I’m reading another book by a What not to Wear cast member – Clinton Kelly’s “Freakin’ Fabulous.” (Hmm, do Stacy London and Nick Arrojo have books? That would complete my series. Note to self: investigate.)
The book covers the many aspects of fabulous living, including hosting a party, cooking, decorating (some tasty lookin’ canapes!), grammar (hmm, what’s with the title then, Clinton?), and etiquette. However, the first chapter, as you might guess from Clinton’s most well-known realm of expertise, is fashion.
Most of the chapter is a repeat of a What not to Wear episode, but what I found especially interesting is the section on work dress. For corporate environments, you must wear a blazer at the very least! For a creative environment, you can wear a cute zebra print shirt, vest, and dressy pants. Most shocking, however, is Clinton’s take on dress in a tech environment. I quote, from page 38 of the book:
“Like anyone even cares what you people wear. Just get the Diet Coke out of your keyboard and go home to your video games.”
Clinton, you couldn’t have it more wrong. It’s Diet Mountain Dew, dammit! The evidence of the rapidly clearing vending machine says so.
I’ve now decided that I’ll wear my Betty Boop pajamas to work tomorrow. Sweet! Thanks Clinton!
I dragged Oak to see Julie and Julia at the theater tonight. There was no way I could wait for it to get to Redbox or the $1.50 theater, which is our normal mode of operation. I read Julie Powell’s book several years ago (somewhere near when it first came out). It was much easier than going back and reading all the blog posts, but the book is basically the entire blog in book format. When is someone going to want to buy carrievision.com and put it in a book?? haha.
The movie is SO much better!! Don’t even bother with the book if you haven’t read it; just see the movie!
Oak was scared when we first entered the theater. Let’s just say that the entire theater had about 2 other men (who appeared to be dragged husbands) and we had to endure 5 or 6 chick flick previews. Sorry darling!
The book focuses all on Julie and her project of cooking all of Julia Child’s recipes in “Mastering the art of French cooking.” I did enjoy the book, but it borders on grating/annoying as Julie struggles to get all the recipes made. I remember pages and pages complaining about aspics, where they could get this entire portion of the book into about 10 seconds of movie time. (BTW… has anyone out there actually eaten an aspic?? ) They missed a few fun details from the blog/book, but overall I think they tried to make the Julie character more “likeable.”
It very well could be the interjections of Julia’s fun storyline that made the current day portion all that more tolerable. Julia Child really did have an amazing life, and I want to read one of her biographies sometime soon. The movie details her arrival in France to the publishing of her cookbook. What an adventure!
Oh, and the FOOD ! Thinking about it makes me hungry. I really, really want Oak to make the crazy duck in a pastry now. 
Too bad Julia is packed away somewhere! We’ll visit you again sometime soon, Julia. I promise.
