Happy Labor Day Gasmii--
Your recap artist feels like a Real Housewife herself this week! No, I'm not pimping a tell-all autobiographical cookbook/weight loss/etiquette guide. Or paying cash for a tract mansion that looks like a Neapolitan bordello. Or even mopping the floor with a party-planner with anger-management/sexual orientation issues. I'm just in the Hamptons at my sister's house hanging out with my adorable nephew and niece Rodrigo and Emilia. If you think it might be difficult concentrating on one's blog while two hyperactive Puerto Rican/Israeli tots play Wii on a 65-inch plasma in the same room, you clearly haven't asked your orthopedic surgeon brother-in-law for a meds-samples ceviche. Who even knew there was such a thing as Vicoprofen, let alone that it went so well with mojitos?
Oh, in case you're expecting a baby boy anytime soon, don't circumcise him! When a Jewish surgeon tells me there's absolutely no compelling medical reason to futz with the foreskin, I don't argue.
Where we we? Where am I? Oh, that's right. Hamptons. Labor Day. Children. Atlanta. Recap.
Hands up if you have a hood side to you.
Beauty salon. NeNe arrives for a "spa day" with Sheree & Kandi. NeNe's interested in something called "minx", which I feared was some kind of decadent animal-cruelty treatment but luckily turns out to be a glitzy faux-fingernail thing that's apparently all the rage. Sheree clarifies via interview that this super-glamorous overlaying technique is practiced by stars like Beyonce and Rihanna, but our own humble S is the one who pioneered the look in Atlanta. Kandi wants to go mink, too. NeNe says she heard Kandi will also be getting "all [her] coochie-hair" waxed. Kandi says she's started pubic electrolysis. Sheree tells them she's proud to be 100% bush-free, creating an image in my mind that I will need way more rum and narcotics to erase.
NeNe mentions the upcoming alter-ego photo shoot which will include all 5 Wives, interviewing that celeb photog Derek Blanks has already done them with Pharrell, Jennifer Hudson, Diddy and Ciara. NeNe announces to the girls that she will be directing the shoot. Sheree interviews that she finds this "really strange". NeNe tells them she herself will be a stripper as well as "the guy watching the stripper", then interviews that she hopes the others will be open to her interpretation of their dual personae. Maybe Sheree's will be Bald-Cooch Woman and Hapless Pussy-Waxer. No such luck. NeNe wants Sheree "in a prison costume" stealing a seven-figure sum from an ATM machine. Sheree saucily/haughtily interviews that she's a bit miffed at this reference to her divorce settlement: "I don't feel like I robbed a bank. If I did, shit, where's the money?" But as long as she can be "a sexy robber", she'll do it.
NeNe tells Kandi that in honor of her upcoming nuptials, Kandi will be bride and groom. NeNe goes on: "Then I started thinkin, I could have you hood, too, cuz you ARE hood." Kandi's mouth pops open in offended surprise-- "You just WANT me to be ghetto!" "You ARE ghet-to!" NeNe shrieks. Kandi interviews that NeNe has balls calling her ghetto, "when to me she's the ghetto-est one of us all! Let's be real." "You bring the hood witchoo wherever you go," Kandi remarks to general amusement.
Not ghetto AT ALL...
NeNe snip-interviews "Euuuuhhhh... I'm not from the hood... I'm from Athens. Which happens to not be the hood. I'm not from the projects." As we all know from last week, NeNe is obsessed with hoods and ghettos and where they are and who's from which one. In this case, she happens to be right. Athens is universally known as the coolest city in GA, a groovy, arty, gay-friendly college town that spawned bands like R.E.M. and The B-52's.
Kandi asks NeNe if she's "one of those proper chicks" who just likes to talk trash all the time. Kandi even mimics a hilariously white-girl impression of NeNe saying "Do you think I'm proper?!" NeNe defensively admits "Now look-- I do have a hood side TO me... and I WILL get hood witchoo if I have to. I WILL letta bitch have it!" NeNe's looking away, but it's obvious to which bitch she's referring.
Kandi kouldn't kare less. "If I'm ghetto, she ghetto!" she interviews. LOL.
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Comments (22)
As a gay man who has seen his share of uncut and cut penis, I have to say you cut because, from a vanity perspective, it's better looking.
1 of 22 | Posted by slutty_whore | Posted on September 7, 2009 12:48 PM
Great recap, as usual, Leia, but I'm disappointed that this was an Ed-free episode.
I'm loving Kandi and how she is negotiating the choppy waters of the Atlanta Housewives relationships. I hope she keeps on being awesome.
