Archive for 2007
Last night on the way home I stopped in at Pearl’s Oyster House on South Main to pick up dinner, and the sign on the door stopped me cold: WIN HANNAH MONTANA TICKETS. Turns out Ray, the owner of the restaurant, will be doing a drawing every Tuesday for pairs of the mostly-ungettable tickets to the Nov. 29 Memphis concert. To enter, you have to eat at Pearl’s, and every diner gets a chance.
I’m thinking this morning that surely Ron and Karen at FM-100 will eventually have tickets to give away. Any other places you know of planning to do contests?
Whew. Who knew that launching a magazine could be so much work … or so much fun?
Yes, the first Memphis edition of Skirt! is in boxes and racks all over town. Click here for a list of places to find us, and post a comment below or send me a message (kleinmann@skirtmemphis.com) if you want Skirt! — it’s free — in your favorite hair salon or shoe boutique. We’ll do our best to oblige. You’ll also want to check out the new Skirt! Web site; click on Memphis and tell the world what you think about our new magazine.
The best thing about this week has been the terrific reaction we’ve all heard from women in Memphis. I’ve been doing publicity for the magazine everywhere from Channel 3’s Live@9 (loved the camera guys wearing skirts the day I was on!) and Fox 13 to speaking engagements at Hutchison and St. Agnes. Of course I’ve been thinking a lot about how I got to this place as I zoom around town, and thinking about how proud my mom would be of the magazine, and me.
Went to the Mid-South Fair Sunday and did what I do every year I go: Make whoever brung me pay the age-guessing guy $3 to guess how old I am.
The guy took the $3, looked me up and down, then wrote a number on a piece of paper. He guessed that I am 30 - but I will be 36 next month!
Why this made me so happy, I don’t know, because I try not to be a vain person. But apparently I am. Now that I can see 40 down the road, I’m starting to realize how much our society values youth. And devalues age. Especially aging women.
So I was glad, for a moment, to be seen as younger than I am, even by a fair carny. And, I got to pick out a free ($3, actually) prize - a stuffed bunny that looks almost exactly like this - because the age-guessing dude was wrong!
Well, yes, Hannah Montana is not pregnant, which her fans have known for days. The question still remains: How do you get tickets to the Memphis concert?
So I’m going to a snazzy affair this weekend, and although I’m wearing a dress I have, carrying a purse I already own and didn’t get any new jewelry for the occasion, I thought I might get new shoes.
<>So for the first time ever, I went to Joseph’s, and saw, for the first time ever… Manolo Blahniks. You know, the shoes Carrie Bradshaw of “Sex and The City” favored. I held a shoe in my hand, and not so discretely flipped it over to see the price. Close to $400.
I could probably buy a pair of $400 shoes and still pay my mortgage and keep the all-important cable on… but there’s no way my Marshall’s-clearance-rack- searching, Macy’s-coupon-carrying, everything-eventually-goes-on-sale self could bring myself to do it.
<>So you Divas who actually own Manolos - did you cringe when you buy them? Did you have to work up to $400 kicks, starting with ones that were $200, then $300? What’s the most you’ve ever paid for shoes? (Me, it was $98.)
