Maeko Loves #1

Maeko loves…This girl! Behind the Seams

…and her quest to be named America’s Most Stylish {fashion} Blogger. (via Blue Fly.com).

5 weeks. 8 bloggers. 5 pieces of clothing. Only one can be named the queen. Vote for her look this week at BlueFly.

Img. Behind the Seams.
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Maeko loves… MayK…all day!

She knows how to rock a pair of boots like nobody’s bidnizz. Srsly.

I mean, just look at those boots!!! Mean!

Img: Maykallday
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Maeko loves… Bringing Ridikulousity to TASK

Jon Stewart and AP (Via PopSugar) blast Palin’s Roguishness to pieces, and a Conservative Picks apart the shallow substance-lackluster Palin really is:

Stewart’s Ass tearing (via Huffington Post>:

“[I don't] dislike her because she’s from Alaska or because she hunts, but because “when you peel back the pretty, shooty layers of the Palin onion, there’s no onion. It’s just a conservative boiler plate mad lib: ‘Freedom is good and taxes are–ooh I need an adjective–how about, I don’t know, silly?’ And the worst part it’s a mad lib delivered as though it were the hard-earned wisdom of a life well lived.”

Ohh snap!

And Palin’s Facebook retorts to the Associated Press grabbing an unauthorized copy of her book (which was banned from early release to all press review–hmmm… sounds dubious and sneaky!) and doing what she dubbed “Opposition Research” which the world of Journalism generally calls “Fact Checking”. Hmmm.

AP (Via PopSugar/TresSugar) debunks a few of the myths: she was not as frugal a traveler as she claims to be; she did not run for governor on small donations; and that she was actually for the government bailouts during the campaign.

And lastly, an objective review from conservative journalist Rod Dreher on NPR.org:

Sarah Palin is back to tell us that she loves Alaska. And America. And Todd, the First Dude. She loves God, Ronald Reagan, cutting taxes and serving those she calls “ordinary hardworking people.” Who’s on Sarah’s enemies list? The media. Good ol’ boys who condescend to her. Elites like the Alaskan gadfly she describes as a “Birkenstock-and-granola Berkeley grad.” …

…That’s pretty much everything you need to know about Going Rogue…

…The rap on Palin is that she’s too shallow and inexperienced for the presidency — a conclusion that early Palin supporters like me came to during the 2008 campaign….

…Sarah Palin is selling a personality, not a platform. She quotes her father’s line upon her resignation this summer as Alaska’s governor: “Sarah’s not retreating, she’s reloading.” On evidence of this book, Sarah Palin is charging toward 2012 shooting blanks.

Pow. Sorry… even some of your former supports think you’re off your rocker.

Palin img cred: Popsugar

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Maeko loves… BABEHS

This baby, in particular. My Friend E, aka Finnspace, and her baby Sam I Am are just the cutest.

I am not a child-lover… so when someone shows me a child I adore, it is reason to marvel, indeed! How cute she is!!!

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Maeko Loves… pretty pictures of food!!

Tommy of This is Naive posts daily feasts for the eyes. This post is no exception, because not only does it delight the eyes, it delights the stomach… Pictures of food!

Tommy’s photos are a delicious (pun), striking, vintage-washy treat, and I look forward to her daily posts just to see what she’s put up… I love seeing the world through her innocent and objective point of view.

See more of Tommy HERE!

img Cred. This is Naive.

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Maeko Loves… Deep Thoughts

There is nothing more that I love, blogwise, when otherwise labeled “Fashion Bloggers” use their space to pose thoughtful questions and even more thoughtful responses…

Take Kitten of Picked Pics.

Interspersed between her many fantastic ensembles are essays (e.g., on the general attitudes of the German youngster and their grappling with the reality of what their ancestors had done in the earlier part of the 20th century), small pensive snippets like below, stories and a small day’s memoir of her life in Japan as a German Vietnamese student.

I take 30 minutes at my quickest to get totally done and ready and out of the house.
In these 30 minutes there is a transformation taking place.
30 minutes between inside and outside.

I love it when people challenge the idea that fashion love precludes brains and introspection. Why can’t we do both? Aren’t we humans complex creatures that enjoy touting our ability to multi-task? Why should we not be able to love both fashion and possess an inkling of thought?

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Maeko Loves… Retail Therapy

We’re all suffering from the recession… but sometimes we have those kinds of days in which we *have* to buy something. You know the days… just feeling like you gave it your best and you were still run over by a truck, and you come home so mentally exhausted that you collapse into a puddle in front of the TV and just zone until it’s time to sleep and start the grind all over…

Well, I’ve had WEEKS like this…

So I bought myself shoes.

*squeeeeee~ SHOPPING SHOPPING SHOPPING SHOE SHOPPING!!*

The Jeffrey Campbell camp sandal that was all the rage last year:
Broke! I went to San Diego in May for my Bachelorette party and wedding shower, and in a drunken dancing daze, I managed to split the wooden sole of my most fierce, fabulous and comfy shoes IN HALF.

So, well, thanks to cheapie shoe sites like GoJane… I decided to replace these strappy babies with these:

Why not? The price both of these cost are still well within half of the cost of the Campbells. Now for comfort, though. I may be needing assistance from Dr. Scholl’s on these ones!

We’ll let you all know how they pan out when I receive them and a few other pieces from GoJane (For about $100!) this week.

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Edit:

Maeko Loves… weekends, and Fall Fashion and Blog Love!

Check out my weekend two weekends ago: Here.
And I rather think layering is probably my fall fashion uniform. Check it out Here.