Mr. Robin establishes his bona fides as a ragin' maven of fashion...despite bad weather, tripS to the veterinarian, mi esposa loca, and ski ramp cash cows he survived a long weekend.

Happy Tuesday everybody! Here at The Compound, I’m coming out of a four-day stupor and not for any good reason.

Let’s see there was the Twister Alley Film Festival (always a great event - renewed old friendships), trips to the veterinarian (not for me), socked-in suck-a** weather (unable to BBQ), and general mayhem. Where, oh where do I start?

The weather was certainly strange. While we here at The Compound are always appreciative of precipitation – after all this is technically high desert – after 48 hours non-stop of the stuff, I get a little cranky.

And, the best news is…there’s more on the way!

The Wife is in her second week of another of her wild and crazy fabulous foreign vacations. If you missed the footage, CNN was at her resort covering the “Cultural Dance” night with nearly naked people dancing and singing “cultural” songs.

The Wife nearly created an international incident when the resort ran out of her drink of choice, Old Crow Whiskey. CNN’s website is carrying the raw video (oh, trust me it’s raw) under the heading, “(Raw Video) Gringa in Puerto Vallarta Launches Whiskey Rebellion” – dancers can be seen running for their lives as she attempts to unwrap their dental floss costumes and use said floss to strangle the bartender…it’s really too much to watch.

Those who know her well, know that this is not particularly unusual behavior for her. She did, after all, “assault” Billy Gibbons during a ZZ Top performance in Virginia (go to the 9:30 mark).

Yesterday, of course, was beautiful. I did my best to sit in the sun and tell myself that all will be fine again…I’ll see. I found Cousin Fred up on the roof constructing some sort of ramp that runs from the peak of the roof to the ground. When I pressed him as to what the hell he was doing, he assured me he’s found a way to make some cash “off this ol’ Compound.” Can’t wait.

You know, friends, there’s always one thing you can count on when you read this blog, it’s that I couldn’t care less about fashion trends. Seriously, you’ll never hear me yammering on about what someone wore or didn’t wore (sic) at some public event. I just don’t care…

BUT, there was apparently some major opening at the New York Met last night…they called it a big gala…what do I know. And, who shows up, but Caroline Kennedy herself. She was wearing what appears to me to be an overinflated swag lamp shade from the 1970s. I swear…I posted the pic above.

Caroline…please…have some dignity. And, whoever put her in that thing forgot to put in arm holes. Do you see arms sticking out anywhere?!

But wait there’s more!

There was another woman there who looked as though she had been shrink-wrapped. Seriously, she looked like one of those steaks you get from Omaha Steaks. Who wears this stuff?

And, of course, there were the Kardashian sisters all in a row of weird fashions. Enlighten me, please, someone, anyone as to what it is they did to become famous.
Okay, so much for Mr. Robin’s fashion corner.

That is all.

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