Last Friday, I wound up at a large gay bar in San Antonio for a friend’s birthday. I heard “Womanizer” not once, not twice, but three times in the two hours we were there. Britney Spears seems to be making major inroads as a gay icon, and I hope she sticks with it. Starlets fade, […]
The video above is of, well, an exploding whale. The carcass washed up in Oregon, where the Highway Division decided to blow it up with a half-ton of dynamite. One of my undergraduate history instructors showed it in class to demonstrate misplaced faith in technology. I love the exploding whale video, and watching it in […]
Medley from Riki Lindhome on Vimeo.
My friend Bart (note his blog is often NSFW, although he’s usually good about putting images behind cuts) pointed me to Garfunkel & Oates. The music’s playful and poppy, and it’s great to see a woman-led act in this comedic vein. You can download a whole bunch of their songs […]
I am incredibly disturbed when people don’t know who ABBA is. I don’t especially love ABBA — they have some excellent tracks, but I was never particularly tied to them — but, I think it’s impossible to conceive of the current pop music scene without ABBA having happened. Also, they’re the only band to ever […]
Bea Arthur and Rock Hudson singing an ode to substance abuse. [source]
Like millions of people, I was sad to hear of the death of Bea Arthur today. She was a tough broad and a brilliant comedian. I grew up watching Golden Girls, and the model of friendship-as-sustenance shown on that series has influenced my own […]