Nancy Sinatra & Me

Chapter Three of Super Vixens' Dymaxion Lounge went up today, about a pool party at the Playboy Mansion circa 1996. Here's an excerpt:

I make my way back to the pool. I need a loo, and find one in a pool cabana that looks like a seventies wine bar, the kind of place that was always called The Hobbit. There's a dimmer switch next to the commode, and a bowl of bobby pins next to the sink. On the way out I bump into a woman in a tuxedo. She has a cigar in one hand and a sushi roll in the other.

I spot Mel Torme.

At the bar, I try to get a drink, but instead I end up in a pitch meeting with a loathsome, tubby creature who claims to be a movie producer. «It's a John Wayne, Tom Cruise kind of thing!» he exclaims. «A musical kickboxing thing!» As I turn to leave, he slips me his business card. «I went to college with Stallone,» he whispers.

I lose him, because the fifty-four-year-old Nancy Sinatra is about to make her comeback by performing «These Boots Are Made for Walking» on a cramped little stage...

Read the rest of the chapter here. I may have to tease my hair today, in tribute to Nancy.

Comments

[hairstyle fashionista]

i think i'm just going to have to get this book. and i love the teased look!

[Angela]

Ha...I saw this picture of Nancy Sinatra load up on the page and I thought, hmmmm, didn't I just see something else about her somewhere?

Uh, yeah, I just read your book! (Which I loved, by the way; it's truly terrific.)

Maybe I will see something about Ester Williams somewhere else today...