Please just name one. Let's be honest: no one wants to read anyone else's long list.

I'll post mine inside.

He's such a ditzy Twink!

I'm fascinated by him because he's independent, he lives in an RV, he's fairly handy, and he seems really nice.

But he's so ditzy!

He has a mouse infestation in his camper, he doesn't really know how to drive, he can't cook for shit, and he's so clumsy!

Ethan also thinks that wet wipes constitute "taking a bath," and he's constantly breaking things in his camper.

I think he also has a few OCD type of phobias, which he hasn't really explained fully.

Nevertheless, I think he's adorable. And at least he has a boyfriend to keep him company.

And oh yeah, the boyfriend won't show his face on camera. Lol.

If it comes down to one vote blame me.

I was engaged to him.

She attended the Dancers Against Cancer gala in Beverly Hills and looked better than she has in years. She's now saying she will go to every performance for that Drag show she's producing in New York. Okay, so we've all said she won't get the Kennedy Center Honors because she can't make the trip. Can this be the start of a comeback?

In January, according to a neighbor, the new owners of the Grand Junction house held a garage sale to get rid of things that the previous owners had left behind. Among those items they were looking to sell was a deep freezer.

The neighbor said some people showed up to buy the freezer and when they opened it up to remove the meat, a human head fell out of a plastic bag.

I’m scared. What should we do ?

There are actors where the first time I saw them in roles of significance, I ran to IMDb to check their names. Some people are simply talented.

However.

There are many, many, more I thought would go on to get great roles but didn’t. Sure, many have enviable careers that 99% of actors would kill for. But I expected more. That they would have more buzz surrounding them. Maybe that they would be more be bigger stars, or work consistently with world class or be competing with A-Listers for the highest quality shows or movies. Certainly, that they would have good roles in stuff that I like.

Harry Lloyd from Great Expectations.

Jason Dohring from Veronica Mars.

Natalie Dormer from The Tudors.

Matthew Lillard in Serial Mom.

Michael Biehn in The Terminator

Mischa Barton in Lawn Dogs.

Romola Garai from I Capture The Castle.

Shailene Woodley in The Descendants

OK, not a great title. But I didn't see a new thread.

Run into the grocery store to pick up a couple items. 50 dollars. A bag of groceries for 4 days? 100 dollars. A new hiking jacket? 300 bucks. Or 600 bucks for that matter. A basic duvet cover? 100 dollars.

I suppose I should be grateful that I'm not a lady jonesing for a Chanel or Hermes handbag.

Britain’s next leading man? Meet Louis Partridge, the young actor taking over fashion and film alike

He’s dating one of the world’s most famous popstars, he’s walked the runways for globally-revered designers, and he’s about to share the screen with Cate Blanchett – is Louis Partridge the new leading light of British cinema?

With his upcoming role in dynastic biopic House of Guinness, which chronicles the tragedies and triumphs of the family of Anglo-Irish billionaires, British actor Louis Partridge will need to get to grips with some of modern history’s most illustrious power couples. Think Lady Brigid Guinness marrying Prince Frederick of Prussia (they fell in love while she nursed wounds he sustained in a not-so regal tractor accident), or the relationship between the most swinging of sixties socialites, Tara Browne and the model Suki Poitier.

And while 21-year-old Louis has already proven himself to be quite the actor – holding his own alongside screen icons like Hugh Grant and Julie Walters in Paddington 2, or Bryan Cranston in Argyle – he may be able to draw from lived experience when he takes on the loves and losses of the Guinness family.

Anybody else watching. Such good reviews but I’m finding the acting or dialogue a bit cringe this season. Ellis is a hottie, the main smiley character is the stuff of nightmares.

Having never made the Hall of Fame.

Kathryn Hahn!

Patti Lu!

One of those boys from that one show!

I Uber eated like 4 times. Too lazy to drive. No energy, always hungry? Do I have the monster? Am I dying?

The 2024 season is set to start on September 17.

I'm still glad there is no Tyra Banks despite her leaving over a year ago.

Anybody else going to see this?

I like Vatican intrigue, whether in real life or a movie.

Just now during SNL. What a concept.

new face in the modeling industry

Australian fashion model Samuel Barrie

Gotta say I'm amazed there isn't already a thread. Spoilers obviously.

And go back to the old days where people watched the evening news for 30 minutes and listened to facts being reported instead of 24 hours a day of commentary and spin?

It's time to listen to my favorite holiday album!

He's joined the cast of Terrifier 3.

It is now the appropriate time of year to discuss Rosemary's Baby. Roman Polanski was extraordinary faithful to Ira Levin's novel.

Mia Farrow leads an eerie ensemble; John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer, Maurice Evans, Angela Dorian, Charles Grodin, Elishia Cook Jr., Patsy Kelly, Phil Leeds, Hope Summers, and RALPH BELLAMY as Dr. Sapirstein.

With music by Krzysztof Komeda and an unsettling plot, the film became a critical and commercial hit, In fact, the film was so effective, Hammer Horror legend Christopher Lee said it was the scariest film ever made.

I'm triggered by all of the male nudity. It's rapey.

WHY??????!!!!!!

Good ol fashion hot dogs, onion rings, tato chips, and a dill pickle over here.

John Baxter (Donald Sutherland) in Dont Look Now

Marion Crane ((Janet Leigh) in Psycho

Rosemary Woodhouse (Mia Farrow) in Rosemary’s Baby

Kate Miller (Angie Dickson) in Dressed to Kill

Ripley (Sigorney Weaver) in several Aliens

Yours?

Place your bets here! I think it is most likely to be Travis Kelce, Pedro Pascal or Jeremy Allen White.

Wildcard: Lewis Hamilton Fug card: Barry Keoghan 2nd timers card: High Jackman and Ryan Reynolds as the Sexiest Men Alive Turns it down but is desperate to be a star card: Ryan Gosling

Re: Prince William, hear me out. Forget the fact that he hasn’t been actually sexually attractive since the birth of his first child. The BRF need positive PR and this would generate positive headlines in Britain for William being a Brave Husband and Son of cancer victims. He could speak some platitudes regarding cancer research and his environment awards ceremony.

Jonathan Bailey has had a good couple of years but Matt Bomer is more likely to be the first gay choice.

Gyllenhaal and his ass will be campaigning for Presumed Innocent.

A great thread that had my reading for hours. Tommy Lee Jones and Jared Leto come up with unsurprising regularity. Some, like Shaq have severe swings in reactions, some calling him the greatest, most friendly and others hating him. Michael Jordan and Kobe are not favorites either. This is a one of the best posts I've ever read on Musk:

Elon Musk. He stayed at a mountain resort that I worked at in 2018 . He was luckily only there for 3 days but he was an utter terror the entire time he was there.

He refused to be checked in at the reception area and demanded a private check in at his cabin which is fine but we ask ahead of time so we can staff properly for the later arrivals.

He asked for the youngest female concierge on staff to be sent to the check in with nobody else for "security" reasons. I took the check in myself instead of sending the 19 year old and took the largest and oldest driver I could find for security reasons.

He wanted the personal cell phone numbers for all female concierge staff. I said that is against out policy and set him up with the resort app so he could contact whoever was on duty for a prompt answer.

He harassed every single female employee so nastily that by the time he had been there for 12 hours every department switched him to only male staff. He didn't tip any of the wait staff or guides for any activities. He booked a private horseback ride that a wrangler was brought in specially for the day and then refused to go because he didn't like the colors of any of the horses available , and he wanted to ride a really "butch and muscular" horse. He meant a draft horse, which we had for pulling wagons but none for riding.

He also had insane demands. He wanted a 80 year old beautiful ponderosa pine cut down because he didn't like how the light hit it at sunset. He wanted shock collars put on the squirrels to stop them from being too loud. And he wanted us to trap a grizzly bear and bring it to his cabin for a few hours so he could take pictures and study it.

He was the rudest, stupidest and most arrogant POS I have ever encountered.

Porn? Food? Interior design?

Gruff but compassionate are the only words I can think of to describe veteran American actor George C. Scott.

From the beginning he appeared in classic films such as Anatomy of a Murder, The Hustler, and Dr. Strangelove, but he catapulted to international stardom when he starred as the titular character in Franklin J. Schaffner's Patton, where he won the Oscar but told the Academy to " kindly lose my number." After Patton, he continued to appear in both critical and cult classics; The Hospital, Hardcore, The Changeling, Firestarter, A Christmas Carol, The Ryan White Story,12 Angry Men, and The Exorcist III.

When not working, he campaigned and advised his close friend and neighbor, Lowell Weicker.

What is the legacy of George C. Scott?

I will be living there for a year for work. I'm in the Near North/Gold Coast area. I've liked it the handful of times I've visited, but those were only a day here and a few days there.

And I love winter, so that aspect of life won't be an issue.

So, what is life in Chicago like?

It's hard to see how she (he?) would have stayed out of all the election threads.

[QUOTE]Now Benjamin Netanyahu, the man who has dominated Israeli politics for more than a decade, has made a dramatic return to power with the help of far-right parties that surged into the mainstream after the country’s latest election.

Sammy Basso was one of the oldest known people with the premature aging disease progeria, and he worked to find a cure for his own affliction. The progeria advocate and biologist died October 5th at the age of 28.

Part III is close to filling up. Carry on here!

The Dems are bringing in Barack, aka The Closer. He’ll be tearing up the campaign trail for Kamala Harris starting Thursday October 10th.

[QUOTE]This captivating docuseries explores themes like childhood trauma, mental health and revenge, and it will also get viewers thinking about who the true victims are.

The official trailer to the remake of Salem’s Lot is here.

Like...what's the diagnosis? DID, schizo, BPD?

[quote]Italy is finalizing a controversial security decree, dubbed ‘anti-Gandhi’ because it targets non-violent protests. It also makes it impossible for undocumented migrants to buy a SIM card and bans light cannabis.

[quote]Meloni’s security decree has been met with unusually strong opposition from the country’s judiciary. Fabrizio Vanorio, a public prosecutor from Naples, warned: “It provides for technically fascist rules. If approved, it would return Italy to an authoritarian criminal law similar to that of the Mussolini years or, to give a more modern example, yo that of Orbán’s Hungary.”

Shirley MacLaine will be on 'CBS Sunday Morning' this weekend, promoting her new memoir (yes, she wrote another one) and talking about her friend Liz Taylor and the movie she turned down ("Breakfast at Tiffany's") among other things. Here's a brief clip:

Younger than Diddy, so we can rule out Frankie Valli.

For now, anyway.

[post redacted because linking to dailymail.co.uk clearly indicates that the poster is either a troll or an idiot (probably both, honestly.) Our advice is that you just ignore this poster but whatever you do, don't click on any link to this putrid rag.]

If he still had his cocky good looks this would be a global tragedy.

There’s no low she won’t stoop to. This is exactly what her brother was talking about.

…that you’ve never heard of since

My mom used to oily pads called Eye Q’s to remove eye Make up. And some type of gelatin supplement drink for her nails.

Host: Ariana Grande

Musical Guest: Stevie Nicks

Continue the MSNBC discussion here as Part 61 is full

It's only within the last 50 or 60 years since cats have been kept only indoors. If not completely feral, cats either lived outside (but sheltered in barns) or they were allowed inside but also let outside the house. It was impossible to predict lifespan because of disease, injuries, accidents, etc. Now that cats can be completely domesticated indoors with healthy food and stimulation, how long are they expected to live?

"To be fair..." "Not for nothing..." "Off-topic..." To his/her crédit..." 🤯

A woman ahead of the times, who began renegotiating the concept of natural and attractive decades ago.

While soaking my feet in my epsom filled feet water jet while eating caviar with the best darn cookout deviled eggs I have ever had in a lifetime.

Jealous bitches?

Who is your go-to Mahler conductor?

Mahler, his music, and his recordings are a hot topic for classical fans. Who is your go-to Mahler conductor?

It's still Mary Janes. Candy corn and circus peanuts are just as bad.

Second day in a row. I'm an Eldergay who needs his elderbooks.

Something I read about a year ago is “you never have to fight for something that was meant to be yours.”

It reminded me of a time when I was trying to get into a certain university, and I couldn’t get in. I reapplied and kept fighting and trying to negotiate things and it didn’t work. Then I applied to another university and I got right in and had a wonderful experience.

I also used to be in a lousy relationship that I kept trying to make work. Finally after a long decline, a wonderful guy just walked into my life and we’ve been together 14 years.

I fucked these cookies up somehow and I could not get them to mix- they were totally crumbled. So I googled and added some melted butter and water.

Anyway, they rise but do not spread.

And due to the water they are not very rich or have the correct texture. They are more cakey but gluey.

Im like fuck it, let me turn these into bars and throw them into a brownie pan.

Is there anything I can do to salvage these. Including choke on them. What a waste of time!

Tinted windows on a car always make me wonder what the owner has to hide.

There's something different about the way she looks lately.

Hurricane Milton projected to hit as a category 2. Storm could cover entire length of state, stretching from the Keys to Tallahasse at its apex.

The danger of a storm this big is rain. The flooding for this may be devastating, as all outlets to the sea on the entire Florida peninsula would be inundated with an immense about of rain at the same time.

Il Syringo triumphs over Daddy Fritz in straight sets. On to the rest of the season.

Interviewed by the homosexual Steve Kmetko

Blake Lively couldn’t catch her breath this summer when her rumored feud with It Ends With Us director and co-star Justin Baldoni took on a life of its own. She was accused of taking over the project, along with her husband Ryan Reynolds, and it led to the cast taking sides in the very public debate.

Now that Lively will be promoting A Simple Favor 2 with Anna Kendrick in 2025, she’s reportedly ready to show a softer side to her personality. “Blake has now had the biggest direct hit of her career with It Ends With Us but she’s not going to let herself be permanently painted as the villain every project she does going forward,” an insider told Life & Style. “In fact, she is pushing back against that strongly and making sure her real allies know just how much they are valued.”

If you didn’t already know, Lively’s “mean-girl” reputation has been whispered about before. She and Kendrick reportedly didn’t get along on the set of the first film of the franchise in 2018. The TikTok account Celebrity Memoir Bookclub spoke with a studio insider who worked on the film and spilled some serious tea.

“They HATED each other,” comedian Claire Parker said in the video, via the Daily Mail. “The studio even had to have a talk with them about making it look like they liked each other on press tours because it was starting to get obvious. Anna in particular was really competitive with Blake and was constantly asking to make sure she got more promotion than Blake and even made us PHOTOSHOP HER CLEAVAGE in the Simple Favor poster to be as big (or bigger) than Blake’s.”

The Life & Style source noted that Lively and Kendrick “managed to put aside their personality differences” when they filmed earlier this year. Kendrick described the reunion as “lovely” to People on Oct. 11, but she was rather vague about their friendship. “She lives on the East Coast, I live on the West Coast, so we don’t get to see each other often,” Kendrick explained. “But it was lovely, and I think that those characters have such weird chemistry that it’s so fun to just get the gang back together. And it does feel a little bit like riding a bike.”

Let’s see how Kendrick and Lively handle their press tour ahead of the film’s release. Will it be frosty or friendly?

Theme revealed. Yawn.

Attention whore Shawn Mendes’ nudes will “leak”.

Meghan MyFather McCain turns 40 in tend days (October 23). Let's be her 40th Birthday Party !

I'm the hologram of her dead father John McCain, and I'm mingling with the other guests. "Oh my God, he came back to life !" is a constant comment I hear throughout the room.

It seems like every day there are more and stranger stories of Republicans going off the rails.

Let's compile them here

A thread for the home stretch, part two

You ruin your life, you losing your mind, you dyeing your hair

People say I'm jealous, but my kink is watching

You crashing your car, you breaking your heart, you thinking I care.

What does the DL have to say about America's thirstiest little gay Mormon?

One of the best live singers ever.

What went wrong?

This is one of the most frightening films that I have ever seen.

I am an Ari Ester fan, and it is probably more disturbing than Hereditary and Midsommer.

I watched it a year ago, and then again today- and it was more disturbing on a second viewing.

The script is very cruel once you know what happens-

One of the very few horror films that is more horrifying on the 2nd viewing.

I do not know how these actors did it- in this film particularly-

Amazing film-

What do you think of this arse?

It's a girl.

Will it finally be the year for Oliver Jackson Cohen?

Or someone else?

Make your guesses here!

Aiden suddenly looks very swole, Sam seems even more lethargic as usual, and the Shoe Polish Don just keeps rolling on.

Share your continued thoughts about the goings on in PC here.

As an adult, are birthdays a big deal to you, or do you like something more low-key? I know some people who celebrate the whole month. I just like to have the day off.

Breaking and entering 🐻

But MAGA told me that America was a crime-filled hellhole with migrants killing people left and right...

“It fell back to another version of ‘Snow White’ that was told in history, where she survived a snowstorm that occurred when she was a baby. And so the king and queen decided to name her Snow White to remind her of her resilience.”

I recently had a hard time remembering the name of a film I saw years ago on VHS after renting it from a video store. I knew it was from the 70s and a slasher and remember liking it. I finally remembered it was titled ‘The Toolbox Murders’. I saw it was available to stream on Pluto and Tubi so I rewatched it. It’s such an underrated slasher. It’s better than most modern slashers. Most old horror films and slasher filmed relied heavily on building a horrific and uncomfortable atmosphere while modern films rely on jump scares and gore (see: Terrifier).

This was actually good! Has anyone else watched it? I thoroughly enjoyed this one.

I see Tobe Hooper directed a remake in 2004 but I read it’s very different from the original. I will watch it though. That one had a sequel in 2013.

There was supposed to be a sequel for this one in 1986 or so but it got canceled.

So that was nice to hear and a slim good looking Latino guy called it THICK and said he liked my body- not bad for an eldergay.

A recent interview years after his very dishy podcast with Kara Mayer Robinson. Tim talks very candidly about how bad the PR contracts were, how despicable Harvey Weinstein is (he notes he's not surprised he's jail) and how happy he is doing Amazon's Making the Cut. This is a really, good interview.

What are the dumbest things you’ve ever thought in your life?

I thought that the Alaskan wilderness would have significantly fresher air that would’ve noticeable. I was quite mistaken. It was just like breathing any other air.

My mom thought blood was blue until it hit oxygen and then it turned red.

Barbra Streisand is one of the top contenders to score a Grammy nomination for 2025 - this one is not for a music recording, but for best audio book, narration, and storytelling recording category for the audiobook of her long-awaited memoir, 'My Name Is Barbra'.

Other contenders for reading their audiobook memoirs are President Jimmy Carter, Matthew Perry* and Nancy Pelosi.

*Not sure how Perry got into the 2025 nominations, as his book was released a year before Streisand's and should have been considered for the 2024 Grammys.

Hallmark Channel may want to consider a nickname like Ali’s Place: Alison Sweeney is about to celebrate her 30th movie for the media company.

This Time Each Year will premiere October 24 as part of the kick off for Hallmark Mystery’s Miracles of Christmas programming event. Sweeney plays Lauren, who was once in love with Kevin (Niall Matter) but nearly a year after their separation, they now focus on co-parenting their young son Charlie (Ezra Wilson). Despite the split, Kevin is determined to make their family whole again.

A special first look of the film will debut during Sweeney’s 10th Hannah Swensen movie franchise installment, A Sprinkle of Deceit: A Hannah Swensen Mystery, that’s premiering October 4 on Hallmark Mystery.

Dataloungers- Please say some choice things about this PARADE FLOAT/MOOSE

good or bad

Doing Yard work or working out.

Are some of the XL hung men well known? Have you sampled their natural gifts? Spill.

Two of the notorious horse hung gay guys in Geneva live in my neighborhood. One is an old lawyer and back in the day everyone had to have him. This went on for decades. The twinks to his age, they all lined up at his door. He must be in his mid 70s now. He's very charming and upbeat in personality and was always a great fuck.

