Yes Christmas 2006 I flew on a plane (2 planes, one exchange in LAX, then on to San Francisco) to congratulate my son (my wonderful son, on his big promotion) and have Christmas.
What we did is go to FRYS, an electronics store, to buy a television screen to nail on the wall. It was quite an impressive arrangement of department of the homeland security directing traffic in a huge parking lot. There were helicopters circling overhead. One guard on a loudspeaker ordered me ""mam step away from the road and walk in the pedestrian lane" and then I said to Tom, "Am I in a wrong lane what lane am I supposed to be in?" "Be quiet Mom" Tom said.
As we walked single file on to FRYS BLACK FRIDAY sale, I told my son I'd love Absolutely Fabulous Complete Series 3, and he said "OK". Tom never says "No Mom", well hardly ever. So we got our coffee latte's and we went all around this gigantic store. We got our bit screen and then I said, "Tom can we find Absolutely Fabulous Complete Series 3, now?" He said "fine mom" (that means "yes".) I commandeered a salesman, smiled politely and said "please tell me you have Absolutely Fabulous Complete Series 3,".....and he said "well I can show you where it is if we have it." There was just one DVD left and he said "It's our last one" I was freaked out with joy. I said "Tom they have just one left!" It was mine.
We got home put up the TV screen and it was mass hysteria (for all of us that Christmas and every Christmas since because we LOVE AbFab) watching Absolutely Fabulous Complete Series 3. A few days later, I was home again back in boring Palm Springs. Sorry Palm Springs but you can be boring! That last day of December I went on myspace, made a profile put up a picture of me and my daughter,
and OMG all hell broke loose after that. I had no idea how the internet really worked. I didn't know what blogs really were, I was not an employee of Conde Naste, I was not married to Chief Technical Officer software programmer from Scotland Yard, I was not in partnership with a German editor and publisher of 5 magazines, I could not afford a camera and didn't know what Google analytics was, or what regular hackers in Denmark can do to a blacklisted "Design Blogger" like me. I didnt know that just playing with blogs and not even trying to set trends could possibly be the content that would be essentially become remixed and mashed-up (even the hedge funds were doing it) and send bloggers reeling to steal my brain!
Well, that's when I began to feel like Alice in Wonderland because had no idea where I was (online) or what I was doing (predicting massive trends) but I refused to leave my blog. The rest is history.
where was I ?
Yes so after the inspirational repeated viewing of Absolutely Fabulous Complete Series 3 a kind of vicarious internet (me) emerged almost without even trying. That started a complete blogger hysteria and then (jealousy). I started a blog December 2007 one year later. With blogger I was going to be queen of trends (i sort of imagined) and i was (but for the blacklist I was put on) except i was quickly blacklisted by rival bloggers aka "the homies" (all of them) it was horrific. Like piranha fish they were determined to make me invisible online. Now these piranhas spend all day on twitter bragging and PR-ing Books crafted largely from every fragment of content i ever blogged since 2007. If I declared a toilet brush a 2012 must have the blogger mafia would have that on the cover of the next Chronicle book best selling on Amazon.
Since my emrgence on the blogosphere I've gotten no follow backs or mentions and thats because the blog mafia has essentially cloned my trend visions so they can take the credit for it up there at the annual gathering of summiteers.
Well we don't care really. John Galiano and me WE DONT CARE! He gardens and I crochet and paint supermodels. So there, we dont care. We dont want an altitude summit - making a speech about blogging, we dont want that! We are free. We want, we want to create things.
The foregoing is copyrighted to michele gallagher 2011 all rights reserved.
SOURCE for the YouTube Video found on this page
and now my latest crochet work just styled today
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"La Petite Crochet Heart" no wait wait , they are called "Katie Hearts" blogged here. It was kind of hard to fit a 4 ply yarn through a needle that small but it worked and i was inspired by this soundtrack which I have played all week. By the Way (I think and) this Paris Runway collection of DIOR is the masterpiece collection of the year 2011/2011 regardless what the Magazines and fashion Bloggers say.
SOURCE: YouTube: John Galiano for DIOR's Paris Runway collection 2012
SOURCE: YouTube: John Galiano for DIOR's Paris Runway collection 2012
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