As a dear and now-departed man once sang in those days, “Well, it’s not the side effects of the cocaine...” Heh.

Yep. 5p-6p was Hee, 6p-7p was Dolly!, and 7p-8p was Mandrell, in that order. Then it was time for the ABC Saturday night line-up, but not for me. Only during the summers was I allowed to stay up after 8. Ah, the mid-late 70s. Soul Train came on after American Bandstand on Saturday after the cartoons, so I totally saw…

Every single person running this shit these days will die before any repercussions of their policies and statements affect them, these sociopathic bastards on top and the cowardly bureaucrats supporting them. They really are hell-bent on being a bunch of Veruca Salts before they die, and leaving the destruction to…

Oh, I don’t know. My Af-Am family watched this show, and the Dolly! and The Mandrell Sisters shows in syndication, too, right along with Soul Train. Most of it I absolutely did find corny and trite, but I’m an urbanite at heart (Barney Miller, Rhoda or any comedy set in a big city with witty dialogue was more my bag).

None of that mess sounded like “sure”.

I only know that he’s a house-head because at one of Chappelle’s sets at The Cutting Room last month, he mentioned the big party at the White House in September with basically all the famous black young-ish people. Apparently Obama threw down to some house. But he’s not that much older than me. House came up in…

It must be nice to be absolutely beautiful. I’d like to try it for a week and see what happens.

You know!?!?

I wish the audience had yelled SHAME! instead of booing.

“Our wonderful future V.P. Mike Pence was harassed last night at the theater by the cast of Hamilton, cameras blazing.This should not happen!”

“Precedent”?!!?? When no one of Japanese ancestry in those camps was ever proven to be a spy?

When the decision was reached in Roe v Wade, the conclusive argument was a conservative one: that the government had no right to invade the privacy of women making a medical choice for themselves. The rights to privacy and to non-interference by the government regarding such personal matters supposedly being…

HAHAHAHA! Short of publicly fellating him, what does Christie have to do to get a measly crumb from the table?

I don’t care about Trump or how he feels. I care about Ryan, Priebus, Pence, Gingrich, McConnell and Hatch.

It’s like no one ever heard of the Alien and Sedition Acts. Sure, their adoption was part of what got the Federalists booted in 1800, but these are different days.

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!