PR: S8E7 Brenda's Blast

Well, not like you need to be told, but .....

I think it is clear that there has been a major "falling out" with Heidi and her gays because yet again she appears in two outfits that just boggle the mind. "So you thought you looked great"?

I think the Duchess needs some "in front" of the camera lessons. During her visit to the workroom to give helpful criticism, her eyes kept looking and finding the camera. So distracting.

One of the most charming images was Mondo and Michael C. in the green room with their arms wrapped around each other. Aaaaaaaaaah

Again did not have many of the correct designers on my top or the bottom lists. Have lost my touch.

So puzzled and will only say that Andy was robbed!

60 Lbs. of Footwear

Bitter kittens, unborn fauns, minions--I haven't read ANY of the books for the past couple of months, although I'm working on The Lincoln Lawyer and feel confident that I'll actually finish it. I've also blown off the September book for the P-Town Library Book Group--The Yiddish Policemens' Union, which I tolerated with gritted teeth for 80 pages and then said, "The hell with it..." (of course, I said this in Yiddish!!!) and threw it across the room. Michael Chabon is a brilliant stylist and his use of metaphors/similes (I'm using both terms because I honestly don't know the difference between them!) is unparalled but below that shiny surface, there needs to be a story that's interesting and there just wasn't one there as far as I was concerned. So even more chances that I'll read at least one of our summer books in the next week or so.

I'm thoroughly enjoying PR, Season 8, but don't have much to comment on. Between Brenda, Bethie, Ann and Tim and TLo, just about everything that needs to be said about the Mean Girls and the Sweet Nerds has been placed under a fine microscope and analyzed to death. And then, even if none of you have been coerced into watching Mad Men, I am INTENSELY devoted to it and watching each episode and then trolling the blogs (TLo now posts nearly every day on this show--the plots, the themes, the--yes--metaphors and similes, the clothes, the props)--I am living half of the time in 2010 and the other half in 1965. How can I get at least one of you interested in this show so I can have a Mad Men pal I actually know, not some cyber acquaintances whose opinions are not as meaningful to me as those of my dear friends, y'all!

See the method to my madness? I've posted to the blog but haven't read either of the two (or four) books on the table. Really, posting is almost as good as actually reading a book, am I right or not? Well, not but still...give me a "C" for effort.

I do have Laura Bennett's book in audio form on my Kindle and see a nice, lazy weekend ahead, listening to her opinions (she narrates her own book) on matters fashionable and maternal, lounging in my favorite chair and stitching on my new needlepoint frame, "the last needlepoint frame you'll ever need" per the brochure I received and I think it may be true. Brenda, I see one in your future.

All in all, good times!!!!

Think of a Numb3r - review

First the disclaimer. I wish I could write better reviews, but I trust the rest of you will be beautifully descriptive.

I liked this book a lot. I was a little worried that the crusty, introverted detective would be like so many other crusty, introverted detectives, but Gurney was more complex. Glimpses of his personal failings, but no excessive dwelling. Although, I did think he was rather young to be retired (being 11 years younger than me -but enough of the resentment digression).

Also liked the supporting cast, although the DA and Captain were a bit too much of a stereotype. These sections seemed like they were the previews of the movie script.

I thought the plot twists were believable and not a tortured way to reach the desired ending. I was also most happy that the author did not take the easy route and have the ending at Gurney's home with Madeleine held hostage.

Excellent first book. Hopefully, Verdon has more books in him.

Review: Buy it. Nice to have a first edition.

PR: S8E6 Brenda's Blast

Good morning BLBC gang,

+ while I normally don't like all that rehashing (i.e. remember last week's challenge, one week you are in ...., one of you will win and one of you will be out, etc.) that takes up important time I have to admit to enjoying seeing Tim's Green Room Rant twice ... now why couldn't they keep showing that during E6?

+ I am with Andy this time around ... "what do the judges want"?

