The ultimate aging cougar from 3rd Rock From the Sun, Mrs. Dubcek. Here she is sporting a fantastic leopard coat in “Dick and Harry Fall Down a Hole” (Season 5, Episode 18; original air date 2 May 2000)
Sightings
Day 198 at a party with Auguste, 100%
Day 198 at a party with Auguste who is lending me this sweater for the project. Thanks Auguste! 100%
Monica’s awesome tattoo lips
One of the best bartenders in town (she makes a fierce Cosmopolitan) Monica got me these amazing temporary lip tattoos.
Check out these videos for application; the 1st is a commercial and the 2nd is a review. There looks like there is only 1 in my package, so I’d best be ready!
I’ll post video of the application when I do it- stay tuned.
Maw Maw and her bucket list
Maw Maw and some of her bucket list goals on Raising Hope.
Tasteful attire prohibited on The Simpsons
“Tasteful attire prohibited” on The Simpsons episode where Homer is a boxer (Season 8, Episode 3
“The Homer They Fall”), or more specifically, Homer can take a beating without falling down.
Ricky and Bubba score on a crystal zebra bra
Ricky and Bubba found this amazing crystal encrusted zebra bra in a locker on Storage Wars Texas. There is a lot of talking about the kind of ladies who wear something like this. Bubba suggests they take it to Ricky’s Mom, who is a jewelry and all things sparkly specialist. Ricky is uncomfortable. He says he will wait in the truck and that Bubba should talk to his Mom by himself about the bra.
Cut to Bubba in the shop with Ricky’s Mom.
They discuss the bra. More talk about who wears this type of thing and the ‘support’ that it lends. The word “ta-tas” is thrown around. A lot.
Enter Ricky while his Mom is holding up the bra, “Well hello darlin’. Come see your Mother.”
She evaluates it as authentic crystal at a value of $2000.
Dark Horse Cougar AND Performance Art Reference
I watched Todd Solondz’s Dark Horse (2011) last night, and there were both cougar and performance art references- perfect for my interests and research:
Cougar in Dark Horse
Performance Art in Dark Horse
I uploaded these clips to YouTube because I was having trouble with the VideoJS Pro WordPress plugin; no sound with H.264 encoded movs, and no image with mp4s when hosted and posted from my server. I’ve had success with this plugin for other videos on this site using H.264, however, neither of those have sound.
Monday cougar sighting
Monday cougar sighting from Sidney, BC
Full disclosure: this is a picture of my Mom sent from my sister.
Lily channels Willow on How I Met Your Mother
SPOILER ALERTS (for Kirk, see comments)
Here is arms crossed Lily on How I Met Your Mother. She is mad because while trying to ‘help’ Robin with her plan to sleep with Barney again, Lily suggests that Robin make out with a woman to make him jealous, meaning herself, and Robin shows up with a blonde from work instead. Is Lily’s wearing of a leopard print sweater simply a wardrobe choice, or an (unconscious) sign of aggressive sexuality?
Also, it is mildly annoying that the show keeps making Lily enact and project lesbian fantasies while safe and cozy in her heteronormative middle class characterization where we are constantly reminded of her marriage, husband and new baby (and this being the envy of the other main characters). Although these ‘outbursts’ of lesbian fantasy have a subtext of referencing her über lesbian character Willow from Buffy the Vampire Slayer in a past tv life, here in How I Met Your Mother, her long term heteronormativity is confirmed with flash forwards, situating any queering of her sexuality as temporary experiments and projected as normal expectations and desires of (real life) women who she mirrors.
Ted’s envy in this particular episode about “one day having what you guys have” (Marshall and Lily’s heteronormative full package of marriage and a baby) even though HE JUST BUILT A SKYSCRAPER IN NEW YORK CITY also stuck in my craw.
Please Note: I read Lee Edelman’s “No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive” a few weeks ago for one of my classes.