I'll huff & I'll puff....

& I'll blow pretty hard in the outter boroughs, but really just some trees, power outages & flooding to be cleaned up in my wake. -Irene

While I am glad the 5 boroughs were ready for Irene I wish government could strike a happy medium between doing nothing during the blizzard and closing the city down for 3 days. Hurricanes aren't easy to predict, courses & intensity change etc...but really you would have thought it was going to rain fire balls and brimstone Sunday morning. 

I am surely thankful that we were spared "Katrina" like ramifications but the 24hour non-stop coverage to keep telling us, "storms a brewing" was a little much. What happened to, "we interrupt this broadcast with an important news brief,"? Not to mention, that still in it's long history the Emergency Broadcast System has yet to turn on that annoying alarm to alert us of impending doom. They didn't even get to use it on 9/11 sooooo when do you use it?

As we all get back to normal, I hope you and yours were spared....as for me, Kayla & the treehouse Sunday morning 3 fire trucks pulled up to our door & we were overrun by NYC's bravest. Someone left a toaster oven on after popping their tarts. Irene left us unscathed, but the "stoners" on the third floor are trying to burn us alive. Sue & Chuck back to you.

Something delightfully wicked for the weekend...

Let's just get good and dirty this weekend shall we. I stumbled upon this naughty nugget while reading Alan Cumming's blog....he participated in a charity event called Broadway Backwards where men sing songs normally sung by women and vice versa. Leave it to the divine Mr. Cumming to take aim at politicos and the closeted through a bit of Kander and Ebb!! 

Genießen Sie meine Kinder!!!

 

Don't Tell Mama - Alan Cumming

Yoü and I vs. Brändy Rowëll

In the space where Monster Dogs, Alexander McQueen & Guillermo del Toro meet lies the Narnia where Lady Gaga wanders…I’m sure there is an ice bridge somewhere from mine to hers…..now where did I leave the key to my wardrobe.

Yoü and I - Lady Gaga Video

ps-I had the umlauts first...just saying.

Lipton Takes The Plunge

Since the 10th Anniversary season of Inside the Actors Studio I have noticed a change. Cosmetically a change of venue from the old New School's Tishman Auditorium in Greenwich Village to Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University's New York City campus, but more importantly a change in content. 

I am not saying that the professionals Mr. Lipton has on his program are not viable "teachers" in the craft. Ok….well yes I am saying that....you can't say that in Season #1 with Paul Newman, Sidney Lumet, Shelley Winters &  Arthur Miller (to name a few) is the same caliber of professional as Sean Combs, Bradley Cooper & Jennifer Aniston? Bradley being the first "student" to be on the show was clearly a jump to boost matriculation. Sure they have all achieved success on a certain level but what I am trying to say is, "Mr. Lipton you couldn't find a theatre professional to interview?"

Mr. Lipton before Bravo became the trash can of reality wives & beauticians you used to book theatre actors, directors, writers etc....what happened? Or have you sold your soul to the incorporated arts as well? I make my case simply by quoting the man himself. During his interview with Jennifer Aniston, she would not cop to the "nudity" in her upcoming movie to which Mr. Lipton said, "Come on I'm trying to sell the film." 

I thought Inside the Actors Studio was about sharing not selling. Sharing what it is to give your life to an art form through thick and thin, for scale or scab because without it you aren't totally you. Shame on you Mr. Lipton for turning your platform into just another media outlet trying to "sell" us tickets to movies that are riddled with crap snacks & poop cakes.  

You should start thinking of what you are going to say when you meet God at the pearly gates. I heard she's a huge fan of Pinter, Ionesco & Brecht. I'm sure she is NOT amused.

Two weeks down.....a lifetime to go!!

Two weeks ago today my best friend got married & as they announced the wedding party at the reception my entrance music was the theme song from True Blood. Did I also mention it was the groom’s suggestion? Hahaha they know me so well….Happy Two Week Anniversary Kittens! lol!

Please Welcome the Maid of Honor....

Pillow Talk Solves Crimes....duh!

On my “staycation” this week, home recovering from my epic maid of honor duties at the wedding of all weddings, (Kate & Wills can suck it) I was catching up on my DVR que of Rizzoli & Isles. Any producer or writer on that show that says they aren't purposely playing the lesbian card is a liar & a rogue. Jane flat out asks Maura if she wants to sleep with her and while Maura says, "no" the pregnant pause is long enough to steer the Titanic through.

Not the mention their mud bath fight, Jane's possessive verbal & physical response to Maura flirting with an auto mechanic and this promo tid bit Rizzoli & Isles so close & yet so far...lol.....Trust me I'm NOT complaining, just keep the innuendo & subtext coming, everyone knows catching bad guys is easiest when lying in bed with your "BFF". lol...ahhhh womance it's what's for television.