What Would Jane Austen Do?

"Mommy, how do you spell 'why?'"

This is usually Decorno's gig, but she's out cavorting in Mexico. Somebody has to step up. Do you know how much I hate Pottery Barn? Actually, I can't even say it's a pure hate. There are things at PB that aren't so bad. I can't think of any off the top of my head, but I'm saying it's a possibility. Individual pieces, that is. But you know what offends me to the very core? A whole house full of inane bourgeois reactionary "classics." And now, your little trash/luxe-named princess can have a house full of her very own. Check it. Did Sylvia Plath never happen? Or Betty Freidan? Or ... hell, Cindy Sherman? Anyone?? But I think it's the wall-sized television shrines that get me the most. This has to be Sartre's idea of a living room. People used to dream about the future.