The boys were here over the weekend and I took Chazz to see his buddy Roscoe.  Even though Roscoe weighs twice as much as Chazz, they play really well together.  Unlike Daisy, who, when she was here six months ago, did everything she could to avoid Chazz the puppy.  Last night I found an old SD card that I thought I had lost.  On it was this long lost footage of Chazz & Daisy.  It’s funny to see him six months ago.  Man, he tormented Daisy:

Daisy & Chazz in February

And here he is today, playing with Roscoe:

Arielle trying to avoid the fray

Ann & Arielle

Dinner last night at Hugo’s

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Ryan’s sister Renea was in town with her boyfriend Matt this weekend, so I headed up to Oxnard for a barbecue.  After dinner, we went to see Julie & Julia, which I loved.  Meryl Streep can do no wrong!  The movie has some great lines about the narcissism of bloggers.  Claudio kept elbowing me the whole movie.  LOL.  Then this morning we took Chazz to the beach and he had a great time playing with some little kids who loved him.  On the drive home I listened to the Evita movie soundtrack which I haven’t heard in ages.  The more I listened to it, the more parallels to Sarah Palin I drew.  After all, Eva Peron was a self obsessed demagogue who impassioned weak minded fools into supporting her.  If you listed to Tim Rice’s brilliant lyrics and substitute “Sarah” for “Eva” it’s uncanny how well most of the songs fit Caribou Barbie: 

I’m not the first person who noticed the similarities either.  Naomi Wolf pointed out almost a year ago that:

Of course, Sarah Palin is so fucking stupid and self serving that she probably doesn’t even know who Eva Peron is.  Even the sometimes infuriating Maureen Dowd pointed out in the Times today:

It’s also interesting to read the chapter on “Palinmania” and remember how serene Sarah Palin was before she became unhinged by fame and her fixation with her reviews, especially from conspiratorial and gossipy bloggers [CareyGLY??] The same McCain advisers who later turned against Palin were impressed with her at first, when she earned adjectives like unruffled, self-confident, tough-minded and self-assured.

From Bill Ayers to Reverend Wright, “Sarahcuda” was ready to bite, telling rallies, “The heels are on, the gloves are off.”  But by the end, after Tina Fey, Katie Couric and the shopping spree, Palin had lost confidence. She became erratic. [Just like Evita in Europe!] “During a campaign trip in October to New Hampshire, she balked at sharing the stage with former congressman Jeb Bradley because they differed on abortion and drilling in the Arctic wilderness,” the authors wrote. “That same day, she was reluctant to join Bradley and Senator John Sununu for conversation aboard her campaign bus and had to be coaxed out of the back of the bus to talk to them, according to a McCain adviser.”

Palin is still obsessed with the blogosphere, which recently lit up with a rumor started by a fellow mavericky Alaskan,  who also no longer has his job — that she and Todd were Splitsville. She sarcastically told Mike Allen of Politico that she loved finding out “what’s goin’ on in my life from the news.” She deserted her post as governor to write her book about the “pioneering spirit,” as she told Allen. The contradiction seems lost on her.

And, as Talking Points Memo reported on Friday, she put up a demented, fact-free Facebook rant trashing the president’s health care plan: “The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s ‘death panel’ so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their ‘level of productivity in society’ whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.”  Do we sometimes drive ’em downright crazy? You betcha!

So don’t cry for Sarah.  I’m sure we’ll see her on Broadway someday soon!  Maybe she could even test her chops as the witch in Wicked?  Now, on to the weekend photos and video:

Ryan, Chazz, Claudio, Me, Renea & Matt

 
Another delicious meal at the C&R Churrascaria…Chazz was content!

This is the same look he gave Garbo a few months ago!

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No, for once the title of this blog is not referring to Sarah Palin (though it’s an apt description).  “The Devil With Boobs” is a play, written by  Dario Fo.  He’s an Italian satirist and playwright who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1997 and in 2007 he was ranked joint seventh with Stephen Hawking in The Telegraph‘s list of 100 greatest living geniuses.  I went to see the show with Carolina & Bill on Friday night.  I was warned that the humor was “scatological” in nature, and I must say, that was an understatement!

Broadway World opines, “In THE DEVIL WITH BOOBS, Sub-Devil First Class Barlocco has an important mission: possess the crusading and chaste judge Alfonso de Tristano and turn him into a lecherous sex maniac. When Barlocco possesses the Judge’s housekeeper instead, insanity and gender bending wackiness ensues. Dario Fo’s THE DEVIL WITH BOOBS is equal parts savage political satire and wild lust filled romp!“ 

I must say, the play was brilliantly performed.  The lead actress, Katherine Griffith, was outstanding.  And Phillip Rhys, from Nip/Tuck and 24 was delightful to watch.  If you’re in LA, and don’t mind salty language and some nudity, check out this play!

