{"id":663,"date":"2008-06-28T08:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-28T15:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=663"},"modified":"2008-06-28T08:54:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-28T15:54:00","slug":"gala-is-darling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/gala-is-darling\/","title":{"rendered":"Gala Is Darling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever a fashion blogger quits, changes URLs or seeks therapy and psychopharmaceuticals due to negative comments on her blog, I think of <a href=\"http:\/\/galadarling.com\/article\/cracking-the-whip\">this lovely, civilized post from Gala Darling<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.galadarling.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SFqBCjmUFOI\/AAAAAAAADfE\/ICcspMJcYC0\/s320\/20080517_0380.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213621399550432482\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Gala is all ears<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>I agree with everything Gala says, though I would have said it with a lot more cursing.* Anyway, it&#8217;s food for thought for those of you who have had comment woes.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of cursing, I saw a dude wearing a t-shirt with this &#8220;saying&#8221; on it.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.roadkilltshirts.com\/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=PS%200025%20FU_RK\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SFqCKmMoUuI\/AAAAAAAADfc\/3enobD2lCHg\/s320\/FU_RK.gif\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213622637198594786\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>About a block away from him, I saw another dude wearing a &#8220;Pull My Finger&#8221; t-shirt. First, I thought, &#8220;Those are two dudes who are never getting laid.&#8221; Then I thought, &#8220;Why didn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/hilarytheguy.blogspot.com\/\">Pistols<\/a> tell me that he and his buddy were coming to town?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My best sighting ever of the &#8220;Fucking Fuck&#8221; t-shirt was on a hugely pregnant woman pushing a toddler in a stroller. You just know those kids are going to grow up to be a Supreme Court justice and a rocket scientist, right? I described this to my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/family-and-friends-report.html\">Shawn<\/a> today and her prediction for the kids was, &#8220;20 to life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I am the proud owner of a shirt** that says, &#8220;Do I look like a fucking people person?&#8221; In my defense, my gorgeous friend Kara Baby gave it to me as a joke. Or at least she said it was a joke. She used to work for me, so it&#8217;s quite likely that she was thinking, &#8220;This accurately sums up WendyB&#8217;s professional behavior.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>*<span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Sorry about this post, Nathana. You&#8217;ll have to pitch me as the George Carlin of jewelry bloggers. Maybe you can blame it on coprolalia. <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><br \/>**I almost posted an incriminating photo of me wearing the t-shirt, but then my sanity returned.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span>UPDATED TO ADD: Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/observationmode.blogspot.com\/\">ENC<\/a> for sending me this clip of Katt Williams, a dude who is even more obscene that I am. I have to meet this mofo! Imagine the nasty conversation we would have. <\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/foqG5CURZ3w&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/foqG5CURZ3w&#038;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>And going back to my original theme, he has some words of wisdom about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=r4w5M8V4aqI&#038;feature=related\">haters<\/a>. <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever a fashion blogger quits, changes URLs or seeks therapy and psychopharmaceuticals due to negative comments on her blog, I think of this lovely, civilized post from Gala Darling. Gala is all ears I agree with everything Gala says, though I would have said it with a lot more cursing.* Anyway, it&#8217;s food for thought&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/gala-is-darling\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,83],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blogs-and-bloggers","7":"category-gorgeous-friends","8":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}