Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.…

Yes, get the rope! And then magically, all your problems will go away! Just kill whomever it is you don’t like! But as the French Revolution showed, one minute it’s the other, sure, but the next minute it’s you!

Well, now, even Bowie watched his fair share of TV, and look at just how much he got done in terms of work and... er, life experience... in his time on Earth. And he was a child of the TV age if there ever was one! Plus, I think Uncle Floyd is a great, elegiac song.

I may not like her work, but I never doubted that she could sing. She and Bey, for two examples, just aren’t my cuppa. Is that what’s going on? “Not liking” is being conflated to “having no talent” in some critical quarters? Because that’s ignorant.

Pete Burns from Dead or Alive just died too, sadly. Heart attack at 57. Too young, too young!

I wish I were clever enough to come up with a variation of “Pug-Nosed Face” for the occasion. It would seem fitting, somehow.

But are Bowie and Prince alive? You’ll be OK if they are!

He’s so cool! And he’s hot. And he’s funny. I have to say, though, GBBO feels like it’s more of a show you watch and bond over with your sassy Nana; however, if the powers that be at Channel 4 feel that sassy Nanas will love Richard, then let’s do this.

I know “moolie” from the Eddie Murphy gag he had during the Raw tour in 1987. He was basically calling out a certain sort of NY/NJ Italian-American fellow who watched too many Rocky pictures and then equated themselves to this fantasy character. Murphy did consider them white, though.

TBH, when I studied her work and influence in one of my college TV classes, I thought she had already died, and was made to know immediately that she was very much alive and working at that time. And this was ~25 years ago.

William Hogarth, they are not, and their campaign will be just as effective; that is to say, not even a teensy bit.

This is just the “Big Lie” strategy again. No one acutally believes this about Clinton. NO ONE. These Republican goobers are just flinging shit at a wall to see what sticks at this point, obviously.

Those kids are cute as buttons. The Bowes-Lyon eye DNA gene game is pretty darn strong, too! They’ve got the Queen Mother’s twinkle.

This looks AMAZING! Definitely watching this.

I saw Gene Wider in The Producers first. It was on TV in the early 70s. I must have been 3 or 4. He was so goofy. That’s all I could comprehend, and he made me laugh. Then I saw Blazing Saddles a couple of years later, also on TV. Bowdlerized, of course, but in the scene that introduces him, I looked at those…

Hey, that’s far out!

Ugh, Gene’s poor family. Obviously, it was expected, but probably no less heartbreaking for that.

What would make a person self-sabotage like this?

Iman posted a photo of the now-16 year old Lexi the other day on Instagram, and I thought, Oh, lord, is this child a model now, too?

I wonder who was in charge of choosing/approving the songs over there? Because, holy shit, aside from the weird and truly puzzling use of Queen’s music, and You Can’t Always Get What You Want, WHY would you have the RNC house band play Station To Station, of all things? A song that includes the lyrics: “It’s not the…