Photoshop Freak Hands

Jebus.
This is some photoshopping that has gone horribly wrong.
SJP and Kim Catrell look like they have some type of freaky toddler hands attached to their arms.
Or mutant limbs that are in the process of actually growing....
Listen I know I have commented on SJP's 80 year old lady hands, but for heaven's sake that does not mean they should be erased and replaced with freaky doll hands.
Adult humans, no matter what their age, have knuckles and veins.

Via both Jezebel and Projectrungay.

Truth in Politics

I've added a new set of links to the blog.
Truth in Politics.
They are Politifact, Media Matters and Fact Check.
Politifact has nice widgets to let you know if what a pol is saying is actually the truth or a lie and gives a nice breakdown of what campaign promises the President has broken.
Media Matters spends it's time truth checking the spewing of fucks like Hannity, Beck and Rush.
Fact Check is where I go whenever I hear some bullshit story about how Obama is planning to monitor all Christians and take away their dogs. It is a good tool to use when in an online argument with some ill-informed Tea Party loving relative.
Use these and you will be a better citizen.

Turban Chic

Via Bobby Pin Blog.
A short video from 1942:
Anne Edwards fashion expert and editor of "Woman" magazine shows women how to combat hat rationing by making glamorous turbans from scarves. Various shots of woman (could be Edwards or could be model - not made clear in commentary) demonstrating how to tie scarves into different styles. Flowers, feathers and costume jewellery are used to decorate the turbans.

TURBANS (issue title is WAYS AND MEANS)

You have to click on the image and it will take you to British Pathe

I'm Back

Sorry about that.
I've been fighting some nasty viruses and a hacker Trojan for the last week or so and finally had to give up and reformat my hard drive and I forgot to save my bookmarks and, well, it has sucked.
But I have also been cooking.
I got 2 new cookbooks:


Mrs. Rowe's Little Book of Southern Pies and Biscuit Bliss.
Excellent choices.
I've made some awesome biscuits in the last few weeks with the yogurt and cake flour being really, really awesome. Yummy and delicate. The best part is the exhortation of the author to use only flour from "southern wheat" like Martha White and the OK that you can use self rising flour. Which has allowed me to make large, fluffy biscuits without that baking powder after taste.

Pies on the other hand are something I do a pretty good job with anyway, but have found a new crust which uses vinegar and egg. Something I had never made was Chess Pie. Since I got Mrs. Rowe's Chess Pie has become my favorite with chocolate and then the lemon one being just outstanding.
I mean these are 2 of the best pies I have ever tasted.

Other news includes a teenager who went LARPing and now has a "boot" for his severely sprained ankle.
Good times.

Just Stop

The Church needs to stop with the Op Eds and the bull shit from people like Bill
Donahue.

If I was talking to the Pope right now I would tell him what I think we Catholics need from our Church.
I need to hear is this:
quia peccavi
nimis cogitatione, verbo et opere:
mea culpa,
mea culpa,
mea maxima culpa.

I want to hear repentance.
I want 2011 to be the year The Church goes though a deep and meaningful penance.
I want the Pope and the Cardinals and the Bishops to throw off their vestments and wear some form of sack cloth and ashes for that year.
I don't want the Pope to resign, I want him to take responsibility.
I'd like to see the church bring any victim to Rome who is willing and have the Pope personally apologize to them.
I want them all to say over and over again (and I don't care that it is no longer happening or that most of them were never involved or that a good amount of the perps are dead):
"We have sinned grievously"

That's what I would tell the Pope The Church needs to do to fix this.

Must Love Cats

Simon's Cat "Fly Guy"

Did Someone Say Waterloo?

I thought that Health Care was going to be Obama's Waterloo.

Republican Tears are Tasty

More Kitty Goodness

Because You Have Been So Good

I am assuming that you all have good little minions and are calling/faxing you Congress Critters as we speak.
As a reward I give you Kitty Shark Sweater:


First...the sweater is covered with fucking awesome sauce and I think anyone who has the balls to put a sweater on a cat who looks like a demon is, well, pretty ballsy.

Next...that cat is fabulous and brilliant and just so damn pretty in a demon cat way.

Last...the "I WILL KEEL U" look is priceless.

There is also a Rocket Sweater!
I wanna make a super sonic kitty of you!

Grandma's Dress

I have this fun vintage Kay Windsor dress for sale on Damn Good Vintage.


Cute, right?

I was looking though some old photographs and found this:

Yep, my Grandma is wearing the same Kay Windsor dress.
Real vintage worn by real women.
Nice bit of serendipity.

EDIT:
Yes, that is me and how awesome is that bit of end of the world art behind the sofa?

