DON'T hold your comments till the end

Just a quick editorial note- I talk to so many people who say that while they love reading the blog they just haven't summoned up the courage to start 'commenting'. We here at Queen Beaches would like to tell YOU, our readers, that it is your comments that keep us going! So PLEASE sign up today and get in the fray! Tell us what you think about what we think! Your opinions on our opinions! Get snarky with us but please, don't out-clever us... you'll make us look bad. But really, what's everybody waiting for? Do you not see how much fun everybody else is having? INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW- WHAT DO YOU THINK?!?!?

PROJECT RUNWAY RECAP

OMG... somebody call the brass at Bravo because the Project Runway judges are SMOKIN' CRACK!!!! I am pretty disgusted at the moment so if I tend to veer all over the place, please bear with me. So here are my thoughts of Episode 3...

Kenley aka Veronica (like from Archie) enough with the feathered hairpieces already!!! Did you not see Carrie's reaction in the SATC movie when she finally realized she had a bird in her hair???

Leanne with the plaid... again... Emily with the theme dressing... again.. last week it was a grecian princess this time its Sailor Moon but unfortunately for Emily, her boat sailed off the show this week although I honestly cannot believe that Jennifer, the home ec student so out of her league with no style or taste (I mean, her personal outfits keep getting worse and worse!), won out over her. I loved what she said about her awful outfit 'I wanted it to be fun and young' well it can't be because you're NOT.

Blayne- you are so not long for this world and I just don't think you'll have enough air time to coin the next PR phrase.. last week it was Liciousness.. this week 'tough and dirty' or was it 'holla at cha boy' (which was amusing when Tim tried it on for size). And how did he make the cut when his dress was almost identical to Emily's- black with a 'great big corsage'?

Why, why, why is nobody listening to Tim 'the Guru' Gunn??? He gives them his complete and honest opinions and as soon as he walks away they're like 'I don't care. I know my style. I like it.' Oh, and which fashion conglomerate are you the CCO of?

Stella with the lacing is like Rami with the draping.. and I'm starting to decipher that she might be into leather... and what's with the striped leggings and leather nappie? And the past two weeks I've put both Joe and Jarrell up in my top picks and they've gotten no notice from the judges.

So its down to the wire and the workroom is chaos with ten minutes left to Runway and I'm looking at all these outfits, lots of which do NOTHING for the models and actually manage to make these stick thin girls look chunky, and three words come to mind. Hot. Tranny. Mess. Please God send more than one of these fools home this week.

Rooting for Terri, she's on my team- go Terri, go Terri, go Terri..... WHAAAATTTT???? Kenley? Kenley whose outfit garnered these descriptions 'Joan Crawford-esque', 'outdated', 'if you're not tall, you can't wear it'... I believe Tim Gunn described it as 'costumey'... yet Nina declares it adorable and she WINS???? I am so p.o 'ed. I got no points this week... again... nada... zilch... zero. I don't even want to look at our group standings.....

Today's Lucky Winner...

The winning song today under the heading 'New Songs I Absolutely Despise' is (surprise, surprise) Kid Rock's All Summer Long. There's so much wrong with this little ditty that it would take too much time I don't have right now and too much space on this blog IF I could even figure out where to begin. So I'll just throw out the one word and one word only that comes to mind every time I hear this song....

S-E-L-L-O-U-T.

Okay, boys and girls, its time to get your teams ready for tomorrow night's Project Runway episode! In case you STILL haven't gotten on board, we're all playing Fantasy Project Runway at fafarazzi.com and you can still sign up to play! Once you get all set up with the site, use this link to take part in the exclusive Queen Beaches group page - this is like your personal invitation so don't lose it again!

http://www.fafarazzi.com/project-runway-5/queenbeaches

Interesting note on the contest to date: All participating women are currently getting their heinies spanked by two men- Flyboy and Uncle Rico. Nice.

A few thoughts from last week's episode I'd like to share as we all contemplate our team rosters for tomorrow...

