"Flat Iron," "Car Wash, Christmas Morning" and "Barbara" (original) (raw)

A single mother face the challenge of buying new clothes for her three children as part of a long standing Christmas tradition.

Last Year at Betty and Bob’s: An Actual Occasion is the third in a series of three novellas emerging from a writing practice that taps the cusp of consciousness between dreaming and waking. An Actual Occasion revisits the viral transitioning of the becoming rat-woman from Last Year at Betty and Bob's: A Novelty (vol. 1 in the trilogy). The adventure focuses on the Gritta’s, a gang of artists on retreat in the Dolomite Mountains, as they engage with the idiosyncratic, keeper of the keys, Roberta. Her other-worldly Café Arcadia, a magical cathedral of voluminous aphorism, is an archival refuge and durational homage to Benjaminian storytelling. This futurist fairy-tale is tinged with a curious mix of 19th-century feminist idioms and a queer, post-pandemic sanguinity.

People who live and work in cities have to go hairdresser regularly in Turkey. And if there is no extraordinary state, they prefer to go to the same hairdresser. The longevity character of hairdresser-customer relation; turns this relation to an interpersonal communication. This affiliation sometimes has gone too far to share some secrets. In today's world, communication in family, in work life, and between close friends has been gradually dissolving. Nobody has time to listen to nobody. People talk less with each other. Barber armchairs provide the enough time to customers whose husband and wife or close friends do not give them to talk. In this context, the time which customers spent in barbers' armchair has been passing through with a nice conversation, discharge and sharing the mental distresses. This study has been conducted to reveal the subjects talked in between hairdresser and his/her customers, and how much the talks have been repeated at later comings. Thirteen fe...

Manliness and aspects of being a man change with the times and cu/tures. The pressure felt by men for change has increased since the mid-20th century. it would be fair to say that this pressure mostly originates from the criticism of the traditional aspects of being aman advanced by women's freedam organizations and homosexuals. it is possible to observe this change in men's consumption habits. Defined as "consumers" with the end of World War II, men constitute a new market segment for the manufacturers. So that, many products have historically been targeted for women are now being marketed alsa for men. it is possible to observe this situation explicitly in the cosmetics industry. This study aims to assess the cosmetics products' adds published in the Esquire Magazine, a men's magazine, for the duration of one year (the year 2013). Data was collected using the content analysis method on product categories, brands, prices, ete. An overall look into the research results showed a significant diversity in cosmetics products and brands being marketed along with substantial price variability.