An Umbrellas of Cherbourg sort of day for the O’s yesterday, I’m afraid. 
The Biltmore Estate, Asheville. Might make a nice weekend house.
Could you put your jacket right there, over the puddle?
All the ennui, none of the singing.
You remember the Umbrellas of Cherbourg don’t you? The 1964 pop-art cinematic opera? About a woman who married the rich jeweler for position and money rather than love? The. Worst. Movie. Evah! The critics, of course, loved it.
That’s all for today, still cleaning up after Hub’s big anniversary party. There’s meteor dust all over everything.
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Taking their social cues from the oh-so-majestic P. Diddy, these horrid arrivistes bring along their posse of umbrella wielders.
ReplyDeleteYep, that's "keeping it real."
Gold bedroom slippers when it's raining? I'm absolutely convinced that those diabolical Clintons are behind Lady Fist Bump's atrocious fashion mishaps.
And couldn't anyone be bothered to rustle up a sightseeing wighat for Mo-Mo/Mama Doc? That skull is retcherous to contemplate. It'll be interesting to see if the wigs have made it back from the cleaners for the miners' memorial service today.
H/T: Madame DeFarge and Graciela.
MOTUS,
ReplyDeleteI've been thinking about the public persona MOO puts forward, i.e. the bad manners; ugly, ill-fitting, inappropriate clothing; sloppy nasty looking hair and the list goes on and on. I believe it's her way of saying "F*** you America" because she, like her panty-waist spouse, has nothing but disdain for us. I truly believe it's all calculated.
MOTUS,
ReplyDeleteOh and I agree "the Umbrellas of Cherbourg" was just awful. I caught on TCM last year and my initial reaction after viewing was "Uh? This is supposed to be a classic?" So bo...rr..ing.
The only thing classic about that movie was Catherine Deneuve's wardrobe and, of course, the star herself. Now there's a woman worthy of the "bestest" mirror in the universe.
Are they all just taking the weekend off from hygiene and grooming? I don't think even Ditty would hire this posse. Umbrella boy looks dirty -didn't grunge expire in the 80's? Umbrella gal, well, I don't want to be unkind but there are more polished people at the homeless shelter (no offense to the homeless intended). The national embarrassment tour continues.
ReplyDeleteAw, it rained. boo. hoo. No golf, no nature hikes, no tennis.
ReplyDeleteMight as well stay inside, watch TV and eat.
Cinderella, I am inclined to agree. I would tweak the theory that she is saying "f>ck you" to all previous administrations, white culture, and any culture period, except that of ghetto black in your face wear your dirty bedroom slippers to the grocery store with your hand out for everything free attitude. She flaunts what she thinks is real, scorning decorum, tradition, practicality, and all that represents etiquette. Because those things are invented by whites, and it is a new day. In the minds of many people of color, the day of the white man is over. It never occurs to them that they have become a worse type of racist than their precieved enemy.
ReplyDeleteI went on a bit, sorry. She makes me feel sick in my mind. I was actually imagining standing behind her and yanking on that fried rat tail, instigating a good cat fight. She would win by sheer meaness and out weighing me by fifty pounds. But damn I'd treasure my pluck, and the black eye!!
Time to go for a ride to blow away the image of being sat on by the First Fat Ass.
ReplyDeleteWah! I go away for a while so my eyes can take a break and see what happens!
ReplyDeleteBedroom slippers in the rain,
Bedroom slippers in the rain,
Gold slippers shine above,
So dark on the inside,
I am ready for the love
Of the people under m'heel
MOTUS, may I politely disagree about it being ennui? It looks more like active sullenness to me.
ReplyDeleteCinder, it's the aggrieved put-upon mentality that governs this hostile pair to jam their thumbs into every American eye, mocking and disrespecting us. The color of their skin permits them to insult America since, intimidated by fear of being branded racist/intolerant/haters, those of us who have eyes to see clearly with remain silent. Shill and Barry also know that for validation of their outré behavior, they can tap into white liberal guilt and anti-Bush grudges.
Bettyann, "fried rat tail" is perfect! I too feel sick in my mind about this wretched beast, who most definitely seems bone-deep mean. Even the devil would avoid fighting with her!
See that, they're just like us!! So down to earth and common, "just folks". Everything they do has a sub-text. None of it nice. This is the precursor to mounting a tax on middle class America.
