Quips and Quotations (Go Lightly and Carry a Big Jackhammer Edition)

 

 

Everybody has to feel superior to somebody[...] but it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.

--Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's

 

Navel Maneuvers

 

Remember these two? 

Of course, there was another man in her life...

...and I ain't talkin' Greg Allman!

Bob Mackie, Fashion Designer 1939-2026

Quips and Quotations (A Whiz of a Ms if Ever a Ms There Was Edition)

 

1934-2026

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

None of us can be liberated if other groups are not.

--Gloria Steinem

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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