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Cut to:
Bette with babe in arms, answering the phone at home.
It's Julia on the line (remember her, from last week?) and she's telling an
angry Bette that her N.E.A. grant is being withdrawn due to the overtly
"political content" of the artworks.
Or something like that.
I can't say I can get as worked up about art as Bette does, even though I DO
love art in all it's forms.
(Btw, Bette is holding Angelica while she's on the phone. I'm afraid that
child's first words are either gonna be "fuck!" or "fucking!", cause if it's
not Bette swearing in her ear, it's Kit, or whoever else is looking after
her at the time.)
Bette thinks they should sue, and tells Julia she'll call later.
In walks Tina, so Bette tells her what she's just learned on the phone:
"The N.E.A. pulled their funding because the Art Of Dissent is critical of
the Bush administration!" fumes Bette.
"What! That's got to be unconstitutional..." agrees Tina.
Blimey, these two actually AGREEING about something for a change? *looks
outside for signs of pigs flying past*
Bette continues to rant, righteously about the government and how cruddy it
is, whereas Tina is more concerned as to whether her partner will lose her
stipend. Which, it seems, she will.
While in mid-flow, Bette is cut off by Tina saying:
"We HAVE to let go of Angus"
That shuts Bette up for two seconds, but only until she realises that Tina
isn't backing her point of view with every fibre of her being, and instead,
is more worried about their financial position than the integrity of art in
general etc.
An even bigger frown appears on the Porter forehead:
B: "I can't believe you just said that!"
T: "We can't afford him!"
"We couldn't afford him BEFORE you lost your funding!"
"You're gonna have to get real about our finances or we're gonna be
completely wiped out!"
Good grief, Tina DOES have a backbone AND a brain to match after all.
Hello? Earth calling Bette Porter? Are you LISTENING?!!!!
Er, no, actually.
Bette: "No, THANK YOU for laying your petty, bourgeois anxiety on top of my
already profound anger and disappointment over losing something that means
so much to me!"
Oh. Dear.
Artistic integrity is one thing Bette.
Living in the real world with real people and real money worries is another.
I could write whole essays on all the things that are wrong with what Bette
has just come out with, but I'm sure you can all pretty much gather how
high-brow and unrealistic she's being, even though we know she is passionate
about art etc.
Tina demands Angelica off her so she can go feed her, and Bette stands there
alone not knowing what to do with her anger or her ever-downward spiralling
home life.
Cut to: Bette on the phone again.
This time, she's on the phone to a friend, asking about auctioning one of
the pieces she has in her own collection.
Obviously she DOES grasp the concept of money in the real world to a certain
degree.
You don't get to hear the guy she's talking to, but in the silences when
he's speaking, you can SEE on Bette's face just how hard it is for her to
sell anything that she's owns and loves.
Her friend mentions selling some of her Kiki Smiths (a German feminist
artist, for those of you not in the know....) and she seems dead set against
that idea, going over to gaze at the prints she has of the artist in
question.
Dead set against it, UNTIL she hears the sum her friend mentions that she
could probably get for them, and then she's like "HOW much!?"
Cut to:
Billie Blaikie, prancing around The Planet in his vest and eyeliner, while
Lara stands in full chef uniform, holding a tray of tasty titbits for him to
sample.
He orders some guys to move a table around, and then samples some of what
Lara is offering (get your mind out of the gutter you filthy women!!! NOT
like THAT! Tsk....) and pronounces it as "YUMMY!!!"
My dear sweety man, don't you know EVERYTHING about Lara is simply yummy?
;-)
In strides Kit to change the setting on the thermostat.
She takes one look at Billie having the furniture re-arranged and sampling
Lara's dishes, exclaims to herself "what the fuck!" and gets herself over
there to sort him out.
She's asks him what's going on and he tells her: "I was just going through
the new menu with Lara - cause y'know, a lot of our community are
vegetarian, a lot are vegan, and god forbid we should forget those
lactose-intolerant lesbians!"
Kit moans that they never discussed changing the menu, but Billie makes it
sound like he's doing her a favour, sorting stuff out and getting the little
details out of her hair so she can concentrate on doing her music etc
He also mentions it's "fucking freezing!" so goes to turn UP the thermostat
that Kit just turned DOWN.
She follows him and slaps his hands away from it - SO funny! You should see
the look on his face! lol!
Kit says she's boiling cause it's so hot in there but Billie just points to
his nipples, says, "Check out THESE things!" i.e. they're sticking out like
cut diamonds - yells out to everyone in The Planet, "Anyone hot?!"
Mumbles of "no, nah" etc come back at him.
"Anybody COLD?!"
Mumbled "yeah, yes, uhuh"'s come back to him.
"See?" he says cheekily, "democracy at work!" and promptly turns the
thermostat BACK up!
LMAO!
As soon as he walks off, Kit cancels it though, then quickly follows him, as
he's talking about putting in wireless LAN lines so people can have the
internet with their coffees.
Kit doesn't have a clue what he's talking about, and before she knows it,
he's off again! LOL!
Menopausal Black Momma vs The Fabulous Flouncing Fairy Manager - I'm selling
tickets RIGHT NOW!
;-)
Well, I know I'D pay to see those two gettin' it on in the ring, that's for
sure!
Cut to: Shane and Carmen returning home in the car and seeing Jenny and
Moira in their drive.
They get out of the car and are greeted by Jenny, whom Shane sweetly calls
"You fucking lunatic you!" lol!
She's so pleased to see her friends and they ask how she is etc as they walk
to the front of the car and then Jenny introduces Moira.
Everyone says hi and shakes her hand and it's all nice and normal.
Someone asks when Jenny and Moira got there and we hear Moira saying "yeah,
we just rocked up - barely had time to take a piss!"
Ah yes, she's a cultured one is our Moira ;-)
Then we hear yapping in the background and Carmen remembers the dog.
Her and Shane have been puppy-sitting for a friend, and then we see the dog
in question.
Well, I SAY "dog".
What I really meant was "guinea pig that's learnt how to bark".
It's TINY.
But of course, being tiny, it IS one of the cutest things ON earth and the
next 2 to 3 minutes in our flat is spent going "AWWW!" and "LOOOOKIEEEE,
it's soooooo smaaaaaaaaaaaall!!!"
Carmen picks up Otto - Cutest Puppy In The Known Universe and introduces him
to everyone.
I must just mention here that I have a small failing when it comes to cute
baby animals.
I tend to go into spasms of glee and end up talking like someone has thrust
an adorable human baby into my arms for me to goo-goo at, JUST when I SEE a
cute baby animal, let alone something like Otto - Cutest Puppy In The Known
Universe.
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