Random beauty of the day

[vulgarweed]

Was running late to work and missed the bus so I hailed a cab (I live really close to downtown, so it's only a few bucks more).

The driver looked quite a bit like Sinéad O'Connor.

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[notlefthanded.livejournal.com]

I used to get so angry when my mother would say, "She would be so pretty if she'd just grow some hair." My God, woman, do you not see that "Nothing Compares 2 U" video? The baldness just makes her features even more stunning!

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

I always thought so too. It brought out her huge eyes and lovely cheekbones. Which this cabdriver had also (she wasn't so much bald as reallyreally short buzzcut).

[maggiehoneybite.livejournal.com]

I always thought so too. It brought out her huge eyes and lovely cheekbones.

Didn't it, though? I always liked her look.

[celandineb.livejournal.com]

Coolness!

Now, around here if there are any women without hair, it's because of chemo or something icky, and they're almost certainly wearing blonde wigs to hide the fact. Please, Fates, get me out of here and to somewhere that's a real city...

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

The Irish cableknit sweater only contributed to the impression. Though from her accent I think she was probably Russian or Ukrainian.

There aren't a lot of women cabdrivers in Chicago, but everyone I've seen has had a very distinctive sense of style. I think it's not a job generally taken by the just-blend-in sort of woman.

[celandineb.livejournal.com]

I think it's not a job generally taken by the just-blend-in sort of woman.

No, I don't imagine it is. Not a job I think I'd handle well at all, since it combines having to deal with sometimes-nasty people (and not from a position of any authority) with having to drive in sometimes-nasty traffic. Power to those who can do it though.

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

It's actually one of the more dangerous jobs you can have in this city too.

[thrihyrne.livejournal.com]

This is so not about your post (though now that I'm on a university campus again I find equal-opportunity beauty of the younger kind), but… how had I missed that you were a His Dark Materials fan?!

Obviously, I am ignorant.

I'm 'treating myself' to an HDB/HP crossover in the new year, that I'll write. At some point. After rereading all of the canon material.

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Well, you probably missed it because I so rarely post about it. (though you might find this multifandom gangbang crackfic outline from a week or so ago amusing...) I haven't written any fic, or even read much that I liked - where is the good stuff hiding? But I do love the books.

And your crossover idea sounds great! No pressure but I would definitely be interested.

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Uck. I lose at coding. Link should work though.

[fyrdrakken]

So back in 1999 when I was having my six months in London on a student work permit, I walked into a little convenience store close to where I worked to get a drink on the way to RHPS, and the clerk and the woman in line ahead of me clearly knew each other (in the "repeat customer and shopworker" sense) and were playing that quick game of two-minute catchup one does when entering an establishment one used to be familiar at but hasn't been into for a while. She had a gorgeous black leather coat -- thigh-length, form-fitting to the waist and then flared below, with lacings over the seams -- and I complimented her on it. She also had a shaved head.

It wasn't until she'd paid and walked out and I moved up to the register that the clerk asked me if I knew who that was. Turned out to have been Sinead O'Connor.