I'll be reading Growing Up with Tamales for story time at Blue Willow Bookshop, in Houston, on Thursday morning, May 15. Tell everyone you know with kids in the Houston area. How do you find and support local indie book stores like Blue Willow? By going to Booksense.
On Saturday, May 17, I'll be in Dallas, reading and signing at the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, for the 13th Dallas Children’s Book Fair & Literary Festival.
On June 22, here in Houston, I'm going to do a poetry workshop. It's free and open to the public, y'all, and they're having one every Sunday in June, taught by local poets I love and respect. So come on down.
Monday, July 17, 2006
Miss Universe 2006I haven't watched a pageant in years and years, but the new Miss Universe site makes it look all exciting. Kind of like America's Next Top Model, except with women who are actually very pretty.
I wrote down my faves, then realized that they all look the same, except Miss Argentina because she's blonde and Miss Lebanon who looks more like a cross between Anne Hathaway and a little doll.
Miss Argentina!
Miss Columbia!
Miss Croatia!
Miss Lebanon!
Miss Sri Lanka! (Why is she Latina? I guess maybe she's ethnically Filipina? Or... whatever.)
In Other Shallow, Women-Objectifying News...
What the hell happened to the Fantanas? Why did they get rid of the original Fantanas?!?
Who in the hell are these people calling themselves the Fantanas now? Hell, no. NO!
Okay... I took a breath. Apparently, there have been 3 incarnations of the Fantanas and the ones I liked weren't even the first. Oh, and my fave one, Lola, was also the chick from Overhaulin'. Dude.
Labels: lookism, pop culture
5:43 PM #Comments:
Oh, forget what I said about the pageant people. They look exciting in those airbrushed pictures, but when you click on their alternate pictures, they're just normal pageant people with big hair and big evening gowns.# posted by
Gwen : 9:22 AM
Hi Gwen,
Was that the same bikini?
And what where they looing at?
It's a bird, no it's a plan, no I can't see with out my contacts in!
Janice~
# posted by
Janice : 2:45 AM
It's all the same bikini, except for the Muslim chicks, who had to wear one-pieces.
# posted by
Gwen : 1:33 PM
Croatia's costume: Did her baggage containing it get lost or something? She was in an ordinary dress, lamely twirling an umbrella? What was up with THAT?
# posted by
Janet Buttimer : 6:56 PM
Ha! Oh my GOD.
Okay, they totally didn't have their national costumes on the site last time I looked. Now I have to look at every single girl again. But, right, they look *totally* different in every pic, just about?
# posted by
Gwen : 9:05 PM
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