Halloween

While shopping at Fabric Hell I heard an announcement over the intercom that their clearance fabrics were 50% off, an unannounced one-day sale. I meandered over and instantly fell in love with a blue fabric which announced itself to me as my Halloween costume. It was SO Project Runway (in a cheap-ass, tasteless kind of way).

So I started out making an Uli dress, but it morphed into a PR homage. I did the Santino braiding around the neck. I melted the hem, a la Michael with the Pam Grier hotpants. I mixed prints, my nod to Uli. And I fake tanned for the Duchess. I also did the smokey eye with a nude lip. During the day I tried making a bow out of my hair, but it was too subtle (and doing it correctly would have been too much work), so I just wore it loose for the evening.

If only I had a digital camera; Michael's cell phone just doesn't do it justice, and my film won't be developed for a while. *sigh*

I miss Dorothy Parker

"For all these years, Lorelai in “Gilmore Girls” has been painful and surprising and exciting to watch — a marvelous high-wire act. How cruel that the new writer of the show wants to rub her face in conventionality, strip her of the speed that was her reason for being and transform her into another banal television lead."

Great review in the NY Times by Virginia Heffernan.