2 of 22 | Posted by pixielated | Posted on September 7, 2009 6:37 PM
Great recap Leia and yes can we have Ed be in every episode instead of Dwight. Does Dwight have to be every got damn episode is that in his contract now or something?
Anyway I'm really glad Kandi is on this season. I was little iffy on her at first considering she's not as dramatic as the other housewives but she's brings what "REAL" moments to this show and sincerity. With a show filled with gossip fighting wig shifting ladies it's nice to have someone who's actually normal on here. All this stuff with Nene is going to lead to a huge fight between Kandi and Nene and I can't wait.
3 of 22 | Posted by bigjr6633 | Posted on September 8, 2009 2:18 AM
Can someone explain to me why Kim needs a nanny & an assistant when she has no apparant job??
And I must be a queridos amigos blancos becuz I had no idea about that Flo-rida reference ;)
4 of 22 | Posted by ohionancy | Posted on September 8, 2009 7:44 AM
ohionancy:
We are wondering the same thing, nanny, assistant, no job. How does she pay for all this stuff? And I guess that personal chef was also a bunch of bull, because now she admits they eat junk every day. But she's a good mom. Um, okay if you say so Kim. And the Florida Evans reference, don't worry you may be too young to remember the TV show "Good Times", jimmy walker, dyn-o-mite, ring any bells? Florida was the mom.
5 of 22 | Posted by featherhead | Posted on September 8, 2009 9:38 AM
The baby's last view before Kim presses Tumble Dry.
Hilarious!
These women are so into themselves, it's a trainwreck I just cannot turn away from!
6 of 22 | Posted by kaykrenee | Posted on September 8, 2009 10:06 AM
featherhead:
That was not a reference to Florida Evans from Good Times. That was a reference for Flo-Rida the rapper. COMPLETELY different people. :)Youtube him. You'll see.
7 of 22 | Posted by Thatswhatshesaid | Posted on September 8, 2009 10:56 AM
Can anyone tell me who the father of Kim's daughters is? I've been goggling it like crazy and cannot find a thing!
8 of 22 | Posted by kaykrenee | Posted on September 8, 2009 11:16 AM
I wish NeNe knew the definition of irony. When Kandi entered NeNe threw out multiple 'hoochie' and 'coochie' references, which Kandi covertly ignored (or at least she refused to use the term NeNe overused). I also thought it was interesting that when Kandi called NeNe out, NeNe vehemently denied any affiliation with the hood, but when Kandi then called her 'proper,' NeNe went out of her way to call herself hood. So, um, which are you NeNe?
I also don't get which side of the fence she stands regarding Kim. She mocks the song while declaring herself the catalyst for Kim's music career. So, which is she?
Finally, are the producers or Kim putting off the reveal of Kim's voice to Kandi? Kandi asks Kim to sing for her which Kim doesn't. Then, Kim promises to provide a single of the song, but instead provides a copy sung by someone else. So, either Kim knows she sucks or the producers have convinced her to wait until some key moment. Considering the song has been re-produced, I wonder who leaked & produced that version.
9 of 22 | Posted by anicho01 | Posted on September 8, 2009 12:14 PM
Can you please go ONE recap without somehow mentioning you are an ex teen model? Is it really that important to you for every single person who ever reads your recaps to know?? It's really annoying.
10 of 22 | Posted by jdizzle | Posted on September 8, 2009 4:24 PM
Jdizzle--
I would spend a few minutes addressing your envy issues, but I'm late for a Girls of Benetton reunion dinner.
Ciao,
LLB
11 of 22 | Posted by leia labiblia | Posted on September 8, 2009 9:00 PM
Yeah, Leia, don't be tardy to the party.
12 of 22 | Posted by Nimabu | Posted on September 8, 2009 10:29 PM
Leia!!! Who the f#ck are you? Your recaps are some of the funniest things I have ever read. I honestly love them. They are brill. And I love the Chick-Fil-A, too. I'm salivating thinking about the waffle fries as we speak.
13 of 22 | Posted by ReeseWitherspoon | Posted on September 9, 2009 12:01 AM
"vile right-wing homophobic Christian nutcase"
While it's vile to be homophobic-homophobia does not necessarily follow nor go hand in hand with being Christian or conservative. I look forward to these recaps and thought maybe we could keep the insults directed at the ladies on screen and not at parts of your readership.
Speaking of teen models: I was una Chica Mirta.
14 of 22 | Posted by vrox | Posted on September 9, 2009 1:25 PM
Hey guys, go on youtube and search for "tardy for the party" to listen to the song. It actually sounds pretty cool.
