Of Couture and Corn

The holiday weekend rolls on, with yesterday's highlight an outing to the Museum of Fine Arts, ostensibly to see their current exhibition of Goyas.  I found an unexpected treat, however, that very nearly outshone even the master's portrait of the Duchess of Alba (not, of course, the recently deceased edition thereof - she was old, but not that old...).

Last-Minute Menu Suggestion

Just in case your Thanksgiving isn't shaping up to be as perfectly apalling as you'd hoped, here's a tasty, terrifying treat - talk about putting the hell back in Hellmann's!

When Words Fail

Miss Nina tells it like it is.  Like it still fucking is. Goddamit.

Sometimes Jam Today

Yes, apparently it's that time again...

The Hitherto Unmentioned: Miss Hollywood

Reading an interview this morning with Miss Anjelica Huston got me thinking, in several different directions.

Look Around You / All You See Are Sympathetic Eyes

This is my favorite bit from The Graduate, and within it much of why I so admired Mike Nichols.

How Are You Celebrating?

Today is World Toilet Day.  Are you, like Jeannie Sue here, doing the traditional Dance of Bubble-Action Exhilaration?

Shameless Sunday Super Camp Explosion - Pet!

In the fall of 1964, Miss Petula Clark might well have had a few concerns about her career...

Phone Home

So - have you been following the comet-landing?  Who could have thought, in these cynical days, that the adventures of a plucky little techno-pioneer could be so gripping?

Grace Under Pressure

As the years passed, she increasingly looked as if not every aspect of the bargain she'd made had worked out quite as expected...

Lazy

These days, I'm with Marlene here...purely lazy...

A Bulletin from an Invalid

Just a quick note, darlings, to let you know I'm alive, if not particularly well...