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I am a Kent State University English Major,striving to be a writer, and I am a 40-something Gay man so this should be a really fun visit... grab your favorite cocktail and enjoy reading.
Every now and then you just get something out of no where and KIDS this is it!! The Public Relations Assistant Director reads this blogs!!! EECCKKKK!! and wanted me to write something on their behalf--OH MY GAWD--EECCCKKK! So here is the note he sent
Hi Charlie
I stumbled across your blog and thought your readers might be interested in the Boston Pops "Over the Rainbow" sing-along collage.
As part of the 2011 Spring Pops Season, America's Orchestra, the Boston Pops and conductor Keith Lockhart, are asking for video submissions of fans singing “Over the Rainbow” for inclusion in a video collage to be shown at Boston Pops performances throughout the season. As the 2011 Boston Pops season is a celebration of the American Songbook, the orchestra decided Harold Arlen’s “Over the Rainbow” was the perfect song to tie the season together after the Opening Night Judy Garland tribute on May 11.
We'd love for you to let the readers of My Journey with Judy know about this fun opportunity for anyone in the country to sing with the famed orchestra.
Participants of all ages can submit video of themselves singing “Over the Rainbow,” by adding a video to YouTube and emailing a link and contact info to overtherainbow@bso.org. Videos will be featured on the Boston Pops YouTube channel, on the Boston Pops website www.bostonpops.org, and at Boston Pops performances throughout the season. All video submissions are due by Saturday, April 26, 2011.
Thank you,
Sam Brewer
Public Relations Assistant
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Alright, I have to say this but my G-d can Oscar make an incredible coat or what, I mean really kids it seems like this is just sheer glorious beyond words, Rich, colorful, vibrant, luxurious, timeless and simply stunning. There are coats and suit jackets that honest to G-d kids I would wear, hello! Similar to the Gucci collection is the sheer use of color and for me it is so nice to see both of them breaking away with from the same old tired, boring, wore out Black, Brown, Blue, and Grey that is the normal fall/winter collections.
For a Fall/Winter Collection what I love here is the sheer use of color, a friend of mine Stacey Thomas as http://goodwillhuntingg.blogspot.com/ commented when we last had lunch "Charlie, I just need color in my life after all these weeks of winter". OK, maybe I am paraphrasing there but it was the general idea, well Stacey this collection has your name ALL OVER IT!! I also love all the use of fur, although I am sure it has PETA pissy but doesn't it look fabulous anyway! I also love those incredible fluid skirts,I mean HELLO,who would have thought such a thing in Fall/Winter but kids I do love them! Any how enjoy the pics, the enclosed video and until next time remember EMBRACE your inner fierceness!
Dior president recalls the Holocaust in moving speech prior to Christian Dior show, following dismissal of designer John Galliano amid anti-Semitic scandal. It was a show unprecedented in the history of fashion.
John Galliano's greatest catwalk costumes amid tight security and a heavy police presence, the Christian Dior autumn/winter 2011 collection was shown in Paris this afternoon, in the absence of the man who had conceived it; the disgraced British designer, John Galliano, dismissed and facing trial in France in the wake of an anti-Semitic scandal.
The president of Christian Dior Couture, Sidney Toledano, gave a moving speech before the show. He moved even further to distance the illustrious name of the House of Christian Dior from the repugnant events which have led Galliano to stand trial over a drunken anti-Semitic rant in a Paris bar.
"What has happened over the last week has been a terrible and wrenching ordeal for us all," he said. "It has been deeply painful to see the Dior name associated with the disgraceful statements attributed to its designer. However brilliant he may be. Such statements are intolerable because of our collective duty to never forget the Holocaust and its victims, and because of the respect for human dignity that is owed to each person (sic) and to all its peoples."
Toledano underlined how deeply-felt had been the horrific nature of the Galliano scandal by revealing that the sister of the founder of the house, Mr Christian Dior, had been sent to Buchenwald, one of the Nazi concentration camps.
He said the values laid down by Mr Dior, since he opened his 'maison' in 1947, continued to be carried on by the wonderful and diverse group of people in the Dior ateliers and studios who dedicated all their time and energy to achieving the ultimate in artisanship and femininity.
"There is pathos here," he said, echoing the sense of tragedy which has accompanied John Galliano's downfall. "It feels weird, in fact I'm weirded out."
Other celebrities, clad head-to-toe in Dior, included Anouchka Delon, the daughter of the French film actor, Alain Delon; Alysson Paradis, sister of Vanessa Paradis, the long-term partner of Johnny Depp; the Chinese actress and pop-singer, Fan Bing Bing; and the celebrated fashion photographer, Patrick Demarchelier.
Demarchelier, who has photographed both Galliano and Galliano for Dior creations for the last two decades said: "He is a gorgeous designer. To finish like this? Phew! "
One of many Dior clients, Natalie Berdugo, who arrived in a Dior red fox jacket and chiffon dress, said: "I am wearing Dior and I'm Jewish."
Another client, the wealthy Italian socialite, Carla Maria Orsi Carbone, who was wearing a Dior floral chiffon dress from the current spring/summer collection, said: "It is so sad to me. I love him."
The show opened with an eerie replay of John Galliano's own catwalk appearances, as the teenage American supermodel, Karlie Kloss - only a toddler when the ex-designer joined Dior in late 1996 - struck a flamboyant "Three Musketeers" pose in a black floor-length-cloak, black hat, boots, and velvet knickerbockers.
The collection, featuring 62 models, revisited many of Galliano's favourite themes, being awash with brocade bloomers under tweed jackets, velvets jackets over little, knee-length, frilly skirts, fox and mink jackets with chiffon slips; and "Little Bo Beep"-style smocks and ribbon-tied bloomers.
The collection ended with a parade of barely-there, lingerie-look peignoir-dresses and evening-gowns in ruffled and pleated see-through chiffon, with the models perched on skyscraper-heeled shoes, furnished with ribbons and bows.
As the "theatre" dimmed, and an expectant audience wondered what would happen next, the lights suddenly swelled to reveal the entire, 30-strong members of the Dior studios and ateliers, all dressed in white coats.
I just found this on an incredible blog about Living With AIDS as well as dying. This video beautifully says what I have been quietly feeling for the last three or four months. The blog is called.... My Faulous Disease. Mark, if your reading this words can not begin to describe to you what you have done for this gay man who in the last 3 years has felt so alone, so isolated, so hurt and a man of the past mor than a man of the future. My heart aching how you can find the bravery, the humor and the strength to say what you said here.
