Wacky Chicks: Life Lessons from Fearlessly Inappropriate and Fabulously Eccentric Women

by Simon Doonan

Book Overview

Celebrates the growing phenomenon of eccentric fashion ideas, careers, attitudes, behaviors, mating rituals, and habitats of wacky women through sixteen life stories.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743243412
• ISBN13: 9780743243414
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Inspirational book for those out there that do not fit in!

I live in a small rural area and heard about this book online. Once I requested a copy through my local library and read it through, I realized I needed a copy of my very own. This book is The Bible for those quirky ladies out there who refuse to live by the rules of others, who march to the beat of their own drummer. Once I read it, I didn't feel like I was such an freak, for lack of a better word. If only more people went their own direction, this world would certainly be a more amusing place, let alone more tolerable. I now own this book- and read it quite regularly, as the stories are always refreshing and inspiring...Thank you Simon and ladies!

Better than psychotherapy!!

This book has become my ULTIMATE bible, a precious life instrument- so good, I read it twice in a row when I received it!! Simon Doonan's slightly bitchy, ultra-gay, British sense of humour may not please everyone, but it was a pure joy to me. I especially loved the inspiring, motivational tone of the book and the outlook on the lives of fabulous, eccentric, smart women who are who they are without apologies. Fun, inspiring, light and wise- Wacky Chicks is a world-class instrument for builing a solid, rich, passionate life AND the happiness we deserve!!

It's about time!

I am so glad someone finally took a closer look at us.(I'm a redhead wacky chick and proud of it) Although, some of the examples were a bit extreme, he has helped me to realize I'm not looney. I am not afraid to have fun in all I do, I don't care if people judge me, and I live life to the fullest - all with a sense of humor. Why follow the heard when you can blaze your own path?Very inspriring and enlightening. Thanks Simon.

Wacky Chicks are Fabulously Funny Birds

If you have ever looked askance at the lady next door who keeps iguanas, wears fishnets and sliced spandex, paints with crystals, sports a blue mohawk do and says whatever is on her mind at the moment - Get Over It! Simon Doonan has recognized a great truth: Wacky Chicks, those brave one-of-a-kind babes who do their own thing in their own way, are very cool. Worship them! says Doonan. They're not only having much more fun than their dress-for-success having-it-all sisters. They are the "screetching apotheosis" of feminist achievement and their lives the ultimate proof that "Womens Lib" worked after all!Here are 14 colorful mini biographies (16 if you count the author's Mum and Gran) to prove it! Doonans deliciously provocative Chicks are out to B.R.U.N.C.H. - "Belligerent, Resilient, Uninhibited, Naughty, Creative and Hilarious" in flamboyant plumage. His riotous take on their lives is as non stop flat out over the top hilarious as the rare birds themselves. For a fearlessly funny and fabulously feathered summer treat read Wacky Chicks.By the way, I'm one of them. I know Simon will have you laughing and loving us too. Just don't forget the worship part, 'cause honey, we earned it!

NAUGHTY, CREATIVE, AND HILARIOUS!

Reading "Wacky Chicks" is very much like dishing with a best friend. Of course, this friend knows everything, sees everything, and tells all about the most outrageous women imaginable. If you're lucky enough to have Simon Doonan as your friend he doesn't relate information disparagingly but rather affectionately and in delicious detail. This all too short romp through the lives of the bold, brazen and sometimes beautiful is subtitled "Life Lessons from Fearlessly Inappropriate and Fabulously Eccentric Women." Rightly so. We meet Brigid Berlin, a rather chubby Andy Warhol adoptee who through this artist discovered an excellent venue for her exhibitionism - whether it was shooting whipped cream into her mouth or shooting mind altering substances into not-mentioned-in-polite-society body parts. Today, according to Doonan, she can be found in a Park Avenue apartment. Gray haired and well groomed, she appears to be the stereotypical well-to-do matron. Don't be fooled. There's a needlepoint pillow which is a portrait of Yasir Arafat with the words "They're Our Cousins" on it. Companion pillows are Chandra Levy and Michael Jackson. It seems that few Wacky Chicks age gracefully; they simply age with a flare. Pages in this sometimes ditzy, always delightful tell-all also include vignettes about Isabel Garrett, doyenne and driver of a motor home which hop scotches across the United States with pit stops at swinger conventions and biker rallies. Whether or not she drives in the all-together is not mentioned, but she is a sworn nudist. Someone on planet Earth has produced, written, and performed macrobiotic dinner theater; she is Jessica Porter, hypnotist to numerous celebrities. Having read this far, it almost comes as no surprise that Amy Sedaris, chief of everything of the Comedy Central series Strangers with Candy, has transformed her apartment into a woodland wonderland all for the benefit of her beloved pet rabbit, Tattle-tale. According to our erstwhile author, "Wacky chicks are a burgeoning and highly entertaining phenomenon. Wacky chicks will change the world. Wacky chicks dare to annoy. Wacky chicks empower themselves and others without acting like blokes. Wacky chicks are having more fun than most regular chicks and all men, except maybe gay men. Wacky chicks are disapproval-immune. Wacky chicks are belligerent, resilient, uninhibited, naughty, creative, and hilarious...." So is Simon Doonan. - Gail Cooke