I need a new hairdo! I'm tired of looking like the Brewster Chubacabra!
My sister, Hazel, was going to make a verse about the Brewster Chubacabra.
She said, "the only things that rhyme with chubacabra are candelabra and
my aunt Barbara. How can I work with a macabre word like chubacabra?
Take out a wand and say, 'abracadabra'? Forget about it!"
I want a hairdo that makes me look as smart and stylin' as Sonia Sotomayor.
A piquant curl here, a controlled upsweep there. Hair that will flow back when I run after squirrels and return to waterfall bangs that stay out of my eyes if I need to
answer questions from Senators during a job interview.
Is that too much to ask from a groomer?
Last time I was at the groomer's studio, I asked for an
Annette Funicello 'do.
Not from when she was a Mouseketeer with her short Italian 'fro;
but from later years,
when she was a beach blanket babe in teen movies and had
records like "Pineapple Princess".
My beautiful black hair was long enough for a teased-up bun,
a flip behind my ears,
and flirty bangs. But, no!
The groomer shaved me and said I had fur matts!
When Sonia Sotomayor was young, she had a hairdo like
Annette's Mouseketeer pixie pouf.
I don't want that. I'm going for a look that says brainy,
refined and job serious
with a little bit of dance-party, fun puppy too.
This time, I'm bringing a photo of
Sonia Sotomayor to the groomer so she can copy the cut.
When Sonia Sotomayor has some down time, she likes to go to Puerto Rico.
She was born in New York, but her parents came from Puerto Rico
and she has cousins who live there.
The lovely island of Puerto Rico is where the first chubacabras were
seen by reliable witnesses who saw them in their car headlights
on the way home from salsa dance parties in the middle of the night.
Puerto Rico is also a place where pineapples are grown commercially.
In Puerto Rico, pineapples are used in many recipes.
Here is a link to a recipe for
And above is a photo of an actual Pineapple Princess.
With my beautiful new coiffure, I could enter a pineapple pageant too!
Sonia Sotomayor is (unfortunately) a lifelong Yankees fan
and we question her judgement on that.
She can't help it. She grew up in close proximity to Yankee Stadium.
At least she likes baseball.
We recently spotted one of our favorites from Baseball Nation
at a salsa dance party in Boston.
He spent childhood years living in Puerto Rico too!
With my serious-yet-sporty nueva Latina hairdo,
maybe Mike and I could
convince Sonia Sotomayor to give Fenway a try.
Mofongo and a mojito could sweeten the deal.
Woof! - Li Lu
