Thursday, May 31, 2012

So let's party!


After all of the nonsense we retired to Marco Polo for a big party to watch the shows!

We had about one hundred people! Family, friends, people who were on the show, people who worked on the show and a bunch of people who free loaded.

Stacy came and had a great time. It was crazy fun.

Luckily I am always prepared.


As we were walking back upstairs we passed Rachel Maddow's studio.

Luckily I saved my sign.

The director who was escorting us upstairs turned around and saw me. He goes "Commies...really!"

I had to laugh.

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Alice gets pissed off!



All of these news shows are totally disorganized. First you are here but you supposed to be there. They take you to the wrong floor and then get pissed because you are not in the right spot. They are just morons.

Anyway the New York Live set is in the MSNBC studios. That's right!

They sent us to the wrong floor and the director of the show had to take us upstairs to the green room. Anyway when it was time for us to go on they took us downstairs and we had to wait in the hallway outside the studio. As we are waiting this elderly actress and her entourage are walking down the corridor to go on first.

Right away Lisa goes "Look it's Mel's Diner." She never remembers names.

So what do I do? Why I start singing of course!

:"THERE"S A NEW GIRL IN TOWN AND SHE"S LOOKING GOOD...A FRESH NEW FACE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD?"

She looks at me witheringly and I go "Bet you haven't heard that very often"

She goes "That was the very first time."

I don't she was too happy.

Sometimes I hate myself I am such a douche.

In the Belly of the Beast




Then we went to tape a couple of segments for NPR. They agreed to pump the show so what the hell we decided to do it. Only Lisa got to speak but I went into the booth with her. The disc jockey was in Washington
so we were alone in the studio.

We got there early so the receptionist lead us to a holding area that he called the "Lounge." It had a few chairs and couches and a coffee table with a bunch of magazines like a dentists office. But the best thing they had was a wall of autographed photos of all the big names. Terry Gross. Amy Goodman. Brian Lerher. So there was only one thing I could do.

I went into the conference room and found a piece of paper and a big sharpie.

I printed out a sign and my granddaughter took a photo of me holding it and pointing at the stars on the wall.

I felt a little bad after they were so nice to us and all.

Actually, I didn't feel all that bad.

The look for the Today Show!

Melissa was wearing our Lulu Dress and the Franny sweater on the Today show. Lisa got to talk about them since they are the biggest sellers in our store and on our website.

It made up for the fact that the make up and hair people were the worst.

It wall went very well for us and we got a great response.

Then we went to NYC Live

Check out this great MSN video - Stars Of The New TLC show "Big Brooklyn Style"

It started with the Today Show!

The crazy day began on the Today show. We had to get up at four in the morning to get to the show in time. Hair and make-up for two hours. Then we had to walk what seemed like a mile through NBC to get to the Today show set. Lisa was on the show with Stacy and our daughter Melissa was one of the models. They had a great time and took a whole bunch of photos. When we got to the Today show set I went into the green room to sit down. My leg was killing me and I wasn't all that interested in the celebritys.

They had Charlize Theron and what not but who gives a shit. Lisa and the kids got to meet Ann Curry and Al Roker and Matt Laurer but I was in the green room putting cream on my ankle.

 I did feel bad that I didn't get to ask my one question.

 What the Fuck Al Roker?

Monday, May 28, 2012

"Big Brooklyn Style"




There is no way I will be able to post on the day of the show so this open thread is for youse guys to give your reviews of the shows. I hope you like them. Thank you for all of the support the past few months. It was really helpful to me and kept me from punching somebody out. Let me know what you really thing about "Big Brooklyn Style."

Don't forget our premiere Tuesday May 29th @ 10pm on TLC

We are on right after "What Not to Wear." Lisa and I will appear briefly on the WNTW live show and then it will go right into "Big Brooklyn Style."

Lisa will be on the Today show tomorrow in the 9 O'clock hour with Stacy as our daughter Melissa will model one of our dresses. They will be working to promote both shows.

Lisa will be on NPR that afternoon but I don't know when that will be on the air although we are doing it around 2pm.

Supposdedly both Lisa and I will be on WNBC Channel 4 in New York betweeen three and four as well. They are supposed to talk to us about the show and plus size in general so we shall see how that works.

