Rich Juzwiak's glasses. A critique.

So the video is here, the start is set to 1:27.

The following is a list of which glasses I liked the most on Rich Juzwiak, the writer at Gawker.

All in all I counted 19 different pairs.

Disclaimer: I'm gay, too, so all this is meant from my rather reserved (and maybe conservative) perspective of (gay) fashion.

So, if anyone gets to read this, I hope ye won't feel offended, 'cuz I meant to have fun with this :>

And, so, here goes...

1. Light ones. The colours match, but proportions seem wrong;
2. Best light frames;
3. (Black with thickish frames) Best in a dark-lit club or intellectual event;
4. (red ones) Too fabulous;
5. (golden ones) - kinda fabulous, but not in a good way;
6. < This one is the favourite, for some reason, but they're pink, too. Only that the pink colour there is not so in your face. So, if the frame colour were slightly different...
7. Blue - too fabulous, too 1970's;
8. Black ones with white edges - Too Apple. "I want to hide myself."
9. (light frames) Too fabulous and outdated;
10. Black shades. This must have something to do with retrofuturism, but I somehow like it. "I hide myself, but I still want to see you."
11. Police Cruiser shades. The most form-fitting, except that it accentuates the nose the most (sorry, Rich, I like you the most when you're not wearing spectacles (;
12. Dark ones. It's warm and light outside. Yuppie style;
13. Square shades. I like those. 1980's (retro)futurism. Still accentuates the nose.
14. Black shades. Fabulous, 1979 going on 1982. I don't know, which way, though.
15. Red, again. Too fabulous.
    
16. Dark shades. I don't know.


17. Dorky, Gotham style. Maybe if you meet The Dark Knight one day...


18. 1970's, def. Southern states;


19. Big black ones. The Fly. Jeff Goldblum.

Of closets and people

As time goes on and many other people come out of the closet (such as Zachary Quinto), then I get more and more comfortable with famous people not coming out of the closet or not revealing any of their private lives (mostly because of family reasons), and not just because they have a job made more dangerous if they were out.

It is because there are other people now who are coming out of the closet, more and more so. One day, Page Six is just going to have its own section every day: "People who came out today," hopefully well before obituaries at the back.

The only caveat being that some people might decide to stay in the closet for exactly this reason :\

Some actors might choose to stay in the closet to get better considered for 'straight' roles (somehow I think it still happens like that), but a recent blog post or article, probably at Post Apocalyptic Bohemian, suggested that the movie industry should also start appreciating gay actors who can convincingly play straight roles, as "Brokeback Mountain" so well proved to us in reverse.

Three Excellent Women

...of comedy and drama —

In no particular order:
• Mindy Sterling (Frau Fabrissina, the cohort of Dr. Evil from Mike Myers' Austin Powers franchise)
• Linda Hunt (Ilsa Grunt in "If Looks Could Kill")
• Fran Lebowitz (not Lei-, so take note of that) — In terms of cutting wit, she's on the same level as Professor Sidney Morgenbesser and physicist Lev Landau)

Common denominators: These women are all short... (ish), witty (on screen or off screen or both), and accomplished. I realized that Lebowitz and Hunt are also lesbians, which makes the mix all the more fabulous :>

Moreover, they all belong to the same generation, and before knowing any better, I'd sometimes mix at least the first two up in my mind as the same person, one or the other.

Another witty woman of the same generation is Carrie Fisher.

(Oh, no men to speak of from the same generation, cuz I don't know of any >:-)

Sometimes it feels as if the three are really the same person, or three sisters of the same family scattered around the country.

The reason I wrote this, is because I somewhat stumbled upon a post written about Lebowitz by Stephen at post apocalyptic bohemian [sic].

So much of that :>