A trend here in Boston seems to be wearing Polo shirts (and sometimes 2 Polo shirts) with the collars up. I'd say it was a trend, but it appears to be a Boston thing that's been going on for ages. It's kinda goofy.

I'm also happy the having words printed on your a$s thing is going out of style.

Oh and mini-backpacks are silly.

:)

Heh, mini-backpacks were my weaning point between my fanny-pack phase (I hated purses) to my current "maybe I'll actually buy a feminine purse next time". My current purse is in a backpack style. I dislike the one-shoulder thing because I have sloping shoulders that can't hold a single strap worth a damn. With a fanny-pack or backpack I can put it on and not think about it.

I'm beginning to dislike the style though....sigh, style vs functionality, it drives me nuts!

Yes, I'll publicly admit that I wore a fanny-pack (which I demanded be called a "belt-bag") for years after that fad had faded. Functionality, damnit!

I see the double Polp shirt thing in my East Coast catalogs all of the time - Lands End, LL Bean, etc.

Preppy lives!!!!! (Ugh)

Hey! Most of my stuff comes from LL Bean!

But I would never turn the collar of a polo shirt up. Or wear two at the same time.

Yeah, because you'd be a giant sweat blob in about 3 seconds.

This month, yeah. But there IS a reason why I own sweaters.

You keep telling me what it is and I keep forgetting or, maybe, just not believing. ;)

Something must be wrong with me because no matter how tacky they look, they have a special place in my heart.

Back in the mid-80's, I was managing the radio station at Fullerton College. Of course, I read the CMJ (College Music Journal), which, back then, was photo-copied and stapled in the upper right-hand corner. This was back when REM first signed a major label contract. REM had been a major staple on college radio at the time. Yet, for some reason, as soon as they signed the contract, their music suddenly sucked and they were considered evil. I got involved in a letter-writing debate on this topic (this was before Al Gore invented the internet) that raged on for months.

I have all of my mom's old barware. Most of it is pretty normal-wine glasses & stuff like that. There are some really nice things too. 1 of the sets was my dad's. It is a set of 8 (or 12) roundish glasses etched with LA Rams and logo.

Most of my furniture was all from The Old People. The neat thing was a 9 ft long sofa. I have pictures of me on it as a baby in my grandpa's arms. I have pictures of Nickolas as a baby in my dad's arms on that very same sofa. Luckily we got rid of it. It took up waaay too much space. One of the things I have kept is a marble top coffee table. The marble is 1 big slab that sits on the top of a wooden base. It is very swanky. It came with the sofa.