The other one is neurodivergent, in his 50s now, and must be one of the world's biggest Sylvie Vartan fans. I think he was a shop bottom for awhile but may be living on disability and family support now. I had him young. Or rather he had me. He was sweet but a real space cadet. Immense dong.

Anna, I just don't know what to do about Carla.

Justin Bieber is on the verge of a total collapse as he faces the shattering possibility that sordid details about his relationship with Sean "Diddy" Combs will soon be exposed for all the world to see, sources exclusively tell In Touch.

Insiders close to the 30-year-old "Stay" singer say he's "shut himself off from the world" as he wrestles with his disturbing past, when he was a fresh-faced 15-year-old trying to impress a music industry mogul whose alleged degenerate ways are only now coming to light.

"No one knows what's going on with Justin," says a member of his inner circle. "It's like he's fallen off the map since Diddy's arrest and all the sick details coming out. People are genuinely worried about him."

Sources say Justin — who recently became a dad for the first time with model wife Hailey Bieber — partied hard during Diddy's now-infamous "Freak Off" orgies.

"Dealing with that and being a new dad probably has him stressed as hell," says the insider.

Justin was just 13 in 2008 when he was signed to manager Scooter Braun and Usher's music label. Through Usher, he met Diddy, now 54, and became the rap impresario’s protégé.

As a recently unearthed video reveals, the two buddies spent a wild weekend together in 2009. In the video, the rapper alarmingly says, "Where we're hanging out and what we're doing, we can't really disclose, but it's definitely a 15-year-old's dream. I have been given custody of him. I don't have legal guardianship of him, but for the next 48 hours, he's with me, and we're gonna go full crazy."

It's long been rumored Diddy plied Justin with drugs and booze and brought him to clubs when he was underage. Justin himself has confessed he struggled with drug use as a young adult while he dealt with pain that nearly drove him to do the unthinkable.

"I think there were times when I was really, really suicidal, like man is this pain ever going to go away," he once shared.

Sources say Justin, who has seen his star cool considerably in recent years, is terrified details of those troubled times will be laid bare as Diddy faces sex trafficking and assault charges in what promises to be a sensational criminal trial.

Recent images of a gaunt Justin have raised new fears about his state of mind.

"I can only imagine the horrors he carries around with him," confides the insider. "And now he has to deal with all this stuff being dredged up, threatening his marriage and career. No one would be surprised if he has a complete breakdown!"

I'm having a sort of Shepard's pie with a bag of Beyond Burger instead of meat. Really filling with lots of fresh mashed potatoes on top. Plus, endless glasses of white wine.

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to celebrate the death of the Trump/Vance ticket. Or maybe the just Trump ticket, give it a few more days for dough boy. No one will mourn, no one will cry (except for Vance’s hillbilly relatives. Moonshine all around!). May you rot in political purgatory for eternity. Or at least in prison. Donations in their memory may be made to Kamala Harris for President.

Rev. Jack Smith, Esq.

Previous thread below

I was listening to The Town podcast, Matt Belloni’s show about the business of Hollywood.

He and his guest, reporter Lucas Shaw, mentioned what an asshole John apparently is. This show is not gossipy by nature but they said it’s an open secret.

They said he hogged the credit for the Quiet Place script, when he was a co-writer.

And that there was lots of turnover on his show Jack Ryan as people working on the show wanted nothing to do with him.

Melania Trump‘s memoir, appropriately titled Melania, drops today and in it she takes aim at a familiar target: Rosie O’Donnell.

The ex-FLOTUS writes about how, in 2016, a clip of then-10-year-old Barron Trump purportedly displaying “signs” of autism began circulating online, prompting many to question whether he was on the autism spectrum.

Among the people speculating was Rosie, who tweeted: “Barron Trump Autistic? If so — what an amazing opportunity to bring attention to the AUTISM epidemic.”

A backlash ensued and she later apologized and deleted the tweet then she put out a statement saying: “i feel trump is a clear and present danger. but this autism subject – had nothing to do with donald.”

We should note that Rosie’s child is neurodivergent. The comic has been an advocate for autism awareness for years and is currently producing a documentary about Guide Dogs of America’s program for autistic children.

In her book, Melania says she was “appalled” by the Rosie’s since-deleted tweet.

“I was appalled by such cruelty,” the ex-FLOTUS writes. “It was clear to me that she was not interested in raising awareness about autism. I felt that she was attacking my son because she didn’t like my husband.”

Three-time Tony winner Patti LuPone and Golden Globe nominee Mia Farrow, who will return to Broadway later this month in Jen Silverman's The Roommate, recently dropped by Late Night With Seth Meyers.

LuPone and Farrow spoke about their brief rehearsal period (it's only three weeks), the start of their friendship many years ago thanks to Stephen Sondheim, and some shocking evenings working on stage.

Races and Primary dates Inside,

where Abortion Rights and Global Boiling are on the ballot:

Who are YOU in this clip?

Can we have a new discussion of underrated horror films in time for Halloween? There was an old thread back in 2018 but it’s been locked for years.

I nominate The Skeleton Key (2005) with Gena Rowlands, Kate Hudson, Goldie Hawn, John Hurt, and Peter Saarsgard. It’s a Southern gothic thriller with a lot of atmosphere with good (and even sometimes great campy) acting performances. Also, the twist isn’t ending a cheap one at all - it was there all along if you know where to look.

Now that he has alienated his traditional customer base he also stands to lose billions in government grants if Trump doesn't win. Musk is also counting on Trump to relax and/or remove business, financial and environmental regulations. Just like all the other oligarchs who run the good ole USA.

What a fucking asshole.

He's cute too.

Latino from the South Bronx.

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The new series starts on Channel 4 next Tuesday Sep. 24.

I only see one rather cute guy in the lineup, but maybe the others have winning personalities.

Would HRC and GLAAD and other gay and lesbian organizations have remained gay and fought to further gay rights? Could gay rights have gone beyond marriage equality? There are so many possibilities? Maybe the federal government could have passed a law to help gays seeking asylum from places like Uganda. Maybe there could have been specific healthcare initiatives that could have been enacted to help gays and lesbians. Who knows.

Starts Sept. 18.

Link has cast members including: Jon Lovett: As a podcast host, I get to travel the country with Pod Save America and Lovett or Leave It,

Pick your top 3 and winner.

Kyle, Genevieve, Andy.

Winner: Andy

I met him five years ago. I thought he was hot, but he had a girlfriend, so he seemed straight. Between being straight and also being 12 years younger than me, I didn’t think I’d have a shot with him, but I always thought he was cute.

Anyway, I would look for signs of gayness. The most I could see was that he was into bodybuilding, but not much signs after that. Still, I thought he seemed like the kind of guy who would be down for a boy-girl-boy threesome. I suspected he was an auto-androphilr, if nothing else.

Anyway, 2022, he got engaged with his girlfriend, and he ended up marrying her last year.

They finally separated earlier this year. I thought, “Hmmm, will he still be straight? Is he available?”

Anyway, a few months ago, my former roommate asked me if the brother could stay with me in my house temporarily (brother had been living with my former roommate and his girlfriend). I said of course because I figured it was an opportunity to see if I could hook up with him.

But my roommate told me that his brother had been seeing this 45 year-old woman. (I’m 43, the brother is 31). I thought, “Well, at least I’m younger than his current girlfriend.” The brother apparently liked this new girlfriend because she was skinnier than his wife had been (the wife had gotten fat and was not physically a match for him, a bodybuilder).

The brother showed up at my house two weeks ago. We were chatting, and he originated to me that he wasn’t entirely straight and his sexuality had been an issue in his marriage.

Anyway, last night, we were chatting again, and he invited me to go with him to a gay bar. So I went with him, we had drinks, kept chatting, are legs touching, but I wasn’t sure if he wanted to hook up or not.

Then we went home, into the living room, sat down on the couch, continued talking, and then finally, I leaned forward to kiss him and he was all over me!

We eventually got naked and made out in bed. I went down on him for a bit, but neither of us came.

He says he’s never had anal sex before (neither have I).

Today, apparently he’s out seeing his 45 year-old girlfriend.

My former roommate has no idea we’ve hooked up!

A lawyer for a new Sean “Diddy” Combs accuser claims that she’s been contacted about the “sale of one of the Diddy tapes,” specifically a pornographic video featuring the embattled hip-hop mogul, indicted last week on federal sex trafficking and racketeering charges, and someone “more high-profile” than the rapper and Bad Boy founder.

“There already have been tapes leaking around Hollywood being shopped around, … but one particular person contacted me to shop a particular video they were in possession of and to contact the person who was in the video to see if they were interested in purchasing the video before it became public knowledge,” Ariel Mitchell-Kidd said Friday on NewsNation’s Banfield. “I can tell the video was pornographic in nature. … This was in his Atlanta home, and it does seem the person isn’t looking into the video. To me, it doesn’t seem like that person knows they’re being videotaped.”

Mitchell-Kidd also said she was contacted a few weeks ago by a new client who claims Combs raped her in 2018 and filed a police report at the time.

“She called me and told me about her assault and her escape,” Mitchell-Kidd said. “She was at a friend’s house who had industry ties, and Diddy decided to come to the house.”

Mitchell-Kidd claims her client learned Combs was planning on sex trafficking her when he arrived.

“It led to her being served a drink. She started to feel woozy. Combs sexually assaulted her with an inanimate object,” Mitchell-Kidd said. “And then directed another gentleman to sexually assault her while he watched and pleasured himself.”

Mitchell-Kidd said her client was able to escape, running into the street, which was witnessed by a neighbor.

Should have had. Your favorite star among two similar type artists

Ethan Hawke - Matt Damon

Desperation.

KNOTS LANDING is coming to streaming Aug 13 on the new Primetime Soaps by WB channel.

The 24/7 ad-supported channel is live now on @Plex w/ FALCON CREST. Eps stream in order, not on-demand.

Watch on streaming devices w/ the Plex app or online: watch.plex.tv/live-tv/channe… #SoapOpera

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Anyone else watch this episode? It was juicy!

Was open for a month and the hurricane put the entire building under water. They lost everything.

I know we are always suspicious of the grift here, but I feel these guys are decent gays and not on the grift, so I donated to the GFM. Hard enough to open a gay bar or keep one open these days......

Holy cow- this show was actually GOOD...

This 2010 era is so weird.. It was the beginning of a wonderful period in my life..

I am 3 episodes into this show-- People have wrinkles, normal-human lips- no veneers on the teeth.. Thhis wasn't even HD- and every woman has wrinkles, I see no fillers-

Its very, very weird....

I really miss being 29!!!!

If only Luca Guadagnino had cast Liam instead as Oliver in Call Me By Your Name

I am vacillating between cautious optimism and flashbacks to 2016.

“This is a woman’s home,” the actress says. “If a man walks in, I want him to feel like a guest.”

Allegedly he tried to pay her to silence her.

Rumor right now. Her MAGAt brother was a big druggie.

Thanks Bernie Marcus!

VOTE

She's a bleeding idiot! She compared Grey Gardens, and the Beeles to being a real life "Auntie Mame", which was the first of the two movies.

Holy shit, this woman is a moron!

The teen reportedly made it clear publicly that he hates people in the LGBTQ+ communities.

Be careful out there.

Trump is toast. Abortion and the economy. Suburban women are mad as hell. The election has already begun. And based on early data, we are winning!

That belt is not doing Brianna any favors.

I love this shit!

If 40 years ago, you would have thought that a beyond graphic slasher horror film would have a great Rotten Tomatoes score, great cinemascore, and kill the box office, handily beating an intended Oscar pedigree frontrunner in its 2nd weel (Joker Part DOO) you would have been told that you were crazy.

Fuck you Gaga and that piece of shit Phoenix

I started the original thread on August 13.

Now that we're 24 days out, I am curious how the poll will change. Are you feeling more or less confident than you did a couple of months ago?

$10 for a slice of microwave pizza in the city with probably more cheap pizza than anywhere else in the world

O tempora, o mores!

What are the best Michael Caine films? Have recently seen The Italian Job, Alfie and the awesomely ridiculous killer bee movie.

Love Dressed to Kill and Educating Rita.

What would you suggest?

The manager sounds sleazy as hell

Or at least most of them seem to. I don't get why they think that hooking up with a guy is going to be a Harlequin novel.

Once you cum, it's over anyway.

Any good stories about your State Fair? Was it a big thing where you’re from? I grew up near our state capital and went nearly every year and go every year now as an adult.

Ever since I was a kid I’ve entered crafts and food I’ve made and I’m busy tonight working on my entries to take in tomorrow. I have done really well in the past and have lots of first place wins over the years. One year when I was 13 I won Best in Show for a quilt that I made and I think my grandmother, who taught me how to sew. the proudest of me for that than anything else I ever did.

One condition: The advice can’t be related to money.

Kamala STUNS in new pics.

The new set, the new studio, the new green opening, and the dreadful lack of a peppy opening tune.

DREADFUL. Have at it!

Which is a secret form of mental power.

The Russos promised Hollywood (specifically streaming services) they would bring Marvel-sized magic to the small screen and sold streamers on the idea that they could create their own “cinematic universes” in which a shared story would exist over multiple entertainment programs.

Instead their brand has become synonymous with “formulaic”… “generic”… “derivative”… “cliched”… “boring”… “bland”… “cheap-looking”… and expensive

Their reputation has gotten so bad that many reviews for Chris Evans’s Apple turkey “Ghosted” actually pointed out that they were surprised it wasn’t a Russo Bros. movie.

Citadel had preemptively received a two season order due to peak streaming foolishness so Amazon is being forced to stick with this turkey for another year.

Good for him.

It's pricey stuff. Is it worth it?

I know we have this sort of topic fairly frequently, but I have never heard anyone mention this product line. So, what can you tell me about it (other than to go fuck myself)?

More NYT bullshit.

It was once almost impossible to miss stories of him shirtless either at music festivals or on tropical vacations with foreign rich men. But we've not heard about him for years now.

Lard Channel are taking a long break so Junkie Niko can go to rehab. Greasy Niall is still rotund and has just finished a 90 date world tour. Poor Lewis Fataldi was forced to take a career break because of his Tourettes, so he's inactive as well. Nevertheless, we'll still find plenty to talk about!

Does everyone really have a price?

Are you addicted to anything? For me, Energy drinks. I get them at Dollar Tree for $1.25 each. You?

Discussion about the Lardos Niall Hogran, Lewis Fataldi and Fat Niko continues here.

Blubbery Niko and Gainer Gemma are getting ready for the Booze Cruise.

How are you spending your summer days in Genoa City?

Enjoying the Chancellor-Winters escapades?

Waiting for Diane and Kyle to get into a full scale war?

Savoring Victor's impending revenge against Jack?

Counting the days until Jordan escapes prison and returns to get revenge on Nikki and the Newmans?

If he knew me I think he’d take care of me and be concerned for my personal welfare and happiness. He’s that kind of guy. Nice.

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Former President Barack Obama on Thursday admonished Black men who he believes have not adequately supported Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign, telling them it’s “not acceptable” to sit out this election and suggesting they might be reluctant to vote for Harris because she’s a woman.

The striking comments by Obama, made to a small group of voters in a surprise stop at a local Harris campaign office in Pittsburgh, were part of a more forceful campaign message delivered by the former president on Thursday as polls continue to show a neck-and-neck race. At a rally in the city later that evening, Obama issued some of his most searing public criticisms of his successor to date.

The lack of energy some see around Harris’ campaign, Obama told the group, “seems to be more pronounced with the brothers.”

“You’re thinking about sitting out or supporting somebody (in former president Donald Trump) who has a history of denigrating you, because you think that’s a sign of strength, because that’s what being a man is? Putting women down?” Obama said. “That’s not acceptable.”

The problem, he suggested, was less complicated than some are making it out to be – and that it often comes down to sexism.

“You’re coming up with all kinds of reasons and excuses, I’ve got a problem with that,” Obama said. “Because part of it makes me think – and I’m speaking to men directly – part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren’t feeling the idea of having a woman as president, and you’re coming up with other alternatives and other reasons for that.”

As CNN reported, Harris had been focused on turning out Black men even before she took over as the Democratic nominee, trying to get the enthusiasm there for President Joe Biden.

“The concern is that the couch is going to win,” one person close to the Harris team told CNN. “We need to make sure that Black men, Hispanic men, don’t sit on the couch. Because if they don’t vote at all. That’s (a) vote for him.”

In response to the Harris campaign’s struggle to recreate, in short order, the multiracial Biden coalition of 2020, campaign operatives and allies have been offering a similar directive to the Obama delivered in Pittsburgh, often privately working to make the case to voters in close-up, intimate spaces.

Last month in Milwaukee, Harris’ brother-in-law, Anthony West, quietly attended a local meeting of the NAACP – a technically nonpartisan group whose members are filled with influential, mostly Democratic state activists and organizers.

If Dynasty had been cast as initially devised who would have been in the cast?

George Peppard as Blake Angie Dickinson as Krystal Tyne Daily as Claudia (I seem to have read that some place) Later on, Sophia Loren/Jessica Walter as Alexis

Anyone I’m missing?

How popular is Hawley in Missouri?

and I came upon this bench in a park:

World-nenowned medium Tyler Henry gives celebrity guests hope, healing and long-sought answers through emotional readings.

I guess they are couching the sham with the phrase "emotional readings"

Would you prefer random stars doing a stunt, a comedy routine, a musical performance or an acting sketch instead of having a traditional host?

I'm aware this topic has done the rounds in the recent past, but I'm always intrigued (and titillated) to read what stories Dataloungers have to share, however brief.

So tell us: how did you meet? How did the reality compare with what you'd imagined? Any memorable quirks?

I don't really see much of a difference.

Timothée Chalamet Is A Singing, Smoking Bob Dylan In First Look At James Mangold’s Musical Biopic.

I’ll start with a recent one-Hugo Weaving’s attempt at an American accent in Slow Horses. My god, it’s awful. The way he pronounced the word “offer” alone almost made my ears bleed.

An example of a golden oldie horrible attempt at an American accent was Laurence Olivier’s in The Betsy. The man should never have been allowed to bray the word “car” in an American accent.

I’m working on preliminary plans for a trip next year, and would love your input. I’m more of a city explorer, food and culture lover. Beaches don’t do much for me, though I love being near the ocean. I’m torn between Montevideo and Lima right now, though I’m open to other cities.

Any suggestions, Datalounge?

Who's planning on seeing it? Apparently it is really over the top with the gore, which I like. And David Howard Thornton is brilliant as Art the Clown. I am not much of a theater person, but may have to see this one on the big screen.

A lot of eldergays don’t have streaming services or access to decent new music.

Post a newer song you would think an eldergay would enjoy.

I will start with the obvious. “Good Luck Babe” by Chapell Roan. It has a great 80s vibe.

Male homosexuals model the latest swimwear in London.

This one looks good!!! I am excited for a full trailer. It will air on Sky in the UK and Starz here in the USA.

Oh, Starz has stepped their game up a bit I think, because this is the third series in a row from them I actually am interested in watching.

Was he in trouble here? Seems weird after all those tough 'Murican pro-miltary movies.

He isn’t my senator but he was just sort of standing around so I approached him for a conversation. He is kind of an asshole!

Why does he always run around in these oversized hoodies?

I feel so hot to trot.

But why are they hiring new showrunners when the show was successful?

Let another season of DUIs with golden retrievers, forced attempts at generating catchphrases, fights over beady-eyed homosexuals, Jesus jugs, cancelled reunions, general cuntery, oh and Vicki, begin. When is Kelly Dodd coming back? Premieres July 11th.

Meghan McCain stood firm on her refusal to offer an endorsement for the presidential election.

There is less than a month until former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris face off on Nov. 5. Meanwhile, McCain’s brother, Jimmy McCain, the youngest son of their father, the late Republican Arizona Sen. John McCain, endorsed Harris last month.

Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) posted a photo of himself with Jimmy McCain and Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) on X. As Harris’s running mate, Walz captioned the photo: “They are showing America what it means to put country first.”