First of all, the 'green fabric' challenge... I'm sorry, but aren't a lot of fabrics made from natural fibers? All they had to avoid was synthetics and poisonous dyes and (Tim's words here)- if appropriate, organically grown. So he takes the models to Mood because this challenge apparently is all about them and they get to choose the fabric for the dress they'll wear and we encounter the first riddle of the evening- If you take 15 model-wannabes to a fabric store that sells 1,000's of textiles, how many models will pick the same fabric? My head is in my hands... no to mention I think they told the designers they'd get a free Starbucks latte every time they said the words 'green fabric' during the episode. Enough already!

Back at the ranch, let's talk about this season's designers which instantly brings me to today's separated at birth... Ron Wood and his baby sister Steeeelllllaaaaa!

I wish Stella would go back to The Brooklyn House O' Leather. We get the fact that you're urban already! And did you really steam that dress WHILE it was on the model? Huge rookie mistake. I really couldn't be more annoyed with any of the designers. Oh wait a tick, Jamie could be more annoyed. In fact, Jamie was very irritated while Jamie was watching last week's episode. Jamie thought that if Jamie heard Suede refer to himself in the third person OR heard one more designer talk about Suede referring to himself in the third person, Jamie would puke. But he did win. But he must lose the jean jeacket with SUEDE in rhinestones on the back. I did love his dress, even if, as Tim commented, it did have some homosexual dinosaur leanings.

Looking for easy points? (Who's not!) This week we found out who the criers are- Korto and Leanne. Korto's dress looked like one of those gourds you pile on the porch for some 'fall color' and I love Leanne's teary comment to Wesley 'I can't imagine you not being there'.. oh for crying out loud, they've been there like five days at this point, right?

I'll wrap things up for this week with this fashion commentary- Leanne and Kenley- get off the friggin' 1950's mid-western farm. You are in New York and it is 2008. Lose those nasty plaid pieces, let's ditch those glasses, Kenley- that hairpiece looked like swan feathers got mixed up with watermelon seeds in the pig trough and for godsakes Leanne COMB your hair!! Do they not know how corn-fed ridiculous they look or is it just me?? I don't think Leanne's gonna be around much longer anyway after seeing that Lost Boys concoction. Funny that Natalie Portman points out the Peter Pan connection, she of the slight, svelte stature and fondness for asexual hair cuts. One last item... I loved Nina's comment about how nothing looks cheaper than 'short, tight and shiny'... did anyone check out Heidi's dress?S-uh-N-A-P!

Now go pick your teams...

Blog-tastic!!

In case you missed it in the New York Times, last week there was a great meeting of the minds. A couple of Gheorghers made their way to the Outer Banks and this lucky QB was able to catch up with them for a brief blog summit. For those of you who have been wondering about the Gheorghe boys, I was able to capture a brief video of Rob and Whitney:



Here's hoping we'll be able to do it again soon, often and with even more people involved. Hmmmm...I think someone said something like that to me once back in college....

There's a Bathroom on the Right, Part II

For your Wednesday morning coffee break entertainment, I present to you a video tribute to the greatest lyrical butchering of all time:



Big shout out to TJ (the brother, not the Gheorgher), for this clip.

Okay, we've got six teams registered so far on the Queen Beaches Fantasy Project Runway Group page... a big, big bitchy welcome to brave QB fans jojoagogo, obxflyboy, colleenkdh, and claiborne for having the nerve to play with us. But where is Kenny?? Oh no, did they kill Kenny?? Just joking... don't forget to take a good look at your team going into tomorrow night's episode because the points are getting ready to roll (or fall).. I can't remember what time they lock you out tomorrow, but be forewarned that after a certain time you will NOT be able to mess with your team anymore. And Clai, you have a really funny looking team- they all have these weird gray faces... oh, apparently you need to actually pick some designers! Hop to it baby!