Then the premiere will be at 10pm on TLC for two half hour episodes.

Wish us luck.

Sunday, May 27, 2012

America the Beautiful - Ray Charles




What is truly strange about this video is that you hear people talking and laughing over it. It kinds of sums up Memorial Day for so many people. They laugh and barbecue and don't give a thought for the people who we should remember this day. Those who served and especially those who made the ultimate sacrifice.

I know that we don't forget them. We never forget them. Especially on Memorial Day.

Lest we forget!

Happy Memorial Day!

It's a shame they cut so much out......

The really sad thing is they cut out so much great stuff out of what we filmed.

The last episode I finally got them to film our daily walk along the waterfront. We went to Valentino Park near Red Hook and took some footage at the pier. The footage is beautiful and the scenery is not the cliche shots you get of the New York Skyline because I took them to the industrial parts that only a native knows about.

I tell Lisa "One hundred years ago in 1902 my grandmother came over over on the boat a frightened young girl from Ischia and immediately went to work in a factory sewing shirts. It was just blind luck that it was in Brooklyn and not at the Triangle factory. Then when she had a family they made extra money sewing buttons on cards for a few pennies. Now one hundred years later we built a shop where we make clothes manufactured in America that people come from all over the world to buy. It just goes to show you what a great country America is."

Then we kiss and as we do you can see the Statue of Liberty out in the harbor so close it feels like you can touch it.

They didn't like that. I think they just don't love America.

I don't want to spoil the surprise

So I don't want to spoil the surprise.....but "Big Brooklyn Style" will premiere at 10pm on TLC on Tuesday May 29th right after "What Not to Wear." It will feature my wife dressing three women who need help in finding plus size clothing because of various issues. Lots of human interest and some drama. Some laughs. Some tears. Some seltzer down your pants.

Oh by the way.... did I tell you lately that the New York Giants had won the Super Bowl?

I didn't even get to do the hucklebuck

Almost all of my contributions were dropped because they didn't appreciate my point of view. And they wanted to concentrate on the dresses and the makeovers.

But it sucked that they dropped my interpretation of the hucklebuck.

It was a classic.

I have to concerntrate on the business side of things....

I have to concentrate on the business side of things since I have been pretty much marginalized in the show and won't been seen hardly at all. The original concept was that it was about the two of us and the family and how we ran the shop but that went by the wayside pretty quickly as they decided to focus on Lisa and make it more or less a plus size "What Not to Wear." So the focus is solely on Lisa and making over the women. In other words "Dress Boss."

I saw the opening of the show and it just has Lisa in it as she is running around and doing stuff. I won't be part of most of the interviews. Lisa will be on the Today show on Tuesday May 29th at 8:30am with Stacy. Our daughter Melissa will be one of the models as they talk about fashion. Lisa will also be featured on NPR that afternoon since they figured I was too ugly for radio. A segment was already filmed for WPIX which had Lisa and all the girls in the store modeling clothing. I am tentatively scheduled to appear with Lisa no "Live at Five" on WNBC TV but who knows if that is going to happen.

I just have to concentrate on maximizing the money we can make off of this wonderful marketing opportunity. So I will be monitoring the on-line sales and the store so we can cash out as much as we can.

We are so freaking busy....

Sorry I haven't been posting but we have been crazy busy.

There has been a nice little uptick in business as the promos have been on and we are in national publications like OK magazine, People and other tabloids as part of the TLC Red Door campaign. We have all new employees so I have been working with them.

Then we have been setting up the premiere party and as usual Lisa is way over the top. We have a step and repeat which is the back drop with the red carpet that you see at the Oscars and Emmey's and what not. We have one with the show logo on it of course. That fuckin cost me let me tell you.

Then they invited every free loader under the sun who is going to show up and guzzle drinks and chow down on my dime. I wanted a small intimate gathering of family, friends and our good customers but that went out the fuckin' window fifty people ago.
 
Of course we have to have fuckin' gift bags so we got a bunch of free shit to give out as swag to the people who come to the party. We have to make sure that they all get credit and somehow we thank them properly.

And of course we have to get ready for the interviews on Tuesday.


 Plus the shop is open every day.

