I'LLL DRINK TO THAT

 
In the meantime till I get back and in the groove of things, lets enjoy, in my opinion, the best and most talented Drag Race winner.... Jinkx Monsoon. I may be partial as her drag numbers remind me of things I liked to do and her style..........

 

And yes....that is INDEED Ms.Monsoon SINGING..WOW!

A LABOR DAY JAUNT.........

It was another busy week for me, a TWO day work week...oh pity me won't you? After my weekend with friends, I spent the first half of the week with Daddy Warbucks, who is ever famous for such short notice when coming to town. He had rented a cottage at Phillips Mill, just outside New Hope. It was very restful and tranquil, and we spent most nights dinning in New Hope. But I would swear we were in England...or were we???? What do you think?

Situated on one of Bucks County's most fabled properties in the historic hamlet of Phillips' Mill, sits this private Medieval English village. Renowned architect, painter, wood worker, and iron worker, Morgan Colt built this extraordinary village at the turn of the 20th century to be his residence. As you walk through the village, you'll feel as though you've stepped back in time and you're now in England 900 years ago. Most of the cottages have a Living Room, Bedroom with skylight, with all fresh bed linens, full Kitchen with Spanish tile,and full bathroom. 

 

If you don't feel like cooking dinner, just walk out your door, down the cast-stone walkway, through the beautiful garden courtyards and through the large Medieval iron gates, where you will come upon The Inn at Phillip's Mill pictured at top of the post, also built by Morgan Colt and arguably the most romantic restaurant I've ever been in..... in all of Bucks County'!

 This was the little cottage we were in, complete with back courtyard with a little grill.

How amazing is this place??????

Step down into the sunken Italian garden and enjoy a glass of wine while you watch the sun set. Four large ornate stone pedestals were imported from a palace in Italy by Morgan Colt in the early 1900's and barged up the canal to Colt's residence where they have been standing at each corner of the sunken garden for the last 100 years. 

The lovely canal that is situated in from the Delaware River. One can't take a walk in New Hope without seeing some fun water fowl......

I have counted myself very lucky to have had such wonderful trips, memories and time with family and friends this summer. yesssss... Labor Day Weekend here I come!

But not after just one more jaunt!!!! Tomorrow, I'll be heading back to the Pocono's to the Woods Campground with some friends for a five day mountain weekend!!! What can I say, I am a slut for summer baby!!! We are having a long weekend here in the States,

and I intend to enjoy every second of it! So I 'll see y'all in another week!

 

 happy weekend

wishing of you & everyone a safe

Happy Labor Day weekend !

XOXO

GRANDE DAME... A LOW LIFE IN HIGH HEELS

 

 

Born Haroldo Danhakl in Puerto Rico in 1946 and raised in Miami Beach, she was bullied relentlessly as a teenager. By 1962, she decided she'd had enough, and hitchhiked to New York City. Holly came from Miami, the late rocker sings in the 1972 classic. "Hitchhiked her way across the U.S.A. Plucked her eyebrows on the way. Shaved her legs and then he was a she. She says, 'Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side." You may know whom I'm speaking. She is a transgender icon five decades ahead of her time. Now Holly Woodlawn, among the most gifted and irrepressible of Andy Warhol's stable of "superstars," is fighting for her life at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Doctors there have found lesions on her liver and brain, but have not yet determined the cause. Sadly, Woodlawn is too weak to undergo the biopsy that could offer a diagnosis.

Woodlawn chose Holly as a first name because she adored Holly Golightly, the mischievous society girl played by Audrey Hepburn in 1961's Breakfast at Tiffany's. Her surname came years later, at the request of Warhol, who was determined to put her in his next film.  They were watching an episode of I Love Lucy, and behind her was a sign on the No. 4 train, 'Woodlawn,' and Andy Warhol said:  That's it. Holly Woodlawn was it!

 

Warhol cast the passionate brunette as the tortured love interest to Joe Dallesandro's heroin-addict character in 1970's Trash, directed by Paul Morrissey. Her improvised performance so impressed George Cukor, the directing giant behind films such as The Philadelphia Story and My Fair Lady, that he mounted a write-in campaign to land her an Academy Award nomination. It never materialized.

 

Woodlawn and Penny Arcade first met on the streets of Manhattan in 1968. They later became members of the Play-House of the Ridiculous — the "original queer, glitter-glam, political, rock-and-roll theater of the '60s." Warhol regularly enlisted the pair for things like "Rent a Superstar," in which they were paid to mingle with guests and add a pop of downtown fabulousness to society parties. They later appeared in 1971's Women in Revolt, another Warhol-Morrissey film collaboration.

My favorite quotes from her autobiography? “The boys at the baths loved me. Of course, they were all drunk and high and would've loved a French poodle barking out "Jingle Bells"!”  

 

Woodlawn always identified as transgender — something that should be celebrated..... as "people like Holly", who are the true pioneers, have been out and visible for almost 50 years, before all the hub bub currently. Though Woodlawn's career sputtered in the 1970s —  it saw a resurgence with the rise of queer and indie cinema in the 1990s, during which she popped up in films such as Twin Falls Idaho and Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss. Woodlawn headlined her own cabaret act as recently as 2013.

 

A crowdfunding effort, mounted by longtime friend and collaborator Penny Arcade, has raised more than $37,000 in just four days – funds meant to grant Woodlawn's wish to spend her final days in her West Hollywood home. Donations would cover nursing care, and, should it come to that, funeral and burial expenses.  Holly comes from a long line of people that don't have too many left standing.....  Holly Woodlawn is fierce, and well wishes are sent to her.

IF ANYONE SEE'S MISTRESS MJ.......

.......from over at the Infomaniac , could you be a dear, and tell her she left something behind at the airport.