“For all of you tweeting at me — yes, I am over here the last republican in the family. Albeit, it feels strange, everything is okay. There is no family drama,” Meghan McCain responded to the photo of her brother. “I won’t endorse Harris (or Trump) because I am still a principled conservative, like my Dad was his entire life.”

Like Russian Orthodox or Greek Orthodox? What was it like? How did it compare to being raised Roman Catholic? Are kids who are raised Orthodox scarred in the same way as Roman Catholics?

Pennsylvania is for worrisome. It looks like it could go red.

Snoop Dogg and Mick Jagger both seem to have good senses of humor, for all their fame.

Same with Henry Winkler. His Instagram is endearing.

Who else?

When I registered to vote in high school at age 17 I registered as an independent. My thinking at the time as an idealist 17 year old was that I wanted to consider the issues and vote for who I truly thought was the best candidate regardless of political party. And then I ended up voting democrat in every election anyway. The first election I was old enough to vote in was 2000 and I hated Bush. I voted for Obama both times and then Hillary and Biden. I thought John McCain was a good man but his running mate was a dope.

Anyway, when I moved across the country I just registered as a democrat because at that point, in the era of Trump, I no longer really saw the point in being independent anymore.

Mainly: did all prom dresses in the mid-1970s look like the church attire of a 75-year-old woman from Greenfield, Iowa?

Even La Buckley's dress ages her considerably.

These people are nuts

I haven’t seen such a look of hate in ones eyes since that Brazilian drag queen who lost the pageant went to snatch the winner’s wig.

She is tall, skinny, a lawyer, wears ridiculously expensive clothes, and what else?

Continue your discussion of each day's game here.

He won, this will not be topped.

What's the story here?

I just came across this on YouTube, but after watching this gay scene, I'm wondering if it's worth it to watch the whole series?

The bearish guy is pretty hot.

Welcome to the Pole Hole, bitches! Continue goofing around

He was a great man, a great orator and the best politician Scotland has ever seen. RIP.

Previous thread here:

Inspired by the Oscars thread. I used to go all the time. Now it’s a rare event

Are the spirits in the room with you?

Any of you true eldergays go to these emporiums ca. 1969? Starting at 35 seconds some good looking naked young men with the private areas censored- but still. That antique porn/erotica looks hot.

The advance tickets have been selling so quickly that the show has already been extended by 4 weeks, despite not even opening yet!

A hit!

To continue our nice chats and bring you more photos of Sir Chonks-a-Lot.

Continue the conversation.

Cornyn knows Trump is losing, which is why he posted this picture.

It’s your turn to tell the truth now, Donald.

The drama, which streamed in the spring, contained a big twist in its finale.

Apple TV+ wants another helping of Sugar.

The tech behemoth’s streaming service has picked up a second season of the drama, which stars Colin Farrell as the title character, Detective John Sugar. The first season followed John’s search for a missing woman — and revealed a big twist late in the season that helps set the stage for season two.

“It has been incredibly exciting to see audiences around the world embrace ‘Sugar,’ and we are thrilled to return for a second season,” executive producers Audrey Chon and Simon Kinberg said in a statement. “We’re so grateful to our partners at Apple for their support, our showrunner Sam Catlin, the brilliant Colin Farrell, and of course, our viewers. We can’t wait to get John Sugar back on the case.”

Added Matt Cherniss, head of programming for Apple TV+, “Since its premiere, audiences have been gripped by the mysteries and twists of Sugar, with an incredible performance by Colin Farrell at the center. Colin, Simon Kinberg, Audrey Chon and the entire team behind this series have brilliantly blended genres to create a compelling, can’t-miss series that keeps viewers guessing, and we cannot wait to see where Detective John Sugar finds himself in season two.”

The show’s first season premiered in April and concluded its eight-episode run on May 17. Season two, Apple says, will bring Sugar back to Los Angeles for another missing-person case while he continues to look for answers about his missing sister. Farrell, who’s also an executive producer of Sugar, has two high-profile series going at the moment. He also stars in The Penguin at HBO, which has drawn big audiences for its first two episodes.

Season one of Sugar also stars Kirby, Amy Ryan, James Cromwell, Anna Gunn, Dennis Boutsikaris, Nate Corddry, Sydney Chandler, and Alex Hernandez. It’s not clear whether any of them will return for season two.

Catlin (Breaking Bad, Preacher) will be the showrunner for season two and executive produce via his Short Drive Entertainment. Chon and Kinberg, who has an overall deal at Apple TV+, exec produce for Genre Films along with Farrell, Scott Greenberg and Chip Vucelich. Mark Protosevich created the series.

Interviewed by The New York Times' Lulu Garcia-Navarro: Five times in a row, the GOP vice presidential nominee refused to say Trump lost that year's vote.

Watch the interview...

Timmy does Bob Dylan better than Bob Dylan does himself.

Timmy will get his second Oscar nomination for this film.

Or at least a foot. No sign of the camera ….

Why is he just standing there? What is up with the color of his face?

Call it Room, SVU.

20 years after being imprisoned by Mark-Paul Gosselaar (Sir), Shanola Hampton (Gabi) runs an investigation firm with other kidnapping victims including Kelli Williams.

The hook is that she has Sir chained up in her basement, helping her solve cases, like Hannibal Lector.

Because she's a fugitive from Justice herself after drunkenly driving her pickup truck into a ditch and sickening four dozen of her fellow citizens with E coli from tainted pork chops? Oh, and her pre- Jan 6 guided tours through the Capitol building...

See next post for a link.

I would be afraid that Ellen's "Kind Science" was a practical joke designed to spontaneously combust. So, none for me, thanks.

What celeb or celeb-endorsed product would you avoid like the plague?

Starring John Hurt as Quentin Crisp

I was watching the Oprah / Presley family special and noticed something weird. There is a voice saying hello out of nowhere around 35:10.

Free version for those without Paramount+, etc... Sorry for all the ads.

The room was kept at 55 degrees to preserve his body, she writes, adding that she “got so used to him, caring for him and keeping him there.”

True stories.

He looks so good!!! My loins are quivering.

Who would you get down on your knees for?

This classic 80s song is one of my favorites.

Just keep talking and give it all to Kamala.

I’m not. Hated her as that fake Nazi Wonder Woman.

And then saying “my own” as a save. Sure.

Oh my it’s so self important. Is this parody?

Andrew McCarthy needs to have seats.

“Joe Biden is our superstar.”

When they were romantically involved, "He told me he was still a virgin," Presley writes in the book. "I think he had kissed Tatum O'Neal, and he'd had a thing with Brooke Shields, which hadn't been physical apart from a kiss. He said Madonna had tried to hook up with him once, too, but nothing happened. I was terrified because I didn't want to make the wrong move."

I want to fuck him so bad.

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Was viewed as a flop when released, but now I think it’s arguably David Fincher’s masterpiece and the best San Francisco film alongside Vertigo. Despite its frequent use as a location in films, very few films depict San Francisco’s spookiness correctly- it’s a spooky place.

The new Netflix Zodiac film also comes out at the end of the month.

The SS United States, a 1,000-foot vessel that still holds the transatlantic speed record it broke in 1952, must leave its South Philadelphia berth of more than a decade by Sept. 12, said a federal judge Friday.

The decision by U.S. District Judge Anita B. Brody put an end to a years-old rent dispute that culminated in a two-day January bench trial between the SS United States Conservancy, a steward of the ship, and its Pier 82 landlord, Penn Warehousing.

Tensions came to a boil in August 2021, when Penn Warehousing doubled its daily dockage fee for what was once known as the “Queen of the Seas” to $1,700, an increase the conservancy refused to accept, continuing to pay its previous rate, set in 2011. Penn Warehousing terminated the lease in March 2022 with a written notice, then took the conservancy to court, with the conservancy filing a counterclaim.

During the trial, attorneys for both sides tried to bend the vagueness of the original berthing agreement in their favor. Brody, who’d encouraged the parties to settle instead of leaving it up to her, ultimately gave each side a partial victory in her decision.

She took note of two key omissions in the original berthing agreement. There were no provisions for any change in the “lay up dockage fee” or provisions on how either party could end the relationship save for the vessel’s departure. Penn Warehousing’s demand for increased dockage fees with a 14-days notice “finds no support in the Berthing Agreement or contract law,” she wrote, and the conservancy’s failure to pay the new rate did not amount to a breach of the 2011 agreement or entitle its landlord to damages.

Still, Brody wrote that under Pennsylvania contract law, the berthing agreement is terminable at will with reasonable notice, which Penn Warehousing had issued in March 2022.

Susan Gibbs, conservancy president and granddaughter of the ship’s designer, said in a statement that the conservancy “was vindicated in not being compelled to pay a large sum of back rent.” Yet she lamented the ticking clock the conservancy is now under.

“The judge’s decision gives us a very limited window to find a new home for the SS United States and raise the resources necessary to move the ship and keep her safe,” she wrote.

The decision gives the conservancy about 90 days to find a new home. In addition to finding a location, Gibbs said the conservancy would need funds for insurance, tugs, surveys, and dock preparations for a move.

Penn Warehousing takes no joy in the victory, attorney Craig Mills said in an emailed statement.

“The best hope of everyone involved was that the Conservancy could successfully repurpose the ship,” he said. “But after decades of decay and delay, it is time to acknowledge the unavoidable and return Pier 82 to productive commercial service.”

When a National Geographic documentary team discovered a boot and sock sticking out of a melting glacier on Mount Everest in September, they almost immediately recognized its significance as a clue to a century-old mystery.

A name label still stitched onto the woollen sock read “A.C. Irvine,” revealing that it probably belonged to British climber Andrew “Sandy” Irvine. Irvine’s disappearance on Everest in 1924, alongside his compatriot George Mallory, is one of mountaineering’s biggest mysteries – with a solution that has the potential to change history.

The pair disappeared on June 8, 1924, 800 feet below Everest’s summit, as they set off to complete the first documented ascent of the world’s tallest mountain. But whether they made it to the summit, thus becoming the first known people to reach this milestone, before they died is still unknown.

While Mallory’s body was discovered in 1999, neither Irvine’s body nor the camera that the climbers were carrying, which might reveal whether they reached the summit, have ever been found.

That is, until this latest expedition, when the National Geographic team, which included “Free Solo” co-director Jimmy Chin, discovered a foot inside what they believe is Irvine’s boot. While they are waiting for DNA confirmation, comparing samples from the foot with ones taken from members of Irvine’s family, it appears to be the first evidence of his death since his disappearance.

“It’s the first real evidence of where Sandy ended up,” Chin said, according to National Geographic. “A lot of theories have been put out there.

“When someone disappears and there’s no evidence of what happened to them, it can be really challenging for families. And just having some definitive information of where Sandy might’ve ended up is certainly (helpful), and also a big clue for the climbing community as to what happened.”

A few days before they found the boot, the team discovered an oxygen cylinder from a 1933 expedition that had also attempted to scale Mount Everest. Though that expedition failed, it had found an ice ax belonging to Irvine on the mountain’s northeast ridge, leading Chin’s team to speculate that they might be close to his body.

Following that hypothesis, they spent the next few days scouring the glacier, until filmmaker and climber Erich Roepke spotted the boot.

“I think it literally melted out a week before we found it,” said Chin.

Chin and the team took the boot and foot off the mountain in a cooler when they noticed birds disturbing it and gave it to the China-Tibet Mountaineering Association (CTMA).

Shortly after their discovery, the team informed Irvine’s family, including his great-niece Julie Summers, who has written a book about the climber.

Summers was “moved to tears” when she learnt of the boot’s existence in an “extraordinary and poignant moment,” she said, according to the PA Media news agency.

“I have lived with this story since I was a seven-year-old when my father told us about the mystery of Uncle Sandy on Everest,” she added.

“The story became more real when climbers found the body of George Mallory in 1999, and I wondered if Sandy’s body would be discovered next. A quarter-of-a-century after that discovery, it seemed extremely unlikely that anything new would be found.”

(and not James Garner)

I understand that Bebe will be showing up on the Frasier reboot on Paramount Plus.

So enjoy this

Cheryl's career should be joining Janet Jackson's.

Curious what others think. Will reserve my thoughts for now to not bias discussion.

Sure to be some good takes on this.

Here’s the biggest myth that Republican candidate Donald Trump is trying to sell to Americans and to the world: that he was a good president.

Trump’s continuously repeated falsehoods about his record as president have convinced many people who find him to be a horrible person, but nevertheless support him because of what Trump says about his term in office.

“Yes, I know, he’s 78, he’s not as sharp as he used to be, he lies all the time, he has cheated on his wives, he makes racist comments, he is a convicted felon, and he tried to carry out a coup after he lost the last elections. But he was a good president,” a Republican friend told me recently.

Let me share with you some facts to help fight political amnesia. In fact, Trump was one of the worst presidents in recent history. Here are the facts:

A larger deficit

On the economy, Trump left the biggest deficit in U.S. history.

Under Trump, the national debt grew much faster than during his successor Joe Biden. Like most populists, Trump cut taxes and spent as if there were no tomorrow, leaving a national debt that will have to be paid by our children and grandchildren for decades.

The national debt rose by almost $7.8 trillion to $28 trillion during Trump’s four years in office, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The debt has kept growing since, but at a significantly slower pace.

As for the country’s economic growth, the U.S. economy under Trump grew by an overall 6.8%. By comparison, it grew by 8.4% in the Biden years.

On the jobs’ front, Trump left office with 3 million fewer jobs than there were when he entered the White House. Granted, that was largely because of the pandemic, but Biden has added nearly 16 million jobs since then.

Granted, inflation was lower under Trump than under Biden. The pandemic disrupted supply chains from China and made consumer prices soar in America in 2021 and 2022. But inflation has since fallen to 2.4%, close to its pre-pandemic levels.

A weakened democracy

On democracy, Trump undermined democratic institutions and the rule of law like no other American president in recent memory. He is the first U.S. president I can remember who tried to stage a coup d’etat to stay in power.

Trump falsely claims to this day that he won the 2020 election, even after more than 60 courts and the conservative-majority Supreme Court found his objections to be unsubstantiated.

Then, he tacitly tried to incite rebellion on Jan. 6, 2021, when he waited for hours before trying to stop a pro-Trump mob from invading the U.S. Capitol in hopes of overturning the election result. He continues to praise the violent rioters who injured more than 100 police officers, calling them “patriots” and government “hostages.”

Emboldening dictators

On foreign policy, Trump weakened America’s standing in the world by picking fights with the closest U.S. allies while at the same time embracing dictators such as Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un.

Trump withdrew from the Paris Climate Accord and threatened to abandon the U.S.-European NATO military alliance. Trump’s threats to leave NATO significantly damaged the group’s unity and probably encouraged Putin to plan his 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

Trump deserves credit for the Abraham Accords to help establish diplomatic ties between Israel and some Arab countries. But if you look at the world in terms of superpower-led blocs, Trump left power in 2020 with a weaker Western alliance and a stronger China and Russia.

Reproductive rights

On abortion, Trump appointed three conservative Supreme Court judges who played a crucial role in overturning Roe v. Wade, a ruling that had made abortions legal in the country for nearly 50 years. As a result, some states banned abortions, and some women reportedly died because they could not get proper medical care to end their pregnancies.

Donald Trump, who appeared weak-voiced and exhausted, meandered for several minutes while speaking at the Detroit Economic Club, at one point even insulting the city itself while implying that the alleged bad things about it will go national should he lose the election.

“The whole country will be like — you want to know the truth? It’ll be like Detroit. Our whole country will end up being like Detroit if she’s your president,” Trump said, referring to Democratic candidate Kamala Harris.

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan tweeted in response to Trump’s speech, “Detroit just hosted the largest NFL Draft in history, the Tigers are back in the playoffs, the Lions are headed to the Super Bowl, crime is down and our population is growing. Lots of cities should be like Detroit. And we did it all without Trump’s help.”

Though the city has an embattled history, city and state leaders have touted the revitalization of downtown, and the city’s population rose for the first time in more than 60 years this year.

Elsewhere in his speech, Trump seemed focused on companies “leaving wherever they may be located” before he referenced “things were coming cylinders, no wings, no nothing, and they’re coming down very slowly, landing on a raft in the middle of the ocean someplace with a circle boom” that “reminded me of the Biden circles that he used to have.”

In a clip shared on X, formerly Twitter, Trump said in full, “Many countries, they do that, and then all of a sudden you hear that they’re leaving Milwaukee, or they’re leaving wherever they may be located. It’s very sad to see it… and it’s so simple. I mean, you know, this isn’t like Elon with his rocket ships that land within 12 inches on the moon where they wanted to land, or he gets the engines back.”

“That was the first I realized. I said, ‘Who the hell did that?’ I saw engines about three, four years ago. These things were coming — cylinders, no wings, no nothing, and they’re coming down very slowly, landing on a raft in the middle of the ocean someplace with a circle, boom.”

“Reminded me of the Biden circles that he used to have, right? He’d have eight circles, and he couldn’t fill them up. But then I heard he beat us with the popular vote. I don’t know. I don’t know. Couldn’t fill up the eight circles. I always loved those circles. They were so beautiful. It was so beautiful to look at. In fact, the person that did that was the best thing about… that level of that circle was great, but they couldn’t get people.”

“So they used to have the press stand in those circles because they couldn’t get the people. Then I heard we lost. Oh, we lost. Now we’re never going to let that happen again, but we’ve been abused by other countries. We’ve been abused by our own politicians, really more than other countries.”

Trump’s recent speeches have often been lengthy and rambling, with the presidential candidate frequently wandering off on irrelevant tangents that are difficult to understand. It is immediately not clear what “the Biden circles” are — Some people have speculated he was referring to the social distancing circles used at certain political events in 2020 — or why they couldn’t be filled up, or how they relate to “Elon with his rocket ships.”

The Detroit Economic Club is a non-partisan non-profit that provides an environment to debate social, business, and government issues.

I think he's still clearly bitter about being forced out...

He has barely done anything to help her it seems

Let's discuss the great spooky film Zodiac. It is easily one of my favorite films of all time.

Directed by David Fincher

Starring Mark Ruffalo, Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr., Anthony Edwards, Dermont Mulroney, John Carrol Lynch, Elias Koteas, Donal Logue, Chloë Sevigny, John Getz, Zach Greiner, Adam Goldberg, John Terry, Philip Baker Hall, and Brian Cox as Melvin Belli

And I only came across this story because it popped up in my search results after typing Hurricane Milton in Google.

Here’s hoping.

How can less talented cunts like Gaga and Marissa Tomei have Oscars but the Queen of the Nation: Beyonce Giselle Knowles-Carter does not. She is way more talented than they are and I like those cunts. We must fix this injustice.

Saoirse Ronan recently appeared on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast and remembered the dramatic casting switch that occurred during the making of Peter Jackson’s “The Lovely Bones.” The director originally cast Ryan Gosling as the father of Ronan’s protagonist, but the actor was replaced by Mark Wahlberg just days before filming after Jackson disagreed with Gosling’s decision to gain 60 pounds for the role.

Jackson never started filming “The Lovely Bones” with Gosling, but Ronan revealed the cast had already “done some prep” by the time Gosling got fired. Ronan had bonded with Gosling and was sad to see him ago.

“I think I just loved Ryan and his dog, George, and I was just sad that, you know, he wasn’t gonna be around,” Ronan said. “But I think the reasons why they parted were totally valid, and I’ve spoken to both [Gosling and Jackson] now and it happens. Do you know what I mean? It’s not personal, necessarily. It’s like sometimes you’re just not on the same page.”

“Mark was able to step in, and he was a father,” Ronan added. “He was a father to, like, I don’t know, three kids? He probably had an experience of that that Ryan felt he didn’t. Ryan was like 27. He was young.”

Ronan would get the chance to work with Gosling a few years later when he cast her to lead his directorial debut “Lost River.”

Gosling spoke to THR a year after “The Lovely Bones” opened in theaters and revealed his firing was due to his weight gain. The actor explained: “We had a different idea of how the character should look. I really believed he should be 210 pounds. We didn’t talk very much during the preproduction process, which was the problem.”

