From Trailer Trash To Trailer Trash, Darlings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                  It happened in Jonesboro, Arkansas, which is a supremely White Trash state.  I mean, what do people do there?  Sit around eating Doritos, distending their  obese bellies in cluttered trailer parks, while guzzling down beer?????? From what I have heard about Arkansas, there is not much more to do there, so maybe it is all inevitable.

                                    Michelle Despain, winner of this week's Raving Queen Bitch Of The Week Award, was born into trailer trash, and had she stayed there, maybe things would not have turned out the way they did. But, no, Missy thought she had to move up and out, and look what it got her.

                                      Michelle thought she was marrying up, when she met Marc Despain, from a real estate family.  She drove a wedge between this guy and his family, had Marc start a business, and goaded him into the get up and go that maybe Marc was not interested in.  But was Michelle interested in doing any work!  Oh, no! She was interested in being kept and supported!!!!!!!  Bitch!  It was all about Michelle!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                       She was Michelle Kelly before she married Marc, and many thought Carl, her father-n-law, bearing a grudge against Marc, whose own father was alleged by Michelle to have molested his granddaughter.

                                         This bitch Michelle, she concocted the whole thing, with her dad being the killer.  Terrence Baker and Johnny Hubbard were also in on the conspiracy, but I am telling you, Michelle's dad, at the request of his daughter, murdered her husband, shooting him at home, in cold blood.

                                           It was for that old saw--she wanted out of the marriage, but no divorce, and no custody issue, and she wanted the life insurance money--so murder was the simplest solution.

                                            Uh,.....really???????????????????????

                                             The murder was done on August 24, 2011.  Michelle drew a 30 year prison sentence, and her father, 35.  I hope they serve every second of it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                               You thought you would move up in the world, Michelle, but you couldn't because you were trailer trash, and trailer trash you will always be!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                  I know all about my class distinctions, dolls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Girls, I Have GOT To Apologize!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                          Girls, I am sorry to say my postings have been down, as of late.  Sure, it is the Summer, the endless repetition of shootings, and the lack of Broadway gossip,what with us between seasons, but something else seems to have seeped into the picture.   My health.

                            You know by now that I am a member of the High Blood Pressure club. That is doing nicely. Recently, I was placed on Metformin for our family's genetic bugaboo--Type 2 diabetes.  Now, I am watching what I eat, and trying to maintain things, but when your thyroid is out of commission, and some of the meds--I take 14 in all!!!!!!!--do things to your weight and metabolism, that is an issue.

                              But even more.  It deprives me of the energy I used to have, and that got me to the computer, and write. When I do it, I am off and running. But setting to do it has gotten harder, especially when I have put myself on a Aggressive Summer Reading program. My own Advanced Placement, darlings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                Let me tell you, aging becomes a real balancing act between what one wants to, can,, and does not want to do, nor can.  Which is why my posts have been down, and for that I am SO sorry. But not to fear.  I think, as I adjust to things, they will come up.

                                  The South may not rise again, darlings, but I, surer as hell, will!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Girls, Time To Welcome A New Reader!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                            I see we have a new reader on board. Her name is Lisa Stall, so the first thing I want to say, is welcome.  Feel free to drop in anytime; reading this blog is perfect with coffee, iced or otherwise.  I also feel fortunate to have a new reader when I have not been writing as much as I have in the past.  Is it that gun shootings have become a Summer routine?  That the heat has gotten to me? Or all of the above?

                          Maybe it is my health issues, which I will deal with in my next post.

                          But for now, Lisa, welcome to the Raving Queen. Baby Gojira loves you, too!!!!!!!!!

Gojira Promotes Good Health To All His Children!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                          Let's face it, from Baby Boomers on, we are all children of Gojira, the lovable reptile who really loves everyone, and we love him. So, with Back To School looming on the horizon, Gojira thought it would be a good idea to emphasize the importance of staying healthy.

                           Here, he is saying to take care of your teeth and your eyes. And, when Gojira takes care of himself, it requires a lot more than the rest of us!  But he is always polite and courteous, and is never rude.  That is one reason why his stardom has lasted so long.  Unlike that Mothra!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                           So, let us all follow Gojira's example and get dental checkups and eye exams to keep us going as long as we can!!!!!!!!!!  And Gojira will be with us along the way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Girls, I Was Not Too Euphoric Over This One!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                This review may sound like me bitching, but believe me, I am not.  I am just being honest.