PROJECT SCISSOR HAPPY

Call me a brainiac if you will but does anybody else smell an upcoming Project Runway episode where each designer gets paired with a Shear Genius stylist in creating a look for the catwalk??

There's A Bathroom On The Right

While kickin' back at the pool the other day, Patty was telling us about something she had recently heard on NPR's This American Life, wherein people shared their stories of having received bad information early in life, yet continued to believe it well into adulthood. Like the woman who (allegedly) mortified herself in front of co-workers by asking if unicorns were endangered or extinct. I piped up that I had, until my late 20's, thought the correct lyric in the Beach Boys' classic song, Surfin' USA was "if every body had a notion..." (not 'if every body had an ocean'. duh.)

That led to a rather animated discussion of other mis-heard lyrics, such as these gems (and no, I won't reveal who was responsible for butchering the toonces - but if they want to own up to it in the comments, by all means please do!):

Song: CCR's Bad Moon Rising
Wrong lyric: There's a bathroom on the right
Correct lyric: There's a bad moon on the rise

Song: Train's Drops of Jupiter
Wrong: Van Halen is overrated.
Right: ...and that heaven is overrated.

Song: The Who's Eminence Front
Wrong: Livin in a strut
Right: Eminence Front
(that cracks me up every time. and PS don't forget to tune into VH1 tonight to watch Eddie *sigh* Vedder & Pearl Jam honor the Who at the Rock & Roll Honors or whatever the hell it is.)

Alright, phone lines are open. Let's hear your best and worst. And for those of you who find this sh*t as amusing as I do, saunter on over to kissthisguy.com, an entire website devoted to the cause. My current fave: from the J Geils Band's Angel in the Centerfold, some poor shmuck thought the lyric was "my anus is the center hole." You might want to see a doctor about that, pal.

Barenaked And High As A Kite

We interrupt our regularly scheduled nonsense and PR premiere coverage to bring you this breaking news:

Barenaked Ladies singer arrested on drug charges 07/16/2008 5:13 AM,

The singer and guitarist for the band Barenaked Ladies has been arrested on drug charges in upstate New York. Police say Steven Page was charged with fourth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance on Friday in the Syracuse area.

Authorities say the arrest occurred at about 2 a.m. after police noticed a suspicious car with its driver's side door left open. They say they found Page and two women in a nearby apartment, along with cocaine and marijuana. Barenaked Ladies' manager Terry McBride confirmed the charge to the Post-Standard of Syracuse but declined to comment further. The singer, released after paying $10,000 bail, is due in court Thursday. Page helped form the band in 1988. The group, know for hits such as "One Week" and "Pinch Me" recently released their debut kids "Snacktime."

First of all (in a nutshell), I don't really see parents rushing out to buy an album for their kids by a band called Barenaked Ladies. "Are you ready kids?! Here's Uncle Steve & the Barenaked Ladies! Iiiiiiit's cracktime! Uh....I mean snacktime, snacktime! Dammit!"

QUEEN BEACHES GROUP

Okay everybody, we finally figured out how to have a Queen Beaches group for the Fafarazzi Fantasy Project Runway contest. (which, incidentally, does not really begin until next week. ie even if you have picked a team for tonight there is NO scoring this week, all that fun begins next episode.)

In the meantime, here is the link to use as your 'offishul eenvite' to the Queen Beaches Fantasy Project Runway Group. Supposedly this gives us our own page and if you join the group your weekly scores, etc will be posted to this page so we can all see who's kicking whose butt, who should really be a fashion critic, etc., etc.

This information supercedes previous information regarding the Queen Beaches league.

Come on, sign up! We're a lot of fun to play with!!

http://www.fafarazzi.com/project-runway-5/queenbeaches

Your hostesses with the mostestes,
Jamie & Katherine

LET'S GET READY TO RUMBLE!!! (OR RHUMBA, WHICHEVER FITS!)

Three hours and counting until the new season of Project Runway!!