 

Today, Eva & Bassam met me at Claudio & Ryan’s for another Brazilian barbecue.  Claudio’s getting quite good at making pao de queijo!

 
Though he still hasn’t mastered the blender.   This was some hideous papaya dessert that went terribly wrong!

   

Finally, here’s a little something to start your week off right:

Dear President Obama,

You know that I support you 100%.  But I must say I was a little surprised to find this in my Inbox.  Don’t get me wrong, I’m flattered.  I imagine you must really like my Sarah Palin rants.  But, please, keep your eye on the prize!   
Love,

Carey

You’re probably dying to know what I did tonight Mr. President.  Well, Claudio, Ryan, Chazz and I went out for a fabulous Chinese dinner on the Sunset Strip.  A good time was had by all as these photos will attest.  I’m off to bed now, as tomorrow we’re going to the TV Land Awards.  It should be a fun show.  It’s being hosted by Neil Patrick Harris (Doogie) and features:

• Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Lucille Ball – Legacy Of Laughter Award)
• Don Rickles (Legend Award)
• The cast of Home Improvement (Fan Favorite Award)
• The cast of Magnum, P.I. (Hero Award)
• The cast of Knots Landing (30th Anniversary)
• The cast of Married with Children (Innovator Award)
• The cast of M*A*S*H (Impact Award)
• The cast of Two and a Half Men (Future Classic Award)  Complete List 

Have a good night Mr. President.  Oh, and Chazz wants to know when we can set up a play date with Bo??

 

It is with a heavy heart that I must announce that Easter has been canceled, due to Chazz’s brutal maiming of the Easter Bunny today.  The attack was caught on film…cover the children’s eyes:

Click below to play the chilling video:

Life must go on however, so we had a wonderful Brazilian barbecue, and  even gave Chazz a bath.  I’m off to bed as I have to wake up early to pick up my aunt and head over to Jenn’s to watch the kids hunt for eggs.  Cheers!

Chazz with his Easter basket, before the attack

Claudio made pao de queijo

Sleeping on his kill

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Yeah, you read that right.  Backwoods Barbie is at it again, this time jumping on the bandwagon criticizing Obama’s “Special Olympics” gaffe.  For the record, here’s my take on it, since John and a few other of my Republican friends have asked:

Yes, Obama apologized and has even managed to spin it in his favor.  But Sarah Palin and her retarded baby* (who is the uncle to her bastard grandson) has the gall to reject stimulus money that would have been used to fund, among other things, SPECIAL EDUCATION.  Nice family values Sarah. 

The biggest single chunk of stimulus money that Palin is turning down is $160 million for education. There’s also $17 million in Department of Labor funds (vocational rehabilitation services, unemployment services, etc.), about $9 million for Health and Social Services and about $7 million for Public Safety.

*By the way, there’s no need to educate me about the fact that Trigg has Down’s Syndrome or that “retard” is an offensive term.  I’m not an idiot.  I’m just venting.  It’s my blog goddamnit and Sarah Palin is more offensive to me than any words I can put on this page.  She’s vile, reprehensible and evil incarnate.  For the record, I put myself through college partly by working at group homes for the developmentally disabled and partly by babysitting over 50 kids.  I have attended and worked my fair share of Special Olympics over the years.  All people are “precious and unique” Sarah, not just your white trash baby and illegitimate grandson. 

Now that I have that out of my system, here are some pictures from tonight.  Claudio & Ryan are back with Chazz and we had a nice dinner at home and watched movies.  Tomorrow we’re heading to Santa Barbara.

Joelle’s enjoying all the amenities the H.C. has to offer

Claudio always has to get a sneer in!

Chazztastic!

Ryan was asleep before the movie started!

Chazz and I were lucky enough to run into the Oscar winning screenwriter of Milk, Dustin Lance Black yesterday.  For those of you who don’t know, he’s the young man who spoke so poignantly at the Academy Awards this year.

When Dustin met Chazz it was like watching history being made.  A new Hollywood power couple was born.  Move over Brangelina….meet “Chazzlance Black“.

