The Countdown Has Begun...

Thanksgiving is over, thus the final countdown (which started in August I believe) until Christmas has begun. 

Mariah Carey is here to help with your Christmas cheer. I however am not. I was born a poor Christmas baby and by that I mean my Birthday is one week before it (do the math.) -

Now mind you I was treated fairly by my family and not given the fuzzy end of the lollipop so don't go thinking that crap. In fact I loved Christmas as a child, but as you get older you see things differently. While my heart is not hard or cold, I did get all squishy and feels having watching Falling For Christmas with Lindsay Lohan after all. I am a realist who loves the macabre much more.

Thus Krampus is my go to dude for a Merry Little Christmas.

"Yes" I went there you Ho, Ho, Ho's 

Krampus on Wikipedia -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krampus

All I Want For Christmas...

Michael Shinafelt

Merry Christmas Minions! I decided to cave to peer pressure and Mariah Carey my ass to commemorate Christmas 2021. 

Why not, this year while being somewhat better than last, has still had it's many challenges but there is always one thing that has been constant: Mariah Carey crooning All I Want For Christmas Is You!!!

Like the song, find it annoying or if you're just plain indifferent it's the one thing you can always count on in this unsure world. Honestly there's a certain amount of comfort in things you can rely on these days.

What do I want for Christmas? Honestly for everyone to have their health first and foremost, and that each and every one of you find something that makes your heart sing in 2022.

Also: "May your never be too grown up to search the skies on Christmas eve"

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Michael's Musings

The Write Stuff
Michael Shinafelt

Finally Christmas is over! Can I get a groove is in the heart to that?! I thought I could. We are now headed in to 2019 the new year as it were. 

I really have no expectations on this coming year, other than it will be like the other New Years, different number same sh!t, with some changes thrown in for good measure. Speaking of measure it's time to see how many licks it really does take to get to the center of a tootsie pop!

Put your ice cream back in the freezer and tell your genitals to werk!

I am 100% sure I gained a few pounds this past week, cut me some slack in addition to Christmas I also had a Birthday thrown in the mix for good measure

Why can't we all just do the Time Warp again?

Still did not receive Cha Cha Heels again for Christmas this year, damn it!

Another Christmas has come and gone and Mariah Carey is now back in her box

Well then there's Aquaman 

Skinny Jeans are my new jam

Jam is not something I partake in

Little boxes, discuss 

They're Hitched!
Miley Cyrus & Liam Hemsworth 

Congratulations to Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth they seem perfect for each other

"Yes" I have a dirty mind

“I know, I’m kind of crazy. If you look up the word crazy in the dictionary, I’m like, kind of like to the left of it.”- Katy Perry

What's in your bra?

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Michael v Mariah

Separated @ Birth
Mariah Carey v Michael Myers

Saw Halloween 2018 yesterday. More on that tomorrow...I know I am late to this, but since Mariah Carey is one of my least favorite delusional celebrities I just had to run this, today, right here right now.

"Yes" kiddos Mariah and Michael Myers were separated at birth. Oh Mariah let me count your detached from reality and narcissistic bullsh!t ways. 

Well for starters there was that one time on Access Hollywood when you were embarking on your tour and you proclaimed your dog's name was Jack in case those of us "living under a rock" didn't know it. I could tell you weren't joking.

Then there's the time when I quote: "If you die you've lost a very important part of your life." Yeah, she's pretty scary. Need I continue? No I just can't.

She also had an amazing voice which has gone down hill in recent years. Due to the fact she is not in touch with any sort of reality and never took care of it. 

Dear Mariah, I am not one of your fans! 

Halloween 2018 on IMDB:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1502407/

Just Because...Nicki Minaj

Arriving in Style
Nicki Minaj

Just Because it's the weekend, Just Because life is a mystery & Just Because for some inexplicable reason I love this outfit - here is Nicki Minaj descending like a bird of prey on the Monse runway show for New York Fashion Week.

Can we be honest here? While I am not a fan of Minaj's music, I like her mouth, no not in a Deliverance sort of way. I mean her mouth as in her giving Zero F#cks take no prisoners attitude. The woman is bold to say the least.

She has dissed everybody from Cardi B. to Drake. She even took on the music industry Boy's Club. This being stated I have to say my favorite person Ms. Minaj took to task was Mariah Carey when they were both judges on season 12 of American Idol.

While I had pretty much stopped watching AI after the season Adam Lambert was on, I did tune in on occasion when I heard Minaj was sucking the wind out of the sails of that bloated arrogant douche bag known as Mariah Carey. Now that's entertainment minions!

Moving on...

