Baby Gaga

Last night Cher handed a Best Video award to Lady Gaga and she said something like, "I can't believe I just handed Cher my meat purse."


Girl.  I get your thang and think you rock.  But that woman who graciously held your meat purse is quite possibly THE six degrees of reasons you are respected for wearing a meat dress to go with your euphemism.  


By no means does anyone expect you to go down a list and thank all of the meat-purses who paved your way.  Every artist has a predecessor that fought the good fight.  Especially the chicks. And it isn't necessary.  Good people steal from the best people and the people that were around during the days of the best people smell it all over the good people and it's fulfilling for the layman to peg the recycles.  


But when standing face-to-face with a tried and true original meat-purse?...give her some props.  It's the classy.  Taking the focus off yourself for a moment buys you more time from the flame-out factor anyway. It's good for you. Like bran. The woman is in her sixties and is still walking around in her towering, naked confidence.  Literally.  And doing it really, really well.  She would take the title in any meat-purse battle. Janis would if she could.


And stop wearing s*&t you can't walk in.  It's sloppy and blows the illusion. Transitions are just as important as the still image you continually create. Pros move gracefully between creating their tableaus.  Hire people to carry you around.  Cleopatra, the original meat-purse, did.  Duh.

A Little Help from My Friends

Thanks for meeting me for lunch.  I really needed someone to talk to.

OMG Moment

There are people out there who become partners simply to keep each other from becoming their mothers.

4 Minutes To Save the World

The PMS [Pre-Meditated Scandal] dissipates if I pretend I'm in heaven. 

What if THIS IS heaven? 

This is it. 

Stop wasting time waiting for it.

I need to exfoliate.  Helps the glow.

You might be a Whiteneck if...

...your desk has more of your shoes stored under it than on the back of the door of your closet...in the kitchen.

...you wonder why you can't find Sex and the City on the TMC menu.

...you consider your lunchtime blog something you created 'with your own two hands'.

Two Ears, One Mouth

If you listen to someone tell his or her stories - old stories, stories they are in the middle of, stories of hopes and desires - you become a student. If you are a student and you pay attention in class, you can learn something. If you make it to the final exam, hopefully you will retain what you were taught and be able to give the right answers.

I'm going to try to know what it's like to walk in more people's shoes.  All kinds of people.  I hope my grandpa wears pumps. 

What If Mikey Doesn't Like It?

Making promises in the middle of a campaign is one thing, making promises in the middle of a catastrophe is another.  You can't pass-the-buck on people's lives when you pledged to be responsible for them.  That's what children do.