The House of Mirth

Actually, it’s bronchitis. Cough.

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:36:41 -0500

Actually, it’s bronchitis. Cough.

This gives me some feelings.

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:12:09 -0500

This gives me some feelings.

bublog: BUB - the happiest super hero space cat on the planet.

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:57:50 -0500

bublog:

BUB - the happiest super hero space cat on the planet.

David Letterman: “Are those your drums?”

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:49:09 -0500

David Letterman: “Are those your drums?”

"…I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar..."

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:20:32 -0500

“…I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But you and I, we must make an agreement to defy them. We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.”

- Little Bee, Chris Cleave (via wolfpangs)

andrewhickeywriter: bluemoonalto: andrewhickeywriter: thank-yo...

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 12:07:31 -0500

andrewhickeywriter:

bluemoonalto:

andrewhickeywriter:

thank-your-lucky-stars:

andrewhickeywriter:

siamesemeg:

bluemoonalto:

Sometimes I’m reminded in a particularly strong way that Peter’s facebook page is run by a “team” and not by him. It would seem that they post photos submitted by fans, and occasionally use one as a status update. This photo appeared this morning.

I do believe these are the very same signs-on-a-stick that were held by two front-row-center fans at the show at the Ram’s Head in Annapolis. Peter paused his performance to ask the ladies to hold the signs up so everybody could see them, then wearily added, “Now, please put them away. I know what I look like.”

I love that you wrote about this today, because it’s really a perfect a snapshot of the show in Chicago last night. The fans were just rabid for attention, and Peter wasn’t having it. Much like the Mike show at this same venue, the crowd shouted and tried to converse with Peter, who had to keep reminding them, “I’m up here, this is MY show.”

At one point, when he was talking about the “Love Potion” film from his youth (an interesting story and one I really wanted to hear), a woman screamed out, “I SAW THAT! ON YOUTUBE!” and all Peter could do was stop and frown. Cringe-worthy.

Combine all that with the jerks behind us who spilled wine all over the floor under us and the people who were in our seats when we arrived, and had to be convinced to give them up, and I think I’m done with Monkees fans.

Funny reading this straight after a post about how ‘dickish’ Peter is towards his fans. Wonder if there might be some correlation?

The problem is, with a lot of ‘celebrities’ people don’t ever bother to stop and think about why said-celebrity was a ‘dick’. It’s just like “[insert name here] was rude to a fan!” - they don’t stop to think about how the ‘fan’ might’ve been rude to him first. Also, with Peter, he’s weird. He’s like, a really strange dude. His sense of humour is weird. I don’t get it a lot of the time, but I think he can be misunderstood and misinterpreted a lot of the time too.

Absolutely — especially since Peter appears to be somewhere on the autistic spectrum, and most fans who talk to him will be doing so either directly before a performance (when he’s trying to get mentally prepared) or directly after (when he’s just spent a couple of hours doing a rather mentally demanding job). Some people are good in situations like that, others definitely aren’t.

He’s been doing a meet-n-greet after ever single one of his solo shows this spring. No limits. “I’ll sign anything you’re willing to show in public.” I have heard nothing but happy outcomes.

I’m sure that’s the case. From what everyone tells me about Peter, I think if you put him in a situation where he’s expecting to deal with fans, and agreed to do it beforehand, he’ll be polite, funny and friendly. If you bother him when it’s not a pre-arranged thing, he might not be — just like anyone else.

Which is my point, really. The fans were putting him in a really inappropriate situation - to have to deal with them DURING THE SHOW. I don’t blame him a little bit for asking them to stop, and for being irritated. I thought he handled it with all of the grace he could.

bluemoonalto: Sometimes I’m reminded in a particularly strong...

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 11:13:12 -0500

bluemoonalto:

Sometimes I’m reminded in a particularly strong way that Peter’s facebook page is run by a “team” and not by him. It would seem that they post photos submitted by fans, and occasionally use one as a status update. This photo appeared this morning.

I do believe these are the very same signs-on-a-stick that were held by two front-row-center fans at the show at the Ram’s Head in Annapolis. Peter paused his performance to ask the ladies to hold the signs up so everybody could see them, then wearily added, “Now, please put them away. I know what I look like.”

I love that you wrote about this today, because it’s really a perfect a snapshot of the show in Chicago last night. The fans were just rabid for attention, and Peter wasn’t having it. Much like the Mike show at this same venue, the crowd shouted and tried to converse with Peter, who had to keep reminding them, “I’m up here, this is MY show.”

At one point, when he was talking about the “Love Potion” film from his youth (an interesting story and one I really wanted to hear), a woman screamed out, “I SAW THAT! ON YOUTUBE!” and all Peter could do was stop and frown. Cringe-worthy.

