Freedom is the new slavery

[avram]

Food is the new sex. Poverty is the new black. Or maybe gray is the new black, and green is the new orange. Hate is the new love. Fat is the new thin.

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[pocketnaomi.livejournal.com]

Okay, I followed all those links. At least one of us has way too much time on their hands.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Also, small is the new big, boring is the new sexy, Islamism is the new Bolshevism, and the new Rolling Stone is The New Yorker.

I think I've been cured of even the slightest suspicion that "is the new" is a clever phrase.

[avram]

Derivative is the new new.

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

Hah! is the new LOL.

[mamishka.livejournal.com]

And in synch with the world of fashion and color, your "gray is the new black/green is the new orange" link has already been cast aside and now pink is the new orange. Out of all of them, I loved Fat is the new thin - especially this bit:

"It'll all about the butt of Jennifer Lopez, the ankles of Hillary Clinton, and the stomach of Catherine Zeta-Jones (when she was pregnant)," says Bill Blass. "I just bought a Rubens painting, and I'm fixated by it. I was staring at my cleaning lady Gertrude today, and I almost grabbed onto her, so mesmerized was I by her flesh. My God, she's fabulous."

Whoo, go Gertrude! >;)

[jayspec.livejournal.com]

But haven't you heard? "Is the new" is the new "new"!

[avram]

At last the rest of the world is catching up with my taste. Though I'd never noticed Hillary's ankles. I'm not much of an ankle man.

[avram]

Or not. Now that I've actually read the article, it's pretty clearly a piece of fictional satire.

I don't care. Fat women are still fabulous.

Chris says I love you too.

[(Anonymous)]

But I still need to be a bit less fat.