Love Tacoma - Follow Up
Love Tacoma’s official launch at Pacific Grill appears to have been a tremendous success. The place was packed. Proud Tacomans were everywhere. They filled the entire front dining area of Pacific Grill, went back through the bar, and spilled out into the dining room. Old friends. New friends. Hipsters. Suits. Most of them had the official Love Tacoma cocktail designed by the bar at Pacific Grill. It was amazing and we look forward to many more events this summer. Thank you to all the organizers. I had a great time this evening.
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6 comments
E Erik S July 11, 2008
I feel that I need to speak out for the aging, nostalgic gen-x set: skinny jeans are f***ing ugly.
O OC Housewife July 14, 2008
Hey Smarty pants Erik! We don’t wear skinny jeans because we’re not skinny any more. And HELLO! We never called them skinny jeans. They were called peg legged or straight legged jeans. We weren’t so wrapped up in being skinny back then. It was more cool for a girl to have curves. And before those jeans, we were wearing bell bottoms in elementary school. Star Jeans or San Francisco as I remember. So when the straight legs came out it was more about the straight legs not the whole skinny thing!! And, the bomb diggity for us turned out to be the button fly shrink to fit 501 Levis and we had to shrink them ourselves which probably wasted a lot of water because you had to do it a few times to make them wearable.
Sassy, you’re so right, no one from my generation xtra cool will be judging.
E Erik S July 14, 2008
OC – I’m not judging the wearer, I’m judging the pants. Some fashions are just unfortunate.
R Robin July 15, 2008
Dear F.F.,
Practice a little self kindness, darling. Thin, or with a little extra to love, “Either way, it’s okay, you wake up with yourself.”*
*True words of wisdom from Piano Man and professional alcoholic, Mr. Joel
Also, I’d like to give a shout out to those “xtra cool”, aging, nostalgic gen-x-ers who never did mind lady like curves. Whoop Whoop!
A altered chords July 15, 2008
Bell bottoms and skinny jeans were better than the odd style of wearing pants so long that you actually tread on the fabric of the pant leg. And the bizzare style of wearing pants that ride so low that your underwear shows. I’ve seen way more stretch marks on 20 somethings than I need to.
Go to the party as you are. If you don’t like the way you are then change it.
A altered chords July 17, 2008
That was incomplete advice.
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Start by jogging 3 times per week. Try Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.
start out with 15 minutes.
Bump you saturday run up by 5 minutes per week until you get to 45 minutes.
Then bump your Wednesday run up the same way till you get to 35 minutes. Then do the same for the Monday night run.
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