 So it has been busy.

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Deep thoughts......by Titus


Titus said...
Do you guys all know my husband is a certified scrum master?

And so am I. We have the paperwork to prove it.
So there.

          Although it usually comes with a cute bag.

I got hacked!



Some of you might have got spam emails from one of my email accounts. It seems I was hacked but I went in and changed my password so we should be ok.

Sorry if you got an ad that you didn't want (although spinelli should check out the one for penis enlargement, just sayn)

I don't care what they do to me as long as I still get wood when I see a pretty girl.

So to speak.

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

I think I have to start watching Japanese baseball


I don't know but I hear it is really cool.

My new team is Nippon Fun Bags of the Honshu league.

Commenter Memories Number 142: Ricpic was Rico Suave at the Yashiva Beth Shalom mixer




He had it all going on. Just sayn'

Deep thoughts.....by Titus



Titus said...
My bucket list would include swimming in a huge pool surrounded by floating tits.

Floating Zombie tits.
Ecstasy.

Tits.

Hey before you kick the bucket....






You might want to hit that.....at least it is on AllenS bucket list.

Michael H wanted a thread for people to relist their bucket lists so here it is.



My bucket list:

Getting to the Superbowl, World Series and NBA championship with my teams winning in the same year.
Going to every baseball stadium in one year and having a hot dog and beer in every one.
Spending month in Italy in my grandmothers old village.
A pub crawl of Ireland for a month.
Visiting some great sites of Western history like the OK Corral and Deadwood.
Going on the view and telling those bitches that they are worthless cunts.
Getting a yacht and sailing up and down the coast with my buddies like John Ford used to do.
Writing a novel or three.
Directing a movie.

And that's just a start.

How about youse guys.

Monday, May 21, 2012

When I get that yacht.....


I am going to sail it up and down the eastern seabord. Then I am going to park it. Find the nearest tavern. Sit down with my book. And relax.

Sunday, May 20, 2012

We have to continue the photoshoot!


We have to do everything in the store. We are revamping the website this week to put it on a new server with the bandwith to handle the anticipated greater demand after the show is on. It is costly but ultimately worth it.

But we also need to photo the new stuff to put up. This is a shot from the photoshoot that took place during the show where Lisa was modeling the Red Motorcylce Jacket. Katy is fixing her up and getting her ready before they shot on a cold blustery Feburary day.

We did some shots today when it was hot and there was a about a million bugs. We just need to get them on the website so we can start selling clothes.

Commentor Memories Number 141 Titus's Husband weighs in.


Everybody wants to weigh in to commenter memories.

Titus's husband Sanjay Cowflap sent this photo of his classmate Barack Obama. They went to a madrasah back in Indonesia.

Even then young Barack was so cool.

Commenter Memories Number 141: Why Nd Spinelli hates the Village People

You see his Dad was in the Village people but he was just playing a role. He loved girls. Not that there is anything wrong with that.

He didn't much care about all that much about Nick which is why he kept dropping him on his head.

So make a little allowance ok?

Hey I made the bulletin!



One of biggest supporters is our parish priest Father Chris Cashman. Every week he always asks how it is going with the show and what is happening with us. He wanted to put an announcement in the bulletin and kept reminding me about it. But I was so busy I never got a chance to bring it to the rectory.

So when I walk in he is in the back of the church getting ready to do the entrance march and runs over to me. "Hey I went on the website and got all the information and put it in the bulletin!"

That's the first time I made the bulletin since 1969 when I broke the church window.

He told me something I will be hearing a lot as time goes on. He saw the new promo that you can see here and said "That promo is great but they should have more of you in it."  But TV is a lot like Highlander: There can be only one.

Still it is a pretty cool promo. The last bit with the both of us was from the big commercial shoot in early January. We are going to see a lot more of that.

I don't know if that works for me!


They wanted to invite Big Ange to our preimere party next Tuesday but I don't know if that works for me. I mean it just publizes her new show and takes away from Lisa because it is Lisa's big night.

And if Big Ange gets out of line Lisa will beat the crap out of her and I don't need that kind of publicity.

Saturday, May 19, 2012

Commentor Memories Number 140 Dust Bunny Queens first day of school

She was looking through some old photos and found her photo from her first day at school.

