Carmen Miranda's Ghost is Haunting Courtroom Three

Cat and I are discussing Burn Notice and the Bechdel Test:

commodorified

I mean, sometimes two female characters have conversations that are about men only in the sense of "You are under arrest for the murder of John Q Goodguy ..."

Which I feel should not count against a Bechdel score.
Anyway, Miranda's a girl, right?

fairestcat

yes[1]

commodorified

Actually I should look Miranda up.

Except then I'd have to let go of my indefensible but amusing mental image of a Very Stern Judge wearing a fruit hat over her robe and white wig, sometime in y'all's early judicial history ...

[1] Attention pedants: Joke.

Do you ever...

End up with an image open in a tab and NO IDEA where that came from?



I mean, it's lovely. But I got nothin'.

Tell me about Fluevog

So I have to say it; the Con Famous Shoes:



are not getting any younger (Yes, thank you, neither am I. "Shut up", she explained.) This might be their last WisCon.

I find myself VERY drawn to these:



They are gorgeous. They are funky. The heel makes me want to weep for joy. And they're close enough in style to the CFS that I am pretty sure I'd wear them a lot.

BUT:

1) They're one solid, not very summery, colour instead of a dark floral. There will be fewer things I can wear them with.

2) On sale, these are two hundred bucks. In my world, two hundred bucks is a lot of money for a pair of shoes.

3) I can be hard to fit, and unless the Toronto store has a pair in my size in stock and are willing to hold them for me on a credit card number until I get into town on a couple of weeks, I'd have to get them online.

4) If they don't fit, because they're a sale pair, I can exchange them for another size (assuming that the size I need can be located, and at my expense for shipping) or take store credit, but I can't get a refund. There is a very good chance that this ends in me putting out for a pair of not-on-sale Fluevogs to get the use out of my credit.

Talk to me...

ETA: OTOH these are kind of glorious, much more affordable (50 bucks), much more likely not to be a fit issue cause open heel, and since I'm going to the US for WisCon on account of that being where WisCon is, I can do the Order Three Return Two size dance with free shipping both ways...



And as much as those Fluevogs are a glorious piece of sculpture, they're not really replacements for the CFS as such. They're sort of their own thing.

I think maybe I'll just keep watching the Fluevog sales for boots. Unless someone inexplicably wants to be my Shoe Mama (or Papa)[1] , full price Fluevogs will continue to be A Thing That Happens To Other People, I think. *sad*

Daughter of ETA:

Ooh, there's a new kid (leather) in town...



At a VERY nice price. And no damned zipper. I hate zippers on boots.

Fluevogs are glorious pieces of sculpture and one day I will own a pair, but La Canadienne's stuff is utterly gorgeous in a totally different way.

[1] I wear a 9. Just sayin'.

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Is there a word in The Meaning of Liff for the particular feeling of disappointment you get when you buy a small bag of a poncey treat, like, say, organic/made with real juice jellybeans, and they turn out to be appreciably less tasty than the regular sort?

Anyway, Radical Handmaids tomorrow.

I haven't heard any other suggestions, so:

Meet at Bridgehead at Metcalfe and Sparks, 11:30 or thereabouts. 11, if possible.

Cat and I will bring Sharpies, Sheets, Scissors.

Head up to the Hill at 12.

It's going to be chilly, windy, and very possibly rainy or snowy; lots of layers. I plan to bring the Thermoses and get tea and hot cocoa to go.

After: 1:30 or so, I expect.

Lunch somewhere?