Coincidentally I heard from a filmmaker this weekend who is doing a documentary about Proposition 8.  He had seen some of my blog entries and videos about the protests and emailed me to ask if he could use my video footage for his documentary:

Carey Anthony

From: YouTube Service	Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 12:22 AM
To: careygly
help center | e-mail options | report spam Great Prop 8 Footage! Hi Carey, My name is David McCoy, I’m a photographer/filmmaker. I’m working on a documentary and a photo book about the battle to overturn Prop 8. I’ve been shooting stills of all the Prop 8 events since Nov. 6th, however I didn’t start shooting video until December 20th, so I’m looking for video of events prior to that. From what I’ve seen in your youtube posts it looks like you’ve got some really good footage. Is there any way I might be able to get a copy and use it in my documentary? It would be a huge help! Unfortunately I totally missed out on Nov. 5th’s rally, so your footage from that would be particularly helpful.  I’d offer some compensation for the footage, but I currently don’t have any funding and the project is being made on a volunteer basis. I don’t have any video up yet, but I do have some stills posted in my Facebook group, Love = Love (Challenge Prop 8), if you’d like to see a little bit of what I have shot... From: Carey Anthony Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 12:57 PM Reply-To: careygly To: David McCoy David, I finally found the original video files.  There are 27 of them.  All unedited.  I’m in the process of zipping them up now and then I’ll FTP them to you.  Sorry for the long delay.  –Carey From: David McCoy Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 4:57 AM To: careygly Thank you so much!  There’s actually something really cool, and something that’s really helpful to me in clip 9337.  Around the 7 second to 11 second area of in the clip there are two guys in the middle of the shot.  One is a tall blond with a light blue shirt, the other is a shorter guy with dark hair and gray t-shirt.  They are two of the guys I’m following for my documentary. They are co-founders of a group called The Equal Roots Coalition.  This video is before I met them and before they started the coalition.  In some ways this is very much a “before they were famous” sort of moment.  I can’t tell you how awesome it is to have this!  Thank you so much!  Let me know if I can help you with something at some point.  Also, if you ever want to get involved in the battle to over turn prop 8 or any other gay rights issue let me know.  There’s tons of ways, big and small, to get in involved, and by all means if you hear another protest outside, which you very well may in the next few months, feel free to jump out with your camera again.  Sorry I babble when I get excited, thank you.  =) ~~David

Claudio and Ryan went back home today, but they’ll be back with Chazz next weekend to drop him off before heading up the coast for spring break.  Joelle is also coming on Thursday, so it will be another busy week at the Hotel Careyfornia.  Cheers!

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It has been a crazy weekend, but a lot of fun.  It’s after 2 AM and I just have a few minutes to post these pictures and then I have to get ready for my trip tomorrow morning (this morning).  I still have laundry to do and I have to clean the house as Luis & David will be staying here while I’m out of town.  (The Hotel Careyfornia is even busy when I’m not here!)  Claudio’s Brazilian BBQ was a hit yesterday, and he even made feijoada.  Yum!  Chazz is still growing like a weed.  Afterwards I headed up to Santa Barbara to see Tom & Cathy and little Patrick.  Bassam hosted a great party last night and we all had a great time.  Today I came back to LA in time for two Oscar parties.  I thought the ceremony was fantastic this year…the best in a long time, maybe ever!  I got 19 out of 24 predictions right, and won the pool for the 2nd year in a row!  On the way home I walked down DeLongpre because I knew that one of the locks on the garage door of  the Sunset Plaza Hotel is busted.  I was able to sneak in to the hotel and take the elevator up to Sunset Blvd. next to where the Vanity Fair Oscar party was being held.  There were people who had been waiting there all day and I just walked out the hotel door and started snapping photos, LOL.  The LAPD were being assholes though, and it was really hard to get good pictures.  I had to get home but I hung out for about 45 minutes and got to see Kate Winslet, Penelope Cruz, Mickey Rourke, Meryl Streep, Amy Adams Frank Langella, Anne Hathaway, Jon Voight, Robert Pattinson, Gwen Stefani,  and that awesome Domo Arigato Mr. Roboto guy, hoisting his Oscar and waving to the crowd!     I don’t have time to go through all of the photos now, but here’s a sampling:

The Vanity Fair party 2 blocks from my house

Jon Voight

That’s Mickey Rourke in the white coat and hat

If you look closely, you can see Kate Winslet holding her Oscar

Kate Winslet again

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Let’s hear it for the boys (and Daisy, LOL)

Eva & Patrick

Breakfast with Patick

Ryan being butch

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I took this out the sun roof on the way home from Santa Barbara

Claudio & Ryan came up with Chazz on Friday.  It’s only been 3 weeks since I last saw him (when he “read” my animal books), and my how he’s grown!  I’m still dog-sitting for Daisy through the end of the month.  Daisy is 9 years old and I’m sure the last thing she wanted to do all weekend was contend with a playful rambunctious puppy.  She was a trooper though, despite her impatience at times.  I think they secretly had crushes on each other.  Just look how they were sleeping in bed with me when I woke up yesterday morning.  Luckily I had my camera by my side:

Admittedly though, they needed a few time outs:

Claudio & Chazz

Yesterday we went to the beach at Santa Monica:

 

We almost dropped to our deaths in this parking garage elevator….then noticed the permit expired in 2002!

I need to add the words, “& Pet Motel” to the Hotel Careyfornia sign above!


Tuckered out after a long day at the beach

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