Pax Arcana
Aretha Franklin has the single greatest voice in the history of American popular music, period end of sentence. She also has the single awesomest selection of hats since Countess Ebeniza von Schrafftensburg presided over the fairy tale kingdom where I store my most shameful secrets.
My spies tell me Aretha chose this particular hat for the inauguration out of a warehouse full of options. Some she didn’t choose include…
A tricorner hat with a duck on it:
A pillbox hat made out of a cheeseburger:
A tiara of the Eiffel Tower spearing a football:
And a baking soda and vinegar volcano:
3 Comments
January 20, 2009 at 4:45 pm
That cheeseburger looks delicious.
Her performance was a travesty. There would have been only one acceptable choice — a Chicago musician. I think you see where I’m going with this.
January 20, 2009 at 7:15 pm
Aretha is universal.
January 20, 2009 at 8:14 pm
Except in Paris, where she spears footballs.