                                 So many people had recommended this title to me. It was one of the New York Times Five Best Works Of Fiction for 2014.  The blurbs I read compared it to "Heart Of Darkness,"
"The Luminaries," and "Gravity's Rainbow."  My God!, I thought.  I am going to be in for the reading experience of the year.

                                     Alas.

                                     Schuyler Fenwick is one of the most despicable characters I have come across. His malevolence is unreeled slowly, but I knew it was lurking; I just did not know how.  Likewise, Andrew Bankson is one of the most engaging characters.  I was so glad the novel is told from his viewpoint. One of the more moving parts is his chronicling of how the war  (WWI) impacted on his family.

                                        I simply could not stand Nell Stone, a fictionalized version of Margaret Mead, who was so goddamned ugly herself, it is a wonder how she found anyone. The thought of her having sex, let alone a man, unless he were equally ugly, being attracted to her, repulses me.  Lily King is trying to create a character torn by her inner independence and still a need to conform to the times; ie; marriage or motherhood. I could  care less. Nell/Margaret, be your own woman.  In the end, it proved to be your legacy, anyway.

                                          There, I am done with the bitching.

                                           The book's real problem is that she is trying to cover too much; if ever a book needed to be longer, this was it.  I was more interested in the cultural rituals and ceremonies of the tribes visited, which is when King is at her literary best, than I was in the characters from so-called Civilization.  Sometimes I felt like I was reading H.R. Haggard, then it morphed into Barbara Cartland.

                                             Well, maybe not Cartland.  More like Barbara Kingsolver, whom a neighbor of mine who had read this, compared King to. Except I feel if Kingsolver had written the book, it would have been better.  I wish she had.

                                                "Euphoria" did not lift me, as a reader. It left me with a bad taste in my mouth.

                                                   Thank God for Listerine, darlings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Who Is The Real Bitch In "Dreamgirls????????????????"

                              I have been watching and thinking about "Dreamgirls" lately.  All of us, at one time or another, feel we are being betrayed or back stabbed by some Diana Ross bitch among us, and the same goes for me.  I would act out just like Effie; believe me.  And, as Effie herself says, "Oh, I can go farther!  I can GO farther!"  You know I can, girls!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                              But, getting back to the story at hand, I have come to the conclusion, that as much of a scum as Curtis is, and while Deena's behavior toward Effie was not exemplary, as she had no idea she, too was being used, the REAL bitch of the whole thing is C.C. White.

                               He is the David Greenglass of "Dreamgirls."  He sells out to the great American Corporation, to leave Effie, pregnant and in the gutter, though he does not realize she is pregnant, at the time.  I never understood this character's connection to Smokey Robinson, but I have reached the conclusion that he is the most hateful character in the story.  And when they reconcile, I do not buy it.  Effie should have smacked him in the face!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Selling out his own sister; his own flesh and blood!  And for what!  Hey, if he would sell his sister out, what else would this wretch do??????????

                            I have no compassion for C.C.  I know the whole Effie reconciliation thing was to placate audiences with a musical theater fantasy, plus Jennifer Holiday, the original Broadway Effie, did not want to have her die, as the script had planned; that would have been too close to Florence Ballard, and after James Thunder Early's downfall, audiences would want to slit their wrists.

                              Yes. C.C. sent his sister money, but it was blood money; I wonder if she took it?  Because Effie had strength and pride!  Unlike C.C.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  He should have had some kind of downfall in the show!  Then I would have been happy, and audiences, after taking a closer look, would have wanted this, too.

                               Because, darlings, C.C. is "Dreamgirls'" Supreme Bitch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                               

Could The Corpse Flower Actually Be The Mariphasa???????????????????

                            When I started hearing about this plant thing, darling, the first thing to cross my mind was a film I had not seen in years--"Werewolf Of London."  The real villain of that film was not Henry Hull as Dr. Glendon, but Warner Oland as Dr. Yogami.  The two were searching for the Mariphasa, believed to cure lycanthropy--at least when used--and Yogami, as a werewolf, fought Glendon for it, biting him in the process, afflicting him with the same curse, with tragic results.

                            This is the first time a werewolf is seen in the film.  But it is not Henry Hull.  It is Warner Oland in the film's only shot of him as a werewolf.

                              The Corpse Flower--my God, you'd think people were waiting for some miracle, like Lo

urdes, when all it is going to do is emit a foul odor??????????  What good is that?????????  And who wants to smell it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                But, what scientific properties does it contain?  Could it be helpful.  I can see budding Dr. Glendons and Yogamis fighting over this one.

                                 If only I had taken Advanced Placement Biology!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!