This is funny: Handbags of Horror at Radar Online

I am obviously in the minority, I guess, but I find the majority of women's handbags to be completely butt-fugly. I like slick, geeky backpacks in high-tech stainproof fabric with appropriate pockets. I am a Bag Whore, but my bags are all Laptop Backpacks or something similar. I just wore a Jansport backpack for ages.

At one time I had a handcrafted brown leather drawstring backpack-like bag made by my friend Tom. It was like a tube, closed at one end, but you could wear it over one shoulder, or like a backpack. It was awesome. Angela used to call it my Ferret, because being worn brown leather curled up on my shoulder it looked like a little animal. Sadly, I think I left it in a Wendy's on our Florida trip, long, long ago. I did get another brown leather backpack (not nearly as cool), but it was stolen from my train compartment in Spain while I was sleeping one night. I think I was gassed.

I have a nice black leather bag with shoulder straps that was my favorite purse in pre-Mommy times, but ever since I had Julian I've been carrying either my Ergo Front Pouch or my Ergo Daypack. Not the chicest choices, but I need something that I can strap onto my body so that I don't lose it, along with my mind.

The only bag I own that does not strap onto my body is a pretty little clutch made of kimono silk that I reserve strictly for Date Night, and then I live in fear of leaving it behind somewhere, since I basically have to hold onto it all the time. For me, a bag that I can't attach to my body somehow is bound to be lost or destroyed.

But seriously, even if I didn't have an attachment issue, I could never carry any of the bags shown. Just too freakin' ugly. I don't get the hobo bags, or the Fendi baguettes, or any of those shapes or styles. I guess I just don't get handbags in general. Oh well.