Slide of the Week: December 6th, 2008
THE CHRISTMAS FAIRY OF 1958, LOS ANGELES
This slide isn’t about the flocked tabletop tree hung with tinsel and pointy pale pink ornaments that match the curtains. Or the mess of gifts both wrapped an unwrapped, including an ice-o-mat and that very odd shaped gift doing a balancing act in the corner. This slide is about the guy wearing lipstick and matching high-heeled thongs. Well, he’s at least wearing one high heel shoe. Looks like his other foot is missing or perhaps it’s twisted sideways for dramatic effect. The red goes quite nicely with those teal trousers and black button front short-sleeved shirt with the collar turned up.
The cocktail glass he’s holding in his hand is empty. Either he just drank it all or just spilled it. Either way it’s ok because there’s another one waiting for him on the rug nest to his phantom foot. And how about that cuckoo-yet-festive headpiece he has on the top of his head. Clearly its hand made but how and out of what I have no idea. Did he learn to weave ribbon in prison or something? And judging by the way his painted lips are open he’s having a ho-ho-ho moment!
Here’s to a high heeled, ho-ho-ho, cuckoo Christmas and YOU!
Charles Phoenix
Los Angeles
December 2008
Sets this Slide belongs to:
Holidays
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December 6th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
That’s one SCARY FAIRY! The Fairy-of-Christmas-Past’s headpiece looks like a tagger’s scrawl.
December 6th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
I guess the 1950’s weren’t as boring or conservative (at least in L.A.) as we’ve been led to believe!
December 6th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
Man, that is 1 disturbing pic…
December 7th, 2008 at 3:35 am
Yikes!!!
December 7th, 2008 at 11:14 am
I think that’s my Uncle Charlotte. If so, those are antennae. He’s part lobster. And that shoe fits him perfectly. It’s either his, or there’s a woman with man-sized feet at that party.
December 7th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
He’s having an LGBT moment. Let’s Get Blitzed Tonight.
December 7th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
That boy is having tooooo much fun !
Gotta love ‘im, he out of the closet at last !!
December 7th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
Oh goodie, a great laugh from one of the FUNNIEST write-ups!
December 8th, 2008 at 8:20 am
I was expecting some sort of christmas boat from the email caption…
December 8th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
That shoe fits, and he’s wearin’ it. Those ornaments match those drapes PERFECTLY. This is not the sort of picture he would have wanted circulating in 1958.
December 9th, 2008 at 9:32 am
it’s definitely made of pipe cleaners. where can i get one for MY cukoo christmas?
December 9th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
I do believe he’s a relative of Sean Penn…I see a striking resemblance.
December 9th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Charles, Charles, Charles. . . Did you mean The Christmas Fairy?
December 9th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
That’s great, Charles! I’ll be doing the same thing tonight, but hopefully my peep toes will be a bit more ‘haute’.
December 10th, 2008 at 11:21 am
You forgot to mention those fabulous Joan Crawford-esque eyebrows……….what a great Christmas slide Charles!
December 12th, 2008 at 2:52 am
There is a knee in the lower portion of that photo and I’m thinkin it’s not his wife’s. Heh heh…. Love the retro tree.
December 13th, 2008 at 5:25 am
Don we now our gay apparel
April 14th, 2009 at 6:31 pm
This is one of my absolute FAVORITE slides…makes me laugh hysterically every time! What a gem you are, Charles Phoenix!!!