“It was a huge movie, and there’s so many things to deal with, and he couldn’t deal with the actors individually,” Gosling added. “I just showed up on set, and I had gotten it wrong. Then I was fat and unemployed.”

Yes.

She went there.

I'm surprised she didn't out him, too.

There's a new scandal every few days (if not multiple times a day)

Let's keep track of them here.

Hypocritical ass Maga cunt.

"I think it really sheds a terrible light on the brand," the actress said, claiming organizers misled attendees into believing she was participating when she was not.

Melissa Gilbert has strong feelings about some controversial Little House on the Prairie reunion events that took place this year.

The cast of the beloved period drama recently announced that they would no longer support or appear at fan events produced by Jack Bishop and Gravel Road Markets, and now Gilbert, who played writer Laura Ingalls Wilder on the series, is tearing into the allegedly mismanaged events.

"From what I understand, it became a waking nightmare," Gilbert said of an event in Pennsylvania in a new interview with PEOPLE. "They ran [out of] food. He oversold tickets. He didn't pay the vendors."

Gilbert said that the events were "a shocking affront to the fans of Little House on the Prairie," adding, "If I were the owner of the IP, I would be infuriated because I think it really sheds a terrible light on the brand."

A representative for Gravel Road Markets did not immediately respond to Entertainment Weekly's request for comment.

The actress and more than a dozen of her Little House costars announced on Sept. 6 that they had cut ties with Bishop's company, citing "disappointing events in Connecticut and Pennsylvania." The cast said they asked Bishop to remove their names and likeness from any promotional assets for future events, which were scheduled to take place in Tennessee, South Dakota, Missouri, and Texas. "This decision was not made lightly but with compassion, concern, and great respect for the well-being of our multigenerational fans," they wrote in their statement.

Then, on Oct. 1, the cast released another joint statement accusing Bishop of failing to comply with their wishes and "refusing to announce the cancellation" of future Little House events, claiming that Bishop is listing the castless events as "sold out" rather than canceled.

"Mr. Bishop appears to be taking advantage of Little House fans by failing to inform them and his ticket vendor, Eventbrite, that the Little House cast has permanently ended our relationship with him," they wrote. "This misrepresentation of event status has likely confused ticket buyers and complicated the process of requesting refunds."

Gilbert told PEOPLE that she had concerns about the events' promotion in early 2024. "Immediately, I knew there was an issue, because [Bishop] was promoting that I was going to be at all of these different places, and I wasn't," the actress said. "Fans were buying tickets to see me, and I knew that I wasn't going to be there."

The actress said she had to take matters into her own hands to clarify her absence from the reunions. "I started posting on social media, saying, 'Guys, I'm not going to be there,'" Gilbert explained. "Apparently people contacted him, and he told them not only was I going to be there, but I was co-producing this with him. So this is the beginning of my experience with Jack Bishop, which just meant he's cut off and I will not work with anyone who does this. Period, full stop."

Gilbert also said she has "advocated for an investigation" into Bishop's business practices.

So they won’t host R rated movies but they have countless explicit tv shows. All the Ryan Murphy shit on FX including the Aaron Hernandez story which features male nudity, profanity, and explicit murder scenes. Why the hypocrisy toward filmmaking? They need to bring all their content from Hulu since they are the same company essentially. I’m tired of so many movies being on Hulu that are not on Disney+.

Good lord, they’re multiplying again.

The theater community is searching for a beloved performer.

MJ The Musical star Zelig Williams disappeared on Oct. 3, with his missing persons flyer noting the 28-year-old was last seen at his home in Columbia, S.C., wearing a white T-shirt, black shorts and brown slides.

"According to authorities," reads the poster shared by Black and Missing, "Zelig was last seen driving in the Congaree National Park area, where his vehicle was found."

His family members initially believed he may have been in a car crash due to an alert from his phone.

“Around 9:50 Thursday morning, he left just normally as he would,” Williams’ aunt Christine McLaughlin Barber told local South Carolina TV station WACH. “About 10 minutes later, we received an SOS ping from his phone from one of his friends in New York, indicating a crash.”

However, they have since ruled out a car accident, according to the outlet.

While authorities search for the actor, his Broadway colleagues—including Hugh Jackman, who worked with Williams on the 2019 concert tour “The Man. The Music. The Show"—are urging anyone with information to contact the Richland County Sheriff's Office.

“Zelig we love you and are praying for your safe return,” Jackman wrote on his Instagram Story Oct. 10, per Us Weekly. “Please pass this message on!!!”

As for his family, they're also asking local residents to report any possible info on his whereabouts.

"Words can't express what our family is going through right now," Barber wrote on Facebook Oct. 10. "Please continue to share his photos and videos. The more we share the more people can get the word out to other states/countries."

She added, "Please continue to pray pray pray for Zelig to come home safe. WE LOVE YOU ZELIG."

In addition to playing Jackson 5 member Marlon Jackson in the Michael Jackson musical, Williams was also cast in Hamilton in 2015 as an ensemble performer.

Earlier this month, he celebrated a more personal milestone by ringing in his 28th birthday.

"28 only feels like a new thing because 27 I gave my full yes to Christ," Williams shared on Instagram Sept. 11. "This yes is a daily yes. Yes, I’ll follow you. Yes, I’ll stop following my old ways. Yes, I’ll praise you. Yes, I’ll change this and that. Yes, I’ll listen. Yes, I’ll let go. I only say yes because of His goodness and love for me. He is unmatched. Thank you, Jesus for being good to me this year and keeping me in all my ways."

Let's discuss haunted places in New England!

Let the Games continue! When Part 2 is full.

*SWOON*

This one with Rocco Steele and Bruno Bernal gets me off. I get off at the ass eating. So hot.

I just woke up from a nap and walked outside. I saw the Northern Lights and it was beautiful. The camera really shows them well. Can anybody else see them?

April 23, 1957 - October 9, 2014

A shame we’ll never know more about her. She was a talented comic actor. Even Pauline Kael said so. But Jan was also a basket case. Kevin Nealon said she seemed a little lost even before her mother’s death in 1986. The death of her father, followed closely by the murder of Phil Hartman, seemed to send her into a spiral and 9/11 sealed the deal.

She spent the last years of her life living in a holler near Bearsville, NY. She had leukemia, went into remission and about 5 years later, was diagnosed with chemo-resistant neck cancer. She opted to forgo treatment and died in her brother’s care.

Jan shunned computers, showbiz, family, friends and her own health. She said if she were married she’d be in prison…kids, death row. Jan dated Nealon for a couple years, but he broke up with her after the first SNL season. She then lived with an artist for a few years. Who knows what happened with that. And her relationship with Phil Hartman has been the subject of rumors for decades, which were exacerbated by Brynn Hartman threatening Jan in letters never sent.

I think we only saw the edge of her talent. She just wanted live with her demons, not Hollywood or sobriety. In the end, that’s exactly what happened

Who is literally cycling through the following routine every three to five minutes.

1. Continuous scrolling on his 12.9 inch iPad Pro.

2. Intermittently unlocks his iPhone Pro Max every few minutes, and scrolls through that for a few seconds, holding the phone in the opposite hand from the one he is using to hold his iPad

3. And here is the kicker. Every five minutes he will pop his left wrist so that he can check his Apple Watch Ultra.

I don’t think he understands how stupid he looks. It’s actually kind of hilarious.

We can call it art because we don't know what else to call it but it's pretty stupid.

“Today, what I wanted to be very clear, we have not conceded one way or the other, we are not saying that there was anything wrong with the original trial,” Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón said in a press conference held on Thursday, October 3. “We have been giving evidence, we have been given a photocopy of a letter that allegedly was sent by one of the brothers to another family member talking about him being the victim of molestation.”

Gascón added, “We have also got evidence that was provided from the defense, by his lawyer, that one of the members of the Menudo band alleged that he was molested by [Jose Menendez].”

I am currently accepting your suggestions for a truly biting DL worthy protest sign. Give me your best!

Mine:

The Go Between

Black Narcissus

Barry Lyndon

Sunday Bloody Sunday

The Red Shoes

Death in Venice

Le Fou Follet

Lift to the Scaffold

Darling

Rocco and His Brothers

Is anyone here planning to watch this?

Will they show Aaron getting it on with guys?

Musk payed them off.

Pam looks great without all that whore’s makeup that she’s been sporting her entire career.

She an inspiration, both for her fashion evolution and for her ability to take a monster dong regularly.

Sad.

Part of II Things that Annoy you, now in its 600th post.

She stole everyone’s identity. Dressed as men and women, full prosthetic makeup, had a woman decapitated and hands cut off so she could steal her identity. She was the most wanted woman in the world in the 90s. She taunted the police for years. She wasn’t taken alive. She even held her British lesbian lover’s dogs hostage.

Unsolved Mysteries featured her story. It was horrifying. People still don’t know who she really was.

Check him out in Monster and other movies.

Did they ever figure out why she ended up in the fatal car crash? I thought she didn't have any drugs in her when they did the autopsy.

She hit the big 6-0 on Monday.

What do we think Terry of Finland gave Dan for her birthday?

I wonder if Faye is voting for Trump too. He posted these two items on his Instagram story. The second got flagged.

Yes, really.

Dreamy Drake Hogestyn has passed away a day before his 71st birthday (R.I.P.).

Crazy Connie finally caught & crated off.

NuKristen brings Dr. Rolf back to help Brady somehow.

Newly awake Rafe is still in a "script coma" of the writing staff's own design.

Stephanie easily rolls over Everett's fresh corpse to cuddle with Alex the actor.

After many months of waiting, not a single damn episode of "Body & Soul" has been made yet.

Discuss.

Link inside

6 Feet Under, 9-1-1. Very morbid actor. I want him to murder my mussy.

I can’t sit on the couch and just listen to an album, the same I would watch a movie. I have to be doing something, like taking a walk or cleaning. I listen to a lot of opera, so if I’m looking at a score or libretto I can stay interested. But if I attempt to simply sit and listen, my mind wanders immediately.

Am I alone here?

Watching these are a weekly ritual now. The lo-fi production and voiceover is strangely charming.

When a hottie opens his mouth and a Valley Girl falls out.

Is it any good? Don’t want to waste my time.

Chiseled Columbia professor David Kipping. And he's English, too.

Everything else has had a remake/reboot. Some multiple times!

Anna Faris would have probably been pretty prefect for that, but she may be a bit too old now.

Maybe Margot Robie could do it and finally be in something that doesn't lose the studios money.

And of course Chris Pine as Major Anthony Nelson.

This is a no-brainer.

I’ve outgrown my days of post-gym protein drinks for “gains”. I also wake up without an appetite for a proper breakfast. Is there any benefit to drinking old-people shakes like Ensure for breakfast relative to having some coffee with toast and fruit?

I was a Carnation Breakfast devotee for a couple years, but I’m an itinerant and I travel a lot from city to city. I can’t always find it at local supermarkets.

What are your favorites? Are they worth their weight, or would one be worse for wear?

What are we getting him?

Pleas tell me there is no chance that DT can actually win this election. How could it be possible? I just don’t get it.

Dear God. Why?

Alas, a straight pastor, though he looks like a swinger.

I can't find the original thread, but I posted a few months ago about the late night call I got from an hysterical guy who discovered that his new husband 15 years his junior was the product of a one time encounter with his high school girlfriend who gave baby up for adoption. Here's the update: After three hours on the phone listen to this guy carry one, he work up his husband (only married about 6 weeks) and they made love. He told him a few nights later. He told me that the knowledge they are bio father and son has brought a new dimension to their love. They love each other as men, as husbands, but also as father and son. They decided to tell no one. The younger guy and the wife of a cousin are doing the surrogacy thing and a baby is expected in a few months. The older guy is going to do invitor, using an egg from the same in-law and a paid surrogate. No comingling of dad and son DNA. They're happy and can't imagine life without this bio connection. Well, good for them. I don't suppose they're hurting anyone. Both good men.

His blog hasn't been updated for two years.

I want a counterbalance to the thread about Halloween candy you hate.

I LOVED Life Savers Fancy Fruits when I was a boy.

I know they wear goggles when practicing, but in meets do they wear them? I would think they would come off easily when diving into the pool.

I asked Alexa to play 80s hits, and when "Against All Odds" came on, it clearly wasn't Phil Collins singing the song. Then when "Hello" came on, it was Lionel Richie singing the song, but it was obvious it wasn't the original version of the song.

Is it a licensing issue? Something with the recording companies owning the rights to the originals?

It reminds me of the 1970s when Ktel would sell those pop hits record compilations, but none of them contained the original songs.

Wow, it looks good.

But it's huge.

The beans are .... interesting.

When you order this in the UK, can you ask them to leave off the blood sausage cake thing, or will they kick you out?

Your thoughts?

Demi Moore at her most beautiful.

Woody is still a hot piece. Maybe more than ever.

All the “night with your wife” bullshit is repulsive and doesn’t hold up at all.

So many of them die from drugs, alcohol, suicide, etc. It really is sad.

Are there pics anywhere? Is this a common ‘’cock type’’? Was news to me

Turn on Fox News between 8 and 10 pm.

The abject state of panic is akin to the war room scenes in Doctor Strangelove.

Their wedding will feature the Kansas City Gay Men’s Chorus singing “The Cowman and the Farmer Should Be Friends.”

In Flint, Michigan

[quote]Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese group of atomic bomb survivors, has won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize. The organisation, made up of survivors of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was recognised by the Norwegian Nobel Committee for its efforts to rid the world of nuclear weapons.

[quote]Founded in 1956, the organisation sends survivors around the world to share their testimonies of the "atrocious damage" and suffering caused by the use of nuclear weapons.

Growing up in the 80s and 90s, everybody had colorful carpet in their living room, and colorful walls and/or wallpaper. I remember visiting people’s homes and they had either blue or green carpet in the living room. Sometimes pink. People used to have colored fixtures in their bathroom that were either powder blue or pink.

I remember sometime around the year 2000, everything changed and the aesthetic became all white. White walls, white carpet, white floors. I wonder if it was the depressing feeling of the Bush years that brought this on. Everything just became boring and depressing and sad.

Robert Adolph Boehm, in accordance with his lifelong dedication to his own personal brand of decorum, muttered his last unintelligible and likely unnecessary curse on October 6, 2024, shortly before tripping backward over "some stupid mother****ing thing" and hitting his head on the floor.

Robert was born in Winters, TX, to the late Walter Boehm and Betty Smith on May 6, 1950, after which God immediately and thankfully broke the mold and attempted to cover up the evidence. Raised Catholic, Robert managed to get his wife Dianne pregnant (three times) fast enough to just barely miss getting drafted into the Vietnam War by fathering Michelle, John, and Charlotte between 1967 and 1972. Much later, with Robert possibly concerned about the brewing conflict in Grenada, Charles was born in 1983.

This lack of military service was probably for the best, as when taking up shooting as a hobby in his later years, he managed to blow not one, but two holes in the dash of his own car on two separate occasions, which unfortunately did not even startle, let alone surprise, his dear wife Dianne, who was much accustomed to such happenings in his presence and may have actually been safer in the jungles of Vietnam the entire time.

While the world was in conflict elsewhere, Robert made due by learning to roof, maintain traffic signs with the City of Amarillo, and eventually becoming a semi-professional truck driver—not to be confused with a professional semi-truck driver.

With peace on the horizon, Robert's attention somewhat counterintuitively drifted to weapons of war, spanning the historical and geographical spectrum from the atlatl of 19,000 BC France, to the sjambok of 1830s Africa, to the Mosin-Nagant M1891 of WWII-era Soviet Union. So many examples of these mainstream hobbyist items litter his small Clarendon, Texas, apartment that one of them may very well have been the item referenced in his aforementioned eloquent final epitaph.

A man of many interests, Robert was not to be entranced by historical weapons alone, but also had a penchant for fashion, frequently seen about town wearing the latest trend in homemade leather moccasins, a wide collection of unconventional hats, and boldly mismatched shirts and pants.

Robert also kept a wide selection of harmonicas on hand—not to play personally, but to prompt his beloved dogs to howl continuously at odd hours of the night to entertain his many neighbors, and occasionally to give to his many, many, many grandchildren and great-grandchildren to play loudly during long road trips with their parents.

Earlier this year, in February, God finally showed mercy upon Dianne, getting her the hell out of there for some well-earned peace and quiet. Without Dianne to gleefully entertain, Robert shifted his creative focus to the entertainment of you, the fine townspeople of Clarendon, Texas. Over the last eight months, if you have not met Robert or seen his road show yet, you probably would have soon.

We have all done our best to enjoy/weather Robert's antics up to this point, but he is God's problem now.

Robert's farewell tour will be held Monday, October 14th, at 10 a.m. at Memorial Park Funeral Home, 6969 E Interstate 40 Hwy, Amarillo, TX 79118. The family encourages you to dust off whatever outdated or inappropriate combination of clothing you have available to attend. A tip jar will be available in the front; flowers are also acceptable.

Lovers of Anthony's giant ass. Apparently he's been talked about on DL before, but I just discovered him. What's your favorite pic of him and his plump ass?

Doesn’t he have enough seniority to get out of doing this? The comments on Twitter are hilarious. (See Trending Anderson Cooper)

First soap opera featuring African-American cast since "Generations" in 1989. 2:00PM ET following "The Bold and the Beautiful."

Included in the cast ..

“Marcus” a congressman who followed in his grandfather’s footsteps in politics. He doesn’t live in the prestigious Fairmont Estates but rather in a brownstone in Washington D.C. Marcus feels it’s important to live in the district he represents. Marcus is married to his husband, Daniel. Seven years ago, they adopted two biological siblings. The married duo met when Daniel was working as a reporter, covering the political beat in D.C. Daniel became a stay-at-home dad to raise their children. Marcus is ambitious; in fact, he has a burning ambition to be the first Black openly gay President.

What are DL's thoughts on Dan Rather? I searched and could not find much on him.

A journalist with a JD, Rather worked for CBS and 60 Minutes for decades until he was abruptly fired over his reporting on George W. Bush's National Guard service. After his departure from CBS, he moved back home to Texas, where he works with his alma maters and civic and literary organizations.

I always felt he was more intelligent and classier than this contemporaries. He turns 93 on October 31.

And weighs 350 lbs. it’s taking a toll on his health.

But, how much do you really look like you did when you were 25 in the sense that you are recognizably still you.

Would people who knew you, but haven't seen you since then still easily recognize you or have you drastically changed.

Continuing our discussion originally started by Voice of the Night.

Prior thread:

Do you follow directions or do you take it more ofte?

Released forty years ago this month, it marks the end of her mainstream top 40 pop/rock phase (although she did briefly come back to it for Till I Loved You)

Two videos were released to MTV (and were surprisingly played regularly on the network) Yet there was no video for the second single, a duet with Kim Carnes.

Thoughts? I don't think the album was too bad, and it was nice to see her actually attempt to make music videos, unlike her future ones, where she just stood in a studio and sang.

Yes, it's me again with another video with a naked European guy. He's not a pretty boy but he's still hot overall and I love these type of embarrassment scenarios.

Does the datalounge think he's hot and or sexy? He looks better in the video than in the photo.

Regarding presidential immunity.

In response to a news story on Facebook, a woman responded “that’s Ludakris.”

Does she hate it? She won’t perform any songs from it on tour despite having two big hits from it “Talk To Me” and “I Can’t Wait”.

Got tired of it and stopped updating. One of her fans objected to her stopping - her uncle!

My grandmother had a brother named Adolf. To be fair, their parents were German immigrants and they were born decades before Hitler came to power.

With Jeff Goldblum, Janet McTeer (perfectly cast as Hera), Stephen Dillane, DL fave Eddie Izzard.

[quote]A darkly comedic and contemporary reimagining of Greek mythology, exploring themes of gender politics, power, and life in the underworld; six humans learn that they are component parts of an ancient prophecy.

Eight episodes, out August 29.

