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Ask Miss Wendy - Miss Wendy's Texas Love Advice to New York's Sexually Challenged

Miss Wendy's Texas Love Advice
Plus Some Occasional Comments on the
State of the Popular Culture

Ask Miss Wendy
L-R: Michael Mazocco, Wendy R. Williams, Armistead Johnson
Photo Credit: Stephen Mosher

January 30, 2012

Ruminations: The Republican race for president is turning out to be fun for the entire family. Of particular note is the drama of the Southern Bible Belt Christians who are being served a buffet of an actual Roman Catholic (Rick Santorum), a newly-converted-but-serial-philandering Roman Catholic (Newt Gingrich) and a Mormon (Mitt Romney). The Bible thumping Christians are being forced to load their plates with these pieces of wilted lettuce to prevent a faithful Baptist (President Obama) from remaining in office. None of the newscasters who reported on the South Carolina primary stated the obvious. Gingrich won South Carolina just because he is not a Mormon and electing a Mormon (as they say down South), "is just plain dangerous."

Hypocrisy is the fodder for comedy and this ongoing saga is snort-coffee-out-of-your-nose fun.

January 20, 2012

Something Random:

Quick and Easy Spinach Salad

Very fresh organic baby spinach leaves
Wasabi peas
Parmesan cheese
Paul Newman's Salad Dressing

You know how to make it.

January 10, 2012

Bai Ling
Photo Credit: Winston Burris / PR Photos

Here is one of Miss Wendy's "You Got it Going Girl Awards" to Miss Bai Ling. Ling has perfected the arts of "having a look," "making a statement," "being a walking billboard," etc. etc. I can't think of anything else she has done lately, but where ever she shows up (this photo was taken at a toy drive in California), she "ready for her close up."

December 21, 2011

There is fun in the political arena:

A tone deaf congressman from Wisconsin, Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI), has just announced that Michelle Obama has a large posterior. Never mind that this is simply not true (Mrs. Obama looks amazing), but Rep Sensenbrenner obviously has no sense or he would realize that the minute you have gained an extra pound yourself (check out his photos), a prudent person would immediately quit talking about weight, yours or anyone else's (check out photos of Sensenbrenner).

Glass houses! "He who is without sin can throw the first stone!" Etc. Etc. See story on the Huffington Post.

P. S. Sensenbrenner's remark was also racist, but I will let an avalanche of black women writers and commentators explain this to him.

And Meghan McCain has labeled Newt Gingrich's third-and-present wife, Callista Gingrich, a mistress (also on Huffington Post). This is actually true. Mrs. Gingrich had a long affair with Newt while he was married to his second wife (Newt left wife number one for number two and the beat goes on on on). And before you say "so," ponder this: Gingrich is running for the Republican nomination to be President of the United States and the only way any Republican can actually win the election is with the votes of conservative Christians. And conservative Christians will not stomach a philanderer as President. For all their ridiculous posturing in the national arena, conservative Christians actually do value values.

And Sarah Palin is proving once again that she is tone deaf - she criticized the Obama's holiday card because it shows their dog sleeping in front of a fireplace in the White House (Huffington Post). Does she have a clue how many dog lovers she just bitch slapped?

December 5, 2011

Well it looks like politics will be fun for a while. The thrice-married-serial-adulterer New Gingrich is now topping some polls for the Republican nomination. And for even more fun, he has accepted an invitation for a debate moderated by Donald Trump. Right after Gingrich accepted Trump's invitation, Trump ( he is on wife three too) announced that he may run as an independent (some moderator he'd make). Republicans sure did make a big mistake when they let the Democrats grab the donkey as a mascot.

I am salivating with glee because it will be a hoot and a holler to watch both Gingrich and Trump campaign for the Bible belt vote. America's Bible belt won't vote for a family man like Romney because he is a Mormon and Mormons are "deceived." What will these pure-of-heart conservatives think of the philandering twins as they dance their little side-step down Dixie way.

Let the hissing begin!

November 24, 2011

Dear Readers,

Today is Thanksgiving! If you are running about trying to figure out what to contribute to the feast, here are two of Miss Wendy's favorite Thanksgiving recipes.

Miss Wendy's White Trash Fruit Salad

1 large can of fruit cocktail (drained)
1 large bag of colored miniature marshmellows
1 large container of Cool Whip

Mix ingredients in a bowl and enjoy

Miss Wendy's White Trash Queso

One package of Velvetta cheese, sliced
One jar of salsa
16 ounces of half and half

Put all ingredients into the crock pot, heat and serve with chips.

Happy Thanksgiving!