+ since I only had Mondo and Peach in the top and bottom I am just going to drift off and present other stuff

a) some very weird shoes/socks, pom-poms on that guest judge and then there was that weird tear in her sleeve ... she would have loved that gaping eye/hole in the back of that jacket from last week

b) shouldn't time be spent on discussing Heidi's appalling outfits? ... where were her gays this episode?

c) and because I was so charmed by "I am in a Peach Panic" ... I submit the following for your review and use

I am in an Ann Alarm

I am in a Susan Stampede

I am in a Bethie/Brenda Bust

+ finally I close with Mondo was robbed!!!!!

+ wishing you all a good Sunday morning

tootles,

brenda

Do I get any points if I have the book?

Good evening BLBC members,

still need to comment on Stieg's first book

still need to select my August books

still need to read the June and July titles

but I just opened an Amazon box and there was The Cookbook Collector it was ordered before I saw Bethie's selection!!!

here it comes

everything is connected!!!!!

just don't give up on me

tootles,

brenda

The BLBC Book List

Since we're an "unstructured" book club I think a can get away with this:  I'm changing my book selection for June.  My alternate selection was Eat Pray Love ... I think I was unduly influenced by the new movie (not yet seen).  I have since read something I really liked and want to make the it the new June alternate.

Our new, improved schedule:

June (Ann)
Main Selection - The Lincoln Lawyer, Michael Connelley

Alt Selection - The Help, Kathryn Stockett

July (Bethie)
Main Selection - Think of a Numb3r, John Verdon
Alt Selection - The Cookbook Collector, Allegra Goodman

August (Brenda)
Main Selection -
Alt Selection -

September (Susan)
Main Selection -
Alt Selection -

Opening Argument: Gretchen vs. The World

Dear Unborn Fauns: I think I'm the only one of us obsessive enough to read the musings of the Commentariat on the TLo board, so I believe it is my sacred duty to alert you all when something priceless turns up written by one of our fellow bitter kittens.

Here's a riff by someone screen-named Brooklyn Bomber who is one of the 400 people logging on to articulate how much they hate (or love...some do) our Villain du Jour, Wretchen Gretchen. Read it and see how it a giggle like this can immediately enhance your (gray, drippy here...YAY!) day.

Ann has already had to listen to me to an live enactment of this so I hope she won't mind being exposed to it again!

8/27/10 4:54 PM

Brooklyn Bomber said...

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, we stand before you, asking for mercy. At this desperate hour, we find ourselves on our knees, urging you to think not of what you have seen today, but of what you have seen before, and of what you may yet see.

Citizens, spare these humble lives. Keep us from the gallows this day, for truly, if one is guilty, all are guilty. And yet, if you are to spare one, spare all, for through us runs the common thread (no pun intended). Are we not all, each in his own way, but humble tailors: sketching, cutting, stitching? When we prick ourselves with a straight pin, do we not bleed? Do we not want what you want? A humble home, a loaf of bread, a straw mat on which to rest, $100,000 from L’Oreal Paris to start our own line and a $50,000 HP technology suite?

Despite what some here would have you to believe, our collection is not the devil’s child. We are neither coven nor cabal. We are neither more nor less than a humble community, united by common cause and unshakable mutual love and respect. If loyalty is a crime, find us guilty. Yet we have broken no laws of the state and, most significantly, we have upheld the laws of the greatest judge of all, He who sees all and who knows the purity of our hearts and the superiority of our design and sewing skills.

Or, that is, the superiority of the design and sewing skills of most of us. A few of us, anyway. Well, me and my little friend over here to my left. The rest, I’m not sure. Especially the guy to my right. I mean, if you’ve gotta off someone, I recommend him. He’s kind of a fuck up. Yeah, sure, the law doesn’t allow you to choose him, but rules are made to be broken, right, ladies and gents? Okay, okay, if you can’t take him, how about Marcel Marceau down there at the end of the line? We can carry on without him if we have to, know what I mean, ladies ‘n germs?