Random Musings

American Horror Story: Hotel ...

I am loving Liz Taylor, though part of her story — as it related to hunky Finn Wittrock — broke my heart last night.

Finn Wittrock … at least we know no one ever really dies.

Cheyenne Jackson. Good lord; a thing of beauty and a joy forever.

And um, yeah, the trip back to Murder House from Season One and the birth … birth? … of Bartholomew.

And … American Horror Story has been picked up for a 6th season, and it looks like Lady Gaga might return.

I would prefer Jessica Lange, but Gaga has been surprising me this season, playing a bloodsucking version of herself, that is.

Show of hands, who saw this coming besides me?

A new Gallup poll finds a dramatic increase in the number of married LGBT couples post-SCOTUS ruling. There are now approximately 972,000 Americans in a same-sex marriage, up from about 780,000 before the ruling.

We fought for marriage and we’re doing it …

So, Starz has a new show about a ballet company, but the kicker is that they are actually using professional ballet dancers in the show. So, none of that creative cutting and editing to make it look like a non-dancer is doing all the work.

And, as happens with ballet, there are some heartthrobs, like …

Ben Daniels [top left] , who plays the gay choreographer, Paul Grayson; he’s kinda sexy in a bitchy arrogant egomaniacal sort of way. And then we have Sascha Radetsky [right] and Clifton Duncan [bottom left] , as Ross and Reggie respectively, two actual ballet hunks.

Men in tights. Yes, please.

Speaking of LGBT rights and the march, President Barack Obama is the first sitting President to pose for the cover of a gay magazine by appearing on Out Magazine as the Ally Of The Year.

Bravo, Mister President.

So, man buns are ALLEGEDLY the new ‘it’ thing for metrosexuals everywhere — unless we count the growing trend of man braids — but, what if you’re a man that doesn’t have enough hair to go all trendy and hipster?

Try a clip-on man bun. Seriously. I just died a little.

Adele 'Hello' live ... because I am obsessed with all things Adele ... sue me.

Is this what presidential candidates do?

Jeb No-Last-Name, says that, if given the opportunity, he would go back in time to kill Baby Adolf Hitler in his crib?

“Hell yeah, I would! You gotta step up, man.”

Seriously. Take a seat, Jeb.

Meanwhile, [t]Rump is saying that, if he’s elected, we will all be saying ‘Merry Christmas’ and Starbucks will make a caramel latter in an effing Christmas cup.

And Ben Carson is wondering that, since the pyramids were used for grain storage, if the Parthenon was a stable for unicorns. And then he stabbed someone.

As for future failed presidential candidate, and certifiable loon, Ted Cruz, he thinks anyone who “doesn’t begin every day on his knees isn’t fit to be commander-in-chief.”

Well, I guess I am fit to be President then.

Just sayin’.

Random Musings

So … Audra. I could sum up her performance with one word: flawless. But y’all know I need more than one word, so ...

The voice is perfection.

The song choices are amazing.

She was gorgeous and funny and thoughtful and thought-provoking.

She talked of her support for marriage equality — she was one of the first — way back when it was just Massachusetts and Iowa—because, as she said it, she’s a beneficiary of the Civil Rights movement, and without that movement back in the 60s, she might not have been able to stand on a stage in Greenville, South Carolina and sing before a mixed audience.

She told a story of playing the Mother Superior in NBC’s live version of The Sound of Music, and how, during the live airing, the actors couldn’t leave the soundstage for fear that the noise from doors opening and closing would be heard on TV. So the actors sat in cubbyholes backstage and, since they also had to keep quiet, Audra live Tweeted the show with her daughter Zoe, who told her that it was beautiful and sounded great and was a fabulous show. Audra texted her back saying she had to go, she was up to sing ‘Climb Every Mountain,’ and when she returned to her phone, hoping to see what her daughter had said, she found this text:

“Do we have dryer sheets? I wanna do some laundry.”

Audra. Flawless.

In a case of ‘My How Things Change’ comes this tidbit … An LGBT community center has opened in Imperial County, California.  Not familiar with Imperial County? Well, here’s the back story:

After the passage of marriage equality in California, several anti-gay groups turned to the deeply conservative Imperial County because they needed a governmental body to defend Prop 8 when the state refused to do so.

Imperial County became the starting point for Prop Hate in 2008 and now, today, they have opened their first LGBT community center.

Times do change, though the march still goes on …

Early next year there's a big change coming to Playboy magazine. No more nudes; citing easy access to nekkid pictures via the internet, Playboy will stop with the nude pictorials.