November 6, 2011

Ruminations: The news is filled with stories about the Youtube video of Aransas County, Texas Judge Williams beating his sixteen-year-old daughter Hillary Adams. According to news stories, Hillary had illegally downloaded music from the internet, an offense for which sane parents take away the teen's computer for a period of time.

This abuse happened seven years ago so there is no possibility of criminal charges, but hopefully child welfare will take a hard look and place restrictions on the time he is allowed to spend with his other child, an eight-year-old daughter (he shares custody with his now ex-wife).

But the real affect this video should have is a paradigm shift in the way people like Judge Adams view their right to mercilessly beat their children in the name of discipline.

I grew up in Texas and I can (using a very new but very needed verb spoken by Sookie Stackhouse in True Blood) "guarandamnteeyou" that the person who is the most shocked by the world's horrified reaction to this video is Judge Adams himself and with him (hopefully) the myriad other parents who beat their children. Judge Adams famously told his daughter to "just go ahead" when she threatened to post the video and I don't think he was bluffing - he really thought he was justified and that everyone who saw it would agree with him.

I am reminded of the fable about the ship captain and the lighthouse:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1T_YCw0NMc

The United Nations publishes a "Name and Shame" list of countries who use child soldiers as a way to motivate these countries to discontinue the abominable practice of turning their children into killers. By posting this video on Youtube, Miss Adams effectively "named and shamed" her father for a different kind of abuse, but also one that both harms children and potentially turns them into child abusers when they are grown. This must have been horribly painful for her (and for him) but somewhere out there are potentially abusive parents who might take pause after seeing the scarlet letter painted on Texas's good-old-boy Judge Adams.

October 20, 2011

Three things I overheard in New York City that I never would have overheard in Texas (where hypocrisy matters):

1. Lady talking to friend on the bus: "I told my son that he needed to keep those appointments with his parole officer, but would he listen to me?"

2. Woman walking down the street talking on her cell phone: "The next time I catch him with that guy, it's over for us."

3. Another woman walking down the street talking on her cell phone: "I spent one night with him, one night!, and now I have both crabs and bedbugs!"

September 28, 2011

Julie Bowen
HBO's 2011 Emmy After Party - Arrivals
Pacific Design Center / West Hollywood, CA
September 18, 2011
Photo Credit : Tina Gill / PR Photos

Here is a You Got It Going Girl Award to Miss Julie Bowen. Bowen is beautiful but her real charm is her comedic ability. She is incredibly funny but never pushes for a laugh; she just gets on her "intention" and rides it. Bowen has also been one lucky (if there is such a thing) gal. She had a starring role on Boston Legal where she played off actors like James Spader and now is on the brilliantly written, "casted" and Emmy-showered Modern Family.

September 18, 2011

Alan Cumming
63rd Annual Primetime Emmy
Awards Performers Nominee
Pacific Design Center, 8687 Melrose Avenue
Hollywood, CA
September 16, 2011
Photo Credit: Andrew Evans / PR Photos

Here is one of Miss Wendy's You Got it Going Girl (Guy) Awards for Mr. Alan Cumming. Cumming rocked his pink and gray checkerboard suit. And those flip flops certainly give him extra points for punctuation.

September 13, 2011

Here is an interesting article on MSNBC.com about a lawyer who has turned to topless dancing to pay the bills.

P. S. She definitely has a book here.

August 18, 2011

Musings on Walking the Streets of New York:

1. If you walk on the streets of New York, please don't even think about strolling, ambling or meandering. If you want to take a quick look at something interesting or talk to your friends, move to the side of the sidewalk to gawk and chat. If you don't, you are blocking traffic, bozo.

P. S. The only time any polite person should walk three abreast down the streets of this city is when two of their companions are under the age of six. If you are walking three abreast without holding onto the hands of small children, you risk being assaulted by unbrellas and walking sticks (I wish they still sold hat pins). And no one will have any sympathy for you.

2. Everyone has two sides, front and back (with a smattering of side views). I am constantly seeing people walking down the street who have it "going on" from the front but look atrocious from the back. A three way mirror or a "not afraid to tell you the truth" spouse or roommate is critical to to anyone who spends their life in a three dimensional state.

August 12, 2011

The heat has finally broken in New York City and we are enjoying some pleasant days (don't count on it continuing, it is only August 12th). During the worst of the heat wave, while hurrying home to my air conditioned apartment, I would walk by apartments where the windows were open and there is not an air conditioner in sight (I live in a very nice area of the city). This lack of air conditioning is a New York phenomenon (Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis supposedly did not have air conditioning in her apartment). Middle and upper middle class people choose to not have air conditioning for obscure reasons such as "I hate to lose a window view." Huh?

