Betches vs. Botches and the Invention of ‘Dioria’

Last night I entertained another gentleman and I got paid for it.

Sick of my references to prostitution? Yes, I am aware that I have alluded to or flat out mentioned the sport of whoring oneself out in the past three posts and you guys are probably starting to worry about me and why I find this so amusing. Sorry, I think its just a phase. And I’ll try to come up with some new material.

I was going to attempt cleverness by Face In Hole-ing myself over that of a prostitutes (again). So I Google searched 'prostitute.' I HIGHLY recommend no one follow in my footsteps. A dismembered torso WILL appear as one of the top results. So as to remember that there is joy and happiness and love in the world, I have provided you with this Face In Hole masterpiece. Me as a baby as a bunny.

I also think using this picture for every single Face In Hole is a phase. Bear with me.

Now let’s climb out of the tangent adventure my mind just wandered through and get back to the point…

Last night I entertained a gentleman and I got paid for it. He was 6 months old and this form of entertainment is conventionally called “babysitting.”

We watched Downton Abbey, I explained the drama behind the Lady Mary/Cousin Matthew relationship, we both suspected underlying love currents between Hughes and Carson and then he pooped himself.

All around good time.

It's okay, the gentleman baby I babysat last night didn't believe me either when I told him I'm Lady Mary's on set stand in/body double.

So the next thing I am about to say is going to be pretty gross, maybe even more gross then talking about a dismembered prostitute torso…

I was so busy working a ten hour day THEN babysattin’ for three more hours that I totally forgot to eat. So when leaving my babysitting employers’ home at 11:00PM, I went to the closest open food establishment I could find…

Taco. Bell.

I don't feel so good.

OBVIOUSLY, it was probably the worst decision I made all week (so far) to go to Taco Bell.

Let me paint you a picture…

I pull into the T-Bell parking lot with the intention of ordering from the ‘healthy and fresh’ menu. I pull out of the T-Bell parking lot with a Dorito Nacho Cheese taco AS WELL AS A Cheesy Gordita Crunch in hand.

Stop lying to yourself. You know you're curious too.

I drive to a dark and secluded corner of a CVS parking lot assured that there are PLENTY of spots real close to the front door so SURELY no one will pull up next to me/witness my taco indiscretions.

One time Britney Spears got caught eating Taco Bell in her car. So I know better.

I enjoy the Dorito taco in privacy and by enjoy I mean I’m convinced I’m facing certain death as soon as the first morsel of that chemically enhanced cardboard hits my stomach.

DON'T FRET COOL RANCH COMING SOON: The big news about the premiere of the Cool Ranch taco was leaked when someone snagged a picture of these taco assembly directions. SUMMER 2K12, YA'LL.

Five seconds later and still alive, I move on to some more familiar territory– the Cheesy Gordita Crunch.

The greatest gift chemical scientists ever gave us.

So swept up in the magic of Taco Bell, I fail to notice the black Mercedes two door convertible that has pulled into the spot next to me…or the two blonde bitches who just got out of said Mercedes and who are now gaping at me.

Yes, GAPING, at the fat girl in her own little Taco Bell heaven.

Praying to the T-Bell Gods, not okay?

NO.

I throw my car into reverse and haul ass out of that parking lot in a flurry of embarrassment. Eternal “lettuce”, plastic “cheese” product and Purina dog food disguised as T-Bell meat go flying.

Needless to say my car DOES NOT smell like roses right now.

I’m sure the black Mercedes bitches stopped gaping long enough to laugh at me but I’m too embarrassed to even check the rear view mirror.

J'adore being laughed at...

After the frenzy I re-asses the situation…

Why do I have taco flavored edible byproduct all over my beautiful employee discounted clothing (see cashmere trenches references in previous posts)?

And why do I care what those skinny Mercedes driving bitches think? After all, they were the ones wearing sunglasses at night. IN FACT not only were they wearing sunglasses at night but in general they were soooooo ELLLLLL LAY.

Did I mention I really like your matching fedoras? Oh wait.

Vomit…and not just because of the Taco Bell.

These girls. Oh, these girls.

Nope.

But then I thought about it more and I realized as annoying these girls were I COULD have some fun with this…

Familiar at all with the “betch”? Well if you are not, betches basically own the culture movement of young, good looking, well dressed, smart, hardworking and slightly ridiculous females speaking their minds, setting trends and making you feel insecure while doing it. They congregate mostly on the East Coast with New York being their Mecca.

