Some more Yasmeen

Turns out Maupassant, the Admin/owner @ Smoking Fetish Kingdom Forum had some other and a couple better shots of supermodel Yasmeen Ghauri. And THAT deserves another blog entry.

I swear, her legs are a fricking mile long... yum.

Just the facts.

Ok, it's hardly just the facts. In fact, it's most just my opinions, but hey... sue me. No, not really. You can't bleed a stone anyway.

So, onto the story. The Victoria's Secret show was last night, and it turns out that all the corset pictures I posted last week were all that we got to see. No surprise corsets. And no behind the scene lacing up either. Meh.

I have to admit, I find the models kinda annoying looking too. Yah, maybe I'm getting old, but they look more and more like children to me all the time. No, not all of them, but the new ones do. And maybe they are kids, it seems like every time a new model shows up she's 14 or so. And I really think we've taken the silicone and push up thing a bit too far. These women are almost all stick thin with just WHAM boobs. And well, they don't look human anymore. Believe it or not, but the thing I thought was most beautiful about Marisa Miller is her eyes. Oh how I love dark dark eyes. I credit Wayne Gretsky's wife, Ms. Janet Jones, for my love of dark eyes like that. Anyway, I think Marissa's boobs just look silly up in her face like that. It's just too much. I don't mind the corset though ;)

Hey, call me a snob. Just try and revoke my "man card" - I dare ya! And don't get me wrong, I don't have issues with padded bras, and I definitely like lingerie in general. It's just that I'm just finding most of the VS models to be going so far from what real women look like that they are getting less and less attractive to me. There is a tipping point to everything ya know. Even Ralph Lauren learned that when they did this awful photoshop on a model this past fall. BTW - the model was fired for being too large a few weeks after that ad controversy showed up.

In other news, after watching season 2, episode 4 - I'm convinced of two things about the Legend of the Seeker show. First, Briget Regan is definitely wearing a corset. Second, the two different styles of Dominatrixes are definitely and intentionally that.

In this week's episode, which won't air on Hulu til next weekend (and I'm spoiling the plot for ya by telling you this...) they go out to find the only other "confessor" in the world. Now, for those who are out of the loop, the confessors are the white robe wearing "good" Dommes. The Mord'Sith are the black & maroon leather wearing "bad" Dommes. The Mord beat you into submission, the Confessors use magic so that you love them. Either way - they're all damned hot.

So, they find this young girl who doesn't know what she is and she confesses a guy who then becomes her slave. Ok, innocent mistake, right? Now he's worshiping her around doing whatever she commands. She confesses a few more and makes basically a gang of slaves. And then, in a totally selfish move she confesses the big hero of the show. Now here's what clinched it for me that: 1) the confessors aren't automatically all that good, and 2) that it's intentionally got a D/s flavor. The first thing the hero says after being confessed is "Mistress, how can I serve you?" That's the first time I remember one of the confessors being called Mistress too - The Mord's get that honorific all the time. Though I must confess, I don't pay close attention to the dialog.

But here's the kicker, the young confessor orders the hero to sleep with the other confessor. And that's when we get to see the corset. It's a leather corset with shoulder straps to it. I've seen it before, but I'm not 100% sure if this is it. Anyway, even though they never give us a solid shot of it, so I'm not sure if they're shoulder straps or off the shoulders (she adjusted it during the scene...) and even without the classic "ah-ha" from behind with the laces shot, I'm definitely sure it's a real corset. I'm not sure if it's a black leather or it might even be a really dark olive green, but well, it's yummy on her.

So, I personally don't care how a woman gets to the top spot. Maybe she's just more powerful than you are, maybe she seduces you, maybe she uses some trickery. As long as she enjoys being in charge, well it's all good. Heck, I'm starting to like the idea with a good domme, bad domme variation of the police interrogation thing. *dreamy sigh*

And that's the facts.

No, not really.

Redirected...

Turns out that one of the sites I had been hosting some pretty vanilla, but smoking fetish pictures has linked my totally vanilla information to it, so... I had to delete the pictures.

And since I know they were linked to from smokingsides.com I've re-upped them to a new host, since I wouldn't want the smoking fetish community be without them.

So, while they aren't new really... I'm re-sharing em. Because, well... I just did most of the work anyway. And it's the most complete collection of Yasmeen Ghauri smoking pictures out there, and she's just too hot to let them disappear ;)

In addition to the Yasmeen pics, there were several others.

And another little treat, this cutie was filmed smoking (for no good reason I can tell other than it is hot) by the same folks who brought the internet "At The Reeeeeeeeedddddd House" furniture ad ;)


Here are the two clips of their "painfully honest" mobile home ad:
youtube.com/watch?v=q-RLqLx1iYI
youtube.com/watch?v=msumaGL_wwQ

Fake Posters

One of my favorite internet meme's is the faux motivational posters. We've all seen them now, they've been going around for years. I loved when demotivational posters started showing up.

It really is an art form. And though I've long appreciated it, it's not one I am very good at either. I've thrown a few posters out into the interweb over the years, but none have really spread.

But that doesn't mean I won't keep trying - like this one, my own personal version of a "Choose your own Adventure" book ;)The concept is pretty simple. A few words to grab the attention, and then a relatively brief sentence with a sassy observational zing.I do find the ones that are faked a bit annoying. There's no need to force the funny here, plenty to laugh about in the world already IMO. And as to my own posters, I'm just gonna keep trying.

Happy Gobble Gobble

It's been a heckuva week, but I'm reminded once again to give thanks for the many special gifts in my life today. And there are just too many to mention, but the support and friendships I've made with the community are definitely a big one.

So for that, I give you all my thanks.

I would like to also point out that tonight is the biggest night for pizza places. Since everyone everywhere is going to be buried in turkey, I guess pizza is the best option.

With that in mind, I give you this important piece of information about the role that pizza plays in our society today.

Victoria's Secret for 09? Corset Stays!

I always used to joke that Victoria's Secret was silicone, but this year it seems like Victoria is going with stays. And when it airs on December 1st (@ 10PM on CBS) I suspect you'll agree.

Here at Aarkeybabble, we fully support the extra support. When a model laces up she becomes automatically super in my book :)Sure, they definitely haven't been waist training, but hey... these girls don't have much of a waist to train in the first place.

I think these are all the corset shots (at least all I could find) but if you want more pics from the show, try here, here & here.

And now, the pics:
2009 - Alessandra Ambrosio: pic 1 - pic 2 - pic 3 - pic 4
2009 - Marisa Miller: pic 1 - pic 2 - pic 3
2009 - Fergie: pic
2009 - Noemie Lenoir: pic
2009 - Candice Swanepoel: pic
2008? - Unknown: pic
Year? - Heidi Klum: picHeck, even when the models weren't wearing corsets - they were still being, well... kinda corsetted, that's hot... right? Yah, I know... it's not quite like when corseting was the center of women's fashions, but that actually might not be a bad thing.