“Is someone in Atlanta trying to tell us something?”
Writing by treason on Tuesday, 22 of November , 2005 at 2:04 pm
A question asked by a top White House source after it was revealed that a black “X” flashed over Dick Cheney’s face during yesterday’s speech. I’d caught Matt Drudge on FNC last night relating the story.
How odd, I thought. But later, when I was surfing through the networks, I landed on CNN and saw one of those Jeanne Meserve stories that can be, on occasion, quirky and amusing. But this one was just…strange. It was about the pope.
First, the pope wears red shoes. There’s speculation that they might be Prada loafers. He also wears Gucci sunglasses. Some say he’s dissed the tailors that have been providing pope garb for decades and going to his personal tailor for his wardrobe. And he’s been seen wearing a cassock that’s much shorter than it should be, exposing his ankles and those red shoes. He also has a young, extremely good-looking personal assistant. He wears shoes from Tod’s. Hmmmmm. What is CNN trying to say here?
I tried to make sense of it. I remember my mother telling me that when she was young, she walked down the street in Erie in a new white dress and new red shoes. She felt fabulous - until an old Italian woman from the neighborhood approached her, called her a whore, and slapped her across the face. My mother wasn’t aware that only a whore would wear red shoes. (This might have been one of the many experiences that resulted in her eventual escape to Chicago.)
Prada. I don’t wear Prada, but the Meserve piece mentioned Lauren Weisberger’s bestseller The Devil Wears Prada and, I think, tried to make some sort of point with that. All I know is a friend had foisted that novel upon me, saying:
“Read this! Sounds just like the bitch you worked for!”
If memory serves, JP 2 didn’t shop at Payless - he had special shoes, too. So the new pope wears Prada and Gucci. Perhaps these are gifts. Maybe it’s a case of product placement, and the designers are writing big fat checks to the Catholic Church. Maybe it’s just a case of supporting the local economy.
Don’t know, don’t really care. Obviously someone in Atlanta does.
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