I don’t want to be your tiger
‘Cause tigers play too rough;

I don’t want to be your lion
‘Cause lions ain’t the kind you love enough;
I just wanna be
Your blogwatch bear…

Project Rungay: Wow. OK, assuming they’re right about how it looks when it’s moving (my television has taken a vow of telebacy), Leanne’s wedding clothes are pretty amazing. You all know that I am for the most part a Korto fan (really a Jay fan–he changed the way I think about color–and a bit of a Laura Bennett fan) but wow, she was janked this week, except for the predictable but pretty bodice on the bridesmaid’s dress. Leanne by contrast never produces awful stuff, but her “noodles” are consistently unpretty and fussy to my eyes. They’re wonton-wrapperish. They’re… I’m not sure I want to go here on the blog, but they’re labial. It’s not what I want out of, like, a blouse.

But in this challenge she shone. It’s a silhouette I’m usually completely “meh” about–poofy and then not poofy underneath, meh–but not this time. Even from the PRG photos I can see a wavelike motion, and imagining it, I get almost a Japanimation feel, that anime-influenced thing where the hair and dresses wave and flow–think the unicorn’s/Lady Amalthea’s movements in The Last Unicorn, or (don’t judge me!) Jean Grey’s hair in the opening credits to X-Men: Evolution. Lovely. Just lovely.

Kenley’s clothes were fine. Yes, it looks like the Alexander McQueen dress, and he did it so much better–the shaky, gauzy uneven underhem rather than Kenley’s symmetrical whipped-cream Dairy Queen skirt; the furry feathers, rather than Kenley’s more costumey feathery feathers (costumey is OK for a wedding, but Kenley didn’t take this far enough past a regional production of Swan Lake); the amazing shoes and headdress, which of course Kenley couldn’t’ve gotten; the more hardcore, hoopskirty silhouette, although I might have to retract that criticism if I see Kenley’s dress in action. But really what she made was fine. The bridesmaid’s dress was boring but pretty.

In completely different news, Ta-Nehisi Coates has had a lot of amazing posts recently. Not that this is unusual. I’m just noting that if you’re not reading him every day, you should be. McCain for Mob Rule 2008; Sympathy for the Weathermen; Obama’s new chapter in the book on black masculinity, and its dangers; Appalachia vs. TV (this post might not be what you expect); I just think his instincts are really, really good.

We disagree on a lot of things. But go read his blog, because it’s awesome.