Nicki on IG -
https://www.instagram.com/nickiminaj/?hl=en   

Michael's Musings

Give It A Name
Michael Shinafelt

"Come on everybody, I say now let's play a game, I betcha I can make a rhyme out of any body's name. The first letter of the name' I treat it like it wasn't there" - The Name Game, Shirley Ellis 

For some random, yet most likely not one this song came into my mind this particular week. I am not about or above calling names when they are deserved. However I am responding to the timelessness of this song and it's many interpretations. Especially the iconic performance of Jessica Lange's rendition of it on American Horror Story: Asylum.

This week we play the name game.

Male sure you always wear underwear. You don't want your "V" on TMZ. 

Don't make me unleash the powers of the underworld  

New Acronym DAB = Dense Ass Beotch 

I'd like to indict on more than three pubic hairs and a confession

Sometimes you need to do push-ups with someone on your back

Porn for the paranoid 

Seriously?! Who Dressed You?!
Mariah Carey

Dear Mariah, WTF?! Get a new stylist and some glasses that are preferably not rose colored

Traci Lords coming soon in "Swedish Dicks"

I have something most guys don't 

I played an online avatar game where you push Donald Trump off a cliff into a volcano, laughed every time I did it, I couldn't keep track of how many times that was

Sometimes: "You kicked my ass" is always the correct response 

My name is Hyena I am 26

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Cookie Tossing Tuesday

Technicolor Yawn
Mariah Carey & Bryan Tanaka 

While surfing the WWW I spied this image of Mariah Carey giving a lap dance to her back-up dancer Bryan Tanaka during one of her concerts and nearly tossed my cookies.

For those of you unfamiliar with the term it means I nearly hurled, chased the rainbow, prayed to the porcelain God in other words threw up.

Nothing holds less schwing for me and a high gag factor than Mariah Carey when she is trying to sex things up, heck let's make that MC in general shall we???

Yes, I did watch the first three episodes of Mariah's World out curiosity for the train wreck value, but the wreck got stale and solidified how I view Carey overall, a self absorbed twat who is more boring than watching paint dry, and way more annoying than people whistling a happy tune in public.

Mariah's World does confirm the overall truth I have known about her for years. We just live in it. But we all knew that already, right?

So join me in one big collective hurl.

Happy Cookie Tossing! 

Michael's Musings

Hazy Shade Of Winter
Michael Shinafelt

We are a mere five days into 2017 and no celebrity deaths have occurred. Give it time it's still too soon after the three major ones at the end of 2016.

If only I could give you a juicy bone to gnaw on, but alas there is not too much to say at this premature stage of the NY. Give it some time, there is going to be plenty to rant about, love and be grateful for, soon. 

So here are my meager offerings as of now, drama free and without interruption.

Best thing about New Year's weekend? The Twilight Zone marathon on the SyFy Network. 

Mariah Carey really needs a reality check and to change her first name to Pariah.

Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher & Debbie Reynolds on HBO. Can't wait!

Honestly, if you haven't seen Leah Remini exposing Scientology on her A&E docu-series you haven't lived. Cross my heart.

If you take quotes from Law & Order: SVU out of context, they are really quite funny.

Quote of the Week: "It makes me sad when anyone calls LGBTQ people perverts, because that means they don't know that straight people can have good sex too" - Faith Choyce, Comedian 

BTW the Golden Globes are this Sunday, in case you care. 

Vanderpump Rules
Not So Much Anymore

Is it me or is Vanerpump Rules really fucking staged this season. Transparently so, I have now dubbed the show A Gaggle Of Twats.

Just the other day I was "lucky" enough to board a subway car with a black gentleman bellowing to another how white people disrespect him all the time. Really? You mean you talking shit at the top of your lungs in a public place isn't disrespecting anyone???

Which reminds me I got an PM on Facebook the other day from someone chiding me for the use of #hastags - really. If that is your biggest issue in life go Fuck yourself.

Monkey Mat Mama's, why not I ask you?

"The Best Time of my Life is Now" - Marilyn Monroe

I will leave with the sage words of wisdom from the formidable Ms. Marilyn Monroe. Until next week, yeah, you know what's coming. Ciao!

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All I Want For Christmas...

No Fluorescent Lighting!
Mariah Carey

Right off the bat let me make this declaration that I have never been, nor will I ever be a fan of Mariah Carey. That being stated, who doesn't think of her song All I Want For Christmas this time of year?! Of course you do!

James Corden brilliantly paid homage to it in a recent edition of his too cool Carpool Karaoke series. Where it looked like Mariah's right breast was ready to cause a huge wardrobe malfunction the entire time.

Which brings us to the curious fact that I am watching her eight part series Mariah's World on E! It's the proverbial train wreck you can't tear your eyes away from. 

