One of the best things about doing this site would be the comments and emails from you the readers. I look at my site-meter every so often, see the number of daily visitors, and wonder who is looking at my blog? Now I know another one of you a little better. A couple days ago, I received a wonderfully kind email from Jason an 18 year old who is beginning his first year in art school and he attached the following image. It was an assignment to do a self portrait complete with the things you love. As I read his message I was also looking at this fantastic drawing.
I love it! Love all of it. The energy, the obsessive graffiti quality.... it's pop culture, it's pop art, it's a nod to the past but it's also modern and looking ahead. From the anime MiMi in the lower right corner to the Keith Haring figures to the Lichtenstein face to the bling bear to all the other elements.... it's too good!
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I'm a big fan of camp and The Atlanta Housewives bring plenty. The fake hair (hello Kim, NeNe, and HeRee), the airbrush applied makeup (hello all of them), the plunging necklines (thank you NeNe and Kim), the ridiculous cat fights (all of them), the absurd situations they find themselves in or create (alter-ego photo shoot, launching clothing lines, trying to start a singing, etc)..... it's like Pedro Almodovar directing Rupaul's Drag Race. How great would that be by the way? I'm usually completely on board with all the Atlantia gal's shenanigans but last night's episode seemed really forced.
Lisa took NeNe to LA to meet her family and also to visit her brother's grave, which she's never done. That whole storyline seemed 100% scripted and rehearsed from the hyper gay at the hotel, to Lisa and NeNe wearing sunglasses in Lisa's parent's home, to NeNe trying to coin a new drink: a "Miss Thang" which is a margarita with a splash of orange juice, to the scene at the cemetery. That last part seemed especially odd to me.
Moving on, HeRee continued to come across as an ice-cold slab of delusion. Somehow Mercedes Benz fashion week in Atlanta wants to feature Shit by HeRee during their show. ???? Drunk with power, HeRee began her lists of demands which would including being chauffeured to and from the event by a Maybach. Come on dude, a Maybach? HeRee then held a model casting in which the producers of Bravo decided to punk her/ him. It was a stream of aw hell no to wtf models and SheRee tried her best to keep from letting her inner Cleveland Girl out. That part was probably the most entertaining segment.
Then there was Kim and the new housewife Kandi's storyline. This is a ten minute sketch I did of Kandi while my tivo was on pause.
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Thanks to all of you who have sent me photos or links to photos of unconventional wedding dresses. My reader Lisa forwarded the following pictures from her snowy mountain top wedding.
Why not have a red themed wedding?
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How many of you screamed yourself hoarse at the end of last night's True Blood? I did. I screamed "NOOOOO!!!!" for a solid minute because: I didn't want the show to end, I didn't and don't want to have to wait another week to see a new episode, I couldn't and still can't believe there are only two more episodes left in this second season, we barely got to see Eric undressed, and Maryann's shaky dance/ chant remix "Lo Lo JLO, Lo Lo Lohan, Eric and Eggs makes me Erectus, Bacchus" did this to my eyes.........
That's me and if you've never seen True Blood.... ah..... watch it. Netflix it. TIVO it. Do it. You'll love it, but be warned--- your eyes just might turn solid black. And if they do, don't sweat it because you'll be having more fun than you can imagine. Last night's episode was freaking great and I swear every week gets better and better. Sookie, Bill, and Jason returned to Bon Temps to find their quaint yet kooky small town had been turned into a ransacked Club Med for demon worshipers. Maryann the Maenad has been a very busy supernatural creature. Her every now and then orgies hosted primarily at Sookie's house have turned the residents of that Louisiana town into full-time frenzied eyes-blackened zombies. Confused by all the horny crazy-eyed locals saying their God demands the sacrifice of Sam Merlotte at Maryann's home, Bill and Sookie made a mad dash over to find out what mischief was afoot.
Maryann's has taken over Sookie property and is trying some unconventional curb appeal. She's erected (tee hee) a giant meat tower (tee hee) in Sookie front lawn. "What the f*ck?" seemed the appropriate reaction upon Bill and Sookie's arrival.
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My apologies for falling off the True Blood posting bandwagon the last couple of weeks. I haven't lost any love for that show, far from it. True Blood is without question my favorite show and every week seems to get better and better and better. I think I screamed NOOOOOOO!!!!!!! for a solid minute when it was revealed that there are only three more episodes left in this season. Sigh. Since this posting is so far behind, let me just focus on one of the best scenes. I'm jumping right in......
The aftermath of the silver bombing at Godric's home left several vampires and human dead. Eric who has had an undead hard-on for Sookie (why?) finally tricked her into drinking his blood. Eric is definitely evolving into one of the more interesting characters. He saved Sookie's life by shielding her from the blast. Clever. As a result he was covered in little bits of silver and convinced Sookie that he couldn't heal myself, was dieing, and his only chance of survival would be to have her suck out the bits of silvers from his wounds. And she did. Eric wasn't dieing at all, in fact he was putting his get Sookie plan in place. When a human drinks a vampire's blood, they are forever connected. The vampire always knows where that human is, what they're feeling, and eventually the human will develop a strong sexual attraction towards said vampire.
"Ewww, as if..... gross", I think were Sookie's words as her vampire boyfriend Bill told her about that last detail. A rage filled Bill even punched Eric in his beautiful face out of disgust and out of knowing that Sookie soon would be fantasizing about him. Eric is much older than Bill and as such has seniority/ authority/ hot-iority over him. So Bill's punch was just a punch and that was it.
Well it didn't take long before Sookie had her first naughty Eric wet dream. I believe it was that first night after drinking his blood that in her dream she rolled over in bed to find a red-hot Eric laying nude next to her. 'God damn!', 'holy sh*t', 'hit pause on that tivo!' were a few things my partner and I shouted at the TV when we got a look at this. Be warned, you'll probably have that same reaction. (Again!)
Out of the two Stackhouses, I'd have preferred to see Sookie's brother Jason in the sack with Eric. Yes I would. He was at Godric's house that night too. He could have sucked Eric off out the silver and started with the naughty nighttime thoughts. This is my mental snap shot of Eric and the other Stackhouse who should have been having a little satin sheet time.
There's a clearer version after the jump. The above seemed home page safer.
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