I suspect that these middle-to-upper-class New Yorkers who "don't need air conditioning in 100 degree heat" are members of a different tribe of people - similar to the Star Trek Klingons. If Homeland Security runs out of things to do, they might want to keep an eye on them - I suspect they might not be human.

And P. S. I do know that there are people in this city who do not have air conditioning because they cannot afford to pay either for an air conditioner or the electric bill. My heart goes out to them and I suggest they buy a fan and a mop bucket (fill the mop bucket with water and ice and stick your feet in the bucket). Here is another old Texas trick for sleeping in heat - cover your bed with towels and put on a cotton night shirt or thin tee shirt. Then fill an empty Windex bottle with water, spray yourself down, lie down and turn on the fan, turning your body into an evaporative cooler.

August 7, 2011

There are three related stories making the news this week: (1)the world lost 2.5 Trillion in stock value (MSNBC.com, (2) Standard and Poor's just downgraded the credit rating of the United States of America (NY Times) and (3) 82% of Americans disapprove of the way Congress is taking care of the country's business (NY Times).

The next story I am looking for in the news is one about just how do you recall your Congressperson when you suddenly realize that he or she is a f'cking idiot.

The blame for this stock debacle lies solely on the Tea Party. True believers are dangerous whether they are the Mullahs in Iran or the "I know better than anyone else" newly elected Tea Party Congressmen and Women who have held the Republican Party and the United States Congress hostage.

In case you have not been following the story, this is what those idiots did. They were shown on national tv pontificating about how they were not going to honor the nation's obligations by paying the interest on bonds that we have already issued. I don't like Boehner, but boy could I see the pallor under his spray tan; he looked like a man whose bipolar wife just hauled off and slapped the President of the PTA.

That would be tantamount to one of us going on national TV and talking about how we don't think we want to pay our mortgage and Visa bill unless our wife or husband decides to rein in their spending.

So Standard and Poor's downgraded the credit rating of the United States of America the same way our credit agencies would downgrade us if we made an ass of ourselves in front of the entire world.

A big Hello to the idiots who elected these true believers. The money the world lost in the stock market just came out of YOUR 401K. There are no "others" in this equation. The Tea Party just forced Congress to take out a gun and aim it at all of our feet. So you just got spanked.

For shame!

July 26, 2011

Amy Winehouse
Photo Credit: PR Photos

Singer Amy Winehouse was found dead in her apartment on Saturday, July 23, 2011 (MTV). Her autopsy was classified as inconclusive, but twenty-seven year old women don't just drop dead for no reason. Winehouse had been struggling with drug addiction for years and with her fame and money she was in a position where she did not have to listen to anyone and she did not. Winehouse thought she was invincible and she was not.

Winehouse was an extremely talented musical artist and she was also an artist in the way she presented her persona. It was show business baby and she was the product and she told a story every time she walked out the door.

Rest in peace to an extremely talented young lady who succumbed to the excesses of fame and has now joined the 27 Club.

July 20, 2011

The news is filled with articles about whether right wing nut candidate Michele Bachmann should be disqualified for the Presidency because she suffers from debilitating migraine headaches. All these articles are focused on the effect these headaches have on Ms. Bachmann and none of even them mention how highly contagious her headaches have proven to be. I personally get a headache every time I hear her name.

July 11, 2011

In a fun start to the week, there is an article on MSNBC.com about how Republican Presidential candidates Michelle Bachmann and Rick Santorum signed a pledge supporting a ban on gay marriage and pornography and stating that black families were stronger under slavery. And all over America, columnists (including me) are giddy with joy over the prospect of roasting these two bigoted fools on the press barbeque.

With one quick signature, theses two asses maligned gay Americans, black Americans and Americans who use their computer after 11PM.

P. S. The verbiage about black families was removed after Bachmann and Santorum signed the pledge and after all hell broke loose over the black families part of the pledge (any fool knows that black famlies where torn apart by slavery because they were property and could be sold separately).

June 25, 2011

Congratulations to gay New Yorkers and all freedom loving citizens of the great state of New York. The New York Senate voted to allow gay citizens to marry and Governor Cuomo has signed the bill. It will be thirty days before gay couples can marry in New York (something about marriage license changes) but that give everyone time to stock up on new summer frocks, cummerbunds and silver chafing dishes.

As they say in New Orleans: Laissez les bons temps rouler.

