you're terrible, muriel!

I recently re-watched what has got to be one of the absolute best 90s movies - Muriel's Wedding, which because it was an Australian release, never got to be all that big in the states. It is laugh out loud funny. Pure genius!

If you haven't seen this film, please do yourself a favor and buy the dvd. Here is a great clip from the film. If you don't have 7 minutes to spare, fast forward to 5:08 for my favorite scene.

dancing with the star...

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edith ann

Remember last summer when I posted that classic Sesame Street clip from the crayon factory? Well, I did some more digging today and found another great clip - Edith Ann and her sandwich (featuring Lily Tomlin). I remember this so fondly - hopefully you do too!

in jesus name i pray

There are no words...

her hair is like a fraggle!

So seriously – stop what you’re doing and watch this clip of Tina Fey on Howard Stern... talking about what a nightmare it was when Trash (aka Paris Hilton hosted Saturday Night Live). I was laughing so hard that I nearly peed my pants!

... the Barbie hair, the tranny hands... amazing! The part where I actually spit out my juice was when she said “her hair was like a fraggle!” Tina Fey = fucking genius!

bonnie parker

Weird...

anything you can do, i can do better!

I'm LOVING this new commercial for The Gap...

Super cute!

dear mr. president

giambattista valli - fall 2007

I have to say that Giambattista Valli is very quickly becoming one of my absolute favorite women's wear designers. His work has such a heightened sense of refinement, and he always manages to give his audience an element of surprise. I Quadruple LOVE him!

Here is the review from Style.com -

What do you get when you mix Rembrandt, Le Corbusier, and the Mexican film star Maria Felix? The new Fall collection by Giambattista Valli.

From the painter (and perhaps from classic YSL too) came the black suits—longer through the jacket, fuller through the leg, and more office-ready than anything the designer has shown before.

The bold shots of yellow and red, geometric prints, and the new stiffer architecture found in Valli's favorite trapeze and bell shapes were derived from the great architect. And from La Doña, as she was called, he took the flourishes.

Valli's first love is a party dress. So Swarovski crystals studded the funnel necks of short frocks. Black-tipped white feathers were stitched together to create a showstopping weightless cape.

And last season's masses of soft floral rosettes have become ribbon-candy ruffles—on one shift dress, they were horizontally arrayed to decorate the neckline; on another, they zipped up and down from neck to knee-length hem.

From his new jewelry line, Valli showed large heart-shaped pendants with skulls encrusted on them. All of this gave Jessica Biel and the Euro socialite cohort in the front row plenty to ooh and ahh over.

What jazzes up the fashion types on the opposite side of the runway—aside from the obvious luxe of the fabrics and the fine construction—is how the cut-away-from-the-body silhouette seems both right for the season and completely of a piece with the exciting body of sophisticated work Valli is continuing to build.

that goddamn cunt, ann coulter

That goddamn cunt, Ann Coulter has once again wowed us with her dime store eloquence and charm. Speaking today at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Coulter referred to Senator John Edwards as a "faggot".

At the Conservative Political Action Conference today, which was attended by 2008 Republican Presidential candidates Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, Tom Tancredo (R-CO), Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS), former Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-CA) as well as Vice President Dick Cheney, Ann Coulter referred to Senator John Edwards as a "faggot".

After being introduced by Romney, who said "I am happy to hear that after you hear from me, you will hear from Ann Coulter. That is a good thing. Oh yeah!", Coulter took the stage and said:

"I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, but it turns out you have to go into rehab if you use the word ‘faggot,’ so I — so kind of an impasse, can’t really talk about Edwards."

If you're interested in watching the video, you can do so here. Last summer Coulter also used homophobic slurs - referring to Al Gore as "a total fag". It should be interesting to see if any of the Republican politicians who were in attendance speak out against this. Oh yeah - and I hope that she gets vaginal cancer... and dies!

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2007 academy awards - it looked better on the runway!

For my final post on Academy Awards fashion, I thought that I would do another installment of "It looked better on the Runway!"

Jessica Biel in Oscar de la Renta
Cameron Diaz in Valentino Couture
Gwyneth Paltrow in Zac Posen
Cate Blanchett in Armani Privé

Kate Winslet in Valentino Couture
Anika Noni Rose in Naeem Khan
Jennifer Hudson in Oscar de la Renta
Beyoncé Knowles in Armani Privé

Portia de Rossi in Zac Posen
Jennifer Lopez in Marchesa
Leelee Sobieski in Naeem Khan
Kirsten Dunst in Chanel Haute Couture

Ziyi Zhang in Valentino Couture
Eva Green in Givenchy
Natalie Portman in Lanvin
Katie Holmes in Armani Privé

Ellen Pompeo in Alexander McQueen
Dita Von Teese in Rodarte
Hayden Panettiere in Versace
Oprah Winfrey in Gucci

Beyoncé Knowles in Elie Saab
Isla Fisher in Monique Lhuillier
Emmy Rossum in Marchesa
Zooey Deschanel in Fendi