"when i'm good, i'm very good. but when i'm bad, i'm better."

For a multitude of reasons, not the least of which are:

1) She made Cary Grant look less than suave and completely confident (Fine, it was before he was super famous, it still counts damnit)

2) She always looked like a chandelier.

3) She always talked like a loan shark.

4) She pretty much wrote all her material - for a woman in the film industry in 1933 (hell, NOW) that's pretty fucking badass.

5) Why am I making this list? She's Mae friggin' West, it's self-explanatory.



And just because I am easily amused...by myself. I know, unfortunate, but it's going to come in handy when they put me in that padded room:


Me:  on a sort of unrelated note

i've decided i'm going to be mae west when i grow up

Theresa:  i support this

except

she was white

i think

being a citizen doesnt make that okay, sushi

Me:  listen

i will be your dirty brown mae west and you will LIKE it

goddamnit 

Theresa:  oooh baby

that just gave me shivers

Me:  damn straight

now fetch me my slippers

oh rats, wrong movie. i just turned into rex harrison instead