Beauty

Ballerina Misty Copeland at the Met Gala

In the Mud: Season 2 – Netflix Series

In the Mud: Season 2 – Official Trailer | Netflix
MVSRS

Pretty great. Life in a women's prison in Argentina. This time we have a new female bull on the block, Gringa, and she is vicious, mean and nasty. But Gladys, AKA Borges, our female bull, builds on her base of supporters and ultimately prevails.

Everybody is starved for money, so the warden, the guards and the prisoners are colluding in a scheme to rob rich folks. Half a dozen pretty women prisoners get dolled up, load into a van, and are driven into town where they descend onto a place packed with swells where they latch onto a mark, spike his drink and go to his room. When he passes out, the woman takes everything worth stealing. And then they head back to the van and back to prison. They do this a couple three nights a week and it provides a steady source of income. Amazing what you can get away with in big city.

8 episodes 45 minutes each.

Season one post here.

Zodiac Girl

Virgo

Very cool picture. Did not find out much about it. Google says it is "in the style of Gustav Klimt".

Secret Agent Miss Fortune

Secret Agent Miss Fortune

Miss Fortune is a character from the video game League of Legends. Never played it.

Tatas for Toys

Tatas for Toys (thomas chamberlain/Tatas for Toys)

Strippers Are Now No. 1 Donor of Toys to Children’s Hospital in Portland, Oregon. Willamette Week has the story.

24 Hours of LeMons

Arc Angel Christine Rotolo punished their inconsiderate driving by welding a pig to this team’s roof.

That is LeMons, the 24 hour race of $500 beaters, not Le Mans, the 24 hour race of zillion dollar cars held in France. view from the porch posts a link to the original Car & Driver report on the race.

It's a great story. I especially enjoyed this paragraph. 

FedEx ships cars? Yes they do:

Uh-oh. The race was little more than a week off, and having endured an exhausting battery of cognacs and terrines of fois gras in Northwest's business class on my return from Paris, I was in no mood to haul the Aurora across the country. Enter FedEx Custom Critical Passport Auto Transport, a branch of the big delivery company that ships cars coast to coast. Since fabulously expensive cars that compete at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Élégance have been shipped by FedEx, we felt comfortable handing over the keys to our Aurora. Plus, in return for this paltry plug, they ate the bill. After dripping oil in FedEx's pristine transporter for five days, the car arrived with two days to spare.

Previous post about LeMons.

In the Mud - Netflix Series

En el barro | Tráiler oficial | Netflix
Netflix Latinoamérica

Life in a woman's prison in Argentina, and what a life it is, and what a nasty ass bunch of women. Guys ain't got nothin' on these bitches.

Story opens with a small group of women being transported to prison in a van. One of the women is the girlfriend of a for-real gangster and he stages an attack on the convoy. The van goes off the road and into a river. Boyfriend has a boat, swoops up to the van and rescues his girl but leaves the others chained up in the rapidly sinking van. One older broad manages to get hold of the keys and manages to unlock most of the other women who all swim to shore.

I'm thinking the boyfriend is a for-real shithead. How can you abandon a bunch of women who are likely to drown in this situation? Then I realize, the women are not part of his tribe, so he doesn't care. He's a savage, and he's at war. You're not part of his tribe, so screw you.

Inside the prison, the prisoners are divided into different groups. One is for women who are pregnant or have kids. Women are allowed to keep their kids up till age five, then they go to foster homes. Another group is making porn videos ala Andrew Tate. There are a couple of other groups. Never did figure out exactly what their deal was. Drugs and housekeeping, maybe.

La Borges, the older broad, was part of a criminal organization and understands how these things work. Not much later, Galacia, the gal who escaped, is apprehended and is brought to this same prison. Needless to say, there is bad blood between her and the others who escaped the van. Galacia is vicious and means to be top dog in the prison. Borges is trying organize her girls to stand against her, but it's hard to make an effective team when some of her girls are not too bright, not to mention flakey. 

