It Came To Me After The Garter Toss...

As I told y'all a few days ago, I was heading to the Bay Area for my cousin's wedding.

They kept a large glass near the bridal party's table where you can drop love notes to share with the newlyweds. Inspiration hit me with this:

Keep each other close,
In the moments that matter most -
So let your lives be filled with bliss,
Sweetly marked by many a kiss...

I don't know if I'm really back, but something tells me it never left... ;)

Heading Northbound on the 101...

Hey Bustling-Billies!

I'm heading to San Francisco for the weekend to attend a cousin's wedding.

Then I'm off to Vegas for Xmas.

And oh yeah, where the hell are those blogs I promised? They should be coming in when I return. I've been battling illness for a few weeks now, and just starting to get my strength and motivation back. Perhaps I should start writing poetry again...

But for now, the poetry of the road beckons, and I'm not one to keep the lanes of spoken word empty... ;)

Bette Midler: A F--king Diva (She said it!)...

I know, I know, I'm supposed to be uploading Hong Kong pics and working on Guilin vids, but hey, can a slacker get a break?

I realize I haven't officially updated this blog since before I came home, so let's just start right here:

I was back in Los Angeles a few days, and now I've been in Las Vegas for about 4 days.

Sorry kiddies, but this trip is also without Hookers and Blow since it's kind of "work related."

However, I did go and see Better Midler yesterday, and I'll say this:

She is Fucking aWesome.

In fact, she herself used the F-word about 20 times - sometimes as a punctuation mark, sometimes as a verb, and sometimes just to shout it out to the 3,000 screaming fans in attendance.

The entire show was a huge spectacular production: Dancing, singing, and I don't want to give it away, but there was even a full-on, mechanized portion where Bette and a full chorus line of dancers are doing an entire routine in electric wheelchairs. Seriously, even I was impressed.

Though, I'm not sure what I was more entertained by: The Divine Ms. M belting out the best of her hits, or the 6 women sitting in front of me that were going ape-shit the entire time. It was like watching a live-version of the Golden Girls, except it had more drunk dancing, alcohol schluging and at one point, one of them waiving their cellphone as if it was a lighter.

But hey, I'm just glad she sang "Wind Beneath My Wings" and of course, "The Rose", which brought me to an uncontrollable fit of laughter because of this rendition of it:







All that aside, she is a consumate entertainer, and can still give Britney Spears a run for her money... ;)