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"Fashion police on the prowl for the latest trends were held captive at a Singapore prison recently when it housed couture instead of inmates."
-That's the worst sentence ever, ever, ever written, on the topic of the Calvin Klein Spring 2010 collection, which took place in a recently decommissioned prison. I mean, for starters, "ck Calvin Klein" isn't by any stretch of the imagination "couture"!
For starters!
It might be poor writing but it's excellent policy.
You haven't read the novel I'm working on, which begins with this sentence: "The doughnut's glaze sparkled in the morning sun like a very shiny thing that glitters, yet from the back of the squad car, his hands enclosed in another kind of very shiny glittering thing, steel handcuffs, there was little he could do except watch as it slowly disappeared into the police officer's hairy mouth and drool."
WHOA. Wins!
"That's the worst sentence ever, ever, ever written, on the topic of the Calvin Klein Spring 2010 collection"
MALLEABLE!!!
I just find myself disagreeing with everything you write lately. IT MAKES ME UNHAPPY.
I dunno, Choire. It's probably worst sentence ever written, and arguable the wost ever, ever.
But ever, ever, ever? Isn't that overstating the case a bit?
I have a hard time picturing a prison being decommissioned in Chewing Gum Crime City.
The fire is getting closer. There is not much else to fetishize. The fashionistas have done it to the homeless, the refugees, the starving poors and the drug addicted.
How did the most superflous members of our culture become so complicit in the purposeful disregard for the weak and powerless of our society?
Soon Nero's band should be playing us out.
Toby Keith; Katrina.
Justin Timberlake; Haiti.
I thought people were slaves to fashion? Now I'm confused.
Sounds like they turned the place into a regular Abu Garb.
"And that's when I hit close tab" not relevant here?
"Fashion Nazis on the prowl for the latest trends were held captive at a concentration camp recently when it housed couture instead of starving and sick political prisoners."
Please do not challenge Camille Paglia in this manner.
Singapore always tries too hard.