Teh!Ghey is Gonna Ruin Your Prom

See that pretty girl?
She is gay and she had the nerve to want to wear a tux and take her girlfriend to the prom.
Of course her first mistake was asking the inbred morons who run her high school if she could even wear a tux (seriously? Who gives a fuck what she wears as long as her boobs and lady bits are hidden) and if she could bring her same sex date.
Personally I think they should have just shown up at the door....girls go to dances with each other all the time.
I went with 6 other girls.
No one would have even paid any attention until they slow danced.

Can't have young women wearing tuxes and slow dancing in Mississippi. Next thing you know they will think that they have a right to get married to whomever the hell they want to.

So the school district decided to just cancel prom and blame it all on Constance so she could become the target of every redneck mouth breathing homophobe fundi who lives in her town. Plus this will make the next student who might think of getting uppity to think twice.
Nice.

But Constance is an awesome gal and she is not backing down and she won't be bullied. The ACLU has gotten involved and even if she does not go to prom (and honey, I can tell you that going to prom is an overrated "rite of passage") she is going to stand up for what is right and for the students who will come after her.

Rockabilly Beyonce

If you don't like Lady Gaga or Beyonce then move on, but if you do then I'm telling you the new Gaga video is a hoot.
A cheesy Russ Meyer homage.
Think Faster, Faster Pussycat in a women's prison.
I loved it.
And Beyonce rocking the rockabilly pinup look is very hawt.




Oh and Lady Gaga enters a prison exercise yard wearing chains and smoking cigarettes sunglasses.
Covered with awesome sauce.

The song sucked though.
NSFW

SJP's Old Lady Hands

WTF? Is up with Sarah Jessica Parker's hands?

The guys over at Projectrungay had a close-up and she has the hands of some 80 year old society gal who smokes like a chimney and has Manhattans from 3-6 every day.
Seriously, look at these:
She is only TWO years older then me and I'm sure she is rich enough to slather her hands with some crazy vile lotion made of pearls and virgin kitten tears. Maybe she actually is an 80 year old woman and the lotion works everywhere except on her hands because they are covered with the blood of the thousand kittahs that were sacrificed to maintain her mask of hardened middle age?


BTW I hated the dress front, love the back and her retro Streisand/Gary Oldman as Dracula hair is quite awesome.

Nekid Rahm

I gotta say that the idea of a Nekid!Rham standing in the shower at the Congressional gym yelling at Massa is just covered in awesome sauce.
I so hope it is the truth.



And yeah, Nekid!Rham....

I've been naugthy and need a good talking too.
In the shower.

Just saying.

Stop This Crime

Dear vintage clothing dealers,

Please cease and desist doing business with Courtney Love or one of her minions.
The woman is a crime against vintage.
Exibit A:
Now if I did not know better I'd say that CL had someone rip apart a sweet 30's dress and maybe a 20's or 30's sheer black over dress and then sewed them together to make a special fucktard dress.
Like I have said before, I really, really, really hate the "upcycling" trend because it enables shit like the above to be created.


Jesus people.
Just stop.

And Now We Are 18.

Yesterday I was waiting in line to pay for gas and standing in line behind me was the cutest little 2 year old boy holding a big bag of Cheetos.
He looked just like me kid when he was that age.
When I got in the car I just started bawling because...well, because I'm nuts and Josh was going to be 18 today.

18.

Happy Birthday!

Penis Pants

No. Words.
Via Project Rungay.

(Luckily the model got to wear a hat so his kids will never see his face associated with penis pants.)

Ceiling Cat Takes Mai Peeps

This video from, I kid you not, After The Rapture Pet Care*, seriously needs to have LOL captions.

CEILIN CAT IZ CALLIN TEH HUMANZ HOME

BEFORE U GO WER IZ TEH CAN OPENR?

DAWGS WE R NAO UR KAT OVERLORDZ

Yeah, too much time on my hands...

* I have no idea if this is just another sly way to part fundis from their money or sweet and kind or just someone making a spoof website. I actually hope that these folks are for real and really do care about pets that much to worry what will they do in case of the rapture.

The Numbers

It's the NUMBERS folks!
Right there on the ceiling of the cave.
Amazing.


Of course, what does that mean?

Robin Hood Tax

I show you this video not because I think the idea of the Robin Hood Tax is great (which I do, I do think it is a fine idea) but because Bill Nighy is in it and he is brilliant.



For more information on the Robin Hood Tax (sorry it is a UK thing):

Robin Hood Tax, is a tiny tax on bank transactions that could raise hundreds of billions for public services and to tackle poverty and climate change at home and around the world.

