Like All Good Things

A good mix of scrambles to start the day. The trailer for Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince has been chucked into the UK web-sphere but landed on American ground as well (of course). After numerous failed attempts to read Harry Potter to the Boyfriend (he still asks me to read to him, I am slightly too tired), I think we’ll just have to stick to watching the films. So here goes:

Sitting Shiva For Caesar

I didn’t want much consolation for this because I just…don’t do the attention thing. But now that it’s been a week, I am unbound and able to talk about the best thing that’s happened to my mother & I in the past few years. I don't feel ok. I am not ok, and probably won't be for a little while.

I have never felt death before. My grandfather died when I was first born and nothing besides a few goldfish since — so you can see how this would be a pretty big deal. He made everyone happy and put a smile on everyone’s face every day he lived. We will miss you so much lil’ Caes...

Central Park MS Benefit, Featuring Immature Twentysomethings

Oh hush, not really. We just may have enjoyed the swings and rides a teensy bit too much. We trekked from our new apartment through the Central Park to meet up with our friends Kevin and Laura Holland for the Multiple Sclerosis Benefit Carnival.

Boyfriend and I
(wearing a Armani Exchange dress, Botkier purse)

We were invited by said couple who were actually working the event…we were mainly being entertained and drinking pints of Sam Adams. Our red noses are courtesy of a winery at the event...I definitely think I would have frequented more carnivals growing up if I could have dunked my nose in a nice glass of white!

There were so many fun games to play! Whack A Mole is pictured here, but I, showing my carnival background here, definitely made some people cry when I won the “horse race”.

Sometimes you can have so much fun that you forget where you are. In the midst of all this carnival-going, I looked up, and there was Manny! (and Kevin)!

NMS put on an amazing benefit (and I had one of the best nights since moving to Manhattan) but it can’t be done without your support! Click and learn more - or get involved!

Boyfriend and Matt (behind him) on the swings!

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Holland Wedding: Love In A Blue Box

I went to my first (judeo-christian) wedding! A true sign of age, I dare say. The happy couple are my (but mostly Alex’s) friends Kevin and Laura, fabulous urban professionals in Westchester Co., but they married in Syracuse, NY, where they met and went to school (like me!). They are on their honeymoon in the Caribbean now so I thought I’d keep the happy feelings going on this here blog. Boyfriend was the Best Man (but not best enough to snag L, har har) and shipped off to CNY the wednesday before the wedding to enjoy the planning…i.e. the bachelor party (i know the details and give myself credit for the ideas). On Friday I arrived for the rehearsal dinner at Pascale Wine Bar:

Bride to Be Laura and I
(wearing a Nine West dress, Botkier purse)

Later that night, at Chuck's Bar
(wearing Victoria Secret shorts, Urban Outfitters top, vest from Romania)

Sorority sister Stacey & I outside Hendricks Chapel
(wearing a Badgley Mischka dress)

BEST MAN (and boyfriend) + Myself
(wearing a Catharine Malandrino butterfly dress)

Boyfriend wants the Tiffany cake!

Newlyweds...and one pesky garter!

Reverse garter!

Best man playing bartender...

Congrats, beautiful couple!!

Fetishists at Mattel Love Butt-Kickin’ Black Canary Barbie

Super exciting news I learned about just today, but has been out for nearly a week (oops). Seems like Barbie is getting another makeover - a supernaturally awesome makeover. In October, they are releasing “Black Canary Barbie” after the famous DC Comics superhero. They’ve done this before (enter Catwoman Barbie) so it’s not terribly new news, but again and again the religious right wants to come in and stomp out all the fun we liberals and our perverted minds want to have.

Everyone in the blogosphere is trying to say how trashy this new Barbie is and it’s really annoying how much people just read a couple of sentences about it and make a judgement. I grew up reading Spiderman, Wonder Woman, Daredevil and Black Canary (among others. I love comics!) and used my Barbie and Ken dolls to recreate the fight scenes from the comics. Of course, back in the 90’s there were no superhero costumes (just neon jumpsuit costumes!) and so I’d have to improvise. Or I’d get lazy, get the Barbies naked and use my imagination to fill in the rest. Justice League, anyone?

The part of the whole drama that perturbs me is that everyone takes a gander at Black Canary Barbie and judge her by today’s standards. Do they know that she was created in 1947 by male animators!? She’s a post-war symbol for female empowerment (I like to believe). Her fishnets are characteristic of her costume. Yes, costume. On Jezebel, they think she’s 80’s. On Perez, they think she is a street walker (except for one awesome commentator - heath - who delightfully retorts “Pants get in the way of fighting crime!)

So people, please. It’s a superhero. You don’t have to buy it if you don’t want to (I would if I had a daughter). But stop giving these stupid Christian conservatives ammunition - these are the people who thought Tinky Winky was gay, remember? And he still hasn’t come out!

Serious Ass-Kicking, courtesy of Tugg Speedman

Dreamworks has set up three websites to promote Ben Stiller and his movie “Tropic Thunder”, coming out this August. They are part of a viral marketing campaign to introduce “Tugg Speedman”, Ben Stiller’s character in “Tropic Thunder” to an unsuspecting audience, not unlike the famously fun “Why So Serious?” website to promote the new Batman installment “The Dark Knight”.

Tugg Speedman has his own website and websites for his movies “Simple Jack” and “Scorcher 6″ which chronicle Tugg Speedman’s life as an action star - the ins and outs of the fickle martial arts film industry, his failed turn as a serious actor in the aptly titled “Simple Jack” and his future plans of starring in “Scorcher 6″, part six of a six part movie. “Scorcher 6″ reveals what “Zoolander” and “Meet the Parents” already explained to us about Ben Stiller: he is amazingly clever at playing dumb people. So here are two conversations I believe could happen if these websites were for real:

Two dudes walk out of Tugg Speedman’s new film “Simple Jack”

Dude: Dude. That was just wrong, yo. I don’t care who you is, that Rebecca chick was mad hot and so should have jumped on Jack. Who does she think she is? Yo, she is retarded for not mackin’ on Tugg. And did you see him with that horse? That was magical, dude. Whoa! Is that Tugg Speedman?

Tugg Speedman: Yes. It is Tugg Speedman and I’ve come here personally to tell you this movie does not suck. Sure, it’s about a retard and a sexually under satisfied woman, but it’s got puppies.

Two dudes win a contest to meet Tugg Speedman and talk about his new film

Dude 2: Where’s Tugg? Yo, he said he’d be here. Oh, there he is. Hey dude!

TS: What’s up dudes.

Dude 1: Hey man! How’s the world treatin’ you?

TS: It’s good, it’s good man. Tropic Thunder is comin’ out in August and that’s really big for me.

Dude 2: Ya, especially after that “Simple Jack” drama.

TS: Yes, well sometimes you want to step away from the ass-kickin’ once in a while. I stepped, and well, sometimes you just don’t make it. I tripped, big time, dudes. I had to though; those kung-fu nuts back in China were killing me.

Dude 1: So what can you promise us from “Tropic Thunder”..your new flick?

TS: I can promise you…a lot of blowin’ shit up. Crazy atomic, I mean, nuclear, no, wait, submachine gun weapons. And ass-kickin.

Dudes: Ya! Ass-kickin’!