CULTURE: April 2008 Archives
In case the last post made you ask, "What stars besides Fergalicious/The Dutchess were on the Trashy Mickey Mouse Club?"
If you don't want to watch the entire 8 minute video, I have done it for you and here is the answer:
1) Fergalicious/The Dutchess
2) MARTIKA
3) Eric Balfour (BEWARE: Link "Dangerous For Work!")
4) J-LoHe
5) Some others of questionable fame
This is not as good a track record as the real Mickey Mouse Club. On the other hand, do they perform STEVIE NICKS on the Mickey Mouse Club?!
I hope YouTube puts up a full length music video soon.
...in front of the FLDS polygamous ladies! Did she really ask them to explain the significance of their hair?!!??!
It's a bad sign when a live performance is necessarily prefaced by a URL address.
(h/t Walt)
(h/t Walt)
Tricia Walsh Smith is a Park Ave trophy wife who is very upset about the dissolution of her marriage, and she's valiantly taken to The YouTube to air her grievances, as well as to crow about her favorable Tarot card readings.
This video is the dark side to the Real Housewives of New York City story, which turned into nothing but Sweetness & Light by its finale last night. Which is exactly why I think Tricia Walsh Smith would make a fabulous addition to their inevitable second season? (Note to BMAD: you may need to update your KWIZ).
Speaking of RHONYC: Is it just me or are all five of the Real Housewives totally wonderful people undeserving of any criticism we could throw at them? I even came around on Alex and Simon Van Camp by the finale...I for one think the fact that their precious son Francois is a normal, plays-with-food and screams-loudly-at-parties type speaks well of them as parents. And who knew Countess LuAnn was so charitable? Wasn't she SO NICE to that struggling poverty mommy...she even called her "CLEAN"!
(h/t FunFriends)
This video is the dark side to the Real Housewives of New York City story, which turned into nothing but Sweetness & Light by its finale last night. Which is exactly why I think Tricia Walsh Smith would make a fabulous addition to their inevitable second season? (Note to BMAD: you may need to update your KWIZ).
Speaking of RHONYC: Is it just me or are all five of the Real Housewives totally wonderful people undeserving of any criticism we could throw at them? I even came around on Alex and Simon Van Camp by the finale...I for one think the fact that their precious son Francois is a normal, plays-with-food and screams-loudly-at-parties type speaks well of them as parents. And who knew Countess LuAnn was so charitable? Wasn't she SO NICE to that struggling poverty mommy...she even called her "CLEAN"!
(h/t FunFriends)
This is HUGE news: Jason Beghe, who was my fourth biggest crush when I was twelve, is NO LONGER A SCIENTOLOGIST! That's right, he has broken free, and in the process he has MADE HISTORY: He is the first MAJOR CELEBRITY to break from the Church to LIVE TO TELL about it!
He's definitely older now, and his sexy cowboy rasp has deteriorated into more of an emphysemic Harvey Fierstein/Ron Leibman gargle, but he's still Beghe to me.
Unfortunately, not one of Beghe's most amazing performances -- his sexy paraplegic in "Monkey Shines," his sexy Park Ranger on an episode of "The X-Files", his sexy military BF for Matt on "Melrose Place", where he got to act alongside our very own Mommy Thorne-Smith -- is available on YouTube. The best I could come up with was THIS CLIP from "Home Alone 4".
Welcome back, Beghe!
Maximo is one of a not-so-new breed of out-and-proud Mexican wrestlers called exoticos. Apparently, they've been around since the 70's, delighting Mexican audiences with their amazing combination of fey, tinkerbellish prancey-danciness AND their strength and utter determination to win, but they've been experiencing a recent surge in popularity according to articles like THIS.He's the only exotico I know anything about but clearly he is the BEST of all the exoticos. Just look at that skirt...and look at that smile! Anyway there's a VIDEO of him doing his lucha libre magic after the button pressy thingy.
Continue reading ¡Me Amo Maximo!.
“Martha did these gift baskets with, like, cookies and tea and stuff. And I said, ‘Could you make up one for Valentine’s Day for Andy?’
“She said, ‘Who’s Andy?’
“I said, ‘Andy Warhol.’
“She said, ‘He’s too old for you!’ And then she said, ‘Oh, I want to meet him!’ She brought the basket all the way down to New York herself, and she came to the Factory, and I introduced them, and they talked about Connecticut.”
-- Richard Dupont, then a 17yo catering assistant, on how he introduced Martha Stewart to Andy Warhol circa 1977ish
This is just one of many priceless quotes from this amazing NY Mag article about Fey heroes the DUPONT BROTHERS, the world's most feybulous identical twin teenage caterers. Everyone else is talking about how they want to be played by Zac Efron in their biopic, but I actually think that's the boring part.
Hold on tight to your dreams of drinking coffee just like movers and shakers Kurt Vonnegut, Jane Curtin and HEART. You can do it!
Ah Melancholy
Smelly Hair Balls Everywhere
A Shower's Needed
--for Kim
--for Kim
This may only be of interest to me and me, but I thought I'd share some tidbits from an awesome post on Language Log today in response to this reader's query:
"There's a phenomenon that has interested me for a while, and I noticed a extreme example last weekend. When people mean "yes" they sometimes say "no, yeah" or "yeah, no" and when they mean "no" they say "yeah, no" or "no, yeah" or even "no, yeah, no."
After laying out some boringish data about this linguistic tic -- including the semi-interesting fact that it's apparently really common in Australia -- the post's author Mark Liberman gives a really clear and sensible analysis of this linguistic phenomenon.
Read all the details after the button pressy thingy, including a hot picture of a TOTALLY SHIRTLESS GUY!
Continue reading "Yeah no..." and "No yeah...".