The show is pretty amazing.

P. S. Supposedly you can turn on subtitles AND choose the language in embedded YouTube videos, but I haven't been able to make it work. Turning on the subtitles works, but selecting the language doesn't. Might be Bloggers fault, mucking with the special characters.

Von Dutch

How He Revived The Von Dutch Brand
MBH Clipzz

Saw this and was impressed by how much money he was able to make. His success depended on his having the right contacts, and his willingness to put forth the effort to go out and talk to them. Might just be his nature, some people are people-persons. Anyway, now I'm wondering just who or what is Von Dutch.

Von Dutch is an American multinational fashion brand posthumously named after 

Kenny Howard, a.k.a. "Von Dutch", an American artist and pinstriper of the Kustom Kulture movement. - Wikipedia

Okay, so who's Kenny Howard?

Kenneth Robert Howard (1929 – 1992), also known as Dutch, Von Dutch, or J. L. Bachs (Joe Lunch Box), was an American motorcycle mechanic, artist, pin striper, metal fabricator, knifemaker and gunsmith.

. . . 

His most lasting work is the creation of the special "pearlescent" color used to paint movie star Marilyn Monroe's car, known as Candy-Apple Red. Many automobile, motorcycle, bicycle and ATV manufacturers still offer a Candy-Apple Red on their vehicles today.

Okay, he was an accomplished guy. I remember Candy-Apple Red, it was popular back in the 1960s. It was certainly eye-catching, I mean I still remember the color distinctly. I thought people were making too much of a fuss about it. A coat of paint can improve a cars looks, but it's what under the hood that counts, or at least that's what I thought at the time. And if you were broke that was the most important thing - i.e. will it start?

1961 Candy Apple Red Corvette

I went looking for Marilyn Monroe's Candy-Apple Red car. Couldn't find it, but I found this Candy Apple Red Corvette.

Marilyn Monroe Playboy Centerfold 1953

I remembered the centerfold, but I didn't realize I was two years old when it came out.

Samica

help me find this girl in red I just wanna talk
Samica

This gal is great. Yes, she's young, she's beautiful and she's definitely several levels higher than I am, and the stuff she talks about is like hearing about life on another planet. But mostly I think I like her because she is sweet, or soft, or kind or something. Okay, she's gawd awful good looking, and that's really enough.

Kitchen Knives

Seems to be a theme today.

Not to mention there seems to be a lot of slicing and dicing in our current serial Killing Eve.

Sarah Lezito

I believe I can fly
Sarah Lezito

French woman has a bunch of videos up on YouTube. She is a treat to watch.

Is it Cheesecake? Or is it Memorex?

Cute girl

Pull up a story about unemployment statistics on ZeroHedge and this photo pops up. Or is it a photo? I suspect it is an AI (Artificial Intelligence) generated image (her right hand might have too many fingers). Her attire and the office setting are entirely incongruous. Also, there are no credits.

The story was impenetrable, or maybe I'm just too lazy to expend the energy trying to understand it. The gist of it, I think, is that unemployment continues to be high and the government continues to lie about it, so nothing really new there.

Barbie

Barbie | Main Trailer
Warner Bros. Pictures

Very silly, very funny. If there was any substance, I missed it. Cinemax / HBO

Pat Wise

Pat Wise on a 350 Manx Norton
First woman in Isle of Man Tourist Trophy

Her first race at the Isle of Man was in a sidecar but eventually she started riding her own bike. She passed away in 2012. Links:

• Cycle Cult has more pictures
• TTwebsite has a short article

From Russia With Love

From Russia With Love (1963) Official Trailer - Sean Connery James Bond ...
Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers

A fine movie with plenty of action, a plausible plot and plenty of pretty girls. Highlights:

Armalite AR-7 Survival Rifle

Armalite AR-7 Survival Rifle, disassembled

• secret agent briefcase with fifty gold sovereigns, a hidden knife, a booby trap and an AR-1 25 caliber, single shot sniper rifle.