For more funformation visit the always entertaining, Betches Love This Site. It’s where betches “take a break from thinking about themselves long enough to write it down.” And FOR THAT, I OBVIOUSLY have mad respect for them.

Sometimes scary. Always entertaining.

These sunglasses wearing, Mercedes driving, LA girls? Not so much.

These are the kind of El Lay girls that you love to hate. Compliment them on how skinny and tan they are. and they’ll claim they were born that way. Ask them about their favorite music and they’ll spout out Urban Outfitter’s current playlist. Try to find out what they do for a living and they’ll tell you all about their “career” as an aspiring actress or model.

Courtney Stodden is obviously already the best actress of our generation. You others might as well just give up now.

Well, Imma go ahead and call bullshit on all that, well, bullshit. We all know your double zero boy body came from your bout with anorexia and eating air. You know every lyric to every song Top 40 song and Katy Perry’s ‘California Girls’ is your anthem (which is fine, but you just need to own that shit). You graduated high school and forwent the whole college thing so that you could chase that fame. Are you talented? Probably not. Are you smart? Definitely not. And your favorite accessory? Fedora.

FFFEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDOOOOOOORAAAAAAHHHHHHHH.

These girls bother me deep down at my core. Why? Because the aren’t betches. They don’t speak their minds, they speak trends. Granted, they know what is hot and happening and the next big thing but that stuff isn’t of their own creation and beyond that they got nothing. Stupid. So stupid, in fact, and my opinion is so low of this group of females that I have renamed them botches because they totally botched the whole being the West Coast version of the betch thing.

This is me being mean, I know, BUT I just got caught eating Taco Bell in my car. Alone.

How the hell would you feel?

B and I both know. Fun to eat it. Not fun getting caught.

So to go a step further and try to feel better I just created a ridiculously off the wall character version of the botch. Her name is Tammy but she goes by Dioria so don’t you dare call her Tammy, damnit.

"J'adore myself." - Dioria
(J'dioria?)

Tammy/Dioria hails from Ohio but if you ask her she’ll say she has been living in LA for as long as she can remember (3 years). You can find her at all the hottest spots; brunch at Toast, dinner at STK, drinks at SUR (not actually eating, of course). Her end goal? SoHo House.

I imagined a scenario in which Dioria (botch) and a real life NYC betch meet. Dioria immediately feels the need to justify her El Lay life being better than any old betch’s in chilly New York.

Dioria flips hair, is getting visibly worked up. NYC betch calmly anticipates the entertainment about to be bestowed on her by way of a botch attempting to make an intelligent argument/use the English language.

Dioria begins…

“Just this morning, as you New Yorkers bundled up and set out to fight the blistering cold, I was still sleeping in my cozy bed thanks to that three hour time difference and when I did eventually wake up I had a tough time deciding between wearing my short shorts or my really short shorts. But for the record, I chose my short shorts because no one likes a trashy hoe, at least before noon anyway. Also for the record, it wasn’t my bed but I always have fun at Chateau sleepovers with dudes I just met.

Botches feel the need to simultaneously wear short shorts and beanies. Why, botch?

As you waited in a very long Starbucks line trying not to breathe through your nose due to the foul smells emitting from the man in front of you, I sang along to Carly Rae Jespen’s “Call Me Maybe” with the windows rolled down and breezed through a drive thru Starbucks line to pick up an iced latte…extra ice, betch.

CALI-FORN-YAH GURLS WE'RE UNDENIABLE.

As you used a drug store kit to dye your hair dark brown because you just can’t afford to get your hair highlighted anymore and because the darker hue so obviously matches your gloomy city mood, a very nice woman in Korea Town re-glued in my blonde extensions for ten bucks.

Jealous of my pink Bentley, you betch? You don't even DRIVE in NYC. I get to sit in my pink Bentley for HOURS everyday.
Wait.

And finally, as you walked forty blocks then took the subway, started walking again, began freezing to death, hopped on another subway, walked again, got so cold you wanted to cry but couldn’t because your tearducts froze over so finally gave in and paid a cab upwards of seven thousand dollars to take you the remaining three blocks to a club where you no doubt paid upwards of seven thousand more dollars for half a shot of Taaka disguised as Goose and therefore weren’t drunk enough to pretend you actually like house music…

Don't be fooled these betches make it look easy...