To make the most of the mere sixty minutes (commercials included) of showtime, I highly suggest you immediately head over to http://www.bravotv.com/ where bios and pictures of all this season's contestants are on full frontal display. Take some time to get to know the designers. Do them the courtesy of being prepared when you welcome them into your living room later this evening. We'll be living with them for weeks to come so wouldn't you feel better knowing right from the start whose fashion inspirations include Holly Golightly and Salvador Dali? In fact, just to see which Project Runway/Queen Beaches fans are willing to go the distance, here's a little quiz based on the Bravo info:

How many designer's bios include either the Fashion Institute of Technology, Parsons or the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandise?
(Seven)

What is the average age of this season's designers?
(30.125)

How many designers already have their own label? Lines? Has designed a guitar?
(Three. Three. One.)

Which designer apparently lent her favorite jeans to her pit-bull owning, house painter boyfriend?
(Kelli. With an 'i'.)

When is Tim Gunn coming to fix my closet?
(Not until one of my BFF's submits my name for the next season of Tim Gunn's Guide to Style. Hint-hint, Katherine.)

Which designer's 'Fashion Must!' is.... anything neon?
(Blayne, you know, like Pretty in Pink. )

Which designer is totally wearing 'arm warmers'? Ankle warmers?
(Stella; Emily)

Who rocks his little blue unihorn?
(Suede)

Who's going to work hard to whip Kenny's butt with their own Fafarrazi Project Runway Fantasy team?
(Flyboy)

How many designers claim Vivienne Westwood as a favorite designer?
(Three)

Which designer is sporting black fringed pants?
(Terri. Again with the 'i'.)

Who gets to be Heidi in the next life?
(Me! Me! I called it first!)

Who has 'mad skills'?
(Oops, sorry, wrong season.)

Who has 'bad skills'?
Well, as we all know, you can't judge a book by its cover so we'll have to wait until ten o'clock tonight to begin the discussions of who can go the distance and who can just go home.

Until then... make it work!!

(An extra special heartfelt shout out to Queen Beach reader, Project Runway fan and old college chum Lisa Cifuni Herbert. I'm thinking of you, Li!)

LADIES (& GENTLEMEN), START YOUR ENGINES!

Hooray- hooray- hip, hip hooray! Finally, the cast of Project Runway 5 has been revealed! Fafarazzi sent notice today that this season's hapless, sometimes clueless, often strapless cast is officially out of the closet- er- Parson's work room as it were.

You'll definitely find the usual suspects along with plenty of tats, facial hair (luckily just on the men), truly clever mantras like 'Get noticed or go home' and 'don't blend in', names like Suede and Blayne and Stella (who reminds me a lot of that writer chick who went and lived with Salinger for years), the token midwesterner, the Parsons grad and the self-proclaimed 'stylist'... but even with the little bios tantalizingly dangled out there, can we really get any sort of feel for each of the designers until we see how they move on screen, how they make love to the cameras, how they try to schmooze Heidi and Tim from the git-go and what the f--- starts coming out of their mouths when they realize that reality TV has become their own reality?

48 and 3/4 hours... don't forget to pick your first week's team at Fafarazzi.com which will qualify you for the Tim Gunn Bobblehead drawing.. and let me just be the first to say... I am jonesing for a Tim fixx. TTTW! Ta Ta Til Wednesday!

PS( And let me also be the first to say- I scooped KQ on this one!!)

Today's Election Coverage

We here at QBHQ do our best to keep you, our beloved readers (hi Dad!), on top of all the latest, most important headlines of the day. We scour the papers (People and US Magazine) and internet (PerezHilton.com), stay up all night watching only the most newsworthy and insighful programs, and then, when Sex and the City is over, we forward only the most critical information along to you.

Herewith, I present to you today's election coverage (courtesy of the Onion):
Bill Clinton Sadly Folds First Lady Dress Back Into Box

I Don't Get It... Does That Mean I'm Not Hip?

