Hey. My name is Katie. I write different kinds of things and make zines and books. You may have found this blog through my website The La-La Theory. If not, that's where you can go to read some of my work. This place here is where I post updates on writing I've published and events I'm participating in, plus whatever else I feel like talking about.
Haha, I googled “ugly sandals” to try to get a feel for how acceptable my hideous (yet stylish?) rummage sale Aerosoles might be for the coming hot season, and I found this little report from the Early Show. Come on Ruthie Friedlander, it’s like you don’t even know what the word ugly means. It means this:
I don’t care, I really like them. With tight black jeans and a floral top? Good look.
Guys I’m still working on them but look, I altered my high-waisted black mom jeans so now they’re skinny jeans too! Lee Classic Fit “Straight Leg” no more! I’M DIZZY WITH POWER
This is not bragging, okay, but a registry of happy feelings with the purpose of creating some kind of balance to all the complaining I do every day. Today has been full of satisfying little things. I am terrible with a sewing machine but I managed to make these outrageous flowered pants I own into skinny jeans-pants things! I think I’ll get some real wear out of them now. Later, with the help of the sweet girl at the copy place, I figured out a fussy printing problem and made new covers for this zine. The new version will look much the same but I changed the lay-out of the whole book and it’s really a much better construction now.
And then at the post office I got my mail, which holy fuckballs included Alison Bechdel’s new memoir, Are You My Mother?. It comes out on May 1 but I got a copy early in order to review it. Yesssss rolling around on the floor. I try to keep my cool about a book I’m reviewing before I look at it, whether I’m expecting to love or hate it, but shew. It’s hard in this case. I loved her first book so, so much.
Sometimes you buy a skirt at a thrift store because you like the print on it but it’s an awkward length, and every time you try it on in front of the mirror for like, four years, it hits at your calves and looks dowdy and ill-fitting, and it’s a lightweight cotton skirt so you can’t even do something interesting with belts and thick tights and funny shoes to make it look better. But you keep it, and eventually you try it on again but this time awkward lengths are IN so you look STYLISH in the skirt and now it’s spring so you can wear it to work tomorrow! Sometimes this happens, that’s all I’m saying.
Screw you guys, leggings are pants! You can all suck an egg!
Excerpt from my new thrift store book Clotheswise: Successful dressing for your lifestyle by Alice Meyer and Clara Pierre (Dutton, 1982). In Philly a fashion “mistake” will attract a few chuckles at the bus stop but I hold my head high.