Commenter Memories Number 139 Allie is scared of tuxedos


Allie has always been afraid of formal wear and refuses to date anyone who shows up in a tuxedo. She insisted that her husband wear a pair of bib overalls when they got married and never saw a James Bond movie. She once kicked a maitre de in the balls when he pulled out a chair for her. Her husband never asked her to explain her quirky behavior because he really loved her the way she was.

You see it all went back to a terrible memory from childhood.

Whose that girl?



Allie doesn't like her but she was a very popular actress back in the day.

You would love her if she were your aunt. Even your gay first husband would like her before he changed into a totally different guy.

And despite a rumor she does not come from Wisconsin.

Whose that Girl?

New comic strip from Lee Lee's


I can't enlarge it without losing what it is supposed to do.

You guys will recognize that problem. Just sayn'

Friday, May 18, 2012

That's the way I like it uh-huh




So we got all gussied up for the big gala. I had to wear new black suit and new tie and new shoes and new gay pocket thingy. We had our car service guy Hassan take a photo outside our house before we left to go to the event.

The wife wore an Anna Lucia dress in a sparkly black fabric that she had made special. And the freakin' shoes she busted my stones about the day before. You see she had ordered them on my Amazon account since I have one and she doesn't. But she miss wrote the credit card and the email they sent somehow went to my Spam account. She freaked out and we had to call and pay extra to have them overnight them to us.  But it all worked out and we got everything in time.

They had a DJ to spin some records after the Sugar Hill Gang finished their performance. In honor of Donna Summer he spinned a bunch of Disco and the wife and I took to the dance floor and danced the hustle to the amazement of they youngun's. We were spinning and twirling and going crazy and created our own little spot on the dance floor. Everybody got up and danced to some old time disco.

We filmed a segment for WPIX Channel 11 today that will air closer to the premiere of "Big Brooklyn Style." They have this giant mobile studio which is really just a big bus that was parked outside the store. The TLC publicity girl was there for the interview.  They only wanted Lisa because she was doing some fashion Do's and Don'ts. I think that is how it is gonna work 99% of the time. I will not be on camera because they want to talk to Lisa. She is the "Dress Boss." But there are other reasons too.

One of the guys who drove the bus was listening to us talk about the gala and how we had danced to the disco hits of the 1970's. He is my age and of course he had to say "Disco sucks I only listen to rock and roll." I go "Hey everybody loves rock and roll but disco will get you laid." The publicity lady burst out laughing and said "I see why they had to cut a lot of your lines."

Love to love you baby!

Funny there wasn't any Packer's stuff...I wonder why?

So there wasn't much cool stuff to bid on at the silent auction this year. Except for sports related stuff.



The Cancer society has a connection with a memorabilia guy who works all the fundraisers. He puts out  a piece and sets a minimum price where he makes money and the charity makes some dough. Of course the higher the bidding the more the charity makes.

What was funny was that almost all of the pieces were either the Yankees or the Football Giants. There was one Jackie Robinson thing and one Met's piece and one Knick's item and all the other fifty things were Yankees or Giants.

I bid on a couple of pieces. I lost out on the Larry Johnson autographed basketball which was kind of unique because it was also autographed by all of the sixteen children he had with sixteen different mothers. They know their audience.

I lost on the Eli Manning autographed football used in the Super Bowl that went for a couple of grand. My bid was damn good but not that good.

I also lost on a huge framed photo of the core four Yankees of Jeter, Posada, Pettite and Mariano. I was sure I would get that one but somebody beat me out.

The one piece I did get had photos of the two great catches in the last two Giant Superbowl wins. The David Tyree catch and the Mario Manningham catch of this last one. It also has game tickets attached for the Superbowl. Funny the face value is around $900. Holy smokes.

It is going on the wall in Jim's corner in the back room where the husbands hang out while the wife shops. Along with the photo of Frank and Dean having a cocktail that I got last year. I plan to pick something up every year to decorate the walls.

When Stacy saw me carrying it back to the table she said "Oh what did you get Jim?" I said "I got this great Giant's Superbowl photo montage. Did  I tell you lately that the Giants won the Super Bowl?" She said "Not more than once a day Jim. Not more than once I day."

