Every time I log into the back end of this blog, I feel like I’m peering around the corner in a haunted house. It’s very suspenseful. My heart’s kind of pounding thinking a literal ghost in the machine might awaiting me with scary error messages. I assume my fears will be assuaged with exposure therapy,…
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19 Is a Good Number
Nineteen must be a lucky number, right? After all, the 19th amendment was good stuff! I’ve decided to mark my 19th blogversary by (once again) hitting up some freelancers on Fiverr to see if I can get this blog working again. Right now, I can’t even figure out how to give this post the right…
The Age of Majority Blogversary
This blog turns 18 today – it’s legally an adult. I keep everything forever – the blog itself now qualifies as homegrown vintage – so I’ve never had any intention of letting this space go. However, late-stage capitalism, fascism, and genocide haven’t been conducive to writing here. That’s not because I only wrote light-hearted content…
My Birthday, and My Friend Nadine
I’m postponing my in-real-life birthday celebration until tomorrow, but because my birthdays demand some kind of fashion photo, allow me to re-share my lewk from exactly 40 years ago today. Now that I have your attention, here’s a special birthday request for donations to to help my friend Nadine Seiler start life over in Trinidad…
2023 in Review: What Wendy Wore, Part 1
I’ve always been interested in the story-telling aspect of fashion — on the societal level as well as the personal one. As I debated whether or not to write one of my old-school “What Wendy Wore” year-in-review posts in the midst of what’s happening in the world, I realized that a lot of what I…
“SANS FARDS” Strikes Again
I’m devastated that Michael K shut down his long-running celebrity-gossip blog Dlisted this June. First, because Dlisted WAS the Internet for me from 2005 to 2010. Second, because he would have covered the hell out of today’s wall-to-wall media coverage of Pamela Anderson’s makeup-free face at Paris Fashion Week. Michael K was on the SANS…
What Wendy Wore: Black & White
It’s been a long time since I did an outfit post, but glimpsing my all-time favorite supermodel, Linda Evangelista, gave me some fashion-blogging inspiration. Linda was signing copies of Linda Evangelista Photographed by Steven Meisel at Marc Jacobs’s Bookmarc store on Thursday, and the line to see her wrapped around the block. I got there…
Happy Birthday, Gangsta Boo
My irrepressible and irreplaceable friend Lola Mitchell — aka Gangsta Boo of the trailblazing rap group Three 6 Mafia — would have turned 44 today. But, tragically, Lola died on January 1 in her hometown of Memphis. As I said in my previous blog post, I started writing a tribute to Lola the day I…
2022 in Review: What Wendy Wore, Part II
Missed Part I of my personal fashion year in review? Here it is! Now I’ll pick up where I left off, which was August 2022, for which I have … nothing. Somehow I celebrated MrB’s 80th birthday with family and came away with no outfit photo or blog post. At least we took a weird…