Hot Topic!

[disbelief11]

Totally excited about my new purchases at Hot Topic today!


Just say no to kryptonite

Plus, the one that required me to bite my lip so I wouldn't shriek out loud like the (apparently) 13 Year Old Dorky Fangirl that I am: I wanna be like Mike!

I had such a good time there today...it's so easy to amuse myself!

Comments

[edie22.livejournal.com]

I think I find it a little disturbing that Mike shops at Hot Topic.

And it also makes me wonder if he owns one of those S-shield shirts and like wears it to bed.

But I'm twisted.

[anathema666.livejournal.com]

Squeee! I have that silver and black t-shirt. My sister bought it for me! We're twins, except for the "We're Not Even Related" part.

Heh.

So, what's wrong with Hot Topic? I kinda like it, but that may have more to do with the near-universal unavailability of punk items of clothing in Canada. 'Specially for big girls.

[edie22.livejournal.com]

check out http://www.torrid.com I heard it's a plus-size hot topic. But I only got the link yesterday and havne't had a chance to confirm.

[yaycyb.livejournal.com]

Torrid is great! I have some jeans and a t-shirt from there.

Torrid

[disbelief11.livejournal.com]

I checked it out online. As per usual, the big girls get less stuff to choose from. Damn skinny bitches with their millions of clothing choices! Heh.

skinny bitcas, boo!

[rivier.livejournal.com]

Damn skinny bitches with their millions of clothing choices!

Yeah, but when the clothes come off it'll be like shagging a cheesegrater. Or so I keep telling my generously upholstered self.

Want the silver-S T, though. Want want want!

::trembly lower lip:: I *must* get me a credit card!

Re: skinny bitcas, boo!

[disbelief11.livejournal.com]

Riv, I always remember what my friend used to say about skinny women. (First, let me tell you that he was really cool. He was from NY, authentic punk boy, and he used to say that his dream was to be a gigolo since he could make a mean martini and would be happy to make sure his sugar momma was well taken care of when she got home. Funny boy.)

Anyway, he always told me that men like to have comfortable places on a woman's body to lay their heads...and that bony women were not comfortable.

I loved that boy, let me tell you.

Re: Torrid

[edie22.livejournal.com]

Dude, I so agree. Damn skinny people need to eat a damn sandwich.

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[anathema666.livejournal.com]

Actually, my sister shops there for me too. I order online sometimes and get it delivered to her place, and then she ships it to me. The shipping to Canada is outrageous, often more than the clothese themselves, but to my sis in TX, it's usually about $5.

I am quite smitten with Hot Topic/Torrid, but I keep hearing negative things about them.

[taraljc.livejournal.com]

Basically, "Hot Topic" is rock and roll's worst nightmare, because it mass-markets goth/punk/stoner counter-culture to 15 year olds with their mother's credit cards. It goes against the very fabric of the universe this way, and undermines the anarchy the previous generation sought to create through their deliberate choice to go outside the mainstream of suburbia. It's the 9th circle of hell in a strip mall.

That said, I am a slut for kitchy 80s baby-tees because, well... *I* was 15 in the late 1980s, and so for me, it's retro-kitch-chic.

That, and being a comics geek, comics t-shirts only ever came in boy sizes before "Hot Topic" so amen for that, at least.

[disbelief11.livejournal.com]

Tara, I know. I was laughing at all the kids (including myself) who were flocking to the giant suburban mall to shop there. And remembering how I used to have to drive two hours to San Francisco and prowl the shops on Haight Street to get anything cool.

But I still adore my tee shirts! And the cute little leather bracelet I got too.

[anathema666.livejournal.com]

All I know is that, when my figured changed for the larger (damn you, birth control pills, DAAAAAAMN YOOOOOUUU!!!!) my wardrobe went from funky punk/thriftstore garb to matron chic in four short months. In Canada, the fat girl clothing experience is... exceedingly limited, to say the least . I occasionally model for Penningtons (one of Canada's three fatlady shops), and was recently in their west coast focus group to try to get some cooler duds. It worked, except in a way that I had not foreseen. They came out with some skater stuff (which was sort of cool), but a whole hell of a lot more princess crap (with the frills and the rhinestones and the shimmery miniskirt bullshit), which I can't stand. I just can't do the princess trip. Discovering Torrid online was like finding the Rosetta stone for me.

Sorry, off on a rant. The long and the longer of it is: it sux that suburban kids are co-opting cool (heh, not like *I* was ever that suburban wanna be or anything). It sux that U2 sold out after Joshua tree. It sux that Modern English is being used to shill burgers and the Smiths' tuneage now sells cars. It sux that I had to change my haircolour after encountering a group of 10 teenagers who had the same goddamned dyejob as me. But fuck it all, I want my fucking dogcollar back.

I have had six cups of coffee. Can you tell?

Feeling Evil today

[disbelief11.livejournal.com]

Ana, I can't wait to see what you're like after 8 cups of coffee, or 10....be sure to post here or IM me when you reach that point, mmkay?

Heh.

What about the Clash?

[mei-x.livejournal.com]

the Smiths' tuneage now sells cars.

This just jogged my mind towards a rant I've been brewing lately. On my radio, I hear the sublime sounds of the Clash's "London Calling," and they're using that song to sell Jaguars. Jag-U-ars! Part of me thinks that any opportunity to hear cool music is good and that I should take it whereever I can get it, plus I can't ever fault the band for taking the opportunity to profit from their songs. There's this other part of me, though, that finds it rather incongruous that this punk band's music is used to sell expensive cars.

Twins

[disbelief11.livejournal.com]

Squeee! I have that silver and black t-shirt. My sister bought it for me! We're twins, except for the "We're Not Even Related" part.

Ana, it's getting a bit frightening, isn't it? It's amazing how much we have in common. And I'm honored to be twins with such a wickedly smart, funny, and sexy vixen like yourself!

Re: Twins

[rivier.livejournal.com]

You can have as many twinnies as you want, dear dis!. Just as long as you don't let any of them divert you from joining us on that Quest for... whatever-the-fuck-it-was.

Drop more sloe gin with your mushrooms, pet? While we valiantly try to figure it out?

After all, it's probably time for nuncheon already...

Re: Twins

[anathema666.livejournal.com]

Oh, go on... *waves hand modestly*

No, really. Go on. *How* yummy am I?

;)

Re: Twins

[disbelief11.livejournal.com]

No, really. Go on. *How* yummy am I?

Darling Ana, I think that LJ may spontaneously combust if I were to try to describe how amazingly, blazingly hot and yummy you are. And I'm sure you don't want to be responsible for that.

[nashhole.livejournal.com]

Oh, that is a hoot. And I had the Mr. Rog's tee before I saw it on Michael, so I immediately thought, Dear lord, he really *is* a giant nerd like me. It was refreshing and encouraging all at the same time. But if he shows up in my WHat Would Joan Jett Do? t-shirt, then I'll know we're meant to be and hop the next flight to Vancouver. Ana will let me crash on her couch, I'm sure. ;)

[disbelief11.livejournal.com]

And I had the Mr. Rog's tee before I saw it on Michael, so I immediately thought, Dear lord, he really *is* a giant nerd like me.

Added Bonus! I get to be like Nash too. Many joyful noises over here.

Giant nerds of the world unite! Heh.