I saw another one yesterday. Idly flipping through the pages of a magazine, enjoying a beach day, vicariously shopping for things I 'have to have' that I won't ever purchase, I came across another double-spread ad for Marc by Marc Jacobs.

Now this is the line that featured Posh not too long ago in a bunch of weird Barbie doll poses with one arm flung up into the air that Katherine and I tried so hard to capture with some of our limo pix. But Marc's ads have gone from oddly plasticine to downright disturbing.

I'm sure you've seen one... it's got 'Cole', a male model, posing in women's ready to wear, photographed by Juergen Teller. If you haven't seen the campaign, its really quite indescribable so I suggest you run right out to the store and buy yourself about five magazines (suggestions: In Style, Vogue, Marie Claire, Domino & Vanity Fair.) Okay, you probably won't find the ad in either of the last two but since I'm giving you a super excuse to go splurge on some eye candy I figured I'd throw those in as well.

Tried to research this a little bit... hit the Marc Jacobs website which features a ten second loop of a 70's-ish home movie of some bedazzled and sequined cabaret singing drag queens (http://www.marcjacobs.com/, its kinda worth it)... ah, so there are some cross dressing issues in the house.. then I found an interview Marc did with, well, Interview magazine, where he himself is cross dressing in the same style as the ads which is not trannie per se, but more like poor little prep schoolboy trying on some of mummie's clothes while she's out. Marc even has the 'couture hunch' down (you can see those pix at the mj website too). In the meantime, do NOT be fooled by these ads! While the message may be 'Look! even a boy toy model looks great in a Marc dress!' the reality is that the boy toy still has a quasi-feminine body built for high fashion that most us girls can ever aspire to. Caveat emptor, my friends, caveat emptor.

IT HURTS! IT HURTS! (Wait, I Kinda Like It!)

Okay, I need some help here from QB readers. So our 17" computer monitor died, went to Best Buy, bought a new one. New one is 19" and I would describe it as more of a wide-screen.

While perusing the latest well-played list at Go Fug Yourself today I realized this new monitor must be totally hi-def! I'm seeing things I never saw before! Like how Mischa Barton seems to be fighting a little battle of the bulge! Maggie Gyllenhaal's eyes are too far apart! Alicia Keys has two mile wide hips! Pamela Sue is starting to look a bit stumpy and dumpy! "They're MORTAL !!" I cried, "HUMANOIDS ALL!! "

Then I took a closer look and realized everybody was looking a little squished like when you change your TV settings to Zoom 2 and it kind of stretches everyone out.. or like a fun house mirror. So, I'm wondering if I need to change some settings on my computer in order to adapt internet images to the new 19" wide screen. Any geeks out there who can back that up or talk me through it?

Or should I just leave it and actually feel 'Okay' about my cankles for awhile?

Goin to the Backyard Chapel

My baby sister is getting married tomorrow.

Sarah, with all my heart and soul I wish I could be there with you. I'll be thinking of you (and still drinking champagne, natch). We all wish you and Brian a lifetime of love, laughs, health & happiness. I have no idea what 'your song' is so I'm dedicating this one to you. It's worked pretty well for us these last 10+ years.



Mazel Tov!! I love you Slick. Welcome to the family, Brian! (God help you.)

Uh...this is KFC

Don't know what you've got planned for the upcoming weekend, but mine is looking a whole lot brighter now that I've seen this:


New Wearable Feedbags Let Americans Eat More, Move Less


(and if anyone would like the back story to the title, I'll be more than happy to fill you in sometime.)

CALLING YOUR BLUFF

I'll see your Eddie Vedder and raise the wager with two simple words.... Rhett Miller.

(Although upon viewing this post my husband, and lead singer of the mega-band Gunston Midas, just reminded me that really he should be my one and only greatest frontman of all time. But my bet is still on the table... KQ, you got anything left girl?)

You the Man

This topic has come up in conversation several times over the past month and I've decided it's now officially blog-worthy.

