After you open the outer door and then there is about 3 feet of entry way before you have to step up to the level of the store. In the photo you can see that the mannequins are on a different level than the sidewalk. Then there are stairs inside the store.

The folks at AA were super friendly and I agree that they’d be really happy to help anyone. But I just think that it’s a shame that the accessibility that has become the norm (thanks to enforcement of the ADA legislation) in the US doesn’t export when branches of US companies open in other countries without (or in Israel’s case enforcement) these rules.

I’ll blab about this soon over on my own blog – I think that I’ve found a new mission.

I appreciate the fundrasing drive, but it’s more important to send a birthright kid to Israel for the first time than for me to go back the eighth time. Still, thanks for the idea of launching such a campaign.

Next you should go to Israel. I am able to donate $100 for that trip. Lets have CK, Laya, Chutzpah, and all others match my pledge so that you can
be in Israel.

Later, Jews.

as someone who is neither 5’11″ nor 100 lbs., it is nice to see females that are just plain hot.

no touch ups necessary, if you ask me.

charney’s $20 undies don’t always look like much on the rack, but gosh darnit, when i see pictures of those sexy non-models wearing naught but those very same plain tighty whities, i’ve gotta have ‘em. in fact, i’d take them over these anyday!

Shtreimel: I stand by our friendship with American Apparel. Dov Charney runs a business the way a business ought to be run. He manufactures in the US and pays his sewers living wages. His staff generally seem to love going to work. Cripes, he has a full time bike mechanic on staff to do maintenance on the bikes he gives away to employees who want to commute to work that way. His continued success is a spit in the eye of other manufacturers who feel they can only succeed by unduly exploiting labor.

And then we have the ads. I think we’ve become so used to the ubber photoshopped models we see in glossy magazines that we think of them as women when many are only between 14-17 years old. Conversely, the AA models, who appear with no makeup on and whose photos are totally unretouched appear to our fucked up eyes, as if they are 14 when in fact most are over 25. Welcome to the real world shtreimel – this is what real women look like. Hardly any AA models could ever have a real modelling carreer. Some are too short, others too heavy or too old. Yet they can still be sexy! Besides, I don’t think male pedophiles are an important market segment that regularly shop at AA, even in Toronto.

So in conclusion, we’re glad to see AA invest in Israel. More companies ought to follow their lead.

EVERYBODY knows that vibrators are much more likely to bring about the downfall of society than, say, corruption and greed.