I walked from my adorable West Hollywood apartment ($600 a month for rent, just saying) to Sunset where I went to a pool party on the top floor of some ridiculous hotel, rubbed elbows with Shia LeBouef, scored VIP wrist bands to Coachella just for making out with some music industry a-hole and drank three dollar cranberry vodkas until I was drunk enough (only fifteen minutes after I got there due to my recent bout with anorexia/my new air only diet) to jump in the pool naked.

Don't talk to me, Shia. Just stand there and look pretty/pouty.

Alright, so I’m lying about that last part, drinks are at least twelve bucks each but at least I can say that although I paid forty dollars to be only sorta tipsy, Kanye got on stage and drunkenly rap about how much he hates Blue Ivy because now Yonce and HOV have a little less room in their hearts for him, and he hates sharing but he saw my boobs so whatever.”

"Imma let you finish but this LA Botch had one of the best sets of boobs of all time..."

………………………………………..

While Dioria is so proud of herself, NYC Betch recognizes she just wasted 5 minutes of her life listening to that.

And you just wasted 3 minutes of your life reading that.

And all of this over Taco Bell.

You’re welcome.

Next time I’ll save all of our time and just eat my Taco Bell out in the open. I’ll learn to be Taco Bell Proud. My stomach will still hate me though. Its a win-lose anyway you look at it.

W

A 62 Year Old Man Stole My Heart

If you haven’t heard of Downton Abbey yet then I am overjoyed that beings on other planets have access to our American internets and are reading this! Live long and prosper, ya’ll.

If, however, you live on planet Earth and are unfamiliar with the hit TV show Downton Abbey then come on friend, let’s get with it. This is 2012. Welcomes. I volunteer myself as your tour guide.

First things first, its Downton not Downtown.

While watching the 2011 Emmy Awards I remember getting so facking pissed because this random show from the U.K. was taking away awards from my favorite U.S. of America actors. On top of this Downton Abbey (which based on name alone I thought was about some downtown housing for monks) stealing all the limelight, I also had to deal with the great Michael Scott Snub of 2k11– aka Steve Carrel as Michael Scott from The Office up for an Emmy for the last time and losing to some Big Bang theory fast-talker. Let me just say, I’ve been in the same room as Jim Parson before and I don’t think he deserves an Emmy for playing his annoying self.

How can you say NO to THIS Mr. Emmy Voter?

Fast forward from Emmy night to late December when both of my roommates were enjoying extended holiday vacations and I was already back in L.A. trying to make that paypah. I was fighting another one of my usual bouts of insomnia when, alone in my apartment and convinced a serial killer was standing in the darkened corner of my bedroom, I decided to peruse the watch instantly pages of Netflix to distract myself from my impending murder. I ran across Downton Abbey Season 1 and pressed play because the best thing to lure me to sleep would be a horribly boring British PBS show about British aristobrats, amiright or amiright?

Insomnicat

I am wrong. Each episode is over one hour long. I watched five straight. Then my alarm went off and I had to go to work sans sleep. That day I was cranky and mean and could only think about one thing…will Cousin Matthew ever tell Lady Mary how he feels about her or what? I mean come on hombre, let’s do this. Yes, you are technically cousins but whatever.

Cousins are legal in like ten states so it's fine, right?

I mean this stuff is CAPTIVATING. After watching season 1 all the way through I made it my life goal to track down season 2 as quickly as possible.  Having already aired in the U.K. I knew it was out there somewhere so I went all Veruca Salt on the internet’s ass and demanded my golden egg in the form of season 2 streaming on my computer IMMEDIATELY. Ever the internet pirate, I found that shit.

Money buys the internet, therefore everything.

I is so sorry.

I won’t ruin anything for you by sharing details but, generally speaking, season 2 is much better than season 1. And, oh gurl, Cousin Matthew looks so much more handsome now that he lost all that weight between season 1 and 2.

Fat Matthew vs. Skinny Matthew. Dan Stevens is said to have put himself on a strict diet prior to filming season 2 because fans claimed he was not attractive enough for Lady Mary in season 1.

