In case you're looking for the perfect birthday gift for me or something to give for redheaded blogger's day — here's the item that has made its way to the top of the old wish list in record time. May I present Aretha Franklin's Inauguration hat.
Here's Luke Song, the dude who made ReeRee's hat. You know She picked Luke Song strickly for his name. ReeRee's like that, she wakes up in her big house in Detroit and wants a hat — she goes to her man Luke Song.
If you've been reading the Kerry Blog for more than 10 minutes you know I love my Aretha. She and I have a connection. How can you not love the woman who gave the BEST quote in the history of the big woman: "I'm a big woman, I need big hair." Yes, that is my motto, but you knew that. I love her. And I love her hat. It looks like it's trimmed in marcasite, it's not, but Mr. Song made it look like it is because Mr. Song is that effing talented.
And so in honor of Aretha, here's "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man." Why? Because it's my favorite, that's why and this is my damn blog. And because this is probably the first Aretha song I identified with as a young woman, since I had more than a couple of crappy boyfriends until Scott came along. This song is just perfect and lovely. Unfortunately, the only video of Aretha singing "Do Right Woman" had its embedding disabled, so I had to settle for just the song. And yes, I did think of lipsynching to it and taping myself for you wearing some kind of hat and showing lots of Aretha-like cleavage, but that would be silly wouldn't it? As if that's stopped me before. Tee hee hee.
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Funniest comment I heard on the radio about her hat was that she must’ve thought she was going to Easter Sunday church services or having the inaguration at Churchill Downs. (DOn’t shoot the messenger, just relaying what I heard…..)
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well, the only thing I can say is that hearing Aretha is a religious experience, so a church hat would be appropriate.
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Amen Sista’ Faler!
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