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May Contest Image
Try your hand at coming up with a winning caption!
she was one cocktail away from proving his mother right
About the captions
Anne Says: “I once had a mother-in-law who did not wholeheartedly approve of me. She tried to convince me to wear her clothes (A-line skirts with little embroidered tennis rackets, polo shirts) when we went to her country club for dinner. I didn’t score any points by demurring and wearing my own voluminous chintz skirts and translucent antique blouses. My sister-in-law informed me that her mother referred to me as “that gypsy.” I had my own private nickname for my mother-in-law.”
We know you will do the classy thing this Mother’s Day and encourage your mate to send his/her mom some flowers, and lovingly sign the card…but maybe you need to reward yourself for your restraint with one of these magnets, coaster sets, or cocktail napkins.
And remember that shipping is still free through Sunday May 13th in honor of our very favorite holiday!
just us sluts…
I am delighted that so many of you enjoy “I enjoy being a slut.” I wrote that one back in 1998. Mr. Limbaugh may very well have called women sluts before then, but if he did I was blissfully unaware of it. No… the design was not inspired by Mr. Limbaugh or by the current brouhaha. It was inspired, as is so much of my work, by frustration with self-satisfied gender-stereotyping misogynistic blowhards. By frustration with men whose sense of their own strength is predicated upon their ability to control women, particularly, it seems, their sexuality. All of them. Be they Republicans, Democrats, or Independents.
That said, Mr. Limbaugh did inspire me to dig this design out of the archives.
I realize I conceded the moral high ground when I called Mr. Limbaugh a turd. In this instance, I chose the wrong words in my analogy of the situation. Frank Bruni put it so much more elegantly this morning in his op-ed piece in the NYTimes: “Rush Limbaugh fished tired epithets from a misogynistic toilet; advertisers proceeded to flush him.”
The rest of the article, in which “mistakes were made”:
Canvas Prints are here!
For years you have been asking for it and now we are finally going to give it to you – Anne Taintor artwork that you can hang on your wall! We are proud to introduce our first three canvas prints, 8”x8” square and featuring three of our favorite captions.
These canvas prints are currently a website exclusive and you can only find them right here. And, since every day we read e-mails from fans desperate to re-decorate their whole house in an Anne Taintor theme (no, really) we just want to say…you’re welcome!
Also, Anne has been kind enough to share the inspiration behind some of her captions and given the Brooklyn office permission to share these on the blog from time to time…let’s start with a favorite, newly available as a canvas print:
“ta-daa! now let’s have a cocktail…”
Anne Says: I admire a woman who can wait until after the roast is done for her first cocktail.
Please remember to celebrate the release of our canvas prints safely and always cook & decorate before cocktails!
It’s happy hour at last!
It was a lot of work.
A lot of work and countless cocktails.
But several months and many, many many bottles later my long-awaited (by me, anyway) cocktail recipe book, published by Chronicle Books, is finally available in our web store and in fine gift and book stores everywhere!
This summer’s favorite chez Taintor has been El Presidente. But as the evenings cool (which they are already doing here in Maine, by the way) I’ll be shaking up more Merry Widows, Peckerheads, and Brazen Hussies. I wish I could invite every one of you over for cocktails!
By a landslide!
The winner of the April caption contest, by a very impressive landslide, is Susan Stadler with her charming couplet…
Congratulations, Susan!!!!!