So I guess folks really will be reading it for the articles.

We missed the democratic debates because of Audra and that was all well and good with me, but I did see a few snaps of that hot guy on my television later on.

Martin O'Malley. If I was a shallow type, or, let’s be real, a more shallow type, I might vote for him for president just to ogle him during each and every news conference and State of the Union Address.

Pedro Redding has been charged in the gang assault and murder of trans woman Keisha Jenkins last week in Philadelphia ... original post HERE.

A judge arraigned Redding on murder, conspiracy and weapons charges noting that he was among a group of “neighborhood individuals” who go around the city’s Hunting Park section robbing people.

So far no other arrests have been made and, again, I wonder how this isn’t a Hate Crime since Keisha Jenkins was murdered — beaten and then shot twice — and not just robbed.

So, there’s a commercial for Campbell’s soup that starts off with a Dad feeding his son, and saying, “Luke, I’m your father.” The camera pans back and there’s another man, who also says, “No, Luke, I am your father.”

Two gay dads feeding soup to their child and One Million Moms Seventy-Five-Thousand Moms wants a boycott.

You know what to do … to the soup aisle at your local grocer and stock up on Campbell’s!

American Horror Story: Hotel. Seriously? You expect me to believe that Lady Gaga would toss aside Matt Bomer for Finn Wittrock?

I mean, Finn can wittrock a pair of black lace briefs, but he’s no Matt Bomer.

Just saying …

So, the CW has cancelled America’s Top Model… about ten years too, late is what I’m thinking. But, Tyra Banks, who gave the world “smizing” — smiling with your eyes — is now giving us crazing, er, crying, and lyzing, um, lying, as she released this statement to Instagram:

TYRA MAIL! 

Thinking #ANTM #cycle22 should be our last cycle. Yeah, I truly believe it’s time. Our diehard fans know we’ve expanded the definition of beauty, presented what Flawsome is, tooched and booched and boom boom boomed, shown the world how to show their neck, rocked couture/catalogue/commercial poses, have found our (and your) light, strutted countless runways, gone on tons of go-sees, added guys to the girls mix, and have traveled around the globe and back again. Yeah, it’s time. It really is.

Wow, I am SO proud of what Top Model has done.

Bitch please. The CW kicked you to the curb. And, um, please to explain exactly what it has done?

Another Republican, Richard Hanna a New York Congressman, says the House Select Committee on Benghazi was formed solely to go after the reputation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

And let the Teabaggers begin the Hanna Bashing, though I might ask that, even if you don’t like Hillary Clinton, you’re okay with the GOP spending millions and millions of your tax dollars on a fake investigation?

Just saying.

Lamar Odom is reportedly still in a coma today after being found unconscious after an ALLEGED four-day coke binge at a Las Vegas whorehouse.

The whorehouse is not ALLEGED, however. But, true to form, the Kardastrophes have taken to brooms and flown to his side, after first stopping in hair and makeup and wardrobe, and brought along a camera crew because, well, if they don’t sell it to TV it didn’t happen.

To be fair, the Kardastrophe news channel, AKA TMZ, says the show is on hiatus so there were no cameras, but this is That Woman and her family so I’m kinda thinking that’s a lie because … November sweeps.

American Horror Story: Hotel: 'It's Not The Getting Ready, It's The Clean-Up'

Finally .... American Horror Story: Hotel debuted last night and .... it was fabulous.

The Hotel Cortez is so beautiful, i would stay there, were it not for all the murders and shiz.

Dennis O'Hare as "Liz Taylor" is f-a-a-a-a-bulous.

Sarah Paulson is kinda giving me Jessica Lange 2.0.

Matt Bomer. That ass. Those tight black briefs. He is oozing sex ... plus [SPOILER ALERT] he's been dead for twenty years.

Max Greenfield being raped by a mummy with a, um, drillbit for a penis.

Kathy Bates is, as always, perfection.

And Gaga? I feared she would go too far over the top and become a hammy overacting cartoon, but she was wonderful; creepy, sexy, cool. And, of course, the clothes. Oy!

There were a lot of things to eyeball last night ... the couple found dead in the swanky hotel room, him without his eyes or tongue ...

Cheyenne Jackson. yum.

That wicked foursome: Call housekeeping.

It feels like a real reboot of the show, given that Lange isn't back this season ... and I miss her. It does have a little 'The Shining' vibe to it, but I think that'll go away as we get into the kink of it all.

Plus, Naomi Freaking Campbell? And the returns of Finn Wittrock, Evan Peter sand Angela Bassett.

Stay.Tuned. And don't close your eyes.