In 1999, I agreed with the rest of the world that the Dior suit Celine Dion wore to the Oscars was a fashion blight. Embed from Getty Images Today, I spit upon the 1999 WendyB and her boring taste! I love this suit now. It is razor-sharp and futuristic. I would definitely wear it and…
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Thursday Book Club: Gypsy Rose Lee
Eric Idle, the author of the Monty Python musical Spamalot, recently changed the show’s lyrics to take out a reference to Britney Spears. “Because we don’t laugh at sad people,” he explained. Now, for accuracy’s sake, he might want to change the lines about the joys of musical theater sung by Spamalot’s timid Sir Robin:…
Jane Asher, ’60 Chick
Martirio’s Way always has well-researched photo posts about current and vintage style icons, so if you haven’t already bookmarked it, you should. I’ve had Beatles on the brain so I just have to share today’s post, which includes a nice collection of photos of Jane Asher, the ultra-hip, red-headed British actress whom Paul McCartney dated…
Imagine a Resemblance
WendyB John Lennon I really like my round Lennon-esque sunglasses. But I’m not a big fan of Lennon’s “Imagine.” I think he dealt with similar issues in a more powerful way in “God.” That’s probably my favorite solo Lennon work, though listening to it makes me sad because the lyric “The dream is over” was…
Still Charming After All These Years
Back in October, I wrote about the hotness that was ’80s New Romantic icon Adam Ant. Hot! Well! I just got an unusual email from a fellow named Michael on behalf of Mr. Ant saying that Adam is considering doing a limited-edition art book. Before Adam goes ahead and busts his ’80s icon ass, he’d…
Thursday Book Club: Empress Wu, Part II
Welcome back to the increasingly erratic Thursday Book Club! In my last real Book Club post, I discussed Empress Wu, the only woman in the history of China to be called “emperor” during her lifetime. Since then, I’ve done a couple of fake Book Club post about Christopher Walken’s ass and books I bought while…
Protected: Happy Delurking Week!
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We Tag the World. We Tag the Children.
If you weren’t sentient in the ’80s, you missed some interesting fashion. You also missed the moment when wealthy musicians from the U.S. and U.K. first started tormenting innocent African people with insipid charity songs. It’s bad enough to be starving. It’s worse to be starving while some craptastic song generates large amounts of money…
Naa! Naa! Dog Looks Like a Lady!
I’d finally gotten that Aerosmith song out of my head when my husband took the dogs to get their hair did. Henry returned sporting some nice hair ribbons. Dog looks like a lady! Hey! Don’t judge! I love my cross-dressing dog! P.S. Happy anniversary to BarbaraB and GeorgeB!
I’m Riding High Upon a Deep Depression
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