As John Belushi might have said: “This photog could have gotten a nipple with only the slightest effort …. but no-o-o-o-o.”
Day: July 4, 2019
It was inevitable but still sad. For many of us male baby boomers, MAD was an absolute staple of growing up. It was a universal shared experience, in that you could talk MAD with the jocks, or the dweebs, or the brains, or the drama geeks, or the hoods. It was one of the few things in that category, along with the Three Stooges.
I can still sing the words to the MAD parody of West Side Story, even though I don’t remember all the words to the real songs!
I wash with Zest in America
Brush teeth with Crest in America
Smoking is best in America
— filter’s recessed in America!
And so, a part of our childhood has passed away, laid to rest alongside Mickey Mantle and Buffalo Bob Smith.
Melania Trump may not have made the proper wardrobe selection for a stroll in the rain
“Valerie Mason, 30, who is also a former West Ouachita High School cheerleader, was the Sept. 2008 Playmate of the Month.”
Valerie then and now.
While she doesn’t look like she did at 20, who does? She still looks too great to be a heavy meth user.
Arty, but also sexy, and with her buttocks fully visible
From a 2004 issue of Details: Christina Aguilera’s breasts are completely exposed, no tricks
(“And they’re spectacular”)
The polls seem to have widely divergent numbers at the time, but RCP takes an average of all the trusted polls. When viewed that way, Biden is in first with about 27%, and there is approximately a three-way tie for second, with all three between 13.5% and 14.8%. Mayor Pete runs a distant fifth at 5%.
At 0.2%, my main man Hickenlooper ties for last with that hippie chick.
The Economist poll is kind of an outlier in that it shows that Bernie has dropped to a weak fourth, only one point ahead of Mayor Pete. In the highly respected ABC/WaPo poll (538 gives them the rare A+ rating), Bernie beats Pete 19-4! That is quite a range of disagreement. (538 gives The Economist a solid B rating, so the discrepancy is not caused by their total incompetence.)
The other polls in the rating are rated as follows: Quinnipiac A-, CNN A-, Morning Consult B-, Harris C+)
If you average only the three polls rated A- or higher, the results are not that different:
Uncle Joe 25
Bernie 15
Harris 17
Pocahontas 14
Mayor Pete 4
Ashley Wagner has won an Olympic medal in figure skating.
Here is her previous appearance on the page.
Without the pseudo-bondage gear this time. This one is from the new episode (#4) of Strange Angel
Some still captures.
Five years ago, I never dreamed I would be blasé about pics of Rihanna topless with her legs spread. Things happen.
Sasha Luss is a Russian supermodel and actress. She seems to be on the verge of stardom.
According to the Sunday Post:
“in 2017, Luss made her extraordinary debut playing Princess Liho-Minaa in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, a French 3D space opera movie that also starred Cara Delevingne, Clive Owen and Rihanna.
A high-grossing success, it helped her get a second role, in the movie out this week, Anna. Luss stars alongside Dame Helen Mirren, Luke Evans and Cillian Murphy in the English-language French action thriller. Sasha plays the title character, Anna Poliatova, who has a secret that, once unleashed, turns her into one of the world’s most lethal and dangerous government assassins.”
Anna is a Luc Besson film, which debuted June 21 in the USA, to very disappointing results. (2000+ theaters, only $3.6 million gross, 9th place.)
The trailer is below:
It is sobering to see Luc Besson, the wunderkind of French cinema, now gray-bearded. He was 23 when he wrote and directed his first film. From 1990 to 1997 he was one of the most popular directors in the world. He’s now 60, facing nine accusations of sexual misconduct, and in clear sight of the end of the trail. Although his previous film, Valerian, grossed well, it had a $180 million dollar budget, and produced a net loss. Anna, though modestly budgeted ($30 million), appears to be a complete strikeout.
“ALEXANDRA STAN is a Romanian singer and songwriter. She made her worldwide breakthrough with the 2011 single ‘Mr. Saxobeat'”
And yet somehow I completely missed that international sensation. I think I had a teacher named Mr Saxobeat, but he must be dead by now. Maybe this is his grandson.
Comment: “I believe that is a translation error. Since it is Romania, they probably meant “Mr. Sack O’Beets”. Romania is very poor, and someone who owns a “sack o’beets” is like a billionaire here.”
Scoop’s note: It comes from the old Romanian expression, “Tu nu ești o geantă plină de sfecla” – roughly translated as “Well, aren’t you Mr. Moneybags?” (Literally: “You are not a full bag of beets”)
Olivia Munn seems to enjoy prancing around semi-naked in public.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
I guess she’s trying to jump-start a stalled career. Or something.
“Danish Selma Judith sings in the shower later on in this video Apparently she’s the daughter of Lars Von Trier and also went topless at this year’s Roskilde Festival.”
Links and text from the Naked on Stage blog
“This is just for the purists who just like to catch a brief glimpse. Don’t bother if you don’t.”
Fed up with its growing goose problem, the city has implemented an initiative to round up its Canada geese and process them into food for “needy families”
While they’re at it, they can come and get the rabbits in my yard. They look mighty tasty.
The new season “should be Blackadder as a teacher in a university, about how much we hate young people.”
That doesn’t sound ideal, but it could be fairly consistent with the show’s history, with Blackadder as the clever, duplicitous, middle-class schemer always trying to maneuver among the over-privileged and simple-minded aristocracy. I’m not sure whether students are the right symbol for the “over-privileged,” and I don’t see how either Hugh Laurie’s recurring upper-class twit, or “Baldrick,” the working-class grunt, would fit into this context, but they have a lot of talent to work with, so perhaps they can fit the pieces together.
The critics are unenthusiastic about the idea, and Esquire presents an especially excellent critique, but I love the show so much that I will certainly devour it and hope for the best.
Well, like she could be Kamala’s younger, hotter sister.
Now that’s how to dress for a July 4th parade.
I don’t know what she’s really doing, but she looks great!
