{"id":35649,"date":"2012-01-01T13:00:42","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T20:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=35649"},"modified":"2012-01-01T13:00:42","modified_gmt":"2012-01-01T20:00:42","slug":"allee-willis%e2%80%99-kitsch-o-the-day-%e2%80%93-happy-awmokian-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis%e2%80%99-kitsch-o-the-day-%e2%80%93-happy-awmokian-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis\u2019 Kitsch &#8216;O The Day \u2013 Happy AWMOKian New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/new-years-afro-girl_2819.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35653\" title=\"new-years-afro-girl_2819\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/new-years-afro-girl_2819.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/new-years-afro-girl_2819.jpg 375w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/new-years-afro-girl_2819-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>I&#8217;m blessed enough that to ring in\u00a0the new year\u00a0I&#8217;ve gone to at least four parties a day for the last couple of days with two more to go today. I just woke up and am racing out the door to New Years Day party #1 at <a href=\"http:\/\/eatatstreet.com\/\">Street<\/a>, the restaurant I co-own and die for, where there are free homemade donuts and bottomless champagne til 3. So I will resume full-on posting here tomorrow or I&#8217;ll miss the dough-filled festivities. For now though, I leave you with two of my favorite things from last night &#8211; accessories to my chosen New Years outfit and the comedy icons I got to ring 2012 in with. First, the crowning touch of my wardrobe, a shoey salute to kitsch, these Jeremy Scott Addidas sneakers:<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_6438.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35654\" title=\"IMG_6438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_6438.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_6438.jpg 475w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_6438-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>Transparent and way too big for me I stuffed the toes with fuzzy balls. There&#8217;s no way I&#8217;m going to let size stop me when I see a pair of shoes I like.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/scott-transparent-shoes_6439.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35660\" title=\"scott-transparent-shoes_6439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/scott-transparent-shoes_6439.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/scott-transparent-shoes_6439.jpg 475w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/scott-transparent-shoes_6439-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never had shoes with wings before.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_6442.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35657\" title=\"IMG_6442\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_6442.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_6442.jpg 475w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_6442-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awmok.com\/2011\/02\/22\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-ghetto-fab-michael-jackson-sphinx-pendant-and-storm-lees-birthday-soiree\/\">Michael Jackson as sphinx pendant<\/a> wasn&#8217;t bad either:<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_6447.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35656\" title=\"IMG_6447\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_6447.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"356\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_6447.jpg 356w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_6447-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 356px) 100vw, 356px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>And how completely dying were my shoes, pendant and I to get to spend New Years Eve with Banana Splits, H.R Pufnstuff,\u00a0Donny and Marie Show kitsch-God-creator\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sid_Krofft\">Sid Krofft<\/a>, seen here with <a href=\"http:\/\/alleewillis.com\/\">me<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beverly_D'Angelo\">Beverly D&#8217;Angelo<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prudence_Fenton\">Snappy P<\/a>.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_6452.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35655\" title=\"IMG_6452\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_6452.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_6452.jpg 475w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_6452-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>And how much have I died for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Benjamin\">Richard Benjamin<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paula_Prentiss\">Paula Prentiss<\/a> through the decades?! \u00a0Here we are with party hostess, <a href=\"http:\/\/twinpeaksarchive.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/exclusive-nancye-ferguson-interview.html\">Nancye Ferguson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_6456.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/paula-prentis-D-benjamin_6456.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35659\" title=\"paula-prentis,-D-benjamin_6456\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/paula-prentis-D-benjamin_6456.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/paula-prentis-D-benjamin_6456.jpg 475w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/paula-prentis-D-benjamin_6456-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>To make it a 60&#8217;s\/70&#8217;s comedic love fest,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Buck_Henry\">Buck Henry<\/a> was also there but I forgot to snap a pic. I&#8217;m seeing him later today at party #2 and will rectify the situation. In the meantime, here we are a couple of New Years ago:<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35651\" title=\"IMG_2527-buck\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_2527-buck.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_2527-buck.jpg 450w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_2527-buck-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>\n<p>Ok, gotta split and ring in the New Year with donuts and champagne at Street. Many, many, many more photos to follow from the years end\/beginning activites later this week. In the meantime, a very sunny and pleasant 2012 to all and may it be stuffed with exquisite kitsch!!<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/kitsch-hotdogs3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35674\" title=\"kitsch-hotdogs3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/kitsch-hotdogs3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/kitsch-hotdogs3.jpg 475w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/kitsch-hotdogs3-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m blessed enough that to ring in\u00a0the new year\u00a0I&#8217;ve gone to at least four parties a day for the last couple of days with two more to go today. I just woke up and am racing out the door to New Years Day party #1 at Street, the restaurant I co-own and die for, where &hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis%e2%80%99-kitsch-o-the-day-%e2%80%93-happy-awmokian-new-year\/\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[413,405,223,87,193,29,249],"tags":[61,3015,1209,3013,3016,3232,3245,3014,2007,3012],"class_list":["post-35649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrity","category-hats","category-holidays","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","category-party","category-people","tag-allee-willis","tag-beverly-dangelo","tag-buck-henry","tag-dick-benjamin","tag-jeremy-scott-transparent","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-paula-prentiss","tag-prudence-fenton","tag-richard-benjamin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}