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Hair Füror… “…unveiled a new rendering of a special commemorative US passport bearing his likeness Friday, debuting a limited-edition passport to mark America’s 250th anniversary this year.” —CNN

Just sayin’.

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Hmmm…

This reminds me very much of something I saw in one of my dad’s architectural magazines in the early 70s. It was an ad for plywood manufacturers of America or something, and while that house (elevations only, no floor plans) more resembled a group of tubes capped with geodesic domes, this one definitely reminds me of it on so many—pardon the pun—levels.

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Afternoon Soundtrack

George Michael – Listen Without Prejudice (1990)

George Michael – Patience (2004)

Both are severely underrated albums.

When I think of George Michael, I think of Faith (1987) and him getting busted in a Los Angeles park toilet. Sorry, but that’s where my mind goes (and the number of times I narrowly avoided a similar fate as a young man – DON’T ACT ALL SHOCKED AND SURPRISED, I never claimed to be an angel).

Faith is one of my go-to high fidelity recordings. By that I mean the recording itself—along with the performance—is the type of disc I would take to an audio salon to audition equipment. It’s intimate. It’s expansive. You can almost hear every breath as he sings.

But I realized today that his 1990 followup, Listen Without Prejudice shares many of those qualities. I find myself just getting lost in Cowboys and Angels. As we used to say, it just plays me.

Patience (2004) feels different from the other two, but it stands proudly on its own right—and retains the impeccable sonic qualities of its brethren. Amazing and Flawless (Go To The City) are two cuts that make we want to get up off my tired, sagging ass and dance.

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J’Adore

One week of break-in, and I’m loving these more and more. No regrets. They really are as good as everyone says they are.

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Released 42 Years Ago Today

Prince: Purple Rain (1984)

One of my grails is to own this on purple vinyl, but sadly prices on the resale market remain astronomical.

Cheaper than last year, but selling for way more money than I’m willing to spend on a piece of vinyl…

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Balenciaga!

I was a huge fan of Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story from the beginning, but I completely lost interest after the first episode of Season 12, Delicate. (I struggled to get through Season 5, Cult) and I  almost gave up then, but I’m glad I came back and thoroughly enjoyed the second half of “Double Feature” Season 10, Death Valley.

My favorite seasons, however, were Season 3, Coven, Season 5, Hotel, and Season 7, Apocalypse. Of those, Coven is my all-time favorite. I loved the characters, the story, and the acting. All were stellar. (In fact I have our house labeled The Robichaux Academy (aka Miss Robichaux’s Academy for Exceptional Young Ladies).

So imagine my genuine excitement when I just read that the Coven universe is returning for Season 13—and Frances Conroy (along with most of the original case) will reprise her role as bitch witch of all bitch witches—Myrtle Snow.

Coming October 31st this year.

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Late Again. 😢

I saw this on opening night at Cine Capri (the original location) in 1979. It left me so shaken I drove home constantly looking out the rear window at the bed of my truck to make sure nothing was there.

And don’t even get me started on Aliens (1985). I came home from that and turned on every light in the apartment and opened every door interior door!

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The Gaslighting Continues And No One Calls Him Out On It

other98: trump’s latest whopper is that vandals took a knife to the new paint job at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, and somehow the National Park Service, the cops, and half the press played along like that made sense. A deputy director swore in a court filing that the liner was “cut with a sharp knife or razor,” but anyone scrolling through the literally hundreds of photos out there can see that coating peeling and flaking off in chunks, with zero sign of a clean blade cut anywhere. Nobody grabs a knife when they want to strip paint off concrete, that is just not a thing that happens.

This is the gaslighting playbook we have watched for years now. trump says something insane, officials back him up, then the media repeats it like gospel, and the public is left wondering if they are the crazy one for noticing the obvious gap between the claim and the evidence. We saw it with the stolen 2020 election lie that still will not die, we saw it with the Haitians eating pets nonsense that got repeated on a debate stage, and we saw it after the rally shooting when his ear reportedly took a graze and somehow looked flawless days later with barely a mark, no real explanation given, and nobody in mainstream coverage pushed very hard on it. And on and on and on for ten damn years of this rambling maniac’s word being taken seriously.

Each time, the same pattern plays out. A claim with no real evidence gets stated, officials nod along, and the press treats repetition as confirmation instead of doing the basic work of checking it against what people can literally see with their own eyes. The whole scenario is right out of Orwell’s 1984 where he wrote, “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

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And Suddenly…

…it’s 1979 and I’m 21 again! 🥲 It’s Friday night and I’m getting ready to go out and meet my buddy Kent at Moon’s Truck for a night of dance, drink, and hopefully to catch the eye of a handsome stranger to round it all out with some unbridled debauchery. More often than not however, it would just be dance, drink, and slinking off to Denny’s on 7th Street for food at 3 am with the rest of the boys before heading home to finally get some sleep.

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