Barack Obama laid into fellow former President Donald Trump so thoroughly on Thursday that more than one X user quipped, “I’d like to report a murder.“

Obama, speaking at a rally in Pittsburgh, ticked off a long list of reasons why voters should reject Trump and vote for Democratic nominee Kamala Harris next month.

He disparaged “the constant attempts to sell you stuff” including gold sneakers, a $100,000 watch and the Trump Bible. “Who does that?” asked Obama with an incredulous shrug.

“You know, he wants you to buy the word of God, Donald Trump edition. Got his name right there next to Matthew and Luke,” he said of Trump’s “God Bless the USA Bibles,” which, it was reported this week, were printed in China. They are priced at $59.99 each.

Obama: Constant attempts to sell you stuff. Who does that? Selling you gold sneakers and $100,000 watch and most recently, a trump bible. You know, he wants you to buy the word of god, Donald Trump edition. Got his name right there next to Matthew and Luke.

The 44th president continued to blast the 45th, recalling his shock at finding out how much diapers cost after his oldest daughter Malia was born. “Do you think Donald Trump ever changed a diaper?,” he asked about the father of five.

One attendee shouted, “His own!”

Obama admitted with a laugh, “I almost said that, but I decided I should not say it.”

Trump was dubbed “Diaper Don” by the media in 2020 over reports that he wore adult diapers while filming the reality competition “The Apprentice.”

Trump supporters not only shrugged at the suggestion when it resurfaced during Trump’s tax fraud trial earlier this year, but proudly began wearing the absorbent underwear themselves at campaign events and carrying signs that read “real men wear diapers.”

Obama also blasted Trump for taking credit for the state of the economy when he took office in 2021. “I remember that economy when he first came in being pretty good. Yeah, it was pretty good, because it was my economy. It wasn’t something he did. I spent eight years cleaning up the mess that the Republicans had left me,” he said.

Any tea? He currently stars in the Law & Order original franchise reboot.

They met on an app. Poor guy.

That eldergay might have been a datalounger.

The killer was Arab- I guess he had the hots for Arabs. I have the hots for Arabs but I've never indulged in it.

If you had a choice, would you rather go to the bottom of the sea or out into space?

Best wishes to all

OK GAYS! RUN DON'T WALK to see the new musical that's taking NYC by st--

Actually I liked it. Energetic and entertaining - and just when I'd mentally got it sorted as a superficial vehicle for the performers to sass and preen and slay, there came a few moments that moved me. If you are a fan of past Drag Race winner Alaska Thunderfuck, you'll probably love this; she delivers a delightfully arch performance as Kitty. Her co-lead with impressive biceps, Nick Adams, is Alexis, her ex and nemesis. The supporting cast comes through with enough flair and zing to make it all work, and the ensemble includes past Drag Race contestants Jujubee, Luxx Noir London and Jan Sport.

The plot is flimsy -- there are two rival drag clubs the Fish Tank and the Cat House, and each owner (Kitty, Alexis) is in a financially precarious spot, oh dear, what will happen?! but so what, nobody goes to DRAG! The Musical expecting a masterfully layered storyline. This is like Kinky Boots meets the better moments on Drag Race. You're there to just bask in the flamboyance, laugh, applaud, and enjoy it on that level.

The show began with a warning about bright flashing lights and foul language... the bright flashing lights sure delivered and I can see how they could induce seizures. The language and vibe was typical for any drag show, and overall tame compared to the profane twistedness of Oh Mary.

Also at first we thought the show was set distinctly in 1980 or so, but as it progresses, cultural references are strewn all over the place and all over the decades. Some of the songs are duds but most of them hit their mark, well crafted and performed.

It's just under 2 hours with no intermission so pee first! All in all, a fun night out.

Will Gayle King set him off?

Will he scream at John Dickerson?

Will Jeff Glor be glad that he's out of there?

If so, what?

I've always needed a little something around 3:00 p.m. I thought this would change when I started working from home but it didn't.

Lately I've been enjoying a slice of Eggo Cinnamon Toast. Just toast it up in air fryer, no butter or syrup needed. A serving size is 3 slices for 290 calories but I only eat one slice which is what, 95 calories. It satisfies a little sweet craving.

I would think the Marsha and Jan feud would be more extreme for one thing.

She'll be promoting her new movie, "Wicked."

Stevie Nicks is the musical guest!

Is everyone a big Michelle Goulet fan? I’m listening to her song Stop & Think right now.

Good times.

New series from Brian Jordan Alvarez about a gay high school teacher. DL's gonna love this one, I can tell already.

Starts September 2nd.

It is still July…

Mine's Supermarket '77 these days.

US robot vacuums were hacked then suddenly began saying Cunt, bitch, twat to unsuspecting homeowners.

Yes, there was damage, but it was supposed to be the worst storm ever and it seems that Helene was actually worse. Precise prediction is impossible, but overdoing the warnings diminishes their effectiveness for the future.

I have nothing against her and I even bought her first album. But she ain’t no Madonna or Michael Jackson. Hell, she ain’t even a Paula Abdul.

Single Ladies was lame. Girls Rule the World was even worse. Even more confusing is the fact that she’s trying to look white, which you’d think would piss off black people. How can she have this enduring level of fame when her songs sound like someone put 5 minutes of effort into them?

Sad

Shigella outbreak in St Louis area affecting 24 patrons of Fairview Heights IL Longhorn Steakhouse. 9 hospitalized after eating there. Explosive diarrhea.

Donald Trump announced some major family news while campaigning in Michigan. His youngest daughter, Tiffany Trump, is expecting her first child with husband Michael Boulos. And his delivery was pretty … meh.

The former president was speaking to the Detroit Economic Club and revealed that Tiffany’s father-in-law, Massad Boulos, was in attendance.

“He happens to be the father of Tiffany’s husband, Michael, who’s a very exceptional young guy,” Trump told the crowd, per USA Today.

“And she’s an exceptional young woman, and she’s going to have a baby, so that’s nice,” he continued.

… So that’s nice?! Talk about a lackluster announcement! You would think he would be a little more excited about this new addition to the family, but apparently it’s just “nice.” Is Trump just over the whole grandkid thing? As a grandfather of 10, has expanding the family lost its appeal?

(ICYMI: Trump’s eldest son, Donald Jr., has two daughters and three sons between the ages of 10 and 17. His secondborn, Eric, has a 5-year-old daughter and a 7-year-old son, and his thirdborn, Ivanka, has three kids between the ages of 8 and 13.)

It was a strange throwaway of an announcement and an even stranger lack of enthusiasm, but, I guess one could say Trump sharing the news with prospective voters was … “nice.” That is unless you’re Tiffany and hoped to share the news yourself. The TV personality has not made her own announcement, but a spokesperson confirmed the news to People.

Tiffany and Boulos met at Lindsay Lohan’s beach club in Mykonos, Greece in the summer of 2018. Boulos later proposed in the White House Rose Garden during Trump’s presidency, and the couple married in the fall of 2022 at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.

Which is … ya know … nice.

They've spoken SEVEN FUCKING TIMES since he left office, and he even sent him a "care package" of a bunch of Covid tests! And Putin literally asked him to keep it quiet to protect Trump's OWN reputation! Nah, no collusion or quid pro quo. None at all! 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Former President Donald J. Trump has secretly spoken with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia as many as seven times since leaving office, even as he was pressuring Republicans to block military aid to Ukraine to fight Russian invaders, according to a new book by the journalist Bob Woodward.

The book, titled “War” and scheduled to be published next week, describes a scene in early 2024 at Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump’s estate in Florida, when the former president ordered an aide out of his office so he could conduct a phone call with Mr. Putin. The unidentified aide said the two may have spoken a half-dozen other times as well since Mr. Trump left the White House.

The book also reports that Mr. Trump, while still in office early during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, secretly sent Mr. Putin what were then rare tests for the virus for the Russian’s personal use. Mr. Putin, who has been described as particularly concerned about being infected at the time, urged Mr. Trump to not publicly reveal the gesture because it could damage the American president politically. “I don’t want you to tell anybody because people will get mad at you, not me,” Mr. Putin reportedly told him.

The disclosures raise new questions about Mr. Trump’s relationship with Mr. Putin just weeks before an election that will determine whether the former president will reclaim the White House. A copy of the book was obtained by The New York Times. The Washington Post, where Mr. Woodward has worked for more than half a century, and CNN, where he often appears as a commentator, also reported on the book on Tuesday.

Mr. Trump praised Mr. Putin as a “genius” when he initiated the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and since then has refused to say that he wants Ukraine to win its war against Russia. He has criticized American aid to Ukraine and leaned on congressional Republicans not to approve more assistance. He has boasted that if he wins he will negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine within 24 hours and do so even before the inauguration.

Mr. Trump has not explained how he would do so, but possible terms described last month by his running mate, Senator JD Vance of Ohio, sounded a lot like what Mr. Putin would want. Mr. Vance said that Russia could keep the Ukrainian territory it has seized by force in violation of international law and receive a “guarantee of neutrality” from Ukraine, which would not be allowed to join NATO.

More from Walford here.

Good looking guy. Whatever canyoneering it sounds like something to avoid.

Hoping against hope that this is the year Ted Cruz is going down.

Was is it with him sticking into the GOP crazy chicks? Kimberly Guilfoyle is beyond repugnant.

[quote] Siebel Newsom was registered as a Republican until 2008, before re-registering as No Party Preference. Prior to registering as an independent voter, she accidentally registered with the far-right American Independent Party, before correcting her party to "decline to state".

[quote] During her tenure as the wife of the governor, the role of first lady has been retitled first partner to be gender inclusive.

Susan Akin was Miss America, 1986 and considered one of the most beautiful women to wear the Miss America crown, but a lifetime of addiction, missed opportunities and broken dreams nearly destroyed her.

Her mother did a number on her and sounds like Mrs. Patsy Ramsey, formerly of Boulder, CO, putting Susan in pageants from the time she was a little girl.

As a double feature, no less, and just in time for Halloween. I have clung to the Val Lewton DVD set that Warner released nearly two decades ago, impatiently waiting for these films to finally make it to Blu-ray. "The Seventh Victim" is easily in my top 10 favorite horror films ever, and "I Walked with a Zombie" is also a masterpiece. These were the last two horror films produced by Lewton during his RKO years that had yet to get HD upgrades (Scream Factory, Warner Archive, and Criterion had already taken care of the others). Highly recommended.

The 16th annual Mr. Gay World competition is heading to its finale on Monday. This year's event takes place in Great Britain (at The Alnwick Garden in Northumberland) for the first time in its history. There are 12 men competing from Chile, France, India, Germany, Philippines, Italy, the United States (Puerto Rico), South Africa, Poland and Switzerland, Thailand as well as the UK. They are staying in Alnwick as guests of the Duchess of Northumberland before the big day which will feature a catwalk section showcasing elaborate outfits plus music and performances from 1pm on Monday.

"We have had the privilege of hosting Mr Gay Europe for the last two years and were delighted when the opportunity to welcome Mr Gay World arose this summer, Mark Brassell, chief executive at The Alnwick Garden, told the Northumberland Gazette.

According to its website, "The Mr Gay World® competition is a 21st Century public performance where the delegates represent their nation as the best spokesperson and embody the spirit of their nation.

The competition takes place over an intense four days and includes various challenges including:

Public Voting, Social Media, Written Test, Personal Interview, Swimwear, Formal Wear, National Costume, and Social Responsibility Campaign. Amongst its rules are that all candidates must be 21 years of age one month prior to the competition and "identifies as male, uses 'him' and 'his' as their pronouns and 'collectively identifies as male'."

Amongst the attributes the jury will be focusing on are a candidate who shows an interest in the world and people around him; displays a compassionate nature; embraces change or people and things different from his own frame of reference; can conduct an intelligent conversation; is authentic; has poise and confidence without seeming arrogant; is someone his nation and community would be proud of; can be a diplomat of good will; has innate leadership skills; inspires those around him; is willing to take risks; is a visionary; is dedicated to his responsibility towards the LGBTQIA+ community he represents; and is presentable to be a role model and represent the LGBTQIA+ on a variety of public.

The Sarah Brightman-led Australian production of Sunset Boulevard at Melbourne's Princess Theatre will reduce the number of performances being offered due to low ticket sales.

My cousin argued that’s it’s important to listen to right wing media in order to understand what MAGAs are thinking. He claim this is true so that you can persuade them to change their mind. My reply was there is changing anyone’s mind in this election. It’s tribal and the only hope is that more of us turn out.

BTW, he voted for Jill Stein in 2016, so I suspect for all his rhetoric about persuasion, he just enjoys anti-establishment conspiracy theories whereas they make me angry.

After those shitty Shazam movies his career fell in a slump so now he chooses the MAGA route.

So original, I know....

It’s a natural part of the human body. I quite often hear cleanliness and hygiene as reasons for hating foreskin, but it’s just like any other part of the body. If you don’t wash your asshole in the shower or clean out your mouth in the morning, it smells god awful. And any good quality man is going to be clean.

In a statement to EW, a CNN representative called the ad — which also targeted journalists and celebrities like Taylor Swift and Oprah Winfrey — "outrageous, antisemitic, and dangerous."

ABC warned its audience before airing a disturbing political ad the network said it was required to broadcast during a live episode of The View, with the commercial depicting graphic imagery from abortions and comparing several celebrities — including all six cohosts of The View — to Nazis.

During the show's final commercial break on Thursday, a warning message appeared on screen, reading, "The following is a paid political advertisement, and the ABC Television Network is required to carry it by federal law. The advertisement contains scenes that may be disturbing to children. Viewer discretion is advised."

The explicit clip — fronted by presidential candidate and anti-abortion activist Randall Terry — opened with a shot of Miley Cyrus (pictured with a cake topped with the message "abortion is healthcare") and an image of Whoopi Goldberg seated at The View Hot Topics table.

"I am so sick of stupid celebrities and lying journalists," Terry says via voice-over in the ad, before its footage displays images of View stars Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Ana Navarro, Sara Haines, and Alyssa Farah Griffin; broadcasters Jake Tapper, Wolf Blitzer, and Dana Bash; and famous figures like Oprah Winfrey, Taylor Swift, Samuel L. Jackson, Chris Evans, Billie Eilish, Scarlett Johansson, and more. The commercial then shows multiple images of fetuses and, later, images of abortion procedures. "Why don't you fools follow the science?" Terry asks.

"These are dead human beings, murdered by abortion that you promote. If history even remembers you, you'll be remembered like Leni Riefenstahl and Joseph Goebbels. The name of the wicked will rot," Terry continues near the end of the anti-Kamala Harris ad, invoking the names of prominent Nazi figures.

After the clip played on air, ABC followed up with another text statement that read: "The preceding was a paid political advertisement that the ABC Television Network was required to carry under federal law. The advertisement contained scenes that may be disturbing to viewers."

Local ABC affiliates addressed the ad online, with Chicago's network station providing an editorial note explaining the commercial to its audience.

"According to the FCC, broadcast stations are 'prohibited from censoring or rejecting political ads that are paid for and sponsored by legally qualified candidates,'" the post said. "Terry will be on the ballot in at least 12 states so has met the criteria to be considered a legally qualified candidate."

It's a new year, so time for a new thread! Let's start from where we left off in 2023...

New world tour (for which she's... finally.. coming back to North America), new follow up album for Tension and a new single and video in which she is serving FACE and ATTITUDE.

The ocean's embrace in each savory spread, A tribute to clams, where memories tread. So raise up your chips, let your worries all slip, To the heart of the party, we adore the clam dip!

From the old thread re: Simon Winder, I liked Germania and Danuba, but found Lotharingia a weak afterthought.

Finished [italic]Sub Rosa[/italic], which I can recommend if you're a fan of Roman-era fiction such as the Falco series. I know ... a woman writing MM, ugh! Here, I think she did okay, although a bit awkward at times. Audio narrator has very pronounced "gay voice" which I think is his own, not for effect.

Finishing up a second book by Vendela Vita. Didn't like it any more than the other one, reads like a self-published un-edited work. I'm left wondering if she's published because she's married to successful Dave Eggers?

I had a post banned because I referred to the Affordable Care Act as ObamaCare. And this wasn't a post asking about people's political views on it. It was just asking if people had policies and if they saved much money.

What's next? Washington state and Washington DC should be referred to as President state and President DC?

I’m a history fan and I think it would be fascinating. There’s no way in hell I’d go now but if Korea was reunified and all democratic I would go. But you’d have to go in the first few years before they start fixing and modernizing the place to get the full experience.

In November, 2018, a young woman who had been one of Guilfoyle’s assistants at Fox News sent company executives a confidential, forty-two-page draft complaint that accused Guilfoyle of repeated sexual harassment, and demanded monetary relief. The document, which resulted in a multimillion-dollar out-of-court settlement...

Fox News forced her out in July, 2018—several years before her contract’s expiration date. At the time, she was a co-host of the political chat show “The Five.” Media reports suggested that she had been accused of workplace impropriety, including displaying lewd pictures of male genitalia to colleagues, but few additional details of misbehavior emerged. Guilfoyle publicly denied any wrongdoing, and last year a lawyer representing her told The New Yorker that “any suggestion” she had “engaged in misconduct at Fox is patently false.” But, as I reported at the time, shortly after Guilfoyle left her job, Fox secretly paid an undisclosed sum to the assistant, who no longer works at the company. Recently, two well-informed sources told me that Fox, in order to avoid going to trial, had agreed to pay the woman upward of four million dollars.

The "new" New York ladies are back. And this time they're not fighting about cheese.

Can’t make this up.

He was 88 yrs old .

That is the allegation being lodged at Labour Party politicians for giving what The Sun described as “VVIP” security detail that would be fit for a royal.

The media outlet claimed that Swift and her mother and manager, Andrea Swift, “threatened to axe the August shows unless a police convoy was provided.” The cops relented after two politicians, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper and London Mayor Sadiq Khan, intervened. Critics of the extra-special handling of Swift are noting that the Duke of Sussex can’t get that level of service even after this legal case. To make matters even trickier, Khan received free tickets to the Eras Tour at Wembley Stadium.

Ex-Metropolitan Police commander John O’Connor described the situation to The Sun as “an abuse of an elite service.” “Police should be left alone to make operational decisions,” he noted. “This interference creates a perception there is no such thing as a free lunch or concert tickets. The Met is unable to provide security for Prince Harry, but he must be in at least as much danger as Taylor Swift.”

In Swift’s defense, her alleged security command came on the heels of a foiled terrorist attempt in Vienna, Austria. She had to cancel all three concerts even after government officials arrested the two suspects — the risk was too great to her, the crew, and her fans. Still, the 34-year-old pop star has been concerned about concert safety since 2019 after the Manchester, England, and Las Vegas mass shootings. She wrote an ELLE essay that year on “30 Things I Learned Before Turning 30,” featuring the topic, “My biggest fear.”

“I was completely terrified to go on tour this time because I didn’t know how we were going to keep 3 million fans safe over seven months,” she admitted. “There was a tremendous amount of planning, expense, and effort put into keeping my fans safe.” It’s understandable that Swift probably needed that security given the timing of the terrorist plan, but the move can’t make Prince Harry feel good. He’s been in a legal fight for years over the situation.

The British government’s legal team argued in court in May 2023 that the police cannot be “private bodyguards for the wealthy” even though they did it for Swift. Prince Harry’s legal team has always maintained that he “inherited a security risk at birth, for life,” per Us Weekly. “He remains sixth in line to the throne, served two tours of combat duty in Afghanistan, and in recent years his family has been subjected to well-documented neo-Nazi and extremist threats,” they said.

“While his role within the Institution has changed, his profile as a member of the royal family has not. Nor has the threat to him and his family.”

The security controversy in the U.K. is likely to continue now that Swift has entered the chat.

“Good technique in dance to me is not just someone who can do a perfect tendu, but also someone who can urinate on cue,” Holzinger told the Guardian in an interview earlier this year.