RIP

I know that I have, in the past insinuated that Alexander McQueen might have designed some crazy ass clothing like the snake skin on your v-jaja dress

Or the hoof shoes that creep me out

Or the styling in this show that looked like the women are the handmaidens of the Cenobites (I'm actually reading Hellbound Heart at the moment)


BUT truthfully he was an amazing designer and I LOVED his designs and my GOD I am sad to hear that he has passed away. The story is sad and heartbreaking. The loss of his friend Isabella Blow in 2007 and the death of his mother last week seemed to be more then he could live with.
Just. So. Sad.

What Kate Does

What she does is annoy the hell out of me.

Still another great episode from LOST and we are beginning to see patterns.
Kate always runs, Sawyer is always alone, Claire will trust Kate, Etan is always going to stick needles in Claire, Syaid's destiny is to pay for his crimes, there always has to be a crazy lady who lost a kid on the island with bad hair and an uncanny ability to make traps (Oh, and she shot Mack from Sunny in Philly) and Jack is Jack.

Fiorina Courting the Furry Vote in Cali

This maybe one of the most hilarious and batshit insane political ads I have ever seen.

ILL SIT WER I WANTS

*SQUEE* LOST

Tonight tonight tonight tonight tonight tonight

I wish I could have a LOST party, instead I get to sit here and listen to my hubby and son bitch about everything.
shutup shutup shutup shutup shutup shutup shutup shutup

I love this theory on what the island is:
"The Island is the literal manifestation of an old way of looking at the world common to all people — a world full of magic and spirits, angels and daemons. (I chose that daemon spelling intentionally. If you are confused, consult my essay on the matter.) The Island exists for anyone who believes in the concept of the mythical journey — a heroic odyssey, a ritualistic walkabout, a quest for spiritual redemption. The Island used to be much bigger and occupied much more of the world's psychic geography. The Island once may have even been the whole wide world. But skepticism, cynicism, and disbelief has caused it to shrink away from our mind's eye, becoming nothing more than a slender piece of ephemeral real estate."

The idea that the Gods exist is one that runs though the work of Neil Gaiman and other writers. I like it. They exist because people believed in them or created them and once no one thinks about them anymore they have to get jobs or cease to exist.

So that's it, LOST tonight bitches.

EDIT:
Awesome.
Richard=Slave on Black rock?
So Zombie Sayid or Sayid is now sharing a room with Jacob?
Smoke monster Locke scares me.
No fair on Juliet.
And why are Kate and Jack NOT FUCKING DEAD YET?!!?

Because I am such an Obot....

Here is the Q&A Obama did today on YouTube.
Real questions from real Americans answered by the President.

Question and Answers and a Spanking

My favorite part of the British form of government is when the Prime Minister has to come to Parliament and directly answer questions from the opposition.

Well guess what?
Today President Obama went to the House Republicans at their two-day retreat in Baltimore and not only took questions from the lawmakers there, but spanked them around a bit.
(The only thing missing was the hoots and boos that the Brits engage in.)

You can watch here on C-SPAN's website.

Book Giveaway

Back into the pile of books.
This week I'm giving away The Last Queen by C.W. Gortner.
Book is about the life of Juana, the third child of Queen Isabel and King Ferdinand of Spain and sister of Catherine of Aragon (Henry VIII's 1st wife).

Juana was either a woman made crazy by grief and the bull shit she put up with from her father, husband AND son OR a powerful woman who did not do what the men in her life wanted and was painted as mad to take what was rightfully hers.
It is a very compelling, but tragic story and the book is the same.
Even though you know what her fate is you are compelled to read on.

So leave me a note in the comments and I'll pull a name out of the magic hat next week.

For more information on Juana of Castile try these sites:
Scandalous Women
Juana of Castile

Chanel and Dior

Via Project Rungay.
Dior:
http://projectrungay.blogspot.com/2010/01/woi-christian-dior-haute-couture-spring.html

That's a lotta look there, scrumptious and I even like those shoes with the peep toes, weird since normally I think runway shoes are ridonkulos and ugly.




Chanel:
http://projectrungay.blogspot.com/2010/01/chanel-spring-2010-haute-couture.html
I hate the shoes, everything else is lovely...except for the fact that there are "formal" culottes. Fresh take on the Chanel look.

and WTH? is up with the crazy ass hair?

On The Nose

I was just reading a review of I'm Sorry You Feel That Way by Diana Joseph, which I have yet to read, but one of the quotes from the book is this:

I adore you.

What the hell do you want from me now?

I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!

That sums up my life with my husband and son.
On.The.Nose.

Neil

Article in The New Yorker about Neil Gaiman.