June 23, 2011

Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer
HBO's True Blood Season 4 Premiere
ArcLight Cinemas / Hollywood, CA, USA
June 21, 2011
Photo Credit: David Gabber / PR Photos

Alexander Skarsgard
HBO's True Blood Season 4 Premiere
ArcLight Cinemas / Hollywood, CA, USA
June 21, 2011
Photo Credit: David Gabber / PR Photos

The fourth season of True Blood premieres Sunday night at 10PM on HBO. The HBO-subscribing-world is all a twitter; fans have divided into two camps - Team Bill (played by Stephen Moyer) and Team Eric (played by Alexander Skarsgard) with lots of trash talking on both sides. Both Bill and Eric complete for the love and attention of telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse (played by Anna Paquin). Rabid fasn from both teams are threatening to never watch again if their personal avatar is not triumphant.

This is truly funny on so many levels, the most basic being - it's a TV show and secondly, just like in football, there is no drama if there is no opposing team. But many kudos to True Blood creator Alan Ball for managing to drive so many closet perverts into a froth!


Royal Ascot Ladies Day 2011 June 16, 2011 Photo Credit: Landmark / PR Photos	Royal Ascot Ladies Day 2011 June 16, 2011 Photo Credit: Landmark / PR Photos

Oh, the English and their hats! Here are two wonderful photos from the Royal Ascot Ladies Day. I have no idea who these two ladies are, but they deserve a round of applause for getting together these getups and cheering us up.

June 19, 2011

Ruminations: So, Anthony Weiner has resigned, which was a good call. So what if frat boys all over the nation are doing much worse, he was in Congress and he would have never been effective again. It is a pity for two reasons: (1) I have yet to meet a New Yorker who actually cared about what he did or wanted him to resign (things are different in New York) and (2) he seemed to be a pretty good congressman.

But the internet has turned us all into a nation of village biddies and Weiner just got his (well you know) roasted.

June 9, 2011

There have been so many funny (and not so funny - Anthony Weiner, I am talking to you) political stories in the news this month.

First Sarah Palin (who is always a delight) declared that the purpose of Paul Revere's ride was to "warn the British that they weren't going to be taking away our arms." This is incredibly funny on so many levels, the first being that Revere was riding with the express purpose of secretly warning the Colonists that the British were coming as in "The British are coming! The British are coming!". Whether the British would seize the Colonist's arms was just one of the things that the the Colonists were fighting to prevent. But we can safely say that "trash talking" the British was not one of Revere's goals.

There is more fun to come: Palin's emails have been released and they are sure to surpass the first President Bush's bloopers in fun malapropisms.

And then a development rich with irony: Representative Charles Rangel (who has had his own, but not sexy, ethics problems) is now defending Rep Anthony Weiner saying that Weiner was not going out with prostitutes or little boys or taking a wide stance in the restroom. (New York Daily News). Well, now that is quite some defense.

Someone should have told Representative Weiner that with his hoot of a last name, he should constantly be vigilant to see that no crotch area references are ever associated with his name.

And sixteen employees of the Gingrich Presidential Employment have quit en mass. I guess they took a close look at Gingrich's three marriages and the new wife and realized that they neither had magical powers or the abillity to walk on water.

In Texas we used to say, "This s..t won't float."

June 1, 2011

Newt and Calista Gingrich
2009 White House Correspondent Dinner-Red Carpet - Arrivals
Washington Hilton / Washington, DC
May 9, 2009
Photo Credit: Janet Mayer / PR Photos

The Beat Goes On: The news has been full of stories about how when Calista Gingrich worked "on the hill" she had a $500,000 - $600,00 Tiffany's bill. Half a million dollars worth of jewelry and that hair!!! In the words of Truman Capote's Holly Gollightly, "The mind simply reels."

May 18, 2011

Donald Trump has declared that he is not going to run for the Republican nomination to be President. If any of my readers are so naive so as to be actually shocked, please email me and I give you a crash course in "How to Get Free Publicity Without Really Trying." I would also like to declare that I am not running for the Republican nomination to be President of the United States. Before you start sniggering, remember Sarah Palin has set the bar really low so there are possibilities for all kinds of candidates, including the New York gubernatorial candidate who campaigned with the only six words, "The rent is too damn high."

In another truly funny note, Newt Gingrich has thrown his hat into the ring assuming that since he "says" he loves wife number three, his Bible Belt constituency will forgive his massive infidelities with wife's number one and two. Gingrich famously delivered divorce papers to his first wife while she was in the hospital recovering from cancer surgery. He married again and while married to wife number two, had a six year affair with wife number three. Gingrich and wife number three now attend church and think this will be enough to placate the Christian South. Well, I grew up down there and all I can say is, "I have no idea what he is smoking, but instead of wasting his time by running for President, he might want to consider selling it."

