I'd like to think it's the character, not the actress, but I wonder.

[kaigou]

I've watched Kichise Michiko in Bloody Monday and BOSS, and... bloody hell. I don't know whether it's the characters she chooses, or what, but the second the actress appears onscreen, I start fast-forwarding. She's just so smug. Strangely, it doesn't make me hate the character. It just makes me bored with her characters. There are some characters who simply never get taken down a notch like they deserve -- it seems to be a treatment endemic to television script-writing -- so I've learned not to hold out hope. Instead, I just want the other characters to stop paying attention to her. Then maybe the character will take the hint, or maybe the actress will start picking characters that don't make you want to smack that smug smile off her face.

Honestly, sometimes I don't know what I'd do without a fast-forward button.

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Also: sometimes I cannot resist the urge to laugh, when looking at home storage ideas that other people have come up with. A way to store eighty-seven pairs of shoes? A way to store twenty-two lipsticks and thirty-four teeny jars of eyeshadow? We only have TWO FEET and ONE FACE. What the hell do you need eighty-seven pairs of shoes for? And don't even get me started on the notion of having an entire makeup counter stored in your bathroom vanity.

Seomday, I'm going to see an online house tour where the person throws open her closet and says, "here is where I store my six pairs of shoes." Or the woman-renovator opens her bathroom door and says, "here is the small five-by-five box where I keep ALL my makeup." That, I would really appreciate.

Maybe I just need to start a movement, or something.

Comments

[kathmandu]

Even if the new brand-owners are still using the original Doc lasts---which may not be true---maybe they're using inferior materials that don't stretch and soften when worn. That could lead to not-breaking-in.

[kaigou]

I suspect it's a different cause. The entire point of these boots is that the current Docs are using inferior materials (to reduce price, I gather), and this company took up the mantle of made-in-UK (higher price) to keep the higher quality. The boots are definitely well-made, of a calibre equivalent to my (much older) Docs... but they're also women's boots, and not men's boots. With the exception of maybe one pair of Docs from years ago, long since done in by a puppy, all my Docs were mens-boots. I think it's less a matter of breaking-in so much as it is a matter of simply not fitting my feet.

Unfortunately, that also makes it a vicious cycle -- they don't fit just perfectly, so I don't wear them as much, which means they haven't ever truly been broken in (not enough to make the leather really start to give/stretch and remold like leather will), so they keep hurting because they don't fit... and so on.

What's strangest is that these boots aren't that close-fitting around the ankles, which makes me wonder if it's also a matter of "women's boots are for really working, so there's no need to take the time to have them fit as proper work boots." Not being a total shoe fanatic, hell if I know, just a quiet suspicion on my part with so much of these boots looking like for show and very little for, y'know, actual boot-wearing-stuff. Sigh.