Weekend Roundup and Open Thread

Happy one month anniversary, you guys! We got far this week: celebrated the end of Fashion Month, decried Karl Lagerfeld’s faux feminism, checked in with Baba Yaga, went to Lindsay Lohan’s stage debut, watched Funny Face, learned from our closets, caught up with Anne Helen Petersen, stopped worshipping Ayn Rand, enjoyed Rihanna on a rooftop, examined the revival in feminist performance art, advanced our style, paid a trip to the specialty grocery store, flew across the sea, sang along to some TV theme songs, and learned about the true Coco Chanel. What a doozy.

With us: Haley is coming to New York next week (!!!!!) (much to Drake’s despair) (the Haley/Drake joke will stop being funny to me one day but TODAY IS NOT THAT DAY). But the great thing about Haley’s imminent arrival means that we will be our first Pin Up of Hairpin 3.0, organized by the incredible Marie Luongo. We’ll meet at the old favorite, RPM Bar, at 7 PM on October 9th. I am gonna work on becoming cool between now and then, but don’t expect much. Here’s who we’re proud of this week: Gabby Noone and Hazel Cillis for writing this brilliant “Official Rookie Guide to Female Pickup Artistry,” Anne Helen Petersen for releasing, somehow, a NEW Scandal of Classic Hollywood during her book release week, and Jaya Saxena wrote a lovely essay on her biracial identity. Add them all to your Instapaper/Pocket/Readability/brain.

You ever eat a really disappointing sandwich? I did this afternoon, and it’s colored my whole day. The weekend brings possibility of better sandwiches; I hope you have a good one.

Image courtesy of Barron Fujimoto.