Whose Shoes Wednesday…The Answer!
Manolo asked, whose shoes?
Manolo says, it is the Hillary Clinton!
Congratulations to the Manolo’s internet friend Molls who was the first person to identify the subject of this week’s Whose Shoes Wednedsday.
FEB
2008 27
2008 27
Laura K. and Blogging the Project Runway
Manolo says, there is the marvelous article in the Arizona paper about the Manolo’s internet friend, Laura K., who is the founder of the Blogging the Project Runway blog.
Laura Kluvo has a big secret.
It’s about the winner of Season 4 of Project Runway, the Bravo reality series where rookie designers compete to be the next big thing in fashion.
She won’t say who it is or how she knows – until it’s revealed properly on the show’s finale next Wednesday – because she hates spoilers.
The stay-at-home Scottsdale mom runs the show’s ultimate fan Web site, called Blogging Project Runway,
Her blog is a hub for all things related to the show: a place to go for podcasts, interviews, live blogs during episodes and compiled news links about contestants and hosts.
She asks herself: What would the show’s biggest fans want to read about, whom would they like to meet and what would they ask them? And then she does it.
She has become friends with several of the designers and co-host Tim Gunn, the show’s breakout star. Project Runway alum Emmett McCarthy designed a floral-print coat and named it the “Laura K.” Gunn went for a ride in the Kluvo van when he was in Scottsdale in November.
And, most recently, she sat third row at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York City, where she watched this season’s finalists show their collections at Bryant Park.
What separates Blogging Project Runway from other sites that track the show is Kluvo’s mission to remain positive and supportive of the designers, which has helped her foster relationships with them.
She doesn’t take sides. And, most importantly, she never includes spoilers about the show in her blog.
The article even includes the mention of the Manolo! Go read it now.
FEB
2008 27
2008 27
What the Manolo Is…
Manolo says, it is late on Tuesday and thus time to see what the Manolo is…
It had been many years since the Manolo last saw Gone with the Wind, and on viewing it again the other evening, what struck the Manolo most forcefully was how it was both exceedingly melodramatic and yet completely engaging.
By rights, this movie should be considered laughable, with each overly dramatic and manipulative incident following so closely on the heels of the previous one.
But it is not.
Instead, one is irrevocably sucked into the compelling and bizarre world of Scarlet O’Hara where up is down, and down is fiddle-di-dee! You weep real tears at the death of Bonny Blue, gasp at the revelation that Captain Butler has shot the pony and locked himself into the nursery with the corpse, and three minutes later are weeping again as Melanie collapses and dies.
How is this level of emotional engagement in something so obviously contrived even possible?
The Manolo admits to having no clue.