The gay robot from Sleeper remains the single funniest thing Woody Allen has ever done.

is there anything gayer on the face of the Earth?

I caught DWTS saw this guy shirtless. Apparently a football player SuperBowl winner who got signed to Ford Models. Hot as fuck....no personal life I can find info on. Is he the gay. He has gay voice for sure.

Looks stupid and Travis Kelce is not attractive. He doesn’t have the face for TV. Sorry.

For me it’s the following:

1. The selfishness. I wish we wanted to look out for each other, in the form of universal healthcare, fair wages, etc. Or voluntarily wearing masks during a pandemic without babbling about “muh freedoms.”

2. The over-regulation and the criminalization and over-enforcement of every stupid little thing. Shoplifting is a crime. Being in possession of alcohol in a national park shouldn’t be.

3. The prudishness and the hang ups with nudity. Rape and child molestation should be sex crimes worthy of sex offender registration. Public urination and paying for sex shouldn’t be. And nudity at the lake, at the beach, and on TV should be seen as natural as it is in Europe.

4. The guns!

And he was very angry when it did not.

Jeff Stryker dancing in the shower!

Does anyone know what movie this is from?

[quote]France is the latest European country to refuse to cover weight loss drugs through its national insurance programme.

[quote]France isn’t the only country taking a cautious approach to the medicines. For example, a 1980s law bans Germany’s national health system from paying for drugs that target “lifestyle” issues like obesity, smoking cessation, hair growth, and erectile dysfunction. That means that while Novo Nordisk has been selling Wegovy in Germany since 2023, only privately insured patients or those willing to pay out-of-pocket can get it.

[quote]Wegovy also isn’t usually covered in Denmark – Novo Nordisk’s home country – partly because the Danish health authority estimates that it would cost about 6 million Danish kroner (about $880,000) to prevent a single cardiovascular event.

New series on Apple TV set on Palm Beach in the late 1960’s with an amazing cast (including Ricky Martin). Can’t wait!

I truly do. It's a sign of low caliber taste. It's like preferring Thomas Kinkade over Van Gogh.

Hurricane Milton dumped so much rain over parts of Florida’s Tampa Bay area that it qualified as a 1-in-1,000-year rainfall event.

St. Petersburg had 18.31 inches of rain — or more than 1.5 feet — in the 24-hour period during which the storm made landfall, according to precipitation data from the National Weather Service.

That included a staggering 5.09 inches in one hour, from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. ET — a level considered to have roughly a 0.1% chance of happening in any given year.

“THIS IS INSANE! St. Petersburg has reported 5.09 inches of rain in ONE HOUR and 9.04 inches in 3 hours,” Matthew Cappucci, an atmospheric scientist and senior meteorologist at MyRadar Weather, posted Wednesday on X. “That’s more rare than a thousand year rain event.”

Milton made landfall on Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. ET near Siesta Key, as a strong Category 3 storm.

Other significant rainfall totals across Florida included 14.01 inches in Clearwater Beach, 13.09 inches in Baskin, 11.43 inches in Tampa and 10.12 inches in Seminole.

It takes time to understand the influence of climate change on individual weather events, so scientists have not yet been able to complete analyses of its effect on Milton. But in general, experts know that global warming is making storms wetter and more intense.

Studies have shown that global warming is increasing sea surface temperatures, which provides extra energy for storms, allowing them to gain speed and intensity. The unusually high sea surface temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico that helped both Hurricanes Milton and Helene strengthen were 200 to 500 times more likely because of climate change, according to research released Wednesday.

A warmer atmosphere can also hold more water: For every degree Fahrenheit that the planet heats up, the atmosphere can hold about 3% to 4% more moisture. That makes storms capable of dumping enormous amounts of rain over land.

Milton’s driving rain along Florida’s Gulf Coast quickly inundated roadways, homes and other structures. The National Weather Service issued a flash flood emergency for Tampa and St. Petersburg that lasted until 2:30 a.m. ET Thursday.

Forecasters had anticipated heavy rain as Milton barreled into Florida. In the hours before landfall, the National Hurricane Center said it expected 6 to 12 inches of rain across central and northern portions of the Florida Peninsula through Thursday, with localized totals up to 18 inches.

Even Florida's east coast has been hammered by rain. Preliminary measures on Wednesday indicated that 7 inches had fallen in St. Augustine, 7.38 inches in Titusville and 3.05 inches in Daytona Beach, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Hurricane Milton has moved back out to sea, but additional rainfall and flooding are expected to persist through Thursday in parts of eastern and central Florida, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Vogue visits Seth meyers’ and Alexi Ashe’s Martha’s Vineyard house.

They don’t show a bar.

A bitchy, passive-aggressive woodworking apprentice carved the support beams.

Fear of the great power of the omnipotent Democratic party.

Does anyone watch this show? I really like it. Two British celebrities are paired with two antiques experts and they drive around British backroads in vintage cars buying antiques in a challenge to see who can profit more at an auction at the end of a two day trip.

There's lots of dry British humor and geezers galore.

Perpetually tan TikTok star on life support awaiting organ donation.

Her widower still looks gay. Who will comfort him and reapply his lipstick?

Posted mainly for the goofy-cute photo.

[quote]Buttigieg and Musk initially clashed on X last Friday, when Musk falsely claimed that the FAA planned to “shut down” airspace over hard-hit states. They later spoke on the phone, Buttigieg told MSNBC’s Jen Psaki, after Buttigieg corrected Musk publicly and invited the noted conspiracist to call him with questions.

[quote]“I’ve been amazed at how a little kernel of some detail gets blown up on the internet into something that it’s not,” Buttigieg told Psaki, adding that the torrent of partisan misinformation about the response to Hurricane Helene had “a real cost for people on the ground.”

He’s so chiseled

They do, however, largely expect to be reliant on family for support once they retire. Around 24% of 55-year-olds say they expect financial support from their family members, with 21% adding they also needing housing support, the report said.

Anyone watching?

There is a single hair laying in the shape of a heart in my bathroom sink.

Anything that exciting happen to you lately?

P.S. Enjoy the heart shape feature in a wig in the link. I sure learned some stuff I didn't need to know.

Russell Crowe may not be in “Gladiator II,” but his late character Maximus has been revealed at last to be the father of Paul Mescal’s lead Lucius.

The latest trailer for Ridley Scott’s highly-anticipated epic sequel has confirmed that Crowe’s Maximus fathered Lucius with Lucilla (Connie Nielsen), as long suspected. Lucius is the nephew of Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix) who was killed by Russell Crowe’s Maximus; the character is also the grandson of Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris). Maximus died in “Gladiator.”

Spencer Treat Clark played Lucius in the 2000 feature.

“Gladiator II” is set 20 years after the events of the first film. Joseph Quinn, Pedro Pascal, and Denzel Washington co-star.

The official synopsis reads: “From legendary director Ridley Scott, ‘Gladiator II’ continues the epic saga of power, intrigue, and vengeance set in Ancient Rome. Years after witnessing the death of the revered hero Maximus at the hands of his uncle, Lucius (Mescal) is forced to enter the Colosseum after his home is conquered by the tyrannical Emperors who now lead Rome with an iron fist. With rage in his heart and the future of the Empire at stake, Lucius must look to his past to find strength and honor to return the glory of Rome to its people.”

Scott’s “Napoleon” screenwriter David Scarpa penned the script. Scott’s original “Gladiator” collaborators, costume designer Janty Yates and production designer Arthur Max, are returning to the franchise. Scott Free President Michael Pruss, plus Doug Wick and Lucy Fisher via Red Wagon Entertainment, are producing.

The film is executive produced by Walter Parkes, Laurie MacDonald, Raymond Kirk, and Aidan Elliott.

“Gladiator II” star Mescal told Entertainment Weekly that he was shocked to learn that Lucius was the son of Maximus.

“Oh, absolutely. I was like, ‘Holy shit,'” Mescal said. “It’s an affronting thing to see it written on the page, and [to have] that responsibility fall on your shoulders is interesting. The screenplay does a lot of that work for you in terms of the rubbing the dirt between the hands, the kind of DNA, and the genetics that Lucius inherits.

So I kind of tried to park that to one side because ultimately, where Lucius is coming from at the start of the film, he has a very different journey than Maximus does. And I was hoping that whatever DNA and even just the physical gestures was going to be one part of, and a kind of small part of, the performance. But then what I tried to do is figure out exactly who Lucius was and where those differences lay between Lucius and Maximus.””

Mescal previously told Esquire that he was “stressed” about the sequel since it’s the “biggest” film he’s ever starred in. He added that director Scott “pays homage” to the first “Gladiator,” clearly with the Crowe reference.

“I can’t tell you how stressed I am talking about that film in particular, because it’s definitely the biggest one I’ve done,” Mescal said. “I feel really excited, but, like, it’s difficult to get away from the legacy of the film a bit. I think it’s really well written and it pays homage to the first one, but it’s very much something that I think I can step into and make comfortably my own.”

“Gladiator 2” premieres November 22 in theaters.

They're both dead.

That makes me sad.

Betty Please.

Jarbidge, NV

100 mi. from anywhere. Could you live there?

This is actually quite a popular front country trail.

She did all of the right things, but I'm not gonna lie -- her 'roar' cracked me up.

When your johnson won't go back down.

Shari Redstone, the media mogul whose Paramount empire controls CBS News, criticized the network’s leadership on Wednesday for its decision to reprimand a star morning show anchor over his handling of an on-air interview with the writer Ta-Nehisi Coates.

“They made a mistake here,” Ms. Redstone said during an appearance in Midtown Manhattan, adding, “I think we all agree that this was not handled correctly.”

CBS News executives rebuked the anchor, Tony Dokoupil, on a newsroom-wide call on Monday, saying that his conduct fell short of editorial standards.

Mr. Dokoupil had challenged Mr. Coates’s views about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict during a tense but civil appearance last week on “CBS Mornings,” at one point saying that parts of Mr. Coates’s new book — which compares Israel’s treatment of Palestinians to Jim Crow laws — “would not be out of place in the backpack of an extremist.”

What's your favorite celebrity ass?

I'm the driver getting his throat slashed on the I-5 freeway, while shooting a gun at the guy slashing his throat, after a 3 hour meth and fentanyl binge in a Tacoma crack den.

Thankfully, I was able to pull over to the side of the freeway, before I bled to death.

What are our thoughts on this charming Colonial abode in the nation's candy capital: Hershey, PA? It predates the Civil War! Just an utterly adorable little pad for a cute couple.

The interior, however, is a bigger ... challenge.

I’m making a playlist about songs about midnight.

What are your favorites?

Mario Lopez turned 51 today, and got his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He used to be so sexy and cute - now his face looks like a chipmunk with all his fillers, and his forehead is frozen. Thoughts and prayers for Mario.

I’m in my Jaydine costume, complete with my blonde wig in pigtails and my favorite Wet ‘n Wild eyeliner to compliment this LBD I got from Forever 21.

He had a good run.

This popped up in my YouTube feed—no clue how, but I’m not complaining. The athletes are stunning AF, though the music is a super annoying Eurotrash shit. Click for the eye candy!

And I found out 5 hours before the news of my friend Gavin Creel dying. It was a horrible morning. I’ve never known someone who was murdered before. He was 69. It was gruesome. It’s hard to process. They have a person of interest but I don’t care about him. I’m just upset my friend’s life ended like that.

Discuss.

J-Lo

Who else?

Is Sheila really dead?

When will Steffy and Liam get back together?

When will Hope tell Douglas to hit the road?

Are Ridge and Brooke ever going to be an interesting couple again?

Continue your discussion of the show here.

Welcome to the Poll Hole, bitches! Continue nerding out here.

A new survey has revealed that Generation Z are most likely to leave an establishment without tipping when faced with poor service, challenging long-held gratuity norms in the U.S.

The survey conducted by Talker Research from September 20 to 23, 2024, asked 1,000 Americans across different generations about their tipping habits and opinions on service worker wages.

They found that 74 percent of Generation Z respondents, aged 18-27, admitted to walking out without tipping due to unsatisfactory service, the highest percentage among all age groups. This compares to 55 percent of millennials, 57 percent of Generation X, and 46 percent of baby boomers.

Across the U.S., people are tipping less and less. In the second quarter of 2024 the average sit-down restaurant tips went down to 19.3 percent from 19.4 percent in the first quarter, while quick service tips were down to 15.9 percent from 16 percent in the same time period.

This shift in behavior may reflect growing discontent with tipping culture, a topic that has become increasingly debated in recent years. Nick Leighton, an etiquette expert and host of the popular podcast Were You Raised by Wolves?, commented on the tipping fatigue that many consumers are experiencing today.

Leighton told Newsweek: "We're now faced with tipping request screens everywhere, even in the most unlikely of places. Gas station self-service pumps? Online clothing stores? So it's no wonder that tipping fatigue is real and people are throwing their hands up."

English soccer star George Baldock has died at the age of 31.

According to the BBC, the athlete — who was born in the U.K. but also held Greek nationality — was found dead in a swimming pool at his home in Glyfada, Athens, on Wednesday, Oct. 9.

The outlet reported that there was no evidence of foul play and that a local coroner had initially suggested Baldock died of drowning before his body was found at 10:30 pm local time.

According to Reuters, the soccer player could not be revived after police tried cardiopulmonary resuscitation on him.

Baldock's family also said in a statement per the outlets, "We can confirm that George has sadly passed away. As a family we are in shock at this terrible loss."

It was not a bathtub related death.

How fucking insane!

That is a pretty rough 65- Am I crazy?

He had nice skin and the type that would normally age well-

He must have gotten a lot of sun and never used sunblock-

Can’t believe I followed this show as a kid. Even Sally didn’t want to do it.An actor step father urged her to do it to further her career. Hard to watch-preposterous concept. Mariam Hopkins made a cameo-OMG

Such an angel's voice. Is he family?

It sorta derailed Rupert Everett's movie career. And ended Madonna's.

I'll be watching both, anyone else?

"The Spanish-language network announced Tuesday that Trump will answer questions on Oct. 8 in Miami. Harris will participate in a similar town hall with undecided Latinos on Oct. 10 in Las Vegas..."

Hollywood is being run by influencers now!

The survey finds that Donald J. Trump is retaining his support and that, on the eve of the debate, voters are unsure they know enough about where Kamala Harris stands.

... Color me incredulous, NYTimes.

starring Saoirse Ronan. Has anybody seen it? What do you think? The theme is nothing new, lady with an Addiction issue has to hit rock bottom in order to rise up, but the movie did manage to capture beautiful images of the Orkney Islands.

I thought I would enjoy the movie more or at least get close to the character, but it somehow left me cold. Not least because some of the narration seemed a bit inauthentic to me. Was it paying homage to Terrence Malick, I’m not sure.

It reminded me a little of the play People Places and Things and the movie Rachel Getting Married, both of which I found superior in terms of storytelling.

Saoirse Ronan Is very good though and I’m excited to see what she does next…

I think it’s possible. There was a research screening of it less than two months after it wrapped in Uruguay. I suspect they feel the need to get ahead of the shit which will no doubt splatter on JLo in the coming months due to her longtime “association” with Sean Puffy Combs. JLo apparently is not only one of the producers she bankrolled the film herself.

The Northern Lights are everywhere!

The tour highlights the home's luxurious features, including a spacious garden, a gourmet kitchen, and multiple bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms.

The video also showcases the home's unique design elements and stunning views of the city skyline.

Hurricane Milton has now intensified into a Category 4 hurricane, the National Hurricane Center reported Monday morning. Maximum sustained winds are estimated to be around 150 mph.

The Associated Press reports that about 7 million people are now being urged to evacuate Florida, which is still recovering from the devastation left by Hurricane Helene last week. Per the AP, Milton's projected path suggests it could make landfall in the Tampa Bay area on Wednesday evening and remain a hurricane as it continues moving northeastward across the state.

In a statement issued Sunday, the White House said that President Biden had been briefed on the situation — including the hurricane's "potential impacts" on the Florida Gulf Coast and the work the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is doing in advance of the storm.

The Mexican government issued a hurricane watch for the coast of Mexico from Celestún to Cabo Catoche, and a tropical storm warning from Celestún to Cancun, according to the NHC. Those in the Florida Peninsula, the Florida Keys and the northwestern Bahamas are also being urged to monitor its progress.

As of Monday morning:

Milton was located around 150 miles west of Progreso, Mexico.

It was about 735 miles southwest of Tampa, Fla.

The storm had maximum sustained winds of 150 mph.

The storm was moving east-southeast at 8 mph.

The NHC warned Monday morning of "an increasing risk of life-threatening storm surge and damaging winds for portions of the west coast of the Florida Peninsula beginning Tuesday night or early Wednesday."

"Residents in that area should follow any advice given by local officials and evacuate if told to do so," the NHC said.

Portions of the Florida Peninsula and the Florida Keys can expect rainfall of 5 to 10 inches, with localized totals up to 15 inches through Wednesday night. Such rainfall brings "the risk of considerable flash, urban and areal flooding, along with the potential for moderate to major river flooding," meteorologists said.

Meanwhile, portions of the northern Yucatan Peninsula can expect 2 to 4 inches of rainfall.

She calls herself the first self made female billionaire. Wasn't that Oprah? Nonetheless, this looks good.

Chavez seems hesitant to share his true opinions on the Menendez brothers but Koch seems to adore them.

I'll bet Kim Kardashian wants to squeeze herself into them.

Riley Keough (Elvis Presley's granddaughter) performs "When Doves Cry"by Prince during the CHANEL (Spring/summer ready-to-wear 2025) fashion show at the Grand Palais in Paris on October 1, 2024.

I hope Riley hits the stratosphere as a performer/model/actress. She's been getting a lot of attention. She's beautiful and talented.

Murphy I think was personally devastated by the end of his Netflix deal, which saw much capital wasted on eccentric projects. He turned to parasitic, lowest common denominator schlock out of contempt for both the industry and the audience. The problem with diluting your brand with populist garbage was oddly the subject of one of his interesting Netflix shows, Halston.

Looks like he will be spending the holidays behind bars, nowhere near his mother or his children - waiting for May 5 to roll around.

Combs, who has pleaded not guilty, was present in the courtroom, as were several of his family members. Combs’ ankles were shackled, and he was wearing a loose-fitting tan button down shirt and khaki pants. He smiled widely to his family as he was led into the courtroom by a U.S. Marshal, taking a moment to wave toward them sitting in the second row.

Prosecutor Emily Johnson said the prosecution anticipates its case could last three weeks but added that a superseding indictment could affect the length of trial, meaning additional charges or defendants could be added to the case.

None of the networks, including the Weather Channel, have reports on the conditions in Siesta Key after the eye wall went through. Coverage is focused on Fort Myers, Port Charlotte and the Tampa-St.Pete area. Nothing about Sarasota has been reported. It was the center of the storm.

A family member has a house right on the beach on Siesta Key. They are clamoring for information their house is still there. I know everyone is waiting for daybreak, but does anyone have any information about the damage to Siesta Key?

My list, as of today:

AG: Sally Yates, to be replaced by Amy Klobuchar with the next SCOTUS opening/expulsion/expansion.

Treasury or FED: Austan Goolsby

Commerce: Jay Coen Gilbert

Chief of Staff: Mitch Landrieu

Senior Advisor to the President: Cedric Richmond

Agriculture Secretary: Dr. Gail Myers

I'd keep my girl Jennifer Granholm at Energy, or find a higher profile spot for her, because she's awesome and should be President if she'd born here.

Surgeon-General: Clyde Yancy, M.D.

That's what I have, so far.

Yours?

I will miss Monica but I know the rest of these bitches will bring the crazy. Let's go!

I want him inside me quite deeply.

I pick Family Affair. They're all so sad and I love it.

If Adele was cancelled for her Jamaican braids while on vacation in Jamaica, why does Beyoncé applauded for scalping a white woman and wearing her blonde hair on stage?

Beyonce outfit is fabulous however.

Asshole

NYTimes: No candidate has ever raised so much money so fast. And it’s more than former President Donald J. Trump has announced raising in all of 2024.

