It being Monday, I could update you on my weekend, which featured:
- a Friday night happy hour that somehow extended itself to 1am;
- a great play at the Steppenwolf, where I spilled a glass of wine on myself at intermission and then promptly ran into my boss as I pawed at my chestal region trying to mop it up;
- and a lazy Sunday made even lazier when I went out to the car to run errands and discovered the battery had died, so instead of going on errands I sat in my jammies in our apartment waiting for AAA to arrive.
But the weekend ended on a truly high note with the return of the Golden Globes. I have no shame. I love awards shows. I don’t love the SPEECHES, per se, but I love the fashions and the ridiculous red carpet specials and the delicious, ever-present possibility that someone famous will do something tremendously stupid/clumsy/awkward/totally inappropriate.
I also truly adore Go Fug Yourself, and was delighted to learn that the Fug girls would be liveblogging the Globes red carpet. So even though I had to do some work last night, it was made so much better by the fact that I could put the tv on in the background, crack a beer, and enjoyed comedy gold such as this, from the Fug girls talking about Kate Winslet and Leonardo DeCaprio’s interview with Ryan Seacrest:
It’s a big ol’ lovefest here. He adores her, she cherishes him, they both value working together, etc. Thank God they’re not actually dating, because what the hell could you call them? Kato? Lete? No. Doesn’t work.
And this gem:
It’s the Disney-friendly segment of the show: Ryan talks to the Jonas Brothers, and then gets the entire Cyrus family. Miley looks very cute and much more age-appropriate than she did at the Oscars, but then complains that she only got a HAND-ME-DOWN Porsche for her sixteenth birthday and we lose all feelings of goodwill for her. Stop complaining, you spoiled brat. Some people only get hand-me-down floor mats. America’s collective broke asses aren’t going to have much sympathy for your struggles with your mildly used luxury sports car.
In lieu of a clever transition, I’m going to completely jump topics now. As you may have heard, today is Delurking Day!
Complete with vaguely creepy flasher-man logo! So hey, if you’re out there and reading and perhaps have not said hello before, do so today!
Maybe you could tell me your favorite Golden Globes outfit trainwreck (my nominee: a tie between Renee Zellweger’s mountain of crazy:
and Drew Barrymore’s insane hairdo):
Or tell me why I’m a big loser for watching the Golden Globes at all. Or just, you know, say hi.
Dude, WORD on Drew Barrymore’s hair. I know Big Hair is sort of inching its way back, for whatever reason, but that shit is downright TEXAN.
Also: Hi!
Renee is way, WAY worse. Drew’s hair was a little over the top but I could see where she was going with it and her dress was gorgeous. Renee just looked witchy and weird. Ick.
Hi! I’m delurking…. and although I didn’t get to watch the Globes, Drew wins, hands down, as the biggest trainwreck. What the heck is with the hair? Because um, the 80′s called and they want their hair back. I like her dress though, but maybe a bad pick for her?
If we had TV and the ability to stay up past 8 we would have watched it too, so don’t worry.
I’ll have to do some extensive investigation when my People magazine comes for best/worst dressed and get back to you.
I vote for the sheer black material. But I’ll change my vote if even ONE PERSON in the Drew Barrymore camp (stylist, publicist, D.B. herself) says anything about going for “old Hollywood” or it being “a nod to Marilyn Monroe.”
I missed the GG’s. Damn! I’ll have to check out some gossip websites to get the best and worst dressed, though you’ve got some stellar choices yourself.
Today is delurking day? Ha – I trample that trend because (a) I actually DIDN’T know it was today and (b) I already made up my own the other month!
Are you kidding me?? Is it weird and strange to like award shows?? Oh no.
The golden globes are by far my favorite awards show of the year – all TV and movie stars plus the booze at their tables. OMG, I love it. I may have even called Golden Globes day “my favorite day of the year” on several occasions.
Yesterday I started with E! and flipped to TV Guide during commercials and then just stopped that because Lisa Rinna is a horror show. I’m voting for Renee as the worst because at least Drew wore a bra this time unlike that one dress she wore years ago that was so horrific, I’ve blocked it out.
My GG tradition is just to drink throughout it. So this year was champagne by default. (would have had margaritas but Texas has blue laws and I just moved here and didn’t know that. Oh well!)
Happy delurking day!
Happy Delurking Day! Thus, I delurk. (Hi, love the blog!)
The GFY girls are never lacking in hilarity, and really, they’re right 98.993% of the time. I might be the only one who seems to really like Drew Barrymore’s look, though. Maybe it’s because I’d very quickly gotten so sick of that slicked-down hair and weird burnt sienna tan and no-lipstick look the whimsy and big hair knocked me off my feet. The hair was huge, sure, but in a weirdly chic way and not, like, Delta Burke huge.
Hi ya! Happy DD.
I actually LIKED Drew’s hair. But I think it’s because I’m in the middle of the post-baby shed and I was all, WOW, she has HAIR! And I’m nearly bald!
Renee on the other hand? Oy Vey. There are no words.
Happy Monday
Renee obviously didn’t check herself out in the mirror before leaving her mansion. She’s much in need of a cami…or black corset…anything but what she’s rockin’ here!
I actually just read an article where it complimented Drew’s bat shit crazy sex hair.
If I showed up with that hair to the Golden Globes I would be kicked out on my ass.
OOPS. i forgot about delurking day. DOH.
i thought most people looked shockingly good last night. like, a higher percentage of people than normal looked pretty darn hot. but.. yeah. dude. the hair and the dress. BAD.
i am not really a lurker because i comment occasionally so i don’t need to delurk but delurking anyway
Renee’s outfit made me laugh out loud. As did her flub of her lines. And her roots. I mean, it had to pretty bad if even my husband said, “What in God’s holy kingdom is she wearing and why is her hair gray?”
I love award shoes as well – especially those that allow the recipients to imbibe in alcohol during the ceremony – although everyone was pretty tame last night. Unfortunately!
Happy Delurking Day!!
I don’t know anything about fashion, and I didn’t even know the Globes were on. How out of it am I? Anyway, just saying hello!
Renee’s dress is all kinds of ugly. One thing money doesn’t buy? Good taste. Or, apparently, a stylist with good taste.