ReplyDeleteThe Obamas went to the Biltmore? Do they not teach history at Princeton, Harvard, or Columbia?
ReplyDeleteWho is asleep at the White House? The visited George Vanderbilt's 125,000 acre "sustainable" estate. George who never even had a real job, not even community organizer. Who inherited his money and only married more and ran through it just like the Obama's are running through the American taxpayer's dollars. George intended that estate to pay for itself. Which it never did as it was unsustainable from day 1, just like Obama and even more so, his wife. The Biltmore only ran through Vanderbilt's and his wife's money. This is why today the estate is only 8,000 acres big. Not at all unlike how our private sector economy will be after Obama leaves office.
Do you recall the photo of President Bill Clinton holding the dead ducks? Those photos of the clueless O's pretending to be like the ordinary white folk under the umbrellas with the silver slippers are its equivalent.
Mrs. P
SQNon,
ReplyDeleteThe unbrella posse of Asheville. I like it!
But please, we cannot continue to blame the Clinton’s and the Bush’s for everything.
Cinder:
All I’m allowed to say is, you are not alone in your assessment. I’m leaning towards “it’s time to go to the optometrist” (Lady M, not me – I’ve got the best optometrist at NASA. I hope he wasn’t fired by Big Guy).
And re. Catherine Deneuve: when she can’t save a movie, there’s nothing to be saved.
Moright,
Grunge expired in the 80’s? Hmm. I guess the B***h is back.
srdem,
Well, if you could have seen the bon bon’s, you’d have prayed for rain too.
bettyann
Whoa! May I have the organizing rights for this blood match? You know, in case things don’t work out for me in 2012? I’m pretty sure I could make enough for both of us to retire. And I have a bookie friend who could up the ante.
BTW, my money’s on you. You ‘da woe-man.
vereteno,
Welcome back!
We can certainly understand the need for a time out, but the snarkers of America missed you. And now you turn out to be a poet too! And maybe the next American Idol sensation?
SQNon,
I can’t disagree, I was trying to keep it in the spirit of the original French (who hate us too).
So I’ll put you down for 2 tickets to the MO-bettyann slapdown. This is going to turn out great!
Anon,
No, no, no. Didn’t you hear Big Guy tell everyone “middle-class tax cuts”? That was right after he promised the most transparent administration in the history of Washington. And in some ways, he’s kept that promise. As in “I can see November from my Rose Garden.”
Mrs. P,
First of all, they do teach history at Princeton, Columbia and Harvard. But it is postmodern history - although that augers in favor of your argument. Secondly, we don't really have any evidence that Big Guy actually attended any of the above universities.
Aside from that, they don't really seem to have a problem with the narrative you're trying to relate.
$5 says that, having worn black for hiking, barbecue, and sightseeing, MO will be wearing a flowery cocktail dress for the miners' memorial (IF she deigns to grace them with her presence, that is).
ReplyDeleteThe Obamas try to fake class but are outed each time.
ReplyDeleteLosers!
MOO didn't go to the memorial.
ReplyDeleteWhy should she go? It wasn't about her, after all.
bettyann always makes me feel better about our world. Someone who can use good words like "pluck" deserves our admiration.
ReplyDeleteAs for the MO/bettyann smackdown, I'll even bring my own homemade peanut brittle! (Problem is it'll probably so distract MO that the smackdown will fall apart...)
Let's hear it for bettyann!!!!
Anon2
The Obamas take their social cues from rap stars instead of learning proper etiquette and class.
ReplyDeleteLow-rent poseurs!
"The president and first lady Michelle Obama will end their weekend getaway in western North Carolina at midday. Obama then flies to West Virginia's coal country." I take it MO was a no show? I guess she had to get back and check on the rhubarb.
ReplyDelete"... we have been mourning with you throughout these difficult days" so much so we had to take a weekend vacation hiking, golfing and dining in one of the nation's most posh mountain resorts.
Anon - perfect. You bring the peanut brittle, wave it under her nose, and maybe I'll have a chance.
ReplyDeleteMOO's (Michelle Obnoxious O.)
ReplyDeletefashion disasters can be summed up easily:
too dumb to know better
too arrogant to care
An umbrella posse: how silly of King Barry and Michelle Antoinette!
ReplyDeleteAlways needing to create a circus, these 2.
The row of umbrellas should have been circus tents.