Also, since I have never really cared about or followed Ms. Carey's career, there are a few interesting revelations here and there. My personal gem was how former husband Tommy Mottola basically kept her under lock and key when they were married making her write music all the time and because of that she never really toured. Yeah, I never noticed, but apparently she didn't tour until recent years.

Then there is the usual diva biz, like only being photographed in fluorescent light with her sunglasses on. If I have to explain the reason behind that to you...I didn't think so.

Only five more days until Christmas, check out Mariah, James and a whole bunch of other big names sing All I Want For Christmas below!

Remember it's Mariah's World you just live in it at:
www.eonline.com/shows/mariahs_world

Michael's Musings

It's A Dirty Job
Michael Shinafelt

As stated last week this is going to be the regular Thursday Thing on Entertain Me. Making me a man of my word and letting the world at large know I make good on my threats.

Carry on, as you were...

Anyone out there who has a "Mexican Thing" that wants to whip it out for me, please do.

Vote for Donald Trump on November 28th. While everyone else will be electing Hillary Clinton as POTUS on November 8th.

Do you ever feel like daytime is invading your privacy?

This Is Us. I. don't. get. it.

Mariah Carey is going to have her own reality show on E! this December called: Mariah's World. Which proves what I've always thought, we all just live in it.

I'm selling happiness, the kind you nibble on. The more you know.

"Take a Tic Tac and grab a pussy" - Samantha Bee

I always keep a jar of jalapenos in my refrigerator. Always.

Ever stop and wonder...???

Rhonda Bernstein nailing it with this comment: "This election has really made me miss Joan Rivers. Can you imagine what she would have said? I would never stop laughing." 

That's a wrap. 

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The Late Show: Darlene Love's Last Stand

Darlene Love Is Amazing!

Tune in tonight everyone, it's my friend and awesome person, Darlene Love's last stand on The Late Show with David Letterman singing Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) -

I had the extreme pleasure of interviewing Ms. Love about her Concert Of Love for Chorus and Verse, jump to that here:

http://www.chorusandverse.com/content.php?id=20101110a

This was when she was nominated and eventually claimed her spot in the Rock-N-Roll Hall of Fame.

She states: "When I am singing it I am telling everyone to go back home to their loved ones"

The song has now become a Christmas staple sung by the likes of Mariah Carey and Michael Buble'.

Love you Darlene! (no pun intended) I will be tuning in tonight!

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Christmas Eve: Apollo Run

It's Christmas Eve time for a song for the Holiday Season. Oh Holy Night Batman! On this evening before the day, comes Apollo Run with their cover of Mariah Carey's "Oh Santa" !

Since I am not familiar with the original version (I am an AMCAAC's type of guy) Translation: Avoid Mariah Carey At All Costs. This is quite "entertain"ing and you can see the fun poked at Ms. Carey in it.  Hey "Entertain Me" is the name of the blog and that's what I aim to do.

Levity to all and to all a good night....

Mariah Christmas from Apollo Run: http://www.apollorun.com/

Your New American Idol Is: Mariah Carey

"If you don't know my dog's name is Jack, you must live under a rock" - Mariah Carey "Access Hollywood"

Earth to Mariah, we have much to teach you. No I did not know your dogs name was Jack, and I really don't care, sorry if I hurt your feelings. But how could I miss today's news?!

What do I think of this? It really does not matter to me as I have long stopped watching "American Idol" or caring...it is still the highest rated show on TV despite the ratings slip of late. Yeah, boo hoo to the producer's of that show....NOT!

Do I think Mariah will boost ratings, who knows, whatever, I am blogging on this because I do entertainment and it is "news" in the world I cover.

There are only two times I ever cottoned to Ms. Carey - 1) was her surprisingly good performance in the film "Precious" and 2) well if she promises to be drunk every week like she was at the Palm Springs Film Festival, I would TOTALLY tune in to see THAT!

"Geek Out"! Geeks - The Musical

They're here, They're ....uh, Geeks, get used to it! I hereby declare, March 1st 2012 shall forever go down in Theatre History as the premiere of: "Geeks - The Musical".

And it's about time, we have had everything in the history of the whole world turned into a musical, from "Cats" to "Spiderman" but what about the Geeks? What about the Geeeeeeks?!

Well, woot, here it is! You may remember my chat with one of it's stars, and self confessed "Geek" Jonathan "JB" Brett prior to the opening - you don't?! In the words of the delusional Mariah Carey speaking of those who did not know her dog's name was "Jack"  "You must be living under a rock"....

So here it is, get yourself some! http://mshinafelt.blogspot.com/2012/02/checking-in-with-jonathan-brett.html

All geeks celebrate and be celebrated - Every March 1st shall be National Geek day from here forward. "Entertain Me" has declared it so.

www.geeksthemusical.com