Thursday, February 08, 2007

the freak show continues

when it comes to gym geeks, we've blogged, mocked, complained, pointed and laughed quite extensively over the past few months... and while we may never tire of this most amusing subject, perhaps the rest of you have. so i would like to present a variation on the theme, now that i've discovered that the opposite extreme also exists at the ratner center. in case you were wondering, yes, it's possible to be too hip for our gym.

yesterday i discovered a girl who a appeared to have gotten lost on her way shooting a jay-z video. i say that because only a hip hop (or maybe raggaeton) back up dancer would show her face anywhere in quite such a ridiculous getup, especially with that much pomp and circumstance. i apologize for those of you who don't enjoy fashion play-by-plays...

1) ass tight, ultra-low-rise, black capri-pants with a hot pink stripe down the side.
2) white knee socks, 70's style with the colored stripes at the top
3) black retro saucony running shoes
4) short, tight camouflage baby tee with the bottom and sleeves cut off
5) GIANT faux-tiffany (or perhaps real-tiffany) silver necklace with heart-shaped pendant
6) hair down, perfectly manicured with super blond highlights (brown underneath)
7) gobs of eye make up
8) weight-lifting gloves

as if she wasn't calling enough attention to herself, it seems that between sets she would come back into the locker room where she would pace back and forth in front of the mirror, staring at herself, no doubt perfecting the VERY scary expression on her face.

i was frankly terrified.

3 comments:

N. said...

After reading this post more than once, I have decided that my new goal for 2007 is to get the phrase "ass tight" into the popular lexicon.

My plan is to use it as a sort of superlative adjective, such as:

Jo: That party was great.
Na: No, it wasn't just great, it was ass tight!

OR-

Jo: How was your job interview.
Na: It was ass tight.

I thought of this a couple days ago but decided to sleep on it before making my intentions public. I'm very serious about this.

JM said...

So was the giant necklace also accessorized with a faceful of bruises from getting smacked by the pendant while working out?

Anonymous said...

excluding temporarily the possibility that n. is mocking me, this reminds me of a linguistic phenomenon i noted while i was in college (i was allowed to eavesdrop on conversations in the student union, making note of linguistic phenomena because i was anthropology major). it was right around the time that the word ass started making its big comeback -the lexicon of 1996 included solo use of the word ass to mean "sucky."

example:

frat boy #1: how was your accounting final?
frat boy #2: ass