Woody Allen famously wrote that if you wanted to know everything about your teachers, just look at them. Take a quick look at Mrs. Gingrich - google "Calista Gingrich" images (use the quotes around the name) for an AHA moment.

May 12, 2011

Queen Elizabeth II
Royal Windsor Horse Show - Day 1
Windsor Home Park / Windsor, Berkshire, UK
May 11, 2011
Photo Credit: Solarpix / PR Photos

Here is one of Miss Wendy's You Got it Going Girl Awards to Queen Elizabeth II. Kudos to her for self confidence and authenticity. Her head scarves never took off, but that did not stop England's indomitable Queen; she has perfected the art of turning frumpy into fine.

April 28, 2011

Donald Trump has pulled another one of his rabbits out of a hat (creating a whirlwind of free publicity) when he both accused President Obama of not being born in the United States and of not being qualified to be admitted to Harvard Law (President Obama graduated from Harvard Law Magna Cum Laude and he also headed The Harvard Law Review). Trump has pulled or attempted to pull these publicity stunts before with his infamous feud with Rosie O'Donnell (she ate too much cake at his wedding) and his attempt to feud with Angelina Jolie by declaring that she was not beautiful (she ignored him). But this time Trump's rabbit has come covered in jack burrs. Both of his accusations (blacks are not real Americans and they get preferential treatment in college admissions) are classic racist diatribes - anyone who has ever lived in the South knows exactly what he meant to say. And since his real goal (no one thinks that the Republicans would ever nominate him unless they were convinced they would never win and just needed a sacrificial lamb) was to garner free publicity for his show, The Apprentice, he has managed to greatly offend large portions of the TV viewing audience including all minorities and all educated people. Perhaps Trump should have asked advice from Don Imus before opening his mouth.

The first rule of gun safety is don't aim the damn thing at your own foot.

April 19, 2011

Cote de Pablo, Michael Weatherly
Extra Interview with the Cast of NCIS
The Grove in Los Angeles
April 16, 2011
Photo Credit: MISSB / PR Photos

If you love NCIS (hey, I have to watch something while I am surfing the internet), you will love this photo. Who knew Ziva and Tony could laugh?

April 16, 2011

Check out this video - T Mobile's Royal Wedding:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kav0FEhtLug
Hysterical!

April 11, 2011

In an attempt gain traction for a dead-in-the-water campaign, Donald Trump has joined in with the "birthers" in questioning whether President Obama was born in the United States. All this carrying on makes me question whether Mr. Trump was actually born on this planet.

For more on this issue, see MSNBC.com.

And so you say, "Trump's not dead-in-the-water, he is polling second among the potential Republican candidates for President." Well, he is polling second because there is no one out there who is even a slightly viable candidate for the Republican nomination. But Republicans, with their Bible Belt base, will never nominate a New Yorker with Trump's baggage - multiple marriages, several almost bankruptcies. Just ask Rudy Giuliani who also polled quite nicely early in the 2008 game.

But perhaps these shenanigans will fulfill Trump's real goal - boosting ratings for The Apprentice.

March 30, 2011

Boy George Appears for OverKitch at the
Champs Elysees Queen Club in Paris on March 28, 2011
Photo Credit: Pixplanete / PR Photos

Oh my goodness, just when did Boy George begin to resemble a Queens housewife? Oh well, I guess it can happen to the best of us.

March 23, 2011

Elizabeth Taylor died of heart failure yesterday at the age of seventy-nine. Taylor was an icon, a stunningly beautiful young girl who became a gorgeous woman. She starred in dramas and her life was drama - eight marriages to seven different men. Taylor famously said that her mother told her that if she was to "be with" a man, she should marry him and she religiously followed her mother's advice. Taylor was one of the last relics of the studio system, a system that created stars by controlling every aspect of their lives. And that control plus the pressures of being a young star, may have contributed to the stress that led her to self medicate in her adulthood, landing her in Betty Ford where she famously met her eighth husband. But all these shenanigans aside, Taylor was a loving mother (all four of her children were with her when she died) and a dear friend who supported AIDS victims like Rock Hudson long before it became fashionable to do so. She was loyal, standing by Michael Jackson through all his trials. And she was talented - watch National Velvet and then watch Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf to see the range of Taylor's accomplishments (you have Netflex so you can do it.) Taylor was the last of her kind and she will be sorely missed. Rest in peace to a glorious screen goddess.

