{"id":1227,"date":"2009-06-04T20:11:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T03:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/francis-wendyb-fun\/"},"modified":"2010-03-12T23:41:40","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T04:41:40","slug":"francis-wendyb-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/francis-wendyb-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis + WendyB = Fun*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s your lucky day, bitches, because there is going to be more of WendyB online to love. In addition to writing this blog, I&#8217;m going to be blogging for my designing friend Christian Francis Roth&#8217;s Francis clothing line<a href=\"http:\/\/www.francisnewyork.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a>. As you might have noticed, I&#8217;m very enthusiastic about Christian&#8217;s line and I&#8217;ve posted about it <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/category\/christian-francis-roth\/\" target=\"_blank\">often<\/a>. Meanwhile, poor Christian was going through life blogless. Imagine! BLOGLESS! The horror! I realized I was the perfect person to save him from this horrible life of bloglessness and gave myself the job. Then I bragged to him about how lucky he was to have me, gave myself the title of Commander-in-Chief of Francis, and stole all the petty cash from his desk drawer to buy myself celebratory drinks. I&#8217;m pretty sure the tears I see Christian crying are tears of joy. But if they&#8217;re not, so what? As long as I&#8217;m happy.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/hanging-out-with-christian-francis-roth\/\" target=\"_blank\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342095784208840578\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SiLvz-XhN4I\/AAAAAAAAH0Q\/JuPFpmvf9fQ\/s320\/cfrwendy.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">This is the first picture Christian and I took together.<br \/>\nNote that I&#8217;m being normal and he is goofing around.<br \/>\nThis is typical. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>I know change is scary &#8212; well, it is for me, because I&#8217;m not well adjusted &#8212; but I promise you this won&#8217;t be too bad. On this blog, I&#8217;ll still write about <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/category\/my-designs\/\" target=\"_blank\">my jewelry designs<\/a>, fashion, <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/category\/queens\/\" target=\"_blank\">royal ladies<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/category\/book-club\/\" target=\"_blank\">books<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/category\/dogs\/\" target=\"_blank\">dogs<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/category\/coco\/\" target=\"_blank\">Coco<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/this-look-should-be-saved-for-the-beach\/\" target=\"_blank\">shit that annoys me<\/a>. I&#8217;ll also write about my other favorite fashion designers, including <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/category\/zang-toi\/\" target=\"_blank\">Zang Toi<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/category\/ossie-clark\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ossie Clark<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/category\/prada\/\" target=\"_blank\">Prada<\/a>, here. And I will continue to <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/eyes-on-prizes-part-ii\/\" target=\"_blank\">swear a lot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/thursday-book-club-empress-wu-part-i\/\" target=\"_blank\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342359627793499298\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 311px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SiPfxsUFBKI\/AAAAAAAAH0Y\/1lXTH0hqbdI\/s320\/empresswu-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/thursday-book-club-empress-wu-part-i\/\" target=\"_blank\">Empress<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/thursday-book-club-empress-wu-part-ii\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wu<\/a> has always been one of my favorite royal ladies.<br \/>\nProbably because she is the one most likely to kill a bitch. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Over at the Francis blog, my posts will be more focused on the clothing line, but I will also take you behind the scenes at the studio and for walks around the &#8216;hood.  You&#8217;ll get to know Christian and the people who work with him. You&#8217;ll even meet their pets. Of course, you&#8217;ll get get sneak peeks of new designs and find out what inspired the clothes. And I&#8217;m planning giveaways, special sales and other events that will help you spruce up your wardrobe. There will, however, be less swearing on the new blog. Maybe. I can&#8217;t make any fucking promises. Also, my vague plan is to post &#8220;a couple of times a week.&#8221; That was my original intention for this blog, too, and I ended up posting every day for over a year. So who knows?<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SiPiQoUFhBI\/AAAAAAAAH0g\/MQ-7mfUikKI\/s1600-h\/DSCN0196.JPG\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342362358318990354\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SiPiQoUFhBI\/AAAAAAAAH0g\/MQ-7mfUikKI\/s320\/DSCN0196.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Christian before his runway show <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/christian-francis-roth-comes-back\/\" target=\"_blank\">last September<\/a>.<\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><br \/>\nI wish I could get my legs as smooth and hairless as his head.<br \/>\n<\/span> <\/span><\/div>\n<p>If you&#8217;re on my blog roll here, you will notice that you are automatically on the Francis blog roll. I told you it was your lucky day! If you link back to Francis, you will be my new BFF. If you don&#8217;t link back to Francis, I will shake my fist at the sky and say something ominous that includes the phrase, &#8220;As God is my witness!&#8221;  Keep that in mind.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2024\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2024\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2024\" title=\"scarlettohara\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/scarlettohara-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"I used to have a nice Gone With the Wind clip here but YouTube keeps taking it down.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/scarlettohara-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/scarlettohara.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2024\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I used to have a nice Gone With the Wind clip here but YouTube keeps taking it down.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span>If you are on neither this blog roll nor the Francis blog roll and feel like you should be because you&#8217;re a regular commenter or plan to be one, let me know by emailing me at wbjewelry at hotmail dot com.<\/p>\n<p>One bit of history that makes this new online venture so appropriate is that Christian and I met through this blog. Click <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/from-archives-of-christian-francis-roth\/\" target=\"_blank\">here <\/a>to read how that came about. Then we collaborated on some <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/new-venture\/\" target=\"_blank\">awesome jewelry<\/a>, which you are going to be able to buy online very soon. Everything is coming together.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/christian-francis-roth-comes-back\/\" target=\"_blank\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342364074128805410\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SiPj0gNBjiI\/AAAAAAAAH0o\/OidVxlz5hZE\/s320\/christianwendy.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">I&#8217;m modeling the swear rings we designed together.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">We took a second picture where he&#8217;s giving y&#8217;all the finger but I can&#8217;t find that fucker.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<p>And now for your new favorite links:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">*UPDATED MARCH 2010: Please note that I wrote the Francis blog for six months. After I stopped writing it, it was deleted. All the links to that defunct blog have been taken out of this post. For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/ive-got-news-for-ewe\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p> <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s your lucky day, bitches, because there is going to be more of WendyB online to love. In addition to writing this blog, I&#8217;m going to be blogging for my designing friend Christian Francis Roth&#8217;s Francis clothing line. 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