15 of 22 | Posted by Nimabu | Posted on September 9, 2009 8:50 PM
Slutty Whore--
RE: penises... Of course to each his or her own, but considering the foreskin has thousands upon thousands of pleasure-providing nerve-endings, advocating circumcision for aesthetic reasons is like being in favor of removing the clitoris to achieve a more streamlined vagina!
Most of the penises I am around are erect anyway, and they pretty much look all the same that way.
LLB
16 of 22 | Posted by leia labiblia | Posted on September 10, 2009 7:33 AM
Oh that is just bullshit. Just because someone things that it is annoying for another person to constantly repeat or brag about a certain aspect of their lives. does not immediately mean that they are jealous. It is just such an easy excuse to toss off.
I don't care if you were a model and I wasn't. It is annoying to mention it every time, but the recaps are funny so I just try to read it around. And ignore it. Because please can we just keep the insults to the ladies on the screen. Because I suppose we could find something to get insult about in just about anything someone says or does.
17 of 22 | Posted by reckless_saturn_11 | Posted on September 10, 2009 11:59 AM
Hahaha - You're like one of those girls from Maury Povich whose only response is "You're just jealous. You're just jealous" .... But I'll let you go ahead and think whatever you want to as it seems you need it so badly based upon the way you make certain to pepper your writing with references to something you USED to do that alludes to attractiveness. (How does this define you - don't you do anything NOW?)
Like reckless saturn, I used to try and read around it, it was simply annoying, but it had become to grating to ignore so I'm not going to be reading anymore of your recaps. I just wanted to voice my opinion on how annoying it is that someone feels the need to try and draw the attention back to herself as often as possible while I'm just trying to read about the shows.
18 of 22 | Posted by jdizzle | Posted on September 11, 2009 11:21 AM
hey, jdizzle and reckless_saturn_11: if you do not like the recaps, stop coming to this site and reading them. Can't get any easier. What the hell do you care how many times LLB mentions things from the past? Why the hell does it bother you so much?
We come to this site for the recaps because they are special, they stand out in the sea (or rather a fricking ocean) of boring, void of personality show-recaps. And one of the reasons they do are the personalities of the recappers, and their intimate comments and evaluations. so GOOD RIDDANCE. Leave the comments section alone to those who actually want to comment on the show and like this site.
Speaking of which - I HATE Nene!!!!! I just physically can't stand this bitch anymore. She used to be my favorite last season. I thought she was a little over the top, but definitely the most 'real' of the bunch, and might have made a great buddy. But this season it has become painful to see her ego overriding everything else. She is no more sharky - she is vicious. She is no more funny - she is obnoxious. She is no more real - she has become as FAKE as the worst reality TV rejects. Her attitude of being above everyone else, her sense of entitlement, her grating FAKE LAUGHTER have turned me so off to her that now when she comes on the screen I push FF. I heard during summer that she was in talks to get her own show, and I seriously think this completely messed her up. I will never ever watch her show - if she even gets it which I doubt, and if she carries on the way she does now, I think I will have to stop watching RHOA alltogether because the producers are giving her way disproportionately too much on-screen time because of her antics. She was so COOL last year.... I guess reality -TV 'FAME' is a bitch....
19 of 22 | Posted by renata | Posted on September 11, 2009 9:11 PM
Oh Leia where've you been all my life? I was an intermittant viewer of Housewives until I stumbled upon this site. I've now read all your recaps and may even have to start watching the damn show just so I don't miss a silly little millimeter of your nuanced wit.
I was gonna tell you about my real-life NFL boyfriend (wayyy back in the day), but I'm afraid it will make everyone too jealous. I know YOU can handle being jealous but I'm worried about some of your readers.
So tell me, are you still thin and gorgeous? If so, you can count me in with all the other haters.... but if not, then my nascent love for you can continue to blossom.
One more thing, please don't ever hesitate to mention vile right-wing homophobic Christian nutcases. I need it, just to keep me on track. Otherwise I might find myself slipping into right-wing homophobic Christian nuttiness. (I hear it's going around.) You're performing a public service.
20 of 22 | Posted by NYdiva | Posted on September 13, 2009 6:49 PM
I agree that the ex-teen-model talk is annoying. I've read four recaps so far by you and in each one it's mentioned. um, so you were a model 20+ years ago? big deal. brag about being hot NOW and maybe some people will be jealous.
fyi, I'm not. I do pin-up modeling - currently. as in, present day. not years ago and definitely not 20 years ago. but go ahead, say that I'm jealous. I honestly could not care less.
21 of 22 | Posted by radicalred | Posted on September 22, 2009 7:52 PM
Oh, no! I am jealous of YOU!
So how DO you get into "Hustler"?
22 of 22 | Posted by leia labiblia | Posted on September 22, 2009 7:58 PM