Combine all that with the jerks behind us who spilled wine all over the floor under us and the people who were in our seats when we arrived, and had to be convinced to give them up, and I think I’m done with Monkees fans.

Peter Tork. The best. (at Old Town School of Folk Music)

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 22:32:39 -0500

Peter Tork. The best. (at Old Town School of Folk Music)

Blurry Psychedelic Go-Go dancer, part of the opening act for...

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 19:30:18 -0500

Blurry Psychedelic Go-Go dancer, part of the opening act for Peter Tork. And I just met psychojello!

Hot Lips, baby.

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 07:56:37 -0500

Hot Lips, baby.

amyvdh: “sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be...

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 07:40:21 -0500

amyvdh:

“sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed.” - Mary Oliver, daily lettering by Lisa Congdon

Sexy Laughs.

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 15:54:45 -0500

Sexy Laughs.

thugkitchen: Five simple fucking ingredients in this bitch...

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 14:08:17 -0500

thugkitchen:

Five simple fucking ingredients in this bitch right here. This is some good shit to make when you are feeling bougie as fuck. High-fructose corn syrup? Naw son, I don’t play that. Hit this with some vodka though, different story. Max relax.

LAVENDER LEMONADE

5 cups of water

1/2 -3/4 cup sugar (yeah, it is fucking lemonade. without the sugar it is just real sour fucking water)

3/4 cup Meyer lemon juice, about 6 lemons (you can just use the regular lemons at the store too, not a dealbreaker)

juice of half a lime

4 sprigs of fresh lavender

Bring the water to a boil in a medium pot. Add the sugar and simmer that shit on a low heat for about 5 minutes. Make sure to stir it on the regular. The sugar should be all dissolved in the water by now with no little fucking grains rolling around in there. Turn off the heat and stir in the lemon juice, lime juice, and lavender. Let it cool until it is around room temperature. Take the lavender pieces out but use a fucking spoon and not your fingers if you are going to serve that shit to other people. Put the lemonade in the fridge to cool down all the way. Serve with lemon wedges and a pinch of dried lavender if you want it to look fucking impressive.

makes about 1 quart of chill the fuck out

just a quick diagram.

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 15:56:21 -0500

just a quick diagram.

effyeahlittlehouse: more little house gifs Don’t make...

Thu, 30 May 2013 16:15:17 -0500

effyeahlittlehouse:

more little house gifs

Don’t make Laura have to put down her writing tablet.

jcstearns: (via FreePress.net | Senators: Give Us the Freedom...

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:20:16 -0500

jcstearns:

(via FreePress.net | Senators: Give Us the Freedom to Choose Our Cable Channels)

Sen. John McCain has introduced the Television Consumer Freedom Act, a bill that would allow us to pay for cable channels individually, giving us more control over what we choose to buy and watch.

Our competition-free cable system requires consumers to pay for hundreds of channels they don’t want as their cable and broadband bills climb higher and higher.

Sen. McCain’s pro-consumer bill would provide incentives for cable companies to offer an “a la carte” option in which consumers would pay only for the channels they want, introducing choice and affordability into the cable market. I urge you to support this important bill.

nprfreshair: Mel Brooks tells David Bianculli about the late...

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:21:00 -0500

nprfreshair:

Mel Brooks tells David Bianculli about the late Madeline Kahn:

I’m in tears thinking about Madeline. And what an incredibly gifted gift from god, Madeline Kahn. The funniest and most talented comedienne I think, including people like Carol Burnett who are great, you know, and Gilda Radner who was magnificent, but nobody — listen to me, David Bianculli — nobody could approach the magnificence and wonder of Madeline Kahn. She was really a great gift to us all. … I saw art [in her], not just funny. But I saw a person who was gifted with art. She’s the only one who actually could have worked in opera as an opera singer, as a coloratura. She was that talented or I think she could have worked as a longshoreman in New Jersey. I don’t think there’s anything that Madeline Kahn couldn’t do.”

GIF of Madeline Kahn in Young Frankenstein (1974) via trixiedelight:

Secret from PostSecret.com

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:47:09 -0500

Secret from PostSecret.com

"We promise not to screw it up."

Mon, 20 May 2013 07:48:18 -0500

“We promise not to screw it up.”

- Marissa Mayer, Yahoo CEO, announcing the company’s agreement to acquire Tumblr. On Tumblr, of course. Tumblr. + Yahoo! = !!

FJP: We’re wary, but let’s hope so.
(via futurejournalismproject)
I can’t imagine this is going to end well.

Photo

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:15:53 -0500