One Big Undulating Ball of Salacious Rhinestones.

In late 2009 I received a google alert directing me to a news article stating that Steven Soderbergh was shopping around a movie based on the life of Liberace.

Yes, I have a google alert set for “Liberace.”

You could say I’m a fan.

I'm not saying the costumes are bad, I'm just saying they need more sequins.

Since that google alert in 2009, following the production of this movie has reduced me to near-stalkerhood. It would be embarrassing if it wasn't so fabulous.

First they couldn’t get anyone to pick it up because it was “too gay”, then HBO picked it up, then they cast DEBBIE “MOTHER OF TAFFETA” REYNOLDS as Liberace’s mother, thennnnn, sigh, then it got halted because Michael Douglas had cancer. However, Douglas, like a champ, recovered and came back to snog face with Matt Damon, who plays Scott Thorson – Liberace’s lover, who wrote the book that the movie is based on (I won’t ruin the story – let’s just say,  it didn’t end well).  Interestingly, Thorson is now jail for identity theft (unrelated to anything in the movie), but just knowing that tid-bit of perspective makes this whole thing one big undulating ball of salacious rhinestones.

Ughhhh! Why must I wait three more days?   


Behind the Candelabra premiers on HBO, Sunday, May 26, 9PM Eastern.

Liberace fans, here – chomp on this interview with Soderbergh that was on NPR yesterday.

Not-Yet Liberace Fans Who Are Thinking of Watching the Movie – consider watching this clip of the real Liberace and Thorson on stage in 1981. The bubble machine above the bathtub is my favorite part.

Let's Talk About People Who are Awesome

It’s Tuesday. I was planning on another post but it's been a crap day for a lot of people, including me. In light of this, I propose we take a chocolate break and spend a minute talking about people who are awesome. Like…

...for example, Yetta Rosenberg.

Homegirl knows how to dress.



Why is this show not on the air anymore? So much awesome. So much!

Also in the awesome club: People who build fences around trees. Not with trees, around trees. Like this..



These fences belong to my neighbors. They are awesome. They say “The tree was here before us. It deserves our respect.” How cool are my neighbors?

And here is someone I think is pretty cool: The lady who recognized her kid was a bully and got creative with her solution. Unorthodox, perhaps.  Effective, certainly. Child development issues aside, mostly I admire this lady for having the balls to see her child objectively (we talked about this before). Snaps to you, lady. Snaps to you.

...and speaking of snappy dressers, let’s talk about this gal:




Cher. It was her 67th birthday yesterday and she is still kicking butt and taking names. How awesome is she? You tell ‘em, Cher!

And, as long as we have our Native American flair out, let's talk about some other people...

Thoughts and prayers to everyone recovering from tornadoes today, both literal and metaphoric. Let's take a lesson from Oklahoma and keep an eye out for one another.

Hugs!

-AP

My Diet Coke still tastes like pool water.

There is this thing called bleach dyeing that is all the rage. Or, at least it was all the rage. I’m not sure where it is in the current trend cycle, but when I woke up early Saturday morning with a desperate need for patterned curtains in my living room, it was a means to an end. Have you seen bleach dyeing? It sorta looks like that time your mom spilled bleach on your favorite black sweatshirt, but this time it’s on purpose. Some people splatter it on their jeans, some people draw it on with a bleach pen, and some people take a reverse-tie-dye approach – that was me. I had two sets of dark eggplant-colored curtains from Ikea. Totally free to me, leftover from a friend’s former apartment (it pays to be a hoarder!). Nice and thick. 100% cotton, too. Perfect for bleaching, right?

Wrong.

This is what I was going for…

This is in process...



This is what I got…

Happy Weekend

Oy. Am I glad it's Friday.

Work has been busy. Like real busy. And when it’s not busy, I look up and find window washers making vulgar hand gestures and singing Puerto Rican folks songs.

Soooo...that's pretty awesome.

Speaking of offices, I missed The Office finale last night. Was it good? A friend texted me that there was a wedding with cats in attendance. AGHH! I need to see this!

Newsprint Cabinets

So, this thing happened last spring wherein I decoupaged my kitchen cabinets with newspaper.



BAM!

You didn't see that one coming did you? Newspaper and ready-made cabinets dancing together in some unorthodox swirl of muskrat love. How's that for a Wednesday?

Okay, okay, this opens up two lines of questions...