Friday, December 31, 2021
So happy this exists
Steven Page performs Canada Loves You Back
for Ryan Reynolds
Clip: 2021 Governor General's Arts Awards
Thursday, December 30, 2021
Hip Hop Hepa
"Kids back in school January 5 ..."
"Me back? Maybe Easter."
Those extra two days will let us
solve all the shit we haven't solved in two years.
Sure.
Another fine mess
Ghislaine's guilty of getting him girls.
Epstein's horny, but dead.
Prince Andrew's 61.
Justice is served.
You want that on white or brown?
LOST SONGS: Goodness Gracious Me, Sellers & Loren
It's too late to cancel Peter Sellers or Sophia Loren for their legendary romp at Abbey Road studios in 1960.
They were shooting The Millionairess, but doing an album of songs and sketches as fun time off.
With a great deal of giggling and improv, little of those afternoons survives online.
But above, their 1960 "hit" ... #4 in Britain at one point.
SONG: Herbert Kretzmer and Dave Lee
Journalist Kretzmer later did the English lyrics
for Les Miserables
Wednesday, December 29, 2021
Idle thoughts
Merriam-Webster loaded over 400 new words into their dictionary last year, mostly tech or slang.
We are now at the point where Word Authorities must begin taking out words.
Forget archaic or out-out-of usage words: start with words that just annoy me.
Netizen. No.
FOMO. I have looked it up a half dozen times and still have to look it up.
The plural of Meyers. If Bob and Sue Meyers are a newly married couple, the New Yorker--land of fact-checkers--says they are now "The Meyerses." Look at that spelling.
Let me out of here.
Gervais returns Jan. 14
One of the few Netflix series that celebrates life is ironically fixed on the pothole caused by death.
After Life--Ricky Gervais' widower's tale--returns for its third and final season Jan 14.
You have three weeks to watch the first two seasons on Netflix, six episodes each. I suspect you will be hooked.
The promo clip above features Anti--who plays Brandy, Gervais' dog in the series--and the odd mix of silly, touching and sentimental that has confounded critics.
A delightful interview with Ricky was in the weekend London Guardian. It's here.
Tuesday, December 28, 2021
Mom? There's a frog in the lettuce...
_What do you do if you discover there's a tiny tree frog
in the Romaine lettuce you bought at the grocery?
Come near children, for the Beautiful holiday Twitter tale
of Tony the Tree Frog.
Call it a goddamn WTF Miracle.
Photos. Drama. Escape.
Try not to weep in happiness.
More Kleenex?
Has Netflix called yet?
Just click ...
"But just in case I stand one little chance... "
Diana Krall and a cunning arrangement give new life to Frank Loesser's standard...
Do you have the receipt? Unusual gifts...
Toilet brush
Crocheted tank slippers
Cat blanket for humans
Or just put them all in the back bedroom with the wine and jeans that don't fit.
Monday, December 27, 2021
Dinklage "Cyrano" coming
--newyorktimes photo
Or if the Answers from the actor famous from Game of Thrones ... are even better.
Sunday, December 26, 2021
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Saturday, December 25, 2021
_Page Six traditions
T'was the flight before Christmas
The overnight red-eye Christmas eve from Los Angeles to Memphis...
Friday, December 24, 2021
Night watch
And ma in her kerchief
And I in my cap
Had just settled down
For a long winter's nap
When what to our wondering eyes
should appear.... but ...
_Thursday, December 23, 2021
The Cratchits have holes in their jeans
Just another working class Christmas for the poor Cratchits.
Why they's jest folks like us, mama!
The knee hole is a nice touch.
The Cratchits are distressed.
I pray Santa brings them all ... shoes.
The Don't Weigh Me card
Mum's the word.
We're not fat.
We're sensitive.
Ask a doctor if this card is right for you.
Ba-ba-LUUU
Just tell me the amount of money Amazon gave Javier Bardem to sing Cuban Pete and the endless rhumba reprises of chick chickie boom in Being the Ricardos.
Not enough.
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Wednesday, December 22, 2021
CHRISTMAS CRACKER: Michael Davis, juggler
Before phone cameras, social media and the Interflooxen, there were these ... performers?
Like, with ... acts?
Snack attack
"Of course you feel great.
These things are loaded with antidepressants."
The New Yorker shares the cartoons that got the most attention on Instagram this year.
Tuesday, December 21, 2021
The longest, darkest night of the year
The Great Goat of Europe walks tonight!
Krampus kidnaps bad children.
Think of him as Santa's vacuum cleaner.
Krampus is the holiday wet job specialist,
clearing the decks for the Jolly Old Elf.
No need for Santa to carry extra lumps of coal.
Or risk slipping in kidnapped kiddo's tears.
There are so many bad children in 2021,
Krampus needs the longest night of the year
to catch them all.
What does he do with These Naughty Tots?
They are never seen again.
You think you can hide from his deliciously pointy fingernails and hot goat breath?
You're all grown up?
You think Krampus can't find you?
Guess again, grandma.
--liz rainey-smith woodprint
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