Anyone have one? Do they work well or are they more trouble than they’re worth?

I'm the organic micro bonded-protein blend, guaranteed to restore health and vibrancy to hair with only one use!

I came across this and found it quite fascinating. These mini-documentaries of famous films can be quite interesting.

Actually I don't know if he is Voltron or if he is just in it. I have no idea what this IP is. It looks like a transformers/power rangers hybrid.

Who here is a fan of classic bar soap? I love classic gold Dial and blue Coast soap.

What are some of your favorites?

I get nervous as they fly over my house.

Growing up we used cheap shampoo and I’m from a family of people with full thick heads of hair. In my 20s I started to hear people talk about how most drug store shampoos were horrible for you and would make you go bald. I started buying higher quality shampoos after that and some were great but some have been awful. Is it true that cheap shampoo is bad for your hair? It would be nice to not have to spend $20 or $30 dollars on every bottle of shampoo but I don’t want to go bald

John Mulaney is coming back to Netflix with another talk show.

And possibly involved with Gio Benitez at one time?

Let's settle this once and for all.

Get ready for the Annual World Naked Gardening Day (WNGD)! People across the globe are encouraged, on the first Saturday of May, to tend their portion of the world’s garden unclothed as nature intended.

Gardening has a timeless quality, and anyone can do it: young and old, singles or groups, the fit and infirm, urban and rural. An elderly lady in a Manhattan apartment can plant new annuals in her window box. Families can rake leaves in their back yard. Freehikers can pull invasive weeds along their favorite stretch of trail. More daring groups can make rapid clothes-free sorties into public parks to do community-friendly stealth cleanups.

Why garden naked? First of all, it’s fun! Second only to swimming, gardening is at the top of the list of family-friendly activities people are most ready to consider doing nude. Moreover, our culture needs to move toward a healthy sense of both body acceptance and our relation to the natural environment. Gardening naked is not only a simple joy, it reminds us–even if only for those few sunkissed minutes–that we can be honest with who we are as humans and as part of this planet.

All that’s involved is getting naked and making the world’s gardens–whatever their size, public or private–healthier and more attractive. WNGD has no political agenda, nor is it owned or organized by any one particular group. Naked individuals and groups are encouraged to adopt the day for themselves.

Events like WNGD can help develop a sense of community among people of every stripe. Taking part in something that is bigger than any one household, naturist group, or gardening club can move gardeners with an au naturel joie de vivre toward becoming a community. And in the case of WNGD, it’s fun, costs no money, runs no unwanted risk, reminds us of our tie to the natural world, and does something good for the environment.

So what should you do? First of all, on the first Saturday of May, find an opportunity to get naked and do some gardening. Do so alone, with friends, with family, with your gardening club, or with any other group collected for that purpose. Do it inside your house, in your back yard, on a hiking trail, at a city park, or on the streets. Stay private or go public. Make it a quiet time or make it a public splash. Just get naked and make your part of the botanical world a healthier and more attractive place.

Secondly, tell someone about your experience. No one owns this event, so it does not really matter whom you tell, but tell someone . Tell your friends about your day of naked gardening; write down what you thought of it and email it to your local newspaper; post your thoughts and images onto an Internet site; submit stories and photos to your club newsletter.

– WNGD.org

What are some stories and anecdotes from the DL's history that you've never forgotten, because they were so interesting, funny, or just plain weird?

Years ago there was this thread called "Freaks You Work With" - the entire thread was hysterical, but there was this one poster who wrote about some Ren Faire dweeb who'd wear a codpiece to work that still stands out in mind

And there was someone who knew (or claimed to have known) John Barrowman and said he used to post personal ads that would say something like "I have a hungry ass, and it needs feeding!" Now I always think of that every time I read about him

Harriet Sansom Harris will reprise her role as agent Bebe Glazer on a "Frasier" Season 2 episode, while Rachel Bloom will guest as her daughter.

look like Blanche Devereaux and Dorothy Zbornak

Kind of mind blowing

Tina Knowles seems high strung, in an awesome way though. Travis Kelce’s mom looks like Mrs. Doubtfire.

The dog biscuits were red herrings. Did we know she was an experienced blogger?

WHITESBURG, Ky. (FOX 56) — Spectators cried out in a Morgan County courtroom as surveillance video played, depicting the shooting death of District Judge Kevin Mullins.

Former Letcher County Sheriff Shawn “Mickey” Stines appeared before a judge on Tuesday afternoon for a probable cause hearing. Stines was arrested without incident on Sept. 19 after he reportedly shot and killed the district judge in his chambers.

Lead investigator, Kentucky State Police Detective Clayton Stamper, was called to the witness stand. According to Stamper, surveillance video captured the exchange that led to Stines shooting Mullins multiple times.

On Tuesday, the Commonwealth played a roughly 10-second clip from the recording. The Kentucky Administrative Office of the Courts subsequently released the clip to FOX 56.

Kentucky sheriff reportedly shoots judge: A look at the timeline, investigation

The clip’s start is timestamped for 2:52 p.m. on Sept. 19. According to Stamper, before this, Stines had been seated and is seen standing to the side of Mullins’ desk with his hands in the air.

Stines raised his weapon, pointed it directly at the judge, and fired at least one shot at Mullins before he fell from his chair.

As Stines rounds the corner, Mullins moves underneath the desk with his hands covering his head. It appears that Stines fired another shot, but the desk obscures the view.

Video shows the desk sliding across the floor as Stines moves toward the door to open it before firing another shot at Mullins.

The entire exchange lasted a matter of seconds.

Stamper testified that it’s standard for judge’s chambers to be equipped with security cameras. However, no sound was captured.

During the exchange, Stamper said that there were people in the next room over. They weren’t able to hear what led to shots being fired, but they could hear gunshots and Mullins pleading for help.

The video released is only a piece of a larger picture, according to testimony on Tuesday.

The entire video reportedly shows Stines making a phone call and then using Mullins’ phone to make a call. Stamper testified that the outgoing calls were made to Stines’ daughter and that shots rang out just moments after the calls were made.

He said that Stines’ daughter has been interviewed with a parent present, but her phone was not collected as evidence yet.

Both Mullins’ and Stines’ phones were sent for forensic examination, but investigators have yet to receive the results. A woman reportedly employed by the Letcher County Sheriff’s Office also gave her phone to investigators to be examined. Stamper testified that she was one of Stines’ employees and believed she’d received text messages from Stines that detailed what occurred at lunch and ultimately led to the shooting.

According to court documents, the defense established probable cause in Tuesday’s hearing, and the case is set to be heard by a grand jury.

. . . please wait.

Welsh homosexual H from Steps, nearly 50, dazzled on the red carpet at the Attitude awards in London combining a Nazi era military look above the waist and a "fourth time around" mass produced wedding dress for the over 60s look below the waist.

We warned him Tangier could be dangerous

I just about had a heart attack when I first saw him.

"Gilda," it's not. Humphrey Bogart was teamed with Lizabeth Scott for the post-war film noir, 1947's "Dead Reckoning." Very watchable, but the film riffs on several past famed noirs, Bogie's the tough guy truth-seeker again, and Lizabeth Scott is a very languid femme fatale. My look at the deadly duo here:

[QUOTE]Cuomo, who resigned amid sexual harassment allegations and claims he covered up the number of Covid nursing home deaths, is indicating he may run for mayor if Eric Adams sinks under the weight of a federal investigation.

Her daughter Kerry has revealed

Elsa Lanchester interviewed here about Laughton including his homosexuality and their marriage. They actually did quite a few films together, which I didn't realize. He was a marvelous actor. They don't make them like this anymore. A very enjoyable documentary.

Their Top 10

10. Carrie (1976)

9. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

8. Frankenstein (1931)

7. Audition

6. Night of the Living Dead (1968)

5. Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

4. Jaws

3. Psycho

2. The Exorcist (1973)

1. Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

What celebs do you think will die in 2024?

Place your guesses in this thread!

Has anyone else been watching this? They've shown two episodes thus far. Not great but entertaining enough if you're looking for yet another network procedural.

Ok go ahead and crucify me but I searched, googled, and scrolled.

Nicholas Pryor was the consummate “that guy” who played Tom Cruise’s dad in Risky Business. He was 89.

Get your fucking kids off social media and WATCH THEM. It’s that simple. Some media company showing sex isn’t grooming your mafuckin child. When we were coming up, the parents of millenials didn’t call Showtime Red Show Diaries grooming. Our parents actually supervised.

Will land as cat 3 which is nothing. The media hype is ridiculous

Predicted number one draft pick Cooper Flagg

Any fans out there in DL land? Or other emo bands from the aughts?

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Her Harley Quinn WILL win her the Oscar. I expected to hate it, but she undergoes transformation/layers and is compelling. The score was a bit much, but LG held my attention.

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The storyline is intriguing. I just can’t get past how uncanny using real animals is. That’s why I couldn’t get into the first one. Why couldn’t they just beautifully animate them with this awesome premise.

And I’ve spent the last hour in bed with a sense of dread. If I hear the ping of a new email I’ll check my computer.

It was such a stupid show. Why was it so successful? The stories were completely negligible, and the setting really wasn't that glamorous.

The only reason I can think it was a hit for so long was the chance to see old Hollywood stars again do something, and they were willing to do the show since it was so ridiculously lightweight and non-taxing.

Though John Amos was an established actor by the time he landed the role of James Evans Sr. on Good Times, the star truly found his stride in the role.

Costarring Esther Rolle, Jimmie "JJ" Walker, Johnny Brown, Ralph Carter, Janet Jackson, BernNadette Stanis, Ja'net DuBois and more, Good Times premiered on CBS in 1974. The Norman Lear-produced sitcom aimed to showcase the life of a poor Black family striving for better and navigating their daily ups and downs while living in the housing projects of Chicago.

After three successful seasons, Amos was killed off the show in a move that shocked viewers. It seems the decision had been a long time coming, however, as Amos explained the struggles he had with the writers during his tenure.

"I felt like I knew more about what a Black family should be and how a Black father would act than our writers. None of whom were Black and their perception of what a Black family would be and Black father would be was totally different from mine," Amos told comedian Luenell in a 2020 interview for Vlad TV.

And while he and Lear had "a few emotional discussions," writers became a bit more open to taking notes and suggestions on how to make the show authentic and true-to-life. Still, Amos admitted his delivery of said notes perhaps wasn't always the best.

"I wasn't very tactful in my complaints about the script or script points," he said. "I wasn't the most diplomatic guy so very often it would end in me saying, 'Well, let's go outside,' and these were Hollywood writers, they weren't used to that," he recalled.

Ultimately, things got to the point where the writers of the show simply couldn't work with Amos anymore and he was let go ahead of season four.

Though Amos and Lear didn't end on the best terms when it came to Good Times, the pair would work together on three additional pilots years later and manage to establish a great relationship. The two even reunited to revisit the show on Live in Front of a Studio Audience: All in the Family and Good Times in 2019.

"It was wonderful. I was tearful because all the old wounds had been healed," Amos said of the reunion with Lear, who died in December of 2023 at 101 years old.

He elaborated to PEOPLE in an early 2024 interview.

"Ultimately we were friends, and it was a tumultuous relationship, which is what I loved about it," he said. "There was conflict in it. But there was also harmony at times when we worked together. It was magic, who was mentored, I knew I was in the hands of probably the most innovative and important figure ever to grace television, or any studio production facility. He was one in a lifetime, master innovator, and he had tremendous character."

It was far worse than anyone realized. When Sean “Diddy” Combs was arrested for sex trafficking racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution on September 16, prosecutors alleged in a 14-page indictment that as the head of a “criminal enterprise,” he abused women, engaged in drug-fueled, days-long sex parties called Freak Offs, and threatened everyone in his circle to keep them quiet. (He pleaded not guilty.)

“Hearing all of the horrific stories,” says a source exclusively to In Touch, “fans are looking at his associations with other stars in a whole new light.”

None more so than Justin Bieber. After the news broke, fans bombarded his Instagram page with messages of support. “The world should have protected you,” wrote one, while another urged him to “expose” Diddy, who took the young singer under his wing when he was just 15.

“The last thing Justin wants to do is relive or even discuss his complicated friendship with Diddy,” the insider says of the troubled star, who has long struggled with drug addiction, suicidal ideations and multiple public meltdowns. “But he’s finally breaking his silence to his friends about his nightmare experience and the private hell it’s caused him.”

In hindsight, their relationship was always troubling. Justin, who was about 13 when they were first introduced by Usher, was often seen hanging out with Diddy, 54, during Justin’s meteoric rise to fame. In March, a 2009 clip of the pair resurfaced. “He’s having 48 hours with Diddy. What we’re doing, we can’t really disclose,” the music mogul boasts. “But it’s definitely a 15-year-old’s dream … we’re gonna go full crazy.” Justin’s response: “Let’s just go get some girls.”

He’s hinted at some of the trauma he suffered as a young star: One viral video of Justin singing about a “Diddy party” turned out to be AI-generated, but in his 2020 track “Lonely,” he sings, “Everybody saw me sick, and it felt like no one gave a s--t.” And in a heartbreaking 2020 video that is recirculating, Justin tearfully talks about his past.

“It was hard for me, being that young and being in the industry and not knowing where to turn,” he told Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, adding that he “wants to protect” Billie Eilish, who also started out at 13. “If she ever needs me, I’m going to be here for her. I don’t want her to go through anything I went through. I don’t wish that upon anybody.”

He’s told multiple young stars to call him “if they find themselves in a tough situation,” says the source. “He’s tried to be up-front about his demons and how he’s relied on therapy and his faith to get back on track. Still, it’s been hard to have all of this stuff being dredged up.” Right now, adds the source, he’s focusing on his “massively supportive” wife Hailey and their 1-month-old son, Jack, “but if speaking about his past trauma can help others, he probably will. He wants to break the cycle, once and for all.”

I have not sucked a cock since the summer of 2021. That is three full years and the guy was not even attractive really. He shoved it in my face and I obliged. Since then every so often I have had sex with some really good looking guys yet I have made no attempts to suck their cocks though I must admit my favorite sexual activity is getting sucked.

If I were to decided to suck a cock it must be circumcised ( I am generally not into anteaters) and have a full forest of pubic hair above.

If he was bisexual, why did he only do straight porn?

Is this normal?

Photo opportunities are almost sold out.

Elon Musk is a Republican megadonor.

He’s using Twitter as a weapon to brazenly aid and abet the GOP. Yet Dem candidates and their supporters still rely on his platform. Why can’t Silicon Valley come up with something better so we can leave?

A ensemble cast of a biopic featuring a significant portion of comedians

Pop music cues set to slow motion.

I’m looking at you, DUMB MONEY.

He’s a ten 10 to me. The top is meh but has some bomb ass dick.

If you directed the video for Spandau Ballet’s True, please bypass this thread.

They must really hate her.

“ Odd as that may sound, what appears to be something of a keepsake about Rice — who Moammar Gadhafi once referred to as "my darling black African woman" and of whom he said, "I love her very much" — was found by opposition fighters as they searched and ransacked the Libyan leader's compound in Tripoli.”

Of course he's dead, so nothing much will come of this, I'd presume.

There was the family room or den with the TV and you could bring friends, but there was a whole other separate living room. It was where the Christmas tree was and you could only go in that room maybe once or twice a year. It was reserved for guests, only.

I am besieged by daily, almost hourly, text requests for funding of campaigns. I desperately want the Democrats to win the presidency & both houses of Congress. I would give a lot of money to make that happen and I have given some. However, at this point, I wonder if more money will really make any difference? Does more money equal more votes?

Lock up your grannies!

The geriatric posho sex queen Jilly Cooper wrote The Rutshire Chronicles. Decades too late, it will be made into a TV series by Dominic Treadwell Collins who made various soap operas and A Very English Scandal.

The cast includes Doctor Who David Tennant (Tony Baddingham), Poldark Aiden Turner Smith (Declan O’Hara), EastEnders Danny Dyer (Freddie Jones) and most key, Alex Hassell as Rupert Campbell-Black, as well as a bunch of actresses I don’t care about.

Campbell-Black is based on top shagger Andrew Parker-Bowles.

You see the same cycle repeatedly. A hot new guy gets into the industry and on porn sites/Twitter/Onlyfans. Then they’re escorting. Before too long they’re on steroids and their veins start popping out. Within a year they start looking haggard. Next thing you know they’re getting DP’d, then fisted. I remember seeing one dude getting fisted by Cutler X and his ass was literally bleeding at the end of the scene. Then there’s Nate Grimes, whose asshole looks like it was invaded by the Russian army.

So what gives? There are so many guys like this already that you’d think the younger generations would take one look and say “I don’t want to end up like THAT!” But they just keep coming. New ones every day.

Good. That thug needs to do time for once.

"It feels lonely, unfamiliar, scary. It feels sad. It feels desperate. But when you sit in those feelings and go, 'These things are not going to kill me,' it's like actually, I am capable of joy and happiness all by myself. Being in a relationship doesn't define me. I can't be looking for happiness in other people. I have to have happiness within myself," Lopez said of her turbulent summer following her split from Affleck.

"I can't be looking for happiness in other people. I have to have happiness within myself," she continued of finding herself single again at 55. "I used to say I'm a happy person, but was still looking for something for somebody else to fill, and it's just like, 'No, I'm actually good.'"

Are not good

Video shows nearly 100 hungry raccoons − some allegedly aggressive – swarm a Washington state woman's home last week in broad daylight looking for their next meal.

The animals were captured on film after the resident from Kitsap County, across Puget Sound from Seattle, called 911 when the mammals surrounded her rural home preventing her from leaving the property, officials said.

In footage shared by the Kitsap County Sheriff's Office, a deputy is heard speaking to the unidentified woman who says the large numbers of raccoons began gathering in her wooded backyard about six weeks ago.

The woman, who lives a few miles north of Suquamish, told deputies she has been feeding raccoons on her property for more than 38 years, sheriff's office spokesman Kevin McCarty told the Kitsap Sun, part of the USA TODAY Network.

Tootie! You're Drunk!

“This some fucked up shit y’all.”

Of course

As gay men, we’ve long been accused of dating people who could be our twins. But research indicates we may not have a choice.

We all look the same!

Studies show that “gay face” is real, though the look doesn’t have anything to do with masculine or feminine features.

It’s about sym 👏 met 👏 try 👏, honeyyy…

Gay scientists Mitch Moffit and Greg Brown recently addressed the phenomenon on their popular YouTube channel, “AsapSCIENCE.” The two partners started summarizing research on the topic, which is surprisingly thorough.

Early studies in 2011 found that gay men have more symmetrical faces than their hetero peers. But as Brown mentions, the studies didn’t factor in grooming–surgical or otherwise.

“We like to pluck our eyebrows, keep our beards nice and trim. I know a lot of gay men who have Botox and filler trying to make their faces symmetrical,” he says.

Digging beneath the symmetry, researchers started performing quantitative analysis of male faces, with the help of morphometric software. The technology allows users to analyze 2D and 3D data, such as… images of faces!

I don’t get it. I’m originally from the east coast and have been to Florida once and wasn’t that impressed. Plus the insane politics. Even my mother, who is as liberal as they come, is planning to move to Florida. She’s going to lose her mind when she ends up with a Trump supporting neighbor and then has to deal with hurricanes.

According to CNN, Forbes released their list of world's richest female entertainer and it's Taylor Swift on top with $1.6B. In second pace is Rihanna with $1.4B. Jay Z is the wealthiest entertainer in the world (no value given). Swift's value comes in from her profitable Eros Tour in 2023 and her music catalogue.

Two retards. If Trump wins, the COUNTRY is fuc*ed.

I think that she was exquisite...

The show that started it all for HBO. It ran from 1990 through 1997 and barely a trace of it exists on the internet today. I happened to find the full 7-season compilation on a torrent site and I’ve been bingeing the weekend away. Takes me back to childhood, and many of these episodes are quite good.