Tonight's entertainment is back to the 1970's



The entertainment for the gala was an old time rap group "The Sugar Hill Gang." These dudes were my age but they were still rapping.

It reminded me of a PBS fundraiser where some DoWop group where the singer  would be wailing away while standing with canes and what not.

I am so fucking old.

Moles



Youse guys had a big discussion about moles last night while I was out. I made a quick comment that I thought there might be a mole here at Trooper York. I want to be clear that it is not any of the people who post comments here all the time. But there are several people who requested access who never ever post a comment. Which is fine. Just reading is perfectly acceptable. I didn't do a background check on who came in or who didn't.

There was some back and forth about it especially with MamaM. As I had said before MamaM has emailed me privately and I am sure that she is who she says she is. I know that sometimes people get rubbed the wrong way when someone has a little bit of a prickly personality. But we love prickly personalities here. We even love to have pricks comment. (That's why ndspinelli is so popular here.)

Anyhoo I was at the American Cancer Society gala last night and subject of moles came up a the table. A girl who was a survivor of cancer only found out she had it by checking out a mole that she had. By getting it checked out she ended up saving her life.

That is the kind of mole you have to worry about. Life is too short to worry about another type. The rest of it is all nonsense.

Cancer and the survivors of it give you some perspective.

The Pink and Black Tie Gala was a lot of fun

We went to Pink and Black Tie Gala last night and it was a lot fun. We sat at Stacy's table and got to bid on a lot of great stuff in the silent auctions (more about that later).



They had several awards and presentations to various doctors who do great work in working for a cure and others who are treatment specialists. Most of Brooklyn was there. Well the movers and shakers of Brooklyn who want to make an appearance and show the flag.

I met the lady who is the director of the American Cancer Society's Brooklyn chapter and told her that if there was anything we could do that we would be there. Our small celebrity can be used by them in any way that would leverage help for the Society. I want to use some women who had cancer next season and will reach out to them to get some prospects. Cancer victims often have a treatment regime that leads to a big weight gain due to steroids or chemo or whatever. So they would be great candidates for the show to help other people who are in the same circumstances.

Anything we can do to give back we will do because we are truly blessed.

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Off to the Pink and Black Tie Ball.

We are off to the Pink and Black Tie Gala at Steiner studios which benefits the American Cancer Society. Stacy is the chairwoman and we are sitting at her table like we did last year. Hey I had to buy a new suit and one of those gay hankies for my pocket. So we have to have fun. (This is a photo from last year)

I submitted this to Romney as his campaign song.

Black Coffee

A Bad Case of The Blues

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Whose that girl?



She starred in a great Western that was set in modern time....well the 1970's.

It was one of the best movies ever made about head. But it wasn't "Deep Throat."

Or any other sort of porno.

Whose that cowgirl?

Deep Thoughts.....by Titus


Titus said...
I don't believe in any props or shoes or material in sex matter...at least to me.

But for some reason, pornos love to show all this shit.

I guess I am just too vanilla.

I don't think I mentioned this but when I first met my husband he wore a cock ring, not for me, but for him.

I never understood.

What does the cock ring do, I mean really?
I mean it is just on your hand. How does that rooster help you with the jerky jerky?

The first night we were together he put a porno on the blue ray. I was humiliated. I looked up and on the entire wall was porno. This was after we were fooling around for over 45 minutes. I was like thanks, got the message.

          Tits.

I just go where I'm kicked.




I have been reading some biographies of one of my favorite directors Sam Peckinpah. The best of them is "Sam Peckinpah: A Portrait in Montage."

It details Sam's life. He was a legitimately tough guy and he really liked to party. He had an artistic vision but he was forced to continually compromise in every sense of the word. He hated it and made movies like "The Killer Elite" where he told you what he thought about it.

But as tough as he was he compromised. For money. Like we do.

He had a saying. "I'm a good whore. I go where I'm kicked."

I have been taking comfort in that lately.

For ricpic (and Titus)

Peter Campbell must die!




I mean what will Lorelai do when she finds out. The last anybody saw of her she was either getting butt fucked by the Bad Santa or giving a puffy drugged up Chandler Bing a handjob in that failed series about a phony SNL in LA that lasted about a month.