Periscope, Kerim Bey & James Bond

• periscope into the Russian Embassy in Istanbul

Gypsy Camp Scene - From Russia with Love - James Bond Source Music
Fictional Music

• gypsy girls, gypsy girl dancing, gypsy girls fighting. Did I mention there are gypsy girls? Oh, that's right I did.

1960 Ford Ranch Wagon

• Ford Ranch Wagon. Seeing this car really struck a chord with me. My inner ten year old really likes the 1960 Ford Galaxy and the 1961 Thunderbird.

My approximation of Bond's escape route from Istanbul to Venice

Simplon Orient Express

• The fight with the SPECTRE agent on the Simplon Orient Express
• The truck versus helicopter fight.

Fairey Huntress Powerboat

Islands off the coast of Istria near Futana
Possible location of boat chase

• The flight across the northern end of the Adriatic Sea from Istria to Venice in a power boat with 200 gallons of fuel in 50 gallon drums held in a rack on the back.

Webley Flare Pistol

• The destruction of the incompetent bad guys by dumping the gasoline in the water and setting it afire with the Very flare gun.

Rosa Klebb's shoe dagger

• Klebb uses her pointy shoe to fight with Bond.

P. S. The scenes of Bond and the girl in Venice were shot on a green screen. It's pretty obvious they weren't actually in Venice. Someday I need to find out how they did that.

Free on Amazon Prime

Thunderball

Thunderball (1965) Official Trailer - Sean Connery James Bond Movie HD
Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers

Another day, another Bond film. Life doesn't get much better than this. I was thinking about looking up all the girls and finding some cheesecake shots to post, but then I stumbled over this video, so I'm taking the easy way out.

The Bond girls of ...Thunderball! [Behind the scenes]
Frogwoman Org Reloaded

Thunderball has appeared here before.

Dr. No Official Trailer #1 - Sean Connery Movie (1962) HD

Dr. No Official Trailer #1 - Sean Connery Movie (1962) HD
Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers

Pretty great, even after 60 (!) years. Available on Amazon Prime. I watched the four Daniel Craig Bond movies this summer while I was recuperating. At that time, those were the only ones that were free (if you are a Prime subscriber), but all the others required an extra payment. Now they are all 'free'. Ursula Andress provides the eye candy:

Ursula Andress

Ursula has appeared here before.

More Girls in the News

From left, Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., Oct. 21, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Michaels Reynolds/Pool via AP

It seems two Republican women representatives have both filed bills of impeachment against President Biden. Lauren Boebert from Colorado and Marjorie Taylor Greene from Georgia are the two instigators.

PJ Media has a story by Lincoln Brown and it is very entertaining. The introduction:

You would think that, with information on the Biden family and the complicity of the DOJ and IRS spilling over like an RV toilet tank at a cheap roadside campground, Republicans would somehow find a way to stay on the same page long enough to make some headway. I mean, the recent news alone should be enough for the elephants in D.C. to link hands and sing “Kumbaya” and even hoist some frosty mugs of whatever beverages they favor for a few choruses of The Beatles’ “All Together Now.” Didn’t anybody else watch Rep. Jason Smith’s presser yesterday? Didn’t they read Hunter’s WhatsApp message to Zhang? I know that the efficacy of Kevin McCarthy’s leadership is up for debate and that there are herds of RINOs grazing on the Republican plains inside the Beltway. But can’t everyone just stay on target?

Via Sondrak's Gulch

Miss Universe National Costumes that made me "👁👄👁"

Nuts? Amazing? Spectacular? I think I'll go with spectacular.

Album Cover of the Day

Charli XCX Crash Album Cover

I find it curious that the older I get, the more I appreciate good looking women. I tried listening to some of her music, but it did nothing for me.