Appparently, M Night Shyamalongadingdong tried to get a reboot off the ground a few years back, but it was killed due to a rights dispute. Which is just as well, I’m not sure I trust him with the material.

What are your memories of this HBO classic?

At 25 years old, Maxwell Alejandro Frost is hoping to make history as the first Generation Z member of Congress and represent Florida’s 10th Congressional District in the House.

After winning the Democratic primary on Aug. 23, Frost is running against Republican Calvin Wimbish, and the winner will succeed Rep. Val Demings, who’s vying for a Senate seat. According to FiveThirtyEight’s election simulation model, it’s “very likely” that Frost will win in November.

“My mom came here from Cuba when she was young with nothing. And now her son is going to go to Congress,” Frost told Yahoo News.

Running for Congress was not at the top of the Orlando native’s career aspirations until supporters asked him to get on the ballot. “I was actually asked to run by organizers that I protested with during the Black Lives Matter uprising [after the death of George Floyd in 2020].”

At first, Frost was a little skeptical about running for office, he said. He was adopted at a young age, but a phone conversation with his biological mother quickly changed his perspective on running for the seat.

“Learning about our life, learning about the struggles she went through, learning about the fact that she had me at one of the most vulnerable points in her life,” Frost told Yahoo News. “I hung up the phone, and I said I need to run for Congress for people like my biological mother, for people like my mother, for people like my father, for my community, for the place that I was born and raised.”

It’s no secret that Florida, led by Republican firebrand Gov. Ron DeSantis, is prone to political controversy. Frost said he sees a need for bold progressive leadership there. Recently the Sunshine State has been in the news, “from what’s going on with our governor to, you know, what happened with our former president. So we have a lot of work to do here in this state,” he explained.

After Frost decided to run for office, he quit his job and worked as an Uber driver to stay afloat financially. “I was the national organizing director of March for Our Lives,” he said. “As a candidate, I don’t get paid. So I needed money to pay for my food and pay for my bills. So I went pretty hard [as an Uber driver] for a month and a half to make enough money to sustain me till the end. So I could focus on the campaign.”

Now Frost is focused on making it to Washington, D.C., and shaking things up. Addressing gun violence, the affordable housing crisis and climate change are among his top priorities.

One of the most pressing issues for Frost is gun violence. Florida has lost numerous lives to it and was the site of mass shootings like those at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando and at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

In June in an incident that went viral, Frost approached the stage as DeSantis was doing an interview with commentator Dave Rubin and asked him to “take action on gun violence.” DeSantis responded, “Nobody wants to hear from you” as security dragged Frost away.

“Gun violence is an issue that touches almost every community,” Frost told Yahoo News. “We need more advocates and vocal champions in Congress that are going to fight to end this problem.”

For Frost, the issue is personal. “I’ve become a survivor of gun violence myself,” he said. “I was in downtown Orlando on Halloween, two guys had a problem. One of them pulled out a gun and started shooting. And me and hundreds of other people were sprinting, running away, finding safety. You know, everyone who ran that night is a survivor of gun violence,” he recalled.

The affordable housing crisis is also part of Frost’s platform, as rent prices continue to increase nationwide. “We are at a moment in time here in Orlando where we are experiencing one of the worst affordable housing crises in the entire country,” he said.

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The two-time Tony recipient will reprise some of his most loved numbers from The Boy From Oz, The Greatest Showman, and more in From New York, With Love.

We may have briefly lost him to Hollywood for a reprise of his Wolverine (in Deadpool & Wolverine), but Hugh Jackman is coming back to NYC in 2025.

The two-time Tony recipient will play a 12-show concert engagement at Radio City Music Hall beginning January 24, 2025, with subsequent dates to be held on select weekends in April, May, June, July, and August. The final shows will be August 15 and 16.

Love her.

We cannot go back!

I don't play Wordle (it feels like work), but I play Spelling Bee every day with the goal of getting to Genius, though I've never gotten Queen Bee (all the possible words).

The newest game, Connections, is the perfect amount of challenge without being impossible to solve.

On a plane or train, I might do the Sunday crossword or sudoku if I have a bit of time to kill.

Anyone else? Apparently the Games section is a huge revenue source now for the NYT.

Please take my poll. This was of course prompted by the thread about Variety starting a Ryan Murphy backlash.

In the show, Groff, a Tony winner for his role in last season's Broadway revival of Merrily We Roll Along, will play Bobby Darin, the singer/songwriter known for "Beyond the Sea," "Mack the Knife," "Splish Splash" and more. Groff is also a producer on the project, alongside Tom Kirdahy, Robert Ahrens and John Frost.

The show, developed and directed by Alex Timbers (Beetlejuice, Here Lies Love), will begin previews at the Circle in the Square Theatre starting March 28, 2025 with an opening night April 3.

He issued an ominous threat to the venerable newspaper.

“The New York Times is one of the most dishonest of all,” Trump said. “I watched this New York Times, and it’s a classic. Wait until you see what I’m going to do with them, you’re going to have so much fun.”

The holier-than-thou, yarmulke-wearing Ben Shapiro interviews Trump...

When I was a kid I loved December Bride mostly because I thought Spring Byington was the funniest name I ever heard. Then I saw Florida Friebus.

is what I did. Got me some semaglutide - a single vial that contained 3 months worth of the drug for about $900.

I was supposed to take increasing doses of semaglutide every week in 4 week tranches: 2.5 units for weeks, then 5, then 10, then 20.

Instead of taking weekly doses, though, I spaced the doses out more to try to force my body to get used to eating less without being under the effects of semaglutide.

I'm now about 4 months in and am down about 25 pounds.

Right now VP Harris is on live with Mike Bettis on The Weather Channel; POTUS and VPOTUS made a live statement to all media an hour or so ago.

AND

Biden is calling out Trump by name!

I am loving this.

Coco peruses through cheap shit, suffer heat stroke and buys protein bars

Never been to an ALDI…is this store like the Walmarts?

the same day that the Tropicana hotel in Las Vegas was demolished

That must mean something.

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My brother is soon to be 70 and his still looks pretty good. We have a friend who's about 6 months younger, and hers looks horrible.

They still have some items, but they used to have a chocolate cake that was to die for.

When I was 15 yrs old….

A boy followed me into the restroom one morning. I thought nothing of it. He cornered me and then he pulled out a knife and stuck it at my chest. He said.” I want that jacket and I want it now. I said, get that fucking knife away from me before I turn it around and put it in your eyeball. He was stunned. He said who the fuck are you? Said who the fuck are you right back at him. Then I shoved him back. Hard. He flew about 6 feet and landed on his ass with the knife still in his hand. He got up, called me a fucking bitch and ran out of the bathroom. I just stood there in the mirror, wondering what was happening looking back I don’t blame him. He was desperate and he just wanted my coat. And mine was the coolest jacket in the school.

Take that, MAGAts!

A Pacific Heights luxury real estate developer under a court order to pay defrauded investors $50 million has “fraudulently transferred all of his assets to avoid the claims of plaintiffs and other creditors,” according to a new lawsuit filed in San Francisco Superior Court.

In the new lawsuit, attorneys for the group of investors, UNI SF VII LLC, allege that in August of 2020 the Troon Pacific CEO Greg Malin, knowing he faced likely litigation from investors, transferred his $15 million family home at 1970 Jackson St. into an irrevocable trust in the names of his sons.

Malin also transferred ownership of a 2009 Range Rover and a 2014 Tesla into the trust, along with an extensive art collection that includes works by Henri Matisse, Salvadore Dali, David Parks, Chuck Close, Jim Campbell and others, the investors claim in the lawsuit.

Do any of you use Paze? Capital One is offering it for my credit card. Just wondering if it is worth it or not.

Name brand t-shirt that you wore while on your favorite roller skates while rolling to the store to buy your favorite bag of potato chips. Please name em all. This should appease “the favorite” troll for a few days.

Trump: "I dropped Howard a long time ago, like most others, and have since been credited with very good judgment! MAGA 2024"

WASHINGTON — The United States has spent a record of at least $17.9 billion on military aid to Israel in the year since the unprecedented onslaught by Palestinian terror group Hamas in southern Israel sparked the war in Gaza, according to a report for Brown University’s Costs of War project.

An additional $4.86 billion has gone into stepped-up US military operations in the region since Hamas’s October 7, 2023, invasion and massacre, which has led to escalating conflict around the Middle East, researchers said in findings released on the anniversary of the attack and first provided to The Associated Press. That figure includes the costs of a US Navy-led campaign to quell strikes on commercial shipping by Yemen’s Houthis, who claim to carry them out in solidarity with the fellow Iranian-backed group Hamas.

Let’s share some cute/funny/interesting animal videos!

Jesus Christ even the biggest fucking egomaniac on television Ryan Murphy doesn’t do this.

Also can’t these actors do better than to star in something on Paramount Plus?

The NYTimes shows just how truly impressive Milton is!

I keep seeing little clips of it but not sure I want to sign up for another streaming service. If you’ve seen it, is it worth it? Apparently it’s about Catherine de’ Medici, 16th century Queen of France

Surprised I didn’t see a thread on it yet! Are you gonna see it? And if you did did you like it? I thought it was a wild ride, do recommend it.

Even my mother is thinking about moving down there. What’s the deal? Politically it’s a shithole, and on a yearly basis you have to deal with the possibility of your house blowing away. Plus the humidity……..

Is it really that desirable?

Seriously... Her feelings must be insatiable.

I always tip well because I heard they won't pick up your order when you don't give a decent tip. But today they really screwed up my order and I wish I could subtract some of that tip. I had knee surgery so am not driving at the moment.

Romney reaffirmed his long-standing opposition to Donald Trump without saying he would support the vice president.

Instead, Romney told a political forum in his home state that the Republican Party would likely need “to be rebuilt or reoriented” no matter what happens in the election — and he would like a role in that effort.

“I believe I will have more influence in the party by virtue of saying it as I’ve said it,” he said. “I’m not planning on changing the way I’ve described it.”

An H-shaped Barque house of the 1720s was extended with a later wing and in 1980 divided as two houses, each of which now sits on its own parcel of 4+ acres in fucking lovely Chippenham, Wiltshire. The larger and better of these containing the bulk of the original main house is now for sale, marked down from £3M.

For those who couldn't possibly bear to share a wall with a neighbor, the adjoining West Wing half of house, lesser in its architecture and interiors, is also for sale at £1.25M.

The house has approximately 5500 square feet of space on three floors plus a smaller basement level. There are six bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, and various reception rooms, kitchen, etc. The house was extensively restored in recent years, likely undoing some of the indifferent alterations of the 1980 division and alterations.

I love the heavy Baroque style of the exterior and some interior spaces, most notably the central Reception Hall with its arched windows and stone floor and the adjoining light-filled Drawing Room with a wonderful fireplace and pilastered surround. The gardens are very nice, loads of different sorts of spaces and lots of privacy within garden rooms. There are not too many bedrooms and enough bathrooms. The kitchen is a comparatively small room but beautifully fitted.

The house sits in a little oasis within Chippenham which has the local things you would need. For all the things you want, London is about 75 minutes by train from Chippenham.

The seller is an artist as is obvious enough from the photos. Aside from some paintings in overly girly colors, it's nice, I think, to see the walls fileld with modern paintings and colors. it'ß a mix of old furniture of not much value but fitting to the house somehow, and modern quirky modern pieces.

the world famous whore asks for the money to be placed on the dresser

Wouldn't one expect it to be a suburb of the big city?

Wonder if Jeffrey did?

Why doesn't Pence go on national TV and trash Trump AND sue Trump for attempted murder?

August 27th.

Or to put it more delicately: I’m a man who recently had a fling with a man who is in a monogamous heterosexual relationship. We had sex twice. While I am in a nonmonogamous relationship myself, I respect the practice of monogamy. Normally I wouldn’t get involved with someone who is unfaithful. But here I felt my moral obligations to a struggling member of my own queer community were greater than those to his partner.

The guy I had the fling with is not openly queer, but he reached out on Grindr. After we messaged back and forth, it became clear that his relationship is not emotionally or physically sustaining. Both of our encounters occurred in the apartment he shares with his girlfriend; we only ever met there because she consistently tracks his phone’s location and would confront him if he went anywhere without letting her know. It appeared to me that this man was in a manipulative and potentially abusive relationship. He seemed lonely and trapped, and I connected with that experience as a fellow queer person.

I do not want to continue our physical relationship because the implications of my behavior have been weighing heavily on me. His girlfriend has a right to know what’s going on in her relationship, particularly in terms of communication around the number of partners and protection. Whatever judgment I may have for her actions, I believe she deserves the truth. If I didn’t believe in the toxicity of their relationship and the danger of outing this man, I would be inclined to tell his girlfriend what happened, or make it clear to him that she must be informed.

I think that my time with this person was meaningful for him and helped him to affirm his identity, even if our hookups were illicit. At this point, my plan is to let him know that I’ve enjoyed our experiences together but don’t think we should continue seeing each other, then to cut off contact and try to reckon with my actions. I don’t know if I will ever really be able to settle my ethical stomachache about it all. Can there be stipulations on the immorality of infidelity?

Help me, DataLounge. You're my only hope!

If you could only see 2-3 castles in Japan, which would you visit?

DL catnip!

Non-paywall at r1

Final Tribute

Blessed with one of the purest, soaring tenor voices, the Broadway favorite always seemed as happy to see audiences as they were to relish in his dynamic performances. Case in point: Creel's Mamma Mia! medley at MCC Theater's annual Miscast concert April 15 at the Hammerstein Ballroom.

When I was 5 years old my mom asked my aunt to babysit me overnight sometime during the summer of 1978 so she could attend a Mary Kay cosmetics convention with her friend. I was excited because my aunt was nice and my cousin, Tamara, was fun to spend time with even though she was 10 years older than me. She had recently become a handful for my aunt to manage as she was suddenly rebellious at school and home. She now fashioned herself as a badass instead of the normally sweet yet sassy Tamara I knew. After mom delivered me to my aunts house I immediately wanted to find Tamara to absorb some of her teenage girl wisdom and share my pop culture obsessions with her. I knocked on her bedroom door then announced my entry, Hey she said “Hey, what’s up?” The shades were pulled and it was mostly dark in her bedroom. The soft blue glow of her Pioneer stereo receiver was a focal point. She was stretched out on her bed relaxing which I later realized was her being stoned. My senses were assaulted by the stench of marijuana and the sight of her sucking smoke out of a very tall, strange looking vase. Later in my life realized was a bong. I recall being repulsed by the odor and the sight of her smoking it. She was listening to Alice Cooper on her stereo and had this huge poster of him wrapped in a boa constrictor on her wall. I was repulsed and scared of that poster. I have an enormous fear of reptiles. I asked her if we could listen to my Cheryl Ladd album as I pulled it out of my backpack. She looked at the cover and commented on Cheryl’s cleavage saying something about her tits hanging out of her jacket. She handed it back to me. I knew she didn’t approve. I then decided to leave her room. I was disappointed that she wasn’t fun to be with. I went into the kitchen to find my aunt . She baked some cupcakes and let me help frost them. I love frosting. Later I recall sitting at the dining room table coloring in books I brought from home. Later on after dinner my cousin made way into the living room with me tagging along behind her. She grabbed the remote to turn on the big console TV. My favorite TV show was about to come on - Wonder Woman starring Lynda Carter. I never missed an episode. I asked Tamara if she could put it on channel 4 - CBS. She said we couldn’t watch Wonder Woman because it was stupid. That hurt my feelings. I was ready to go home but had to wait until nearly noon the next day for mom to pick me up. I don’t remember what we watched on TV that evening but I kind of tuned out at that point. I must have fallen asleep and awoke the next morning. I recall quite a commotion going on inside the house, yelling and screaming because Tamara had set the backyard on fire. I remember 2 or 3 fire trucks arriving and several firemen attempting to put the fire out in the yard. My mom came to pick me up during the big ruckus. I remember looking back at the fire trucks and all of the smoke from the fire out the rear window of my mom’s Buick as we sped away. The end.

I just don't understand the appeal......especially not at these prices

Out of the six “Brady kids” she is the only Trumper. Maureen, Barry, Chris, Mike and Eve are Democrats and none agree with her but they’re all still friends, all but one, Eve.

Susan says she and Eve rekindled their friendship in recent years but now Eve seems to have withdrawn again and is angry that Susan supports Trump.

Is so much better when accessing this site on a smartphone. Why didn’t you hoes tell me?

She attended an HOA meeting. She seethed, pouted and screamed after being told no, insisted she was being attacked by others, threatened to hire a lawyer and then FLOUNCED! Stomped her hooves and waddled off.

It was fabulously dramatic.

But I'm not so sure this bitch isn't crazy and won't pull a gun on someone at a future meeting.

Was largely expected given the number of reshoots this went through. The film cost the same as an Avengers movie, almost $400 million.

It is the best streaming service on tv because it has the best original programming. Yep, I said it.

I personally don’t like them. Sometimes they can look hot, and I’ll definitely fuck someone with them, but I wouldn’t want any or want to be partnered with someone who has them.

‘From Here to the Great Unknown’ will hit shelves this fall

The title and cover for the highly-anticipated memoir by Lisa Marie Presley, and her daughter Riley Keough, is here.

PEOPLE has an exclusive first look at the cover for From Here to the Great Unknown, the forthcoming posthumous memoir from Presley, also written with Keough. The book will be published on Oct. 15 from Random House.

Funny or not?

Kamala as a wine drinking mommy frau?

Doug Emhoff as a wimpy "yes man?"

Joe Biden as a dithering, senile President?

Tim Walz as a gaffe-prone buffoon?

Yeah, not so funny.

I notice they took no shots at Vance or Trump.

No wonder I stopped watching SNL.

Every Christmas I try to splurge and try some new things.. See's is my staple, along with Maison Du Chocolat - looking for something new-

Is Edelweiss any good or just overrated shit-

There will be a drone show. I will do a can-can in remembrance of their Folies Bergere show.

Hosted by Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Willie Geist, the program features in-depth and informed discussions that help drive the day's current political conversation. The show attracts a wide variety of guests, including top newsmakers, Washington insiders, journalists, and cultural influencers, representing a diverse set of voices and opinions that provide keen insight and analysis around the day's biggest stories. Since its debut in 2007, the show has also covered major political events from the heart of the action, including presidential conventions and inaugurations.

Network: MSNBC

Executive producer: Alex Korson

Release: April 9, 2007 –; present

to discuss all things Howard and Bababooey

Question: Why isn't Jon Hein on the wrap up show anymore?

Where is Whoopi? Only she can determine if Aaron Pierre is black or black-black.

I really hate this show because it is more like Seinfeld, comprised of odious, irredeemable, reprobates, including mini-Roseanne, Beverly Rose. But I am obsessed with Mark, Ames McNamara, making it out of this toxic family alive. The 7th Season only got a quarter number of episodes, six.

Is Dan going to die AGAIN in the final episode?

Tommy Lee Jones appears in the top 5 responses. Twice.

The brother s have over 1 million subs on YT now & I seem to recall them being both pro-gay & pro-trans in their comments so that's progress in the bodybuilding world. They seem to have replaced the black conservative Trumper fitness twins from several years ago.

They're really funny & usually make me laugh in every video they release.

Discuss.

Although they are impacting your gay asses much more than dead porn stars.

Multiple nudes (rear only), along with shots of him getting blown by Daniel Craig and also fucked by him.

You're welcome.

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[QUOTE]Watters: We are getting a lot of texts from women about Stephen Miller. Our audience believes you are some sort of sexual matador.

[QUOTE]Miller: Some advice to any young man out there. If you are a young man who's looking to impress the ladies, to be attractive.. the best thing you can do is wear your Trump support on your sleeve. Show that you are a real man. Show that you are not a beta. Be a proud and loud Trump supporter and your dating life will be fantastic

I think it's one of the hottest scenes of his career.

I'm the trailer turned houseboat.

They know he is fucked and are getting ready to blame him for losing the election.