{"id":1121,"date":"2008-09-10T20:32:51","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T04:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=1121"},"modified":"2008-09-10T20:32:51","modified_gmt":"2008-09-11T04:32:51","slug":"rats-and-pigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/rats-and-pigs\/","title":{"rendered":"Rats and Pigs!"},"content":{"rendered":"

When was the last time you heard the word ‘pig’ so often? When you grabbed a bay’s toes and went “This little piggie went to market…?” Or when you saw the movie “Babe?”<\/p>\n

Recently, I was blessed with a huge squishy pig that my BFF got me for my birthday, from Squishable.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I love this huge piggie! Piggies are so wonderful, why must piggies be maligned by Grandpa, whose own former press secretary wrote a book<\/a> called “Lipstick on a Pig?!”<\/p>\n

Pigs are certainly nicer than rats. But for some reason I was suckered into buying some legging things called “Black Rats” by Sass and Bide<\/a>, who may have been inspired by another Aussie company, Ksubi<\/a>, who made news by releasing hundreds of black rats down the aisle during their first runway show in 2001.<\/p>\n

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I honestly don’t know what made me buy these things, because they are ruched from waist to toe, and will thus make me look like a fat….well, something fat. You may be wondering why I keep buying things I’ll never wear, and I can only say that shopping is about Owning and Collecting, as Vogue magazine used to explain in the 60s.<\/p>\n

Funnily enough, I also Own and Collect red lipstick, which is My Signature<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I was thinking of posting a photo of me wearing the Black Rats, a lot of lipstick, and holding my piggie, but that would involve too much effort. Just picture it in your mind’s eye. Then, picture Grandpa turning to Mrs. P and saying proudly, “That’ll do, Pig.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"