These glass sculptures are from Chic Evolution in Art displayed at Neiman Marcus.
Gucci Backpack at Neiman Marcus. It's only $950 and very exclusive. Of course, I would like a larger size.
This is the chair that has been calling my name since I was born. Luxurious, smashing, exquisite, it's so ME! I would tell you the price, but if you have to ask, you can't afford it. Get off my blog.
A fan actually had the courage to go up to Madonna and give her a flower. What does she do? She rolls her eyes and mutters, "I absolutely loathe hydrangeas. He obviously doesn't know that."
Wow.
That poor fan probably went home thinking he was on top of the world, and probably has seen this video tonight, and now he's probably locked himself in his bathroom, and cutting his wrists with the 5 copies of the Immaculate Collection CD after he realized Madonna's love for him was OVAH.
Me? I am a fan of Madonna's music, but I am not a fan of Madonna as a person. I think this proves why. Ever year, her true colors come out more and more. By 2020, her colors will have come out of the closet wearing earrings, a caftan, and pearl-clutching Liza Minelli's latest album, Liza Minelli's Corpse Sings The Music of Judy Garland.
Of course, the one thing that pounds into my mind like Momma's mussy being pounded on a Saturday night after she visits Fox's Cinema on Victory Drive, is that of course I would absolutely be devastated if Barbra Joan Streisand did something comparable to this after I gave her a gift. I'd be just devastated. Devastated wouldn't even begin to describe how just devastated I would be.
This is Momma.
Picture it. Atlanta. 2013. I can see myself at a Bojangles drive-thru checking out the latest news on my glass iPhone 7, when all of a sudden a video of Barbra Streisand surfaces talking about "that fat kid had the nerve to ask me to take a photograph with me while he was wearing an orange t-shirt, mind you." I would instantly floor my Mercedes V12 into the car in front of me.
I would start driving like a Jehovah's Witness out of Heaven after they got kicked out for being just straight up annoying. I would drive worse than Billy Joel after he got a glimpse of himself in the rear-view mirror. This would gain national media coverage as I drove myself cross country in high speed pursuit to Malibu, where I would beg for forgiveness from The Holy Messiah of Buttah. Tragically, my margarine fountain would have sploshed all over the back seat by then. (Do they make margarine fountains? If they make fondue fountains, I don't understand why I couldn't have a margarine fountain.) Moreover, I would be doing this all why wearing Morticia Addams's black dress and veil. Tammy Faye Bakker would be appalled, along with Sheridan, of the mascara that would be running from my tear stained eyes.
"How do you feel about gays and lesbians in the military?"
"Personally, I think that homosexuals have as much right to kill and be killed as anyone else. Of course, I really wouldn't want to leave the beauty salons short handed." - Suzanne Sugarbaker
Barbra Streisand's 64th album, What Matters Most, is already #1 on Amazon. After her last album, Love Is The Answer, was a #1 album on the Billboard Top 100, it would be nice to see What Matters Most as a #1 album as well.
Is this Amazon sales rank a precursor to that? One would hope. If What Matters Most becomes a #1, then Streisand will be the only artist to have a #1 album in 6 consecutive decades. After all, she is the only artist to have a #1 album in 5 consecutive decades.
Don't get me wrong, I hate that buildings collapse, ships sink, stages fall on audience members, but I would be lying if I said these things didn't fascinate me. I've always been very interesting in the engineering aspect of structural failures.
Anyway, a lot of people were discussing the stage collapse of the Indiana State Fair that happened just a few hours ago. I somehow found myself to the WikiPedia page of historical structural collapses and found one of the most interesting articles I've found in months, which was about the collapse of the Hyatt Regency walkway collapses in 1981.
I considered myself to be pretty read-up on major historical events. I'm pretty sure everyone of my generation knows about the collapse of The World Trade Center towers, and the Oklahoma City bombings in 1995 that took down part of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. But I had never heard of this disaster that stuck the Hyatt Regency.
Picture It. Kansas City 1981. A beautiful Friday night tea dance was taking place in the lobby of the hotel right below the atrium. There were 3 bridge-ways overlooking the dance floor, and 4th floor bridge was directly over the bridge of the 2nd floor. Luckily, the 3rd floor bridge was a few feet away. Spectators of the dancers were lined up viewing the dances, and all of a sudden the 4th floor bridge-way collapses onto the 2nd floor bridge-way, which causes the 2nd floor bridge-way to collapse as well.
114 people died. 216 were injured.
Before
After
After
After
Apparently, the failure of the bridge-ways were due to fastening the 2nd floor bridge-way to the 4th floor bridge-way, which doubled the weight. You can read all about it on Wikipedia here: Hyatt Regency Disaster
Interesting enough, the hotel is still open today, but there isn't remembrance of that tragic disaster back in 1981. There is no plaque, no before and after pictures in the lobby (of course there wouldn't be, would there?), nothing informing hotel guests of events of yesteryear.
While I was researching, I also found out about the 2001 incident of The Versailles Wedding Hall Dance Floor Collapse. There really are no words for this one, so I'll just post a video.
I'm posting these 2 events because if I haven't heard of them, I'm quite sure there are others that haven't, and might find them interesting. 1981 and 2001 were not that long ago, and something like this could easily happen again if contractors/engineers/owners cut corners in buildings.
[image source]: Wikipedia, commandsafety.org, and groups.yahoo.com/group/sofiariff.
Yes, this remodel has been an ongoing process for 6 years. I tore out the shower and redid the wallpaper summer of 2005, and I kinda got lazy and didn't finish.
The plan was that we were going to rip out the bathroom counter as well, but that never exactly happened.
So what we now have is a luxurious modern-esque shower with a dated bathroom cabinet and knobs.
So I ordered new knobs today and can't wait to install them!
They are going to look like this!
Here is another view of the shower doors and shower behind the glass.
Now, I would like to update the sink faucet. I've always thought it was way too low. Speaking of low, I'd like to raise the entire counter since I'm 6'7", but that would really cost too much money. But I would at least like a faucet that a glass could fit under.
A little at a time, Andrew. A little at a time. Of course, if I keep renovating, I'll never move out. I'll just have to put my parents in a home and keep the house all to myself. Mwuuaaahahhahaha.