In my post Pearl Jam glow last month, I made the rather astute observation that Eddie Vedder is the epitome of a rockstar. Not really going out on a limb, I know, except for the veracity with which I was willing to defend my statement that he among the greatest front men of all time. My top three (in no particular order, except that Eddie is always #1):

Eddie
Bono
Kurt Cobain

The other night we got to talking about it again, and determined the following criteria:
1. Would the band be as successful without him?
2. His and/or his band's overall contribution (a bit subjective & hard to define, I know)
3. Is he hot? (just kidding, although it doesn't hurt)
4. Longevity

I was going to add Matt Williams of SML but since I can't give them the longevity vote yet, we'll have to wait and see how that develops. Kenny was quick to nominate Jim Morrison as the greatest, an excellent contribution. I believe Sting's name was mentioned, there was some talk about Mick Jagger, Paul vs. John, and then I got up to help with the dishes so I missed the rest of their analysis. That, and I was on my 3rd glass of wine so the details might be a bit foggy.

And it's not limited to front men, it just started there. Diana Ross in her Supreme days would be an excellent addition to the list. Granted, this is not as thorough and definitive as the Best TV Theme Song list over in Gheorghe-land (and I'm not drunk like Whitney), but let's hear what you've got to say.

Party on Wayne.

Let's Try This Again

Only 7 days 'til Project Runway...


Damn that Heidi Klum. She even makes a hot looking peep.

WANT TO PLAY?

So now its seven days and a wake up till Season 5 of Project Runway and we wanted to make everyone aware of a little game EVERYONE can play that makes watching even more fun and actually ups the ante for you, the viewer!

Everyone's heard about 'Fantasy Football' and 'Fantasy Baseball' where grown men select players to put together impossible dream teams that they then track for an entire sports season, earning different point values or good plays, no plays, etc. But did you know that you can play 'FANTASY PROJECT RUNWAY'???? Yes, we're here to tell you its true.... and its awesome.

First, go to http://www.fafarazzi.com/. You'll need to register but its all free so its all good. Click on the heading 'Games' then choose 'Project Runway' as your show. The upcoming screen will tell you how the whole thing works (every week you get to pick three designers), how scoring is done (for example, winning a challenge is worth 6 points, being told your garment is poorly constructed you lose a point, if your designer cries or gets 'bleeped' relax, you just earned a point!), then the Thursday after each new episode you'll get a email tell you how many points you earned, your running total, position on the leaderboard, etc. Its a blast and we'd really like to have someone other than each other and Kenny to play with. We may even start our own Queen Beaches league so stay posted for more info on that- wouldn't it be great if all the Queen Beaches started getting b*&^chy with each other? hahaha. Oh yeah, if you actually rock at this game (and Kenny did) you can win points that can be used, where else, at Bluefly.

Come on, check it out and come play with the Queen Beaches! We promise to play nice!

8 days til Project Runway 5!

Separated at Birth... Part Two

Jack from Project Runway (for more Jack, scroll down to the little video Katherine found at GFY)......

and Jeff from Flippin' Out.....

This time I SUPER promise... I swear!

I am becoming more and more convinced that Bravo uses subliminal messaging during its shows because even after I vowed to NEVER watch Salon Smarties again SOMEHOW I found myself watching a REPEAT the other day?!?!? Its like a magnetic pull or something... I must say I did NOT see it in its entiriety but after what I did view, I WANT to see the whole thing.

Now, you know how I feel about the Real Housewives of OC. If not, you need to do some backtrack reading of this blog. And my more recent opinions of Shear Genius are quite plain. However, when these two shows put their creative fists together with one producer shouting 'Shape of A Desperate Middle-Aged California Barbie' and another producer replying 'Shape of A Primadonna Hairstylist'... well, let me just say it takes on a whole 'nother dimension and one I'm not sure this world (or at least the East Coast) is ready for.

