If you don’t follow blogger, illustrator and pug-lover Gemma Correll, you should: Gemma’s Twitter Gemma’s Facebook Gemma’s blog This cartoon by Gemma depicts what happened to me on Monday night after I suddenly developed a fever. After researching the possible causes of my fever, I felt much worse and did go to bed early. I…
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What Wendy Wore: Time Stands Still
The producers of the play Time Stands Still — about a photojournalist injured in a roadside bombing in Iraq — invited members of the Committee to Protect Journalists to see the show the weekend before last. MrB is the chairman of CPJ so I got to go too. The always-excellent Laura Linney stars as Sarah,…
July 12 Activities and Outfit — in Verse
A play I saw in London was in rhyme So you get an iambic post this time. La Bête employs Hyde Pierce of Frasier fame And Lumley who from Ab Fab earned acclaim. I can’t list every cast member right now — I tossed the program after final bow. At least I do recall the…
The Musings of Aquarius
Here are a few thoughts I had while watching Hair on Broadway with gorgeous blogger La Belette Rouge last week. Oh, young people, you are so annoying with your crazy outfits, personal hedonism disguised as political activism, and constant requests for parental money! Did hippies really wear lace-front wigs? If Prada makes an outrageously expensive…
London, Day 4: Henry VIII and Hamlet
Today I had a make-up date with the guy I stood up yesterday, Henry teh 8. In a moment of fashion insanity, I did NOT wear my Boleyn necklace to the Henry VIII exhibit at the British Library. What was I thinking? To make matters worse, I was wearing my Cleves ring. Sure, Henry had…
I’m a Pretty Girl (So Vote for Me)
My gorgeous mother, BarbaraB, took me to see Patti Lupone in the musical Gypsy this week. I’d seen the play last March, but after a ceiling vent fell on an audience member, I couldn’t really focus on Patti’s big finale. I wanted to experience an accident-free performance before the play closes on January 11. I…
I’m Only Anti-Work
Reading gorgeous blogger Miss Karen’s I’m Not Anti-Social, Just Short-Sighted blog has caused the Officer Krupke song from West Side Story to become permanently lodged in my head. I sing it to myself every time I read her blog. A clip from the movie version of West Side StoryMiss Karen’s line comes at 4:35 Damn…
Things to Do in NYC: Theater
Madame Rose, Eva Peron … Kathie Lee Gifford? Yes, Kathie Lee, the preternaturally perky talk-show host, is, like those other ambitious ladies, the subject of her very own musical. She Can’t Believe She Said That! (subtitled The Rise and Fall and Fall and Rise of Kathie Lee Gifford nee Epstein) is the highlariously demented brain…
Hairy Noon and Night
I’m eager to see the new production of the musical Hair at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. I’m not eager to go to the park early to line up for the free tickets. The online option seems even more onerous than the real-life line. Basically, I need to find some sucker to take care…
London, Day 1: Standing in the English Rain
Greetings from sunny London. Look what the rain did to my carefully straightened hair! Wearing:McQueen jacketDorothy Perkins t-shirt (the black and white version of this)Acne JeansPrada bagNewsprint umbrella from Rain or ShineMy own skull ring We arrived yesterday morning and spent most of the day napping, despite my good intentions of fighting jet lag by…