The ensemble drama set at the start of the 20th century was/is created, directed, and written by Julian Fellowes. When I first saw Julian Fellowes I tried to practice what my mother preached to me when I was a small Wilhelmina and not judge a book by its cover. Mr. Fellowes is a 62 year old man who I can describe no better than saying, “he looks like he is a member of the GOP or quite possibly Dick Cheney himself that writes under the pseudonym Julian Fellowes.”

Essscuse me DICK CHENEY what are you doing writing romantical television?!

Oddly enough, Julian Fellowes is actually a member of England’s House of Peers and holds the inherited title ‘Lord of the Manor of Tattershall’ from his father (but is not Dick Cheney). So homie knows what he is talking about because he’s totally around snobs all the time BUT THE KICKER IS HE HAS A HEART AND HE IS REALLY GOOD AT WHAT HE DOES.

Don't let his appearance fool you. This man is heartbreaker.

I KNOW curiosity doesn’t exactly get roused reading the Downton Abbey logline alone…

“The series is set in the fictional Downton Abbey, the Yorkshire country house of the Earl and Countess of Grantham, and follows the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants during the reign of King George V.”

BUT HAVE FAITH. Mr. Fellowes was an Oscar winner (for his Gosford Park screenplay in 2002) way before Downton and all those Emmys. On top of that, he is a best selling romance novelist (under the pen name Rebecca Greville) and a renowned playwrite so OBVIOUSLY I am not the only one who thinks he’s good at what he does.

Among Fellowes' work; Vanity Fair, The Young Victoria, and Gosford Park.

Still doubting him? Hear this…

Mr. Fellowes married the love of his life, Emma, twenty three years ago when he was 39 and she was 24. Apparently Emma’s mother was reluctant about the marriage and instead wanted her daughter to marry a more age appropriate former flame named Evelyn. Now, in her old age, Julian’s mother-in-law insists on calling him Evelyn.

Note: Lady Mary's season 1 suitor/competition to Matthew, Mr. Evelyn Napier.

I can only imagine how that must hurt but Julian chooses not to correct her.  He understands what it feels like to want two people to end up together so very badly as well as understands what it feels like to NOT want two people to end up together. In fact, his grasp on the concept is so great that he translated it into his scripts and now millions of people feel that way towards his characters. Bates and Anna. Matthew and Mary. Lavinia. Sir Richard. The slutty Turk. William. Daisy. Carson and Hughes. Sybil and….well, watch and find out.

Love hurts, ya’ll, but you just gotta put your heart in Mr. Fellowes’ skilled hands.

Ladies of Downton/Emmy winners.

If I STILL have not convinced you, then I will let Michelle Dockery (Lady Mary) try…

“Apart from the brilliant writing, the costumes, and the nostalgia, I think the audience is seeing something completely new,” said Dockery. “There comes an energy with that, which just keeps the audience wanting more. We were always told about this ‘Downton depression’ that people suffered once it finished.” (via The Daily Beast)

I do want more. So much more. I have suffered a severe case of Downton Depression and, unfortunately, the third season is shooting in the U.K. right now and will not air in England until the Fall of 2012 therefore not in America until Winter 2013. BUT I JUST CAN’T DEAL WITH THAT.

Once you watch you will understand and suffer as I do.

After you watch or if you have already, here is some temporary relief of Downton Depression until our beloveds join us again:

1. One minute relief: Just this week our very own American girl, Shirley MacLaine, made her appearance on set as Cora Crawley’s mother. Whatever could she be up to across the pond? Think about that.

Shits getting real, ya'll. Real American. Shirley stops by.

2. Five minutes of relief: check out this article which shows what the actors look like on set vs. off set.

Our favorite bitch, O'Brien, takes some ugly pills before filming each scene. In real life she's kind of a knockout.

3. Cat lovers and Downton fanatics alike will enjoy the parody, Downton Tabby. Everyone else will be creeped out.

4. Fall into a GIF trance at the “Fuck Yeah Michelle Dockery” tumblr.

5. SPOILER: If you have seen season 1 and season 2 then you can look at this and squeal like I did BUT it might just make your Downton Depression worse…

6. Real journalism and whatnot.

6. LEST WE FORGET…we can just spend our time ogling the most important character(s?) in all of Downton.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Michelle Dockery’s eyebrows…

I hope both eyebrow right and eyebrow left get nominated for Emmys next year.

I tried to emulate them by darkening my own but then I got sweaty.

6. Join me in crying for 11 months.

Obi Wan Fellowes, you’re my only hope.

W

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