Random Musings

It comes as no surprise that I am not a fan of JLo, but even less so when you realize how much she copies steals from others in the spotlight. First off, she stole Angelina's Leg Pose, and we all know Angelina did it better.

But then she stole from Cher.

Cher .... Citches.

See, in 1986, Cher made Mask and won all sorts of awards for the performance, but wasn't nominated for an Oscar because many thought she wasn't a "serious actress."

That year, at the ceremony, Cher showed up in that outfit and said, "As you can see, I got my Academy Handbook on How To Dress Like A Serious actress."

This year, at the Grammys, after CBS released a sort of Dress Code for presenters, JLo appeared on stage and said this: "As you can see, I read the memo."

First off, stop stealing. 

Second off, if you're going to flout convention, flout it, don't just do a Cherelina and think it's something new.

You're tired, JLo, sit down.

Carlos and I finally saw ‘Lincoln’ this week—on President’s Day, no less—and really enjoyed it. I have long been fascinated by Abraham Lincoln and there were things in this film that I hadn’t heard before, so it was good entertainment and educational, which is always good.

But, then imagine my surprise to find out the next day that the great state of Mississippi—and in the interests of full disclosure, I was born there—never, never, ratified the 13^th Amendment to abolish slavery until, you guessed it, this year.

Now, also to be fair, the state’s Legislature did vote to ratify it in 1995—but the vote was never made official because lawmakers failed to inform the U.S. archivist, and so, they finally did so in 2012.

Nice to know that I was born into a state where slavery was, technically, still legal.

Just A Thought ....

So, Clive Davis write a book and the big part of the book getting press is his continuing feud with Kelly Clarkson for not doing exactly what he says when he says it. Making less noise, though, is Davis’ admission that he is bisexual, and has been in a homosexual relationship for the last seven years or so.

Davis, who is twice divorced, with three sons, a daughter and six grandchildren, acknowledges that his orientation is "something that my children and close friends have always known, but that I knew I would need to discuss in a biography.”

Also making less noise is Davis’ relationship with Whitney Houston, whom, he says, he discovered. If, of course, by discover, he means, something sent him a  demo and he signed her to his label, and not ‘discover’ like I was walking down a street and heard a woman singing and signed her to a deal.

One issue about Davis—who also plays up the gossip that he was like a surrogate father to Houston—is his story of being in the audience the night Whitney—cracked out and looking dangerously thin—performed at a Michael Jackson tribute concert.

His baby, his surrogate daughter, his meal ticket, looked like death warmed over so much so that producers of the TV show used CGI to actually beef Whitney up.

So, did Davis run backstage and tell her to get her act together? Did he demand she go into rehab or be dropped from the label? Did he try in any way shape or form to parent his ‘child’? No, he wrote her a letter that said he was worried about her; he doesn’t even know if she ever got it.

We all need a father like that, eh?

Oh, for the love of the Baby Jeebus.

Last week motor vehicle workers in Dayton called police on a man who insisted on wearing a pasta strainer—yes, you read that right—on his head during the taking of his driver’s license photo.

The man, Aaron Williams, told motor vehicle workers the strainer was a religious head covering and he had a right to wear it in his driver’s license photo.

His religion—and you’ll be reading this right, too—is Pastafarianism. He’s a Pastafarian. Also known as the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Pastafarianism opposes teaching intelligent design and creationism in schools.

Needless to say, after much discussion, and some police intervention, Williams agreed to have his picture taken without the strainer, although he did raise his Parmesan cheese grater defiantly.

I’m just guessing about the cheese grater.

Tweet Of The Week ....

I recall when former First Lady Laura Bush came out in favor of marriage equality, and I applauded this Real Housewife of the GOP for taking a pro-equality stance.

Now, sadly, the applause has died.

Laura is asking the Respect for Marriage Coalition to remove her from a national television, newspaper and online advertising campaign that launched this week. The advertising blitz shows a clip of Bush talking to Larry King on CNN in 2010 and saying, “When couples are committed to each other and love each other then they ought to have the same sort of rights that everyone has.”

But Bush spokeswoman Anne MacDonald said the former first lady “did not approve of her inclusion in this advertisement nor is she associated with the group that made the ad in any way …. When she became aware of the advertisement last night, we requested that the group remove her from it.”

You know, because even though she said it, way back in Ott-Ten, she doesn’t want to say it today.

Way to fall back into the GOP Inequality Goosestep, Missus Bush.

Just Because ....

Peter Porte played an assistant principal on The New Normal this week, and, well, he's quite nicely assisted, as evidenced by his Fantasy Sequence Striptease.

I wish my assistant principal had been as talented. I might have gotten in more trouble at school