that the form of the Washington Monument, like so many things we've adopted in our culture, we borrowed from somebody else. Namely the Egyptians. That would be, of course, the pre-Arab Egyptians, who stood obelisks up in the desert millennia ago. We Westerners thought that ancient cultures were way cool, so we adopted some of their manifestations like obelisks and menhirs, not realizing that to their originators they were stylized phallic symbols. Later phallic symbols were used even by the goddesses who also employed them as symbols of power. Just power, not necessarily the oppressive masculine power. Perhaps the Egyptians got the idea from a previous culture. Now our uptight American forbears would have never put up a giant obelisk if they had remembered the phallic symbol part, but there it is, nonetheless.
By the way, this is Amber's dad writing. She brought us back your after she visited you last week, Ashley. WOW! After seeing the homepage, I wondered why you didn't call it twogorgeousbabes.com. I looked it up and the domain name is still available! I'm certainly glad you're having a great life so far, that you're passionate about important things, and that you value your friends.