Still haven’t found the socks I’m looking for
Monday came and went and I did not publish any updates to my fiction. I have three more chapters of “Rented Space” in the pipeline, but I don’t feel they are ready for primetime. Actually, I could publish one and not feel too bad, but I see no sense in dribbling it out. I’d rather post several chapters altogether. I expect to post an update tomorrow or the next day.
For once, I broke with habit and wrote a little this weekend, instead of simply relaxing. Typically, I write for a couple hours in the evening, Monday through Wedensday and take a four day weekend from writing. But Friday and Saturday, I found myself thinking a lot about “Rented Space,” and so this weekend I could not completely stay away from it. I think I’ve got a pretty good conflict to play out in the plot. I’ve already set that up a little bit in the five chapters already posted, especially in chapter 5. So I know where I’m going, I just have to figure out how to get there. Always the question, it is.
Meanwhile, in Iraq, car bombs killed at least twelve people… and I’ve been looking for a decent sock fetish site that has pictures of the socks such as Trillian wears in Hitchhiker’s Guide. Sock Dreams is the closest I’ve come, but the pictures aren’t enlargeable, and frankly, it disturbs me a little that sometimes I can’t tell if I’m looking at a man’s feet or a woman’s. That could be a man in those brown argyles! Although the legs look too smooth to be a man’s, one can never be sure.
There is nothing pornographic about Sock Dreams, so you can safely check it out at work or in front of the kiddies. The argyles posted there are not quite Trillian’s argyles, however. Trillian’s socks come to just under the knee. I suppose the technical terminology would be “over the calf.” I don’t actually want to Google “sock fetish,” however, because I’m afraid of what it will turn up. So I just searched on the terms “argyle socks,” which provided me a pleasant softcore version of what I’m looking for.
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You’re right. You DON’T want to Google sock fetish. Since I’m immobile at the moment, I did, and let’s just say it’s disappointing for someone who actually did just want to see stockinged feet. I did, however, find the following quote from Sock Central funny, especially since you can hardly even see the socks, and they’re all boring white ones:
“I really love your site. I think it is great how you add so many new girls. Your focus on socks is the best I have ever seen.”
J.T., Somerset, New Jersey
Comment by Dawn — Tuesday, 3 May 2005 @ 8:05 am
Speaking of funny quotes, I found the following on a board called Suicide Girls Dirty Talk.
“what’s your weirdest turn on? (excluding body parts)
argyle socks. those turn me on faster than fancy lobster bisque.”
A little further down the page, I read another response:
“Wood floors. Walking on them in my socks get me all tingly downstairs…”
These are people I think I’d enjoy talking to! What unique tastes.
Comment by Matthew — Tuesday, 3 May 2005 @ 8:45 am
What weirdos!
Though I suppose I have my own peculiarities…
Comment by Dawn — Tuesday, 3 May 2005 @ 8:59 am
They sound pretty sexy to me. I’ll never look at wood floors the same way again.
Comment by Matthew — Tuesday, 3 May 2005 @ 9:12 am
I love argyle socks! And I have two or three calf-length pairs. They came back into style so I couldn’t resist!
So I have a sock fetish, but not *that* kind of a sock fetish. I just like weird socks, probably because I otherwise tend to dress pretty calmly. I don’t like a lot of bright colors or odd patterns, so my socks often make up for it.
Comment by Mel B. — Tuesday, 3 May 2005 @ 3:52 pm
I never understood sock fetishes, it never made sense to me. I am the basic white socks/black socks/no socks kind of girl.
Comment by Brandi — Thursday, 5 May 2005 @ 8:08 pm
There is nothing to understand about a fetish, really. They are inexplicable…unless you’re someone like the Marquis de Sade, who was spanked as a child and liked it.
Comment by Matthew — Friday, 6 May 2005 @ 9:44 am