There we were summer of 2018, roaming the cloisters of the Jerónimos Monastery in Lisbon, Portugal, when news broke that Anthony Bourdain had died. I found solace, reading word of his suicide on my phone, in that we were doing exactly what he had spent the latter part of his life advocating we all do, […]
So tomorrow’s Juneteenth. Ish. Corporate America is giving millions of American workers Friday off, in observance of June 19 on Saturday. Juneteenth marks the day in 1865, when Texan slaves learned they had been freed, two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863. I expect that […]
Leave it to Jessica Chastain to make me wanna care, if only a little, about Tammy Faye Bakker. Indeed, the two-time Academy Award nominee is bringing life to The Eyes of Tammy Faye – and she is going for the win with a sure-to-be-hearty performance complete with the look, the sound, and the heft and […]
Tonight, Reuters reported first, that (Republican) Senators blocked an independent and bipartisan commission investigation into the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, and second, that the United States are sanctioning Belarus over the fraudulent grounding of a dissident-carrying plane back in Minsk earlier this month. It’s like, America…where do you get off? If you can, […]
History in the making is so much better than history repeating. Meet Lucia Lucas, a American transgender woman – Sacramento in the house! – and an international opera star, who became the first trans person ever to perform a principal role on an operatic stage in the United States of America, when she sang and […]
We need to talk about Nazis, don’t we. They were a thing that I thought we had dealt with last century, yet some people – 🙄 – are foolishly trying to make ’em happen again in various parts of the planet and all around the Internet right now as I type, even. How original. All […]
The thing about Elon Musk is until recently, I didn’t know much about Elon Musk. I don’t know much about Elon Musk, still, but now I know he has Asperger syndrome. I didn’t know that before he hosted Saturday Night Live last weekend, where he mentioned it during his opening monologue. I don’t know that […]
Half us at home got scheduled for today for a COVID-19 vaccine, so today my beloved got his Johnson & Johnson shot. (I’m a Pfizer bitch.) Someway, somehow he was offered an early evening appointment at Oakland Coliseum, so we hit the road for a joyride. And what a joy it was…. To see, so […]
For now, I try. Fucking P!NK knows. She knew back then in 2000, when she first burst onto the scene. We are billions of beautiful hearts, indeed. And we can also be so missundaztood. Twice now I’ve been thisclose to seeing her live. I sooo shoulda gone to see her play at Club Revolution in […]
Día 417: Después de más de un año de pandemia, por fin tenemos vacunas contra el COVID-19. Lo que no tenemos es un plan global para repartirlas efectivamente y equitativamente. Qué se hace, no? A seguirla nomas…con buen humor y buena voluntad. Un efecto imprevisto del novedoso coronavirus, que ojalá se vuelva aún más común? […]
King of Cups 