Like I said I didn't see the whole thing, but I did get to see all the Housewives (and daughters) who, let me get this straight, had agreed to be on the show, harass, bully and demand that their hair not be 1-cut, 2-colored or 3- changed. If that RHW beyach Vicki used her shrill harpie scream to tell her daughter's stylist not to 'cut one hair!' one time, she did it a dozen times. Does anybody remember when they went to Mexico on RHW and she kept screaming 'MEXICOH!!'

it was that voice.

So in the end they walked down the runway and OMG! looked exactly the same except maybe a little worse because all the poor stylists could do was try to restyle their way too long, way too processed, way too young looking hair. And I'm talking about the daughters too.

Two 'highlights' if you will- the Christian of Scissor Madness, Parker, is gone. Told you he should've read this blog. And I loved Sabrina being back to judge. She's tough as nails, man. And apparently has a show coming out called Sabrina's Salon Takeover which I'm having a lot of fun imagining as a hairdresser version of Gordon Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares. I'll give you a little sneak peek at that later...

**Incidentally, there has been some confusion regarding the two pictures of Vicki at the top of this post. These are her 'Before' and 'After' pictures from the Shear Genius episode.

AND THE WINNER IS....

(This is the part where I put on my Queen Beaches OBX Society Columnist hat.)

Well the long holiday weekend hadn't even begun Thursday night and already we had a winner in the Host/Hostess With the Mostest category... HUGE kudos to Patty & Matt McKenna for throwing an awesome shindig on 7/3/08. It was a GREAT way to get the weekend started... Chris and I quickly recognized this potential when we ran into the good Doctor Matt at the ABC store Wednesday night stocking up on some tequila (for the margarita machine!) in his OR scrubs. After some joking around about shots and surgery, we parted ways and immediately began eagerly anticipating the next evening's festivities.

Can't say enough about the food (chilled edamame, black bean salad, steamed hot dogs- perfect for a warm summer night), the libations (a pale ale kegger!), the huge yard that doubles as a children's paradise, the FUN mix of people and the general aura of a good relaxed party. Smart idea to have this the night before the weekend starts getting crazy with plans. Also really appreciated the invitation implied we could bring holiday company, which we did.

Patty had on a smashing skirt which I didn't get to grill her about (as in- where did you get that?), some other articles of clothing I am now coveting- Amy D's long striped dress, Chrissy B's stunning halter/handkerchief dress (one of those cool retro/modern patterns) that looked super with her 'found' sunglasses (don't lose those Chrissy!), loved Elizabeth's earrings, Jennifer G needs to do some modeling for Confetti- she was really rockin' a G1 skirt...Claiborne's shoes definitely on my hit list... I want to start going to the gym with Whitney H, she's tight.. was disappointed to see Ken back down and let me win the Beautiful Toes contest with my new OPI navy polish... earlier in this patriotic week he was sporting some hot designs on his big toes (courtesy of Thing 1 and Thing 2, AKA Kate & Maggie) but apparently wasn't man enough to have them recreated professionally and bring them out to the masses. Conversation with everyone was fun, relaxed and BIG thanks on behalf of Katherine (my co-blogger) and I to everyone who mentioned that they are still reading (and apparently liking) our blog (like Thea, MaryBeth, Amy, etc).

Here's what I love best about so many Outer Banks parties... kids are included and this one was no exception. My visiting in-laws are still amazed by the number of children (50?) running around enjoying themselves as much as their parents. Not saying there's anything wrong with getting a babysitter now and then (IF you can actually find one) and enjoying an adult evening, but so many social happenings here are suited for the whole family and that suits me just fine.

To Patty & Matt- thanks so much for the invite! I think I speak for all of your satisfied party guests when I make the recommendation this become an annual event!