"Gaiman’s two most recent novels, “Anansi Boys” (2005) and “The Graveyard Book” (2008)—a retelling of Rudyard Kipling’s “The Jungle Book,” set in a graveyard—débuted at No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list in their respective categories, adult and children’s literature. Yet Gaiman remains somewhat marginal. The Times of London recently referred to him as “the most famous writer you’ve never heard of.” The New York Times waited to review “The Graveyard Book” for several months after its publication, by which time it had won the 2009 Newbery Medal, one of the highest honors in children’s fiction, and been on the best-seller list for eighteen weeks. “I have at this point a critic-proof career,” Gaiman said. “The fans already knew about the book.”

Pie

We went to Ed and Kay's restaurant in Benton (AR) last night.
I got the veggie plate (purple hull peas, green beans, creamed potatoes and rice casserole) just so I would have room for pie.

Their lemon pie has about a 6 or 7 inch meringue on it.
So.Damn.Good.

I love lemon meringue pie and my Grandma Fickel made the best, but the one I had last night might just be better.

I think it is time for me to try making one.
Maybe next week.

What They Said...

A letter to Andrew Sullivan pretty much sums up my feeling about the Republican party and conservatives:

"But I can't remember the last time I felt such overwhelming rage toward a group of people as I have felt toward the Republican Party and the conservative movement since President Obama's election.

I simply cannot grasp what motivates these people, what compels them to thwart even the smallest attempts to clean up the enormous destruction they wrought under Bush and Cheney. Irresponsible, hateful, mendacious, sleazy, destructive - these words do not even begin to describe them."

and

"And now some low-rent hairdo, whose sole claim to fame is posing naked for some ladies' magazine way back when, may happily destroy whatever chance this country has at moving in a more just, humane, and morally and fiscally responsible direction.

As you stated, the Republican Party of this new century is shot through with nihilists. Unabashed nihilists. But what leaves me shaking with anger damn near every day since President Obama's inauguration is the pure smugness and nonchalance of their nihilism.

Palin, McConnell, DeMint, Boehner, Cantor, Rubio, Scott Brown and the rest of the Ailes- and Limbaugh-warped GOP: Would you trust any one of these goons to greet you at Wal-Mart, much less govern our country? The question answers itself. They literally care nothing for America."

Yeah, what they said...

Go read the rest....
Oh and fuck off MA if you vote Brown* into the Senate.

(*not that the Dems and Martha herself do not deserve the beating they might get...but really, what the hell is the matter with people that they would think it is a good idea to vote for a Republican supported by teaparty folks? )

Vivienne Westwood and Blue Steel

Ladies and Gentleman, I give you.....Dere-lict!!!




HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Please tell me that Vivienne Westwood is just having us on and is aware of Zoolander.
Because if not, then this is a fail of massive proportions.

and where the hell is BLUE STEEL?

Via Projectrungay.

Has Anyone Seen My Fan?

I'm feelin' just a bit flush y'all....



It's like a mix of 60's Irish Mob and the Godfather when they were in Sicily.
Jebus, so freaking hot.

See more of the Dolca & Gabbana Menswear Fall 2010 at Projectrungay.

And the Winner Is...

FuzzyLizzie!

Yea!!!
You've won A Dress to Die For.
I'll get in touch with ya and mail it out.

Look for another post later today with the next book to be offered.

VFG Fresh Vintage

Take a gander at the "new" vintage from the members of The Vintage Fashion Guild.

That's Done

All done, Christmas is back in the boxes for another year.

My Retro Christmas Gifts

I got one of these for Christmas.


I already have 2 Mixmasters....
The first is a 40's Model 9 one that works, but is rusted up in the housing for the beaters and when I have used it tiny bits of rust fall into whatever I'm making.
My late 60's one belonged to my mom and it has been awesome, but the beaters fell apart this year during all the holiday baking and I just did not have the energy to go searching for the correct beaters so hubby bought me a new "classic" Sunbeam Mixmaster. Not as powerful as the older one, but so far I'm pretty happy with it.

My mother gave me a lovely scarf made out of local Missouri Alpaca wool and an adorable apron. Not vintage, but very vintage looking and I can wear it in place of the vintage one I was fixing to wear out.
And it is big so it actually fits me.



I also got a new flat screen monitor from my son. It is kinda cool once they have a job, but no real money responsibilities and they want to spend some of it on you.

What was you best gift this year?

Oh and we still have no fucking snow....

Arkansas Diners

If you are a local reader, here is a great post from Tie Dye Travels with a round-up of some of the better diners in Arkansas.
Dinerland

Makes my mouth water just reading it.
The hubby will be off work on Monday, I think we'll head to Dan's for lunch.