A quick plug for Fashion For Nerds, a fun blog by a San Francisco biologist with an eye for mixing thrift store finds. See? Living in the lab doesn't mean you can't have style.
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I used to keep a separate blog for items of local interest but I can't even keep up with one. So, you'll occasionally have to bear with me posting about issues of import from the area in and around Terra Sigillata World Headquarters.
Designer Jessi Arrington packed nothing for TED but 7 pairs of undies, buying the rest of her clothes in thrift stores around LA. It's a meditation on conscious consumption -- wrapped in a rainbow of color and creativity.
The NY Times has a good article about how few prosecutions have even been attempted in the aftermath of Big Shitpile (the housing crisis and the following good times).
The only actual submission to this week's carnival of Kansas blogging comes from emaw, who has found more creepy crawlies – a spider he has some interesting ideas about:
Sea also, Nerd Boyfriend. Not always thrifty.
Most of those posts are more "Hipster boyfriend" than "Nerd boyfriend," but I scrolled down far enough and had to admit, it's a clever blog. Thanks for the link!
Fashion for Nerds is great!! Makes me wish I had money to buy interesting pieces and time to put them together.
Smacks head! I totally forgot to say that it was you, Sci, who told me about this wonderful blog! D'oh. That's what I get for writing posts on Mondays.