March 20, 2011

Georgia May Jagger
Hudson by Georgia May Jagger Jeans Collection Launch
Selfridges | London
March 10, 2011
Photo Credit: Landmark / PR Photos

Remember when Mick Jagger hooked up with Texas model Jerri Hall (I am certainly aging myself). Well, Miss Georgia May Jagger is just one of the results (they had four children). Mick and Jerri's genes certainly had a harmonic convergence (among other convergences) and this kid is actually better looking than either of her parents

March 11, 2011

Jean-Charles de Castelbajac and Katy Perry
Paris Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2012
Jean-Charles de Castelbajac - Backstage
Pavillon Concorde / Paris, France
March 8, 2011
Photo Credit: Pixplanete / PR Photos

Here is a You Got it Going Girl Award to Miss Katy Perry. Perry never forgets that no matter where she is, she is the product, she is the brand. Both Perry and Lady GaGa are marketing geniuses.

March 3, 2011

Kokon To Zai Fashion Show
London Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2011
Somerset House / London, UK
February 23, 2011
Photo Credit: Solarpix / PR Photos

Here is a witty photo to brighten your day. When you are not one of the big boys (and London Fashion Week certainly is not), you do have to try harder. And this "trying harder" can be a lot of fun.

Musings: There needs to be a new name for the medical syndrome that causes celebrities such as Mel Gibson, Charlie Sheen and John Galliano to run off at the mouth and ruin their careers. "Getting drunk and making an a** of your self" simply does not cut it anymore.

February 25, 2011

Lindsay Lohan should send a thank you note to Charlie Sheen for effectively shielding her from even more bad publicity by continuing to make a fool of himself in public and effectively throwing his career (and his show, Two and a Half Men) onto a drug-fueled funeral pyre.

February 17, 2011

Patricia Field and Amanda Lepore
The Blond's Fashion Show
Milk Studios / New York City
February 16, 2011
Photo Credit: Janet Mayer / PR Photos

Here are two of Miss Wendy's You Got it Going Girl awards for fashion stylist Patricia Field and everyone's favorite trannie, Miss Amanda Lepore. Don't you just love the way Patricia's hair matches Amanda's fur stole? It is never good to be too matchy-matchy, but this does work.

February 9, 2011

Brooklyn Decker
Just Go with It New York City Premiere
The Ziegfeld Theater / New York City, NY, USA
February 8, 2011
Photo Credit: Janet Mayer / PR Photos

Sports Illustrated model-turned-actress Brooklyn Decker certainly had a Married To The Mob moment when she wore this Dolce & Gabanna dress to the premiere of her new film, Just Go With It. What 80's Mafia chic!

But if you are looking at this look and admiring it, please do not try this at home.

February 4, 2011

Okay, the weather has won. After three years of being able to walk the wintry streets of Manhattan clad in a pair of non-waterproof Uggs, it is time to give it up and purchase a pair of Hunter boots (Neimanmarcus.com). Other brands may be in the waterproof boot business (Coach etc), but no one does it better than Hunter. And yes, you do need the socks or otherwise, you will have a gouge in your calf where the top of the boot rubs against your leg.

January 29, 2011

Jean-Paul Gaultier
Paris Fashion Week Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2011
January 26, 2011
Photo Credit: Pixplanete / PR Photos

It is still cold and wet outside. Here are some fun fashions from Paris Fashion Week to cheer you up. Calling Lady Gaga!

January 26, 2011

It is cold and miserable outside in New York City. Click on these links to places where "you are not" and feel the envy:

concierge.com1

concierge.com2

January 17, 2011

That cute Sarah Palin is at it again, talking to everyone who will listen telling them that she is not a fault for the Arizona shooting even though she did put cross hairs on the Congressman Gifford's district (Daily News) on the Palin website. And, according to Palin, anyone who says so is committing a "blood libel." Great news extender, Ms. Palin, piggy-backing on a tragedy and milking it for every interview you can get. Now would you please just can-it and go away! You've always been irritating, but now you are boring.

Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer
Spike TV's Scream 2010 Awards - Arrivals
Greek Theatre / Los Angeles, CA, USA
October 16, 2010
Photo Credit: Chris Hatcher / PR Photos

It is five months until the premiere of Season 4 of True Blood on HBO. Here is a photo of Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer to tide you over. If Anna's character Sookie is to "hook up" with either the six foot plus Eric or Alcide, these heels might be a good wardrobe choice, although they will look at bit odd with her Merlottes's waitress uniform.

December 31, 2010

Happy New Year to All!

The Beat Goes On: Here is a look back at some of the fun events of 2010:

The Republicans took over the House which is actually a good thing. The nation is in an impossible situation right now and it is only fair that the Republicans be around to shoulder the blame for not immediately fixing the mess they caused in the first place. So pick up your mop and shovel, Mr. Boehner, and start cleaning up your sh*t.

