Vital Viewing (What a Way to Make a Living Edition)

 

1946-2026

 Dolly Parton explains the above look and more to the last person you'd think would be interviewing Dolly Parton (but he's welcome to nonetheless), 60 Minutes' Morely Safer:

Yes, it's true, during her long career Dolly was never afraid to show a bit of...

Get it?

While I'm sure Dolly got a nice check for putting her name on that product, the in-some-ways secret of her success was her musical artistry, a musical artistry that ultimately transcended the self-professed silliness. Here are two of my favorite examples:

I'm not sure which is closer to the stratosphere, Dolly's wig or Porter Waggoner's pompadour.

Finally, though Dolly insisted she patterned her look after the town tramp, some in the LGBTQ community can be excused for wondering if she got her inspiration elsewhere:

She didn't seem to mind the comparison.

 

Wings of Desire

Oh, don't look so surprised. Of course, he's an angel. After all, he has a...

...Harp.

 

Graphic Grandeur (H2OMG Edition)

 

The problem.

The solution?

Cartoon by Jeremy Banx

 

 

 

Quips and Quotations (How the Other Half Lives Edition)

 

And so, in the summer of 1885, Sitting Bull joined Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, traveling throughout the United States and into Canada. He drew tremendous crowds. Boos and catcalls sometimes sounded for the “Killer of Custer,” but after each show these same people pressed coins upon him for copies of his signed photograph. Sitting Bull gave most of the money away to the band of ragged, hungry boys who seemed to surround him wherever he went. He once told Annie Oakley, another one of the Wild West Show’s stars, that he could not understand how white men could be so unmindful of their own poor. “The white man knows how to make everything,” he said, “but he does not know how to distribute it.”

--Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Frame and Fortune

 

"You shall not crucify mankind on a cross of gold!"

As it turned out, the nails were needed elsewhere.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vital Viewing (Miracle Whipped Edition)

 

Oh, Gawd, there's ol' Sigmund again, trying to bore the hell out of us. Well, I'm not going to let him. You want wish fulfillment? I'll give you wish fulfillment:

If I remember the rest of the story correctly, the prince asks Cinderella to try on the slipper and that's how he knows she's the one he danced with the night before (you'd think he'd be able to tell just by looking at her face, but, who knows, he could have been boozing it up at that ball and so his memory's kind of fuzzy.) The both of them reportedly lived happily ever after. 

However, it's the unintended consequences of a wish fulfilled that we see in this next video:

To be on the safe side, make sure that fulfilled wish comes with a warranty.

Pat Oliphant 1935-2026

(Here's another post I did on Oliphant--Kirk)

Paris Is Burning

 

Looking for something to blog about, I checked to see if there were any holidays/observances today. I found two.

 In France, it's Bastille Day.

And the other holiday/observance?

Let's hear it for liberation--in whatever form it takes.