Tran-tastic

Sometimes the headline is better than the story. At least that is what I was expecting when I came across this gem today:

Transsexuals angry at Victoria Beckham over her support of Christian Siriano

Not today folks, this shit just keeps getting better. In a nutshell, trannys all across america have their panties in a bunch about Project Runway winner Christian Siriano's use of the phrase "hot tranny mess." Since Posh has supported him by wearing his fashions, the trannys are mad at her too.

“She might not have to worry about physical attack but boy is she going to be
embarrassed when 50 of us turn up at her next public function and tell the world
what we think…No one’s designs are going to do anything for an emaciated stick
insect with sparrow legs like her. She might as well stick to the kind of ho-bag
outfits we usually see her in. Come to think of it, she’d probably fit in quite
nicely in a trailer park.”

God I love an angry tranny.

It Ain't Project Runway

What better way to honor our Nation's birthday than to salute America's favorite pastime. I'm speaking of course about prostitution.



Okay, so the "ladies" in question are from Spain, but they've got that good ol' US of A can-do spirit. Apparently, development is threatening their ability to work the very streets on which they peddle their wares, so in an effort to show they are "capable of doing other things" they staged a fashion show. Things, I guess, for which they DON'T charge. (Although I don't get how walking the streets half naked is any different from their night job - isn't that sort of part of the job requirement?)



Good for you, gals! Way to stand up for your right to lie down!

This is exactly the reason I have to take periodic breaks from the blog:

Here I am, finished work and work-out, sitting down at the trusty HP to balance the old bank account before hitting the liquor store. (Just kidding, but we are out of Bombay.) And I just happen to see some recent comments sitting in my inbox, which then leads me to a comment or two of my own, which then leads to me remember something I wanted to post but keep forgetting INSTEAD of managing all those debits and the few credits that manage to roll in.

The big black hole known as BRAVO sucked me right in again last week... I'm not even sure why I was in front of the TV Wednesday at 10pm- Top Chef is over, even the reunion, and I knew PR wasn't starting for another two weeks but there I was and here came Jaclyn and Rene (would somebody please get me this guy's background so I can figure out WTF that accent is? Is it made up? And Kim Vo... that is a guy right?) and the new season of Hairy Scary.. I mean Shear Genius. It is pretty hard for me to get interested in this one but what else are we to do until July 16? So I watched. And after 60 minutes I had to agree with Oshun- it was 'bullshit, man!'

Let's start with the first challenge. PUHleez, cutting hair BLINDFOLDED? Why would you ever want to do that? Did they have to hit up a methadone clinic to find women hard up for cash who would sit there and let someone do that? Why would you NEED to cut a clients hair IN THE DARK??? "Omigosh, Cindi Lou, the power just went out! It's pitch black! Don't worry, I can do this with my eyes closed!" Who would not trip over their stilettos getting out of that salon??

But then comes this incredibly well designed elimination challenge- take a female cartoon character's iconic hair and translate into a modern interpretation. I'm sorry... Marge Simpson? Lucy from Peanuts? GEM for godsakes?? This sounded ludicrous, played out just dam crazy and looked like hell. Oh, and the little pan who thinks he is Christian from PR hasn't read Queen Beaches or he would know that boy has officially jumped the shark. (Although describing this show as a hot tranny mess is more than apropo.)

I have vowed not to waste any more time on this show and, in fact, have made alternate plans for tomorrow evening. Sorry, Charlie.

Now, what's my balance?

YOU'RE IN GOOD HANDS....

OMG. Jst saw ad frm allstate re: teenz txting n drving. Wat??!! WTF is so vip in ther lives cant wate til nxt stplite? R they tryin 2 wrk and keep up frndships? R they tryin to trck down kids who r runnin wld at fther's howz? R they tryin to axshly hav a sochl lif? I say, teenz, hang up n driv and leav txting whl drving to those who really need todoit, adultz!

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And yes, I have been MIA, but does anybody remember Miss Quinn's little hiatus earlier this winter? Let's just say I was due, have lots to comment about regarding her posts and quite a few blog bees in my bonnet. Here's a little two word teaser..... Tila Tequila.