Now her sweet young innocent daughter is having her perky teats fondled by a 1960's advertising weasel for the prurient pleasures of a bunch of dirty old men on the internet who are whacking their bags looking at her porcelain young ti......errr.....errr.....let me rethink this for a minute.

Problems of a shopkeeper!



So while I was in the showroom I decided to do some business while we were waisting time looking at free shoes.

We decided to take in some shoes for the store. You see we always have shoes inside the dressing room for the girls to try on while they are trying on a dress. Then they can see what the look like. They are cheap generic shoes from Target or Zappos or whatever but it seem like everyday these girls ask to buy the shoes even though they are like fuckin' bowling shoes since so many people have worn them and shit. So why not have some shoes that they can try on and actually buy. But that is a win-win situation.

Now buying shoes is a pain in the balls. We have done it before. You have to buy a case which in our sizing sucks because you get stuck with a 6,7 and 71/2 which will not fit my customers. The way this company breaks it down you can get a case of six or a case of twelve. They think they are going to discontinue the ones I wanted. I wanted to get a case of six with the sizes 9,91/2,10,11,12. That is my size range. But I also need size 8 and 8 1/2. So that means I have to buy an twelve pack that has an
7,7 1/2,8,8 1/2,9,9 1/2,10,11,12. That means I would be stuck with the 7 and 7 1/2 at fifty bucks a pop is a hundred dollar bill on the shelf gathering dust. In three colors that is $300 sitting there rotting. The sales lady goes "Oh somebody coming with a friend will buy them you don't to worry." Yes I do, I can't freeze $300 I can put into Spanx or handbags or fucking beer for that matter. What would you guys do?

My decision was to buy the 12 pack in black because black always sells the best in shoes. We are getting the red and the purple in the 6 pack of the bigger sizes. So I am only putting $100 on the shelf in the long run and the rest will sell pretty well. I can always order a smaller size in the red or purple. But I like to hedge my bets as much as I can.

Why do I have to know so much about women's fucking shoes!

(By the way girls, what do you think about the shoes....in black, red, or purple)

I hate fuckin' shoes!!!!!!!!!!!

We spent all day fucking getting shoes.





One of the perks of being a quasi-celebrity is that you get free shit. Lisa loves to wear Sacha London shoes so we called them up and told them we would be wearing them in photo shoots and we wanted a particular style and color. They told us to come up and get some free pairs to wear because they want their stuff out there.

So we call the car service guy and get him to drive us to the city and wait outside while we were up there. It was supposed to be a quick in and out. Right. Like that was going to happen.

Four hours later we walk out with about seven or eight pairs. She couldn't make up her mind. The were giving us four free pairs so I just went to girl "She can't make up her mind and when that happens I tell her to get them all. I can't spend any more of my precious time on this. I only have so much time left on earth and I don't want to spend three more hours of it choosing between a flat and a pump." Listen to me I sound worse than Titus.

The girl goes "No problem" and since she was charging me the wholesale price it was no big fucking deal. So we got them all.

These are some of the shoes but not the colors that we got.

Four fucking hours.

Pete Campbell must die!



Now he is sitting on his couch in his office rubbing one out while he dreams that Rory will be coming in with a trenchcoat and wearing nothing else but pearls and stockings and a garter.

It is not enough that he got his cocktail weiner in her Stars Hallow a couple of times but now he has to throw it in our face.

It was just like all the times that fuckin' old douche Bob Hope used to fondle Joey Heatherton's ass while they were on a USO tour or something.

It just ain't right!

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

So it was you!




It had to be somebody form Texas!

Oh and not that anything is wrong with that!



Oh and we will be on Anderson Cooper as well.

Just one big problem.

Lisa keeps calling him Cooper Anderson.

Today I found out that Ann Curry is in a lot of trouble!


We were working with the publicity people and we got a tentative schedule of the stuff we have to do.

We are filming a shot with WPIX News with tips for plus size shopping. It will be taped and shown later closer to air date. That's Friday morning and we are scrambling to prepare.

Then the big news. We will be appearing on the Today show with Stacy on Tuesday May 28th on the day of the show premiere.