The Republican Senate nominee from Delaware, Christine O'Donnell (Youtube.com) went on television to proclaim that, "I am not a witch." Her potential constituents were quite relieved, but they did not vote for her anyway.

Not to be outdone in the sharing department, Paula Abdul (ABC TV) chimed in to declare, "I am intelligent." The jury is still out on that one. Abdul and Simon Cowell have now left American Idol and were replaced by Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler.

Trying to compete in an arena where everything has been done before, Lady Gaga wore a meat dress to the MTV awards (Reuters.com), shocking Cher and enraging PETA and her many vegan fans.

Lost finally ended and the series many fans are now officially lost without their Lost.

Lindsay Lohan went back to rehab for the something-or-the-other-time (it is hard to keep up without a stop watch) and so far so good. Lohan is at the famed Betty Ford Clinic until January 3, 2010. Missing their daily free lunch, TMZ made an ass of itself by paying a Betty-Ford-employee-who-also-happens-to-be-a-recovering-drug-addict to say that Lindsay was drunk and refused a breathalyzer test. This story went away in a pfft (recant, recant, recant) when both the money-grubbing -now-former employee and TMZ were reported to the California Attorney General for violating California's medical privacy act. They may have also realized that there are security cameras all over the Ford Center and they might have a hard time proving this very convenient story. Strangely enough, TMZ is not covering their own legal mishegas.

Jennifer Aniston continued to make movies that tanked (The Switch, The Bounty Hunter) and Hollywood continued to hire her to open tanking films. When will the powers that be realize that we are Just Not That Into You (Her).

Sandra Bullock won an Oscar for The Blind Side, a film about a conservative Tennessee family who adopts an impoverished black boy. Bullock gushingly took to the Oscar podium to proclaim her love for her then husband Jesse James. Proving the old adage that no good deed goes unpunished, her husband was immediately outed as a good-for-nothing-hound-dog-who-screws-tattooed-sluts. Bullock is now a single mother, adopting a black baby boy in an life imitates art moment.

Mel Gibson made a complete ass of himself, making foul mouthed racist phone calls to his now ex, Oksana Grigoriev, who recorded them and promptly violated a court order by leaking the tapes. In a strange twist, Grigoriev is now being investigated for extortion. This is a cautionary tale both for foul-mouthed-but-rich-bigots and ambitious-Russian-honeys-looking-for-a-rich-baby-daddy.

December 23, 2010

(Note: The following is a reprint from November of 2007. But very little has changed for the flying public, so it is unfortunately still relevant.)

Dear Miss Wendy,

It's Christmas week. Does Miss Wendy have any advice to the air traveling public?

Sincerely,

Down Home Turkey

Dear Turkey,

The airport police will be on high alert. Not for terrorists, silly, but for any hint of bad behavior from the flying public who are being thoroughly mistreated by our overbooked airlines and the under trained, underpaid airport security guards. Airports have grown to resemble subway tunnels with filthy restrooms and travelers forced to sleep on the floor; the situation is become so bad that many Jet Blue travelers plan ahead and pack mats so they don't have to lie on the dirty floor! So no matter how upset you become, please stay calm so you don't become the next Larry Craig (arrested for twitching in the men's room), Jonathan Rhys Meyers (arrested for public drunkenness after years of sobriety) or worse yet as agitated and depressed as Carol Gotbaum, the lady who died while in police custody. Save your whining for someplace safe - the visit with your family.

December 19, 2010

Both Houses of Congress have voted to repeal "Don't Ask Don't Tell" and it is about time. Years from now people will look back on DADT and wonder "Why?" If you don't believe me, just take a quick survey among high school students and see how many you can find that have issues with gays. All this hand wringing about what soldiers will do in the shower is the provenance of older people with extraordinary amounts of time on their hands.

It was crazy to be kicking people out of military service because of their sexual orientation. We need all the soldiers we can get. And just how many of the people who are ringing their hands about "the effect on military cohesion" would be willing to sign up and take the place of expelled gay soldiers? That's what I thought.

December 14, 2010

Chelsea Handler has tweeted a photo of her lying in bed cuddling Fifty Cent. What an incredible ratings boost that will be, right up there with her trashing Angelina Jolie for stealing Jennifer Anniston's husband. And instead of something that happened five years ago (Brangelina), this Fifty things seems to be ongoing.

Why pay a publicist when you can get everyone (including me) all atwitter over your hook up?

You go girl!

