Morning musings...

[shadesong]

yendi and I were talking this morning about LJers who feel the need to use "sexy" in their userid, and how one should not push The Sexy. Because that's not sexy. Don't push The Sexy, just *be* The Sexy. Zen Sexy. Ideas to live by.

Also discussed how I get the Carbou Coffee trivia right more often than he does, but he gets the puzzability trivia right more often than I do. yendi excels at things like "find synonyms for these four words, drop two letters from each, and rearrange the remaining letters to find the name of a U.S. President". I excel at the fully random stuff, like the "which Shakespeare character has the most dialogue?" and "What's so-and-so's real name?" stuff, the stuff I heard when I was 7 or something and stored in my hindbrain until necessary. He's the logic hound; I run on instinct and a packrat memory. :)

Comments

zen sexiness

[podling]

I have to agree about the Zen Sexiness. Oh yes. Truly. Pushing the sexy shows too much self something or other. Like you're too focused on "look at meeee! i'm sexyyyy!" whereas if you just are happy and comfortable and stuff, you tend to radiate sexy. Lately, for no apparent reason, it seems I get comments on my sexiness every day (heh! look at me! i'm sexyyyy!) by random people in NYC and you know, that's nice, and it's usually when I'm just walking along thinking about cds or how happy i am to be out of work or something. I'm not walking along thinking, "Now, how can I look more sexy? Should I strut, should I take off my clothes?" Now granted, some of this is the fabulous bra, but not all of it!

Re: zen sexiness

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

What makes you zen sexy, to me, is your awareness of and comfort with yourself. That and you're beautiful.

The new bra does rock so very much, though. I'm wearing another slinky drapey shirt today, and the boobs are just *out there*, man...

[dslartoo.livejournal.com]

More proof that you and yendi are perfectly matched. Or close enough to it as makes no nevermind.

re: your Sexy thoughts: See, that's the reason I like Julia more than Capri. She doesn't push The Sexy, she *is* The Sexy.

[Good grief, that phrase is addictive. I think I may have added something to my lexicon.]

cheers,
Phil

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

We are. We dovetail perfectly.

Yeah, I actually thought of the Julia/Capri thing as I was typing that... must've gotten distracted and forgot to put it in. And you can blame edie22 for the phrase "The Sexy"... :)

Complete accord

[songwind.livejournal.com]

Your point about not pushing the sexy is pretty much what I meant about being turned on by women who are sexy without looking like they are trying.

This weekend's con was a study in people who should have stopped pushing the sexy, and a few special cases of "Here is the difference between 'can' and 'should'."

Re: Complete accord

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Cons are an exercise in that... most of the people in those ensembles should just not be wearing them!

I may get mildly tarted up for DragonCon this year... but to the point where I'm pushing decency laws. :)

Re: Complete accord

[songwind.livejournal.com]

Do you mean NOT to the point of pushing decency laws?

Either way, I want pics. :)

Re: Complete accord

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

*blush* Yes, that is indeed what I meant. I'm so distracted today...

Re: Complete accord

[ariadnesthread.livejournal.com]

Mildly tarted up is good. Of course, I'm so mousy-schoolmarm-ish that when I go out thinking I'm all tarted up, it's about the same as normal people's everyday wear. I don't pull off tartiness well at all, in my own opinion...I don't have the attitude to make it work (or the body style, really). Being a born wallflower sucks sometimes. In the cocktail party scene in the movie of life, I'm the extra in the corner sipping a Cosmopolitan and looking nondescript.

I was shocked, *shocked* I tell you, that the last time I went out in Georgetown (lo, these many, many months ago) I actually got an appreciative horn beep from someone as I walked up the street. I looked around for a minute before I realized I was the only one on the street. Very weird....only time it's ever happened (I was wearing my tartiest dress, which is just barely over the 'wearable at work' line).

Re: Complete accord

[deza.livejournal.com]

Hey, I resemble that remark!

Best compliment I ever got at a con: "You just blew every preconceived notion of librarians I ever had right out of the water." *beam*

[two-star.livejournal.com]

You say don't push the sexy, and yet you use the butt picture.

I'm just sayin'.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

The butt picture pushes it less than the boobs picture, I'm thinking.

Besides, I'm all partnered and stuff, I don't need to push The Sexy.