@TeenageGangDeb: no one is saying you need to be a vegan or stop wearing leather shoes. but on the list of things that people don't need, i think we can agree that the clothes on this particular runway show are wholly unnecessary and came at a significant ethical cost.

@boingo82: right on

@hamburgerhotdog: lived there for several years, actually. and have no respect for the handful of women who have nothing better to spend their money on..

@flaxen_vixen: in what way are you not being "all or nothing" in your own approach to this topic?

@mocena: right, i feel like the whole "well, i don't want to be a hypocrite" thing is a total cop-out. regardless of how i feel about it, there's a demand for meat in the market and that makes it a lot harder to fight. same with pharmaceutical companies, cosmetics, etc. on the other hand, not a huge market for…

@Neon.Wonder: much agreed.

@flaxen_vixen: c'mon, JPG is sending a freak farm down the runway just to be provocative. we don't all have to be full-on vegans or anything, but this was truly unnecessary. for all his "creativity," the whole thing was just tasteless.

@Leiakat: exactly. they're militant, but without anyone/thing getting hurt.

how can you not be anti-fur after reading all those stats?? all those pictures have made me appropriately nauseous. i actually like PETA, because they do all the confrontational dirty work that i would like to do myself except that i don't want to get arrested.

not a good day for me to be broke, because damn - now i really want a red velvet cupcake or a lemon tart.

@the.bleach: ha! i just did the same thing!

god help me, when Lindsay is healthy, she's so beautiful. i feel so guilty about that.

she seems weird, so i've always been kinda intrigued by her. also, high-five for the "nipple confidence." and extra points for puppy placement. i'm a sucker for a pooch with a smoosh-face.

i confess: i just don't see the appeal. and she really is everywhere. just don't think she's that pretty. then again, a lot of runway models look like boys to me, so maybe that's why.

"angry white men" in Aspen, and now the "dude vote." honestly.

i like looking at all the pretty ladies in their borrowed gowns that their "handlers" picked out for them, and scoring them ruthlessly, don't get me wrong. but some girls aren't into being super-pretty and so what? does being a professional actress require you to be interested in all that? and c'mon — she's at the…

one other thing about being an only child (and isn't it telling that i've posted more on this topic than any other?): in my bag, every day, i carry various things to entertain me (magazines, books, blank journals, knitting projects, iPod, etc.... usually not all at once, but there are days..) just in case i get bored.…

@lurkystars: cheers to that — my mom was a single parent *and* unmarried, so you can only imagine the kinds of things people would say to her. not knowing, of course, that she really wanted several children, but had to get a hysterectomy in her 30s due to a bad case of endometriosis.

@onthecornerofparkerandwoolf: i totally get the "filter" theory, because it's just come to my attention only recently that apparently when i think i'm acting "confident/independent", it's really coming across as "arrogant/disrespectful." as an only child, i had more socialization with the family dogs than i ever…

i may be barking up the wrong tree here because i don't know anything about writing, but i think there's more to Juno than just the whole teen pregnancy angle. a lot of it is really farfetched but that also makes me think it's more of a modern myth (reference to the name itself?) or an allegory, and not just…