Halloween Costumes, Pop Tarts and Candy Porn

By Dixie Laite, on October 28th, 2013
I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.

I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.

What should I be for Halloween this year? A sexy vampire, a sexy astronaut, a sexy nurse, a sexy pirate, a sexy carrot – the possibilities are endless.

When I was a little girl, like all children I Imagined who I’d like to be . . . → Read More: Halloween Costumes, Pop Tarts and Candy Porn

2 comments   HELP YOURSELF, ME, POP-ED, WTF   girls, Halloween, holiday, Miley Cyrus, , ,  

Women Over 40 Rock!

By Dixie Laite, on May 14th, 2013

Whilst I have many annoying memories of Mr. Rooney, I have to say, a lot of Andy’s reasons why he values women over 40 ring true:

A woman over forty will never wake you in the middle of the night to ask, “What are you thinking?” She doesn’t care what you think.

If a . . . → Read More: Women Over 40 Rock!

2 comments   DAMES, HELP YOURSELF   , , , , ,  

What Would Barbara Stanwyck Do?

By Dixie Laite, on February 22nd, 2013
Barbara Stanwyck

I can’t commit to doing what Jesus would do in any given situation. I’m not generous enough, wise enough, or turn water into wine-y enough. There are T-shirts that suggest one do whatever Joan Jett would do, but I’m not bad ass enough. Not good enough to be Jesus, not bad enough to be . . . → Read More: What Would Barbara Stanwyck Do?

7 comments   DAMES, MOVIES   1930s, 1940s, 1950s, , film history, films, , pre-code, , talkies,  

Fabulously Perverted and Sexy Pre-Code 30s Movies! Part 1

By Dixie Laite, on February 12th, 2013
Pre-code Joan Blondell

I’ve been obsessed with Pre-Code movies for decades. Here’s why:

Most people believe old movies are stodgy, quaint relics of a time when asexual women did what they were told and upright, wholesome men stalwartly upheld good Christian values. But most people are wrong. Very, very wrong.

These people assume the post-World War . . . → Read More: Fabulously Perverted and Sexy Pre-Code 30s Movies! Part 1

2 comments   MOVIES, POP-ED   1930s, film history, Great Depression, , nudity, , pre-code, , , talkies  

Fairly Nauseating

By Dixie Laite, on March 13th, 2012

There’s this show on USA Network called Fairly Legal (a hilarious take on barely legal, get it?) that I’ve only been able to stomach watching once or twice. But to be “fairly”, I came into watching the show with prejudicial feelings. Prejudicial feelings of the sort that made me want to throw a heavy object at . . . → Read More: Lawyer? I Barely Touched Her!

One comment   WTF   advertising, attorneys, criticism, , law, lawyers, marketing, media, mediation, mediators, , , TV  

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