Haven’t met her yet, but I’ve been a fan for a while of Kitty Hiccup‘s good grooming. Girl got it going on!
Her new title: Miss’d America. She was crowned on Sunday in Atlantic City at Boardwalk Hall, former home of the iconic Miss America pageant. If that runway could talk!
Congratulations, Kitty! I can’t wait to rub your crown.
Sylvia London was all smiles yesterday on her birthday. But I could sense her inner turmoil about me not devoting a special blog post to her. Especially since I had just given a birthday shout out to her Bitches in the Sky co-star Angela Di Carlo.
To ease my guilt, here’s a belated pictorial salute to Sylvia and her many looks. Damn, do I have to do this for everyone I know on their stupid birthdays?
Here’s to another year of colorful outfits!
Inflammatory rhetoric that tears at the fabric of our great nation has infested our news, Congress and even the streets of New York! What’s a gal to do?
Lady Bunny steals the show in this 2004 video (by Bernhard Blythe) of her, me and Miss Understood ridiculously disrupting a group of Black Israelites preaching in Times Square against “devil gays.” (We were coming from a protest against the Republican Convention, thus our signs.)
I was laughing so hard at Bunny’s hilarity that all I could do was bounce around like a fool!
The gathered crowd cheered us on as we vanquished our venomous foes!
Damn, that felt good!
Did you catch the Golden Globes? I watched with lively friends, and of course we had choice comments for some of the showbiz attire.
But being well-mannered gentlepeople, none of us opted to post or tweet or carrier-pigeon our hilarious put-downs. If there’s anything the world doesn’t need is more “fashion commentators” insulting famous women.
It’s become a very lowbrow sport that often reeks of misogyny.
Writer Judy Berman really hit the nail on the head in Bitch Magazine (“The Feminist Response to Pop Culture”) with a short article, “Web Spite.” Published in 2006, it’s still very relevant. ( I can’t find it online, but luckily I saved the print version in my “Interesting Articles” file!)
Berman focuses on the plethora of websites that mercilessly “reduce female stars’ worth to their physical appearance and fashion choices.”
Her summary: “Offering rigid daily scrutiny of celebrities’ fashion choices—as well as their weight, acne, or bad weaves—can be good, schadenfreudelicious fun, but in the end it only serves to reinforce what fashion magazines have been telling us for decades: A country full of size-2 women in little black dresses is preferable to a world where ladies of all sizes can feel comfortable wearing whatever they damn well like.”
Hear that, fashion bullies? Back off! And if you really wanna see a tacky outfit, look in the mirror! Oh, burn!
Thank you to the public school system of St. Paul, Minnesota for giving me my first chance to daily interact with people of other races.
Thank you to New York City, melting pot of the world, for providing a never-ending opportunity to meet all sorts of homo sapiens.
Thank you to all the people of different races and ethnicities who have come into my life and helped to expand and enrich my view of the world.
And thank you Martin Luther King Jr. and other crusading leaders for your brave efforts to create a more understanding and colorful society.
Happy MLK Day!
Is Angela Di Carlo, one of the shining stars of Bitches in the Sky (the photo novella written and produced by moi), actually a wisecracking fag disguised as a woman?
I say yes. Although only her husband, Cooby, knows for sure.
Happy Birthday, Angela!
