best (worst) of 2008
MSN's Year in Review 2008 appropriately lists the giant sunglasses fad as one of the year's most regrettable pop culture trends:
"We've had status shoes, status purses and now, in 2008, status sunglasses. The really cool shades these days have lenses the size of pork chops. They make the people wearing them look like houseflies. Or aliens. Or maybe even houseflies from outer space. Someday, when we look back on the pictures of us in our ... massive, black, bug-eyed shades, we will laugh. Tinted hubcaps do not flatter a normal-sized face any more than the ginormous eyeglasses we wore in the '70s and '80s. Today, the only people still wearing those monster specs are geriatric high school math teachers and serial killers. Run from them! Run for your life!"
On the other hand, I have to disagree with their decision to lump the 'pornstache' in with such obvious lameness as giant sunglasses:
"History is full of comical facial hair: muttonchops, the soul patch, the Tuff Man. But at least those whiskers possessed a whisper of sex appeal. (Say what you will, but muttonchops were hot, hot hot in the 1800s, and the "friendly muttonchop," which linked the burns with the 'stache, is like a cozy cardigan for the cheeks. Who doesn't get a little tingly over that?) We cannot say the same about the pornstache, which littered the lips this year of at least three of Hollywood's hottest hunks: Brad Pitt, Robert Downey, Jr., and Orlando Bloom. It also appeared on some sunken dreamboats, which only made matters worse for their languishing allure."
In my humble and totally correct opinion, the only thing that makes giant sunglasses bearable is a hot moustache. Oh, yeah.
"We've had status shoes, status purses and now, in 2008, status sunglasses. The really cool shades these days have lenses the size of pork chops. They make the people wearing them look like houseflies. Or aliens. Or maybe even houseflies from outer space. Someday, when we look back on the pictures of us in our ... massive, black, bug-eyed shades, we will laugh. Tinted hubcaps do not flatter a normal-sized face any more than the ginormous eyeglasses we wore in the '70s and '80s. Today, the only people still wearing those monster specs are geriatric high school math teachers and serial killers. Run from them! Run for your life!"
On the other hand, I have to disagree with their decision to lump the 'pornstache' in with such obvious lameness as giant sunglasses:
"History is full of comical facial hair: muttonchops, the soul patch, the Tuff Man. But at least those whiskers possessed a whisper of sex appeal. (Say what you will, but muttonchops were hot, hot hot in the 1800s, and the "friendly muttonchop," which linked the burns with the 'stache, is like a cozy cardigan for the cheeks. Who doesn't get a little tingly over that?) We cannot say the same about the pornstache, which littered the lips this year of at least three of Hollywood's hottest hunks: Brad Pitt, Robert Downey, Jr., and Orlando Bloom. It also appeared on some sunken dreamboats, which only made matters worse for their languishing allure."
In my humble and totally correct opinion, the only thing that makes giant sunglasses bearable is a hot moustache. Oh, yeah.
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