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Ricky and Bubba score on a crystal zebra bra

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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.

 

 

 

Lily channels Willow on How I Met Your Mother

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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.

 

Gloria’s blue snakeskin pregnancy wear

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20121201-121931.jpgGloria has pregnancy brain in this week’s Modern Family clearly from this mesmerizing electric blue snakeskin dress. Claire is escorting her to the car because Gloria’s water broke in the office of the manager of the Costco after he caught Claire in a hoodie in the parking lot that she forgot to pay for which she put on when she got cold in the store because Gloria was transfixed by frozen foods in the frozen food section for 20 minutes. Spoiler alert: her water didn’t actually break.