December 9, 2010

Elizabeth Edwards has died of breast cancer at the age of sixty-one. Edwards was one courageous lady who fought a long hard battle with a nasty disease. Rest in Peace!

The latest out of Hollywood has Lindsay Lohan joining Dancing With the Stars as soon as she gets out of rehab. This is a much better gig than playing Linda Lovelace but it sure will be full of stress for someone who is supposed to avoid stress and concentrate on staying sober.

But life does go on and if you are alive, you have stress.

And the Oscar buzzed film Blue Valentine (see the New York Daily News) now has an R rating instead of the NC-17 rating proposed by the MPAA after Harvey Weinstein of the Weinstein company launched a massive appeal with the board. Now everyone will have to rush to see this film to find out just why it almost got a NC-17. What a massive publicity coup this is for the film. Game Match Set Harvey!

December 4, 2010

Liza Minnelli
2010 World AIDS Day Light for Rights
Washington Square Park / New York City
December 1, 2010
Photo Credit: Beth Wagner / PR Photos

Here is one of my You Got it Going Girl Awards to Miss Liza Minelli. Long live camp!

November 30, 2010

Amanda LePore, David LaChapelle
and Daphne Guinness
9th Annual GLAAD OutAuction and Out in Art Award
Metropolitan Pavillion / New York City
November 21, 2010
Photo Credit: Wild1 / PR Photos

Here is a fun campy photograph that caught my eye. Famed tranny Amanda Lepore, world renowned photographer David LaChapelle and Karl Lagerfeld muse Daphne Guinness posing at the 9th Annual GLAAD OutAuction. This photo is fun on so many levels: Guiness and LePore carrying the same color purse, the fine line between camp and art and LaChapelle's instinctive eye in choosing just whom he should stand next to when someone is shooting a photo.

Photographer Bradford Noble is a friend of mine and whenever I take his photo, he looks at where I have my lens and how far away I am and then moves himself so he fills the lens in the best manner (basically doing my job). Looking at this photo I can tell that LaChapelle does eactly the same thing.

November 25, 2010

2007 Macy's Thankgiving Day Parade
Photo Credit Angelo Rivera

From Miss Wendy to Her Readers: Today is Thanksgiving and here are two helpful recipes you can use if any one is foolish enough to ask you to contribute a dish for the festivities:

Miss Wendy's White Trash Fruit Salad

1 large can of fruit cocktail (drained)
1 large bag of colored miniature marshmellows
1 large container of Cool Whip

Mix ingredients in a bowl and enjoy

Miss Wendy's Queso

One package of Velvetta cheese, sliced
One jar of salsa
16 ounces of half and half

Put all ingredients into the crock pot, heat and serve with chips.

Happy Thanksgiving!

November 16, 2010

There is joyful news from London - Prince Williams and his girlfriend Kate Middleton have announced that they are engaged and will wed in the Spring or Summer of 2011 (MSNBC.com). This is great news for both the Prince and Miss Middleton and for the news outlets of the world who will now have a tasty dish on our dining room tables - a dish that should feed us all for the next year or so.

But here is a quick style question: Just what is it with young English ladies and their hats? Now I think the hats are fun and I applaud them for wearing them, but why would a young woman even own a pinwheel hat? And they only wear these confections when they are actually in Britain. New York City is filled with British expats and you never see young women wearing decorative hats (everyone wears wool hats in winter but they are for warmth not show). English ladies abandon their hats as soon as they leave Britain much the way Saudi women toss off their robes and veils the minute the plane leaves Saudi air space.

Do young upper class British women wears hats as a subtle hint to young royal men that they would be happy to replace their hats with a tiara?

November 13, 2010

Here is a funny bit I read about while I had my coffee (Daily News). New Jersey housewife Teresa Giudice of the Bravo TV show , Real Housewives of New Jersey is teaching a course at the Learning Annex titled "How to Have it All." Mrs. Giudice and her husband recently filed for bankruptcy after spending an entire season on the show living the good life Jersey style. Perhaps she should co-host her session with a good bankruptcy lawyer who could help her explain how to "buy and file."

November 9, 2010

Cher
Glamour Magazine Women of the Year Awards 2010
Carnegie Hall, New York City
November 8, 2010
Photo Credit: Janet Mayer / PR Photos

Here is one of Miss Wendy's You Got it Going Girl Awards for Cher. The sixty-four year old Diva is still rocking it in style. Cher has a three year contract with the Coliseum at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. It is the perfect match. Caesar's Palace is the epitome of camp and so is our Miss Cher. I saw Cher about five years ago on one of her "Final Tours" and she is "marvelous, simply marvelous."

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