Ann Curry should be shitting your pants.

Magic Carpet Ride

Monday, May 14, 2012

The Turning of the Earth





It was the last day.

They rode into the courthouse square and  got down from their mounts.  The General was in pain and gingerly walked up the steps . His staff slowly mounted the steps of the porch and halted at the door. General Lee went in alone and took a seat at a small oval table at the window.

They waited patiently on the porch for the Yankees to arrive. The end had come. There was no need to rush it.
Colonel Taylor stood rigid and erect as he waited. Eyes on all the rest.  A hawk standing vigil over  squabbling chicks. Vengeful and implacable faces twisted in agony and despair.  Captain Young stood swaying from side to side with his anger barely in check. Surgeon Guild was chewing fiercely on a chaw of tobacco. Sending a quick splatter of juice contemptuously out to the courtyard as if he could smother this evil day in a spray of foul smelling spittle. None of them worried Taylor. He had his eyes on Edwards.

Captain Edwards had been chief of Scouts for the past two years after the General had met him at Gettysburg. Served with General Hood in his Texas Calvary before Lee had met him.  Lee was always buoyed by his boundless  ferocity and rock solid determination. He could depend on him to not fail him like Stuart had. What would he do in defeat? At the surrender. At the end.

Could he stay his hand and bend his will to the discipline that Marse Robert demanded of his subordinates.  Had this final indignity loosened those bonds enough to release an inner demon on the Yankee high command that would soon be within grasp.

It was worrisome.



Undercover Of The Night

I have to watch my step!



This publicity process is going to be very hard for me. We had media training and they told us that we can't respond to every attack that people will make against us. You know how hard I find that to be. I love a good blog war. I take no prisoners. But I can't indulge myself because it could hurt the show and the product we are promoting.

For example there is site called Refinery 29 which did a post about the store. It was very positive and some of the comments were too. But there were a few that were not and I gave a few gentle love taps. Then this guy posted this comment:

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There is a difference between being 'plus size' and boarder line obese. One of the problems with WNTW is that they insist upon dressing very large women in things they should not be wearing, such as sleveless tops,skirts above the knee, and clingy fabrics. Just because it comes in a large size, does not mean one should be wearing it. At least in the photo above, the print is somewhat slimming, but more importantly, the large knees, large arms and nauseating cleavage are covered. The woman looks stylish without being a spectacle. Yes, designers should be more mindful of large women because we have become a country of lazy over-eaters, not to mention we do not like to be held accountable for anything, so that is why we hear excuse after excuse for overweight and obesity. That is why there is such a push to make fat the new thin. However, large women--and men for that matter--have to cover up fatty, large, flabby arms, stomachs, thighs, etc. Large, flat knees should be covered, too, as none of these attributes are flattering, and they will all draw negative attention, so the beautiful clothes will be overlooked. There is a certain size, however, where nothing will be flattering and nothing will fit right regardless of who designs it. That is not the fault of the designer or manufacturer. That is the fault of the person. It is a little tiring seeing large women on all of these shows being patronized and told that they can dress in the same things that small women wear as long as it makes them feel good. It is not always about feeling good. It is about facing the truth and wearing what is appropriate.

So I want to go in there and smack him around a little. But I can't. The publicity people would shit themselves and Stacy would get really mad. She says to let it roll our back and ignore it. Not to fight. Of course that's what everybody said about the show runner and that was fucked up. So I am going to do a modified limited hang out on it. I will not directly confront people but I will sock puppet it up and fuck up assholes like this douche. It is funny that he praises our clothes while attacking women who are plus. It is obvious he hates women. Or his life. Or his mother.

And if anyone wants to go give people like that a couple of shots to gin up controvesy and hits I would like that just fine.

We are going to do this undercover of the night.

Sunday, May 13, 2012

Mother's Day Memories.....



Jenna Bush said....

I love my Mom. She is the coolest. She taught me how to roll a spliff and chew tobacco. She gave my first birth control and took me to get my first tattoo. When she is hanging out with girls Robyn, Anita and Joey they are a fuckin' hoot!

I hope I will have as much fun in my life as she does.

Every time I am on stage she hikes up her shirt and shows me her tits. I just point and laugh!

I love my Mom!