Who Dresses This Woman?

Liza is now safe. Aretha wins!

Scotland Via Nigeria

Just got back from the strangest trip; Scotland via Nigeria via a New York IP address.

Not really but how very, very annoying to have your email hijacked! So, if you want to send me money send it via check to my home address in Chicago ;-)

LIZA! Liberty Weekend! Diva!

We kid her, however has anyone, including Mama (And we worship Mama), ever put over a song as fabulously as this:

Liza Does "The Man That Got Away"

No visuals but OMG, She nails it!

Not a Day Goes By

I used to think this was a bitter song --- It is actually bittersweet:

Liza Misses Halston

and appears blissfully unaware that Bob Mackie is still available.

And if Bob Mackie is responsible for this, somebody warn Cher!

Jarvis Cocker - Running the World

Via Balloon-Juice comes this ditty. So appropriate now that the banksters are getting away with bankrupting the world and British Petroleum continues to lie as they destroy the gulf coast:

Please, oh Please, dear nephew, please, learn this one:

Favorite line:
"That the cream cannot help
But alway rise up to the top.
Well I say:
Shit floats."

Irises 2010

I love irises. This was the show going on last week down the block from me. I say best in show.

Law & Order

1st they came and took away our Vincent D'Onofrio. Now they've come and taken away Law & Order - Prime. Where is the justice in the world?

Lena Horne, Stormy Weather & If You Believe

Sublime and and stunning:

Lena Horne, 1917 - 2010, Moon River

Her definitive "Moon River". Thank you, Lena, for a life well lived!

LongHorse, Los Cerrillos, NM

We all were a bit startled to see this in Los Cerrillos, New Mexico a couple of days ago:

Alas we drove a bit further and all was revealed: