Save The Date

Whilst many of us, oh OK all of us mere mortals, except for an exclusive chosen few, did not get an invite to Britney Spears June 9th wedding to Sam Asghari (heck even her family didn't.) We will always have the great photos and the memes that followed.

Since I live in Southern California, Los Angeles to be exact, and the to do was held in Thousand Oaks ( LA adjacent) - Well the winner in the meme derby for me is the "Housewives" one.

"Yes" Minions let me present to you The Real Housewives of Thousand Oaks...

Starring Britney Spears, Madonna, Selena Gomez, Paris Hilton, Drew Barrymore and Donatella Versace. Now that's a fully loaded cast I must say!

Maybe they can have a crossover show with their sister wives in Beverly Hills (which for the record is the only Housewives show I watch) talk about epic.

Congratulations to Britney I wish her nothing but happiness!!!

Britney on IG -

https://www.instagram.com/britneyspears/?hl=en    

Moorehead Monday

Agnes Moorehead
as
Endora

Honestly I don't know WTF has taken me, but I am in a state of whimsy. Thus I present to you a new "thing" that sprang from my fertile imagination this ayem - Moorehead Monday in honor of Agnes Moorehead who played Endora on one of my fave classic TV Shows Bewitched.

When there's magic in the air you go with it Minions and there has been plenty of late. 

So I choose to honor all that is possible on June the 13th 2002, because that's the way I roll sometimes.

Happy Moorehead Monday!

"Dwell In Possibility" - Emily Dickinson 

Bewitched on Wikipedia -

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

Happy Pride Los Angeles!

Celebrate!
Cardi B

This year Los Angeles got confusing for Pride season. West Hollywood went ahead and had it's usual to do last weekend and now this weekend the Parade returns to it's original location the streets of Hollywood.

"Yes" we just can't be proud enough here in LA, thus we have two Pride celebrations. Last weekend Cardi B was in the house for the West Hollywood parade. Paula Abdul will be guest of honor at this one.

Whoever shows up I'm sure a fun time will be had by all!!!

Happy Pride Los Angeles Minions from me and Cardi B....

BTW in case you are wondering I did not go to the West Hollywood Parade and I will not be in attendance at the Hollywood Parade today.

Mic Drop! 

LA Pride on the WWW -

https://lapride.org/la-pride-2022/   

Summer Reads

 

Microcosm Publishing - Summer 2022 Lineup

Enter Sandwich: Some Kind of Vegan Cooking with No Connection to Metallica by Automne Zingg and Joshua Ploeg Available Now! Hey Ho Let's Dough!: 1! 2! 3! 40 Vegan Pizza Recipes Unrelated to the Ramones by Automne Zingg and Joshua Ploeg Available Now! Speak In Tongues: An Oral History of Cleveland's Infamous DIY Punk Venue by Eric Sandy and Ken Blaze Coming July 5th

Enter Sandwich: Some Kind of Vegan Cooking with No Connection to Metallica  by Automne Zingg and Joshua Ploeg Oh, aging rockers. We've all seen them struggle to get along and cope with life. Maybe they just need to sit around a backyard picnic table, share a vegan feast, and talk about their feelings. After all, to live is to stir fry. Automne Zingg, genius mastermind behind Comfort Eating with Nick Cave and Defensive Eating with Morrissey is back with hilarious illustrations of the band's revolving cast eating their feelings and expressing their enthusiasm for food, but in a tough and intense way. "Yeahms!" sings James, riffing on a giant yam. Zingg's work is coupled with the inventive and flavorful recipes of chef and queercore punk musician, Joshua Ploeg. Written in lyrical form, the recipes parody 40 of the most quintessential tunes. Crank up the volume while concocting plant-based recipes like Master of Nuggets, Pie of the Beholder, an All Nightmare Footlong, or maybe just a little stock. So let it be eaten. (Just don't try to illegally download this book.)

Hey Ho Let's Dough!: 1! 2! 3! 40 Vegan Pizza Recipes Unrelated to the Ramones  by Automne Zingg and Joshua Ploeg When you don’t wanna go down to the pizzeria, whip up these vegan pizzas. Automne Zingg—mastermind behind Comfort Eating with Nick Cave, Defensive Eating with Morrissey, and Enter Sandwich—has illustrated pizza-themed boys-from-Queens homages, as they eat pizza, sneer at pepperoni, and play pizza guitars. Joshua Ploeg’s recipes wittily incorporate vaguely familiar lyrics and humor. Pizzas range from traditional marinara with vegetables and veggie sausage (Texas Chain Sauce Massacre) and white sauce specials (Carbonara Not Glue), to variations like Beet on the Brat, Havana Pizza Affair, Thyme Bomb. “Well, I’m Against It,” comments Johnny, but you’ll find a pineapple pizza recipe in here as well. Pizza is deconstructed, reconstructed, and, like the best bands, turns into something far better than the sum of its parts.

Speak In Tongues: An Oral History of Cleveland's Infamous DIY Punk Venue by Eric Sandy and Ken Blaze  Speak In Tongues was a freewheeling, community-run underground music venue in Cleveland, Ohio that operated on a do-it-yourself basis throughout the late 1990s. The venue fostered a flourishing creative culture, where you could enjoy a puppet show from a spray-painted couch or meet other punks to start a band or a movement, but was also smoothly run with a great sound system and the best curation of music that you could hear in the city during its tenure. On any given night, you could go see hardcore punk, experimental jazz, or thrash shows where fireworks were set off inside the building. Traveling bands regularly booked shows there, including ones that went on to greater fame, like Modest Mouse, Avail, Lifter Puller, Jimmy Eat World, Alkaline Trio, Milemarker, and J Church. Venue operators, and later a management collective, contended with police surveillance, skinheads with knives, an exploding oil drum full of raw meat, a flaming car, and a different number of riots depending on who you ask.  There may not have been a bar, but a healthy BYOB policy ensures that everyone’s memory is different, resulting in an entertaining story of a place that truly was what you made it, the source of lifelong friendships and endless lore.  This comprehensive oral history tells a story that is greater than the sum of each person’s recollections, forming a picture of a unique, weird, special place that deeply informed the next twenty years of Cleveland’s underground culture.

Celebrating A Legend, Judy Garland

Judy Garland

Today is the 100th Birthday of the legendary Judy Garland. I took these photos commemorating it at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery post yoga class there. "Yes" they have yoga classes there and Tyler Cassity owner and founder of the cemetery puts us yogis through our paces every Tuesday. The day I attended and took these photos.

Cheers to you Judy Garland thanks for the magic and the memories! 💕

Paying My Respect

Judy on Wikipedia -

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

Michael's Musings

I'd Let You Watch, I Would Invite You, But...
Michael Shinafelt

"I've never been interested in being invisible and erased" - Laverne Cox

Pride Month is still happening Minions and I'm still celebrating along with the rest of my LGBTQ brothers & sisters. As you can see this week I am giving good rainbow face.

"Yes" good rainbow face is a thing, I just made it one. So there, move along now, there's plenty to see here, no one is invisible or erased.

Last night's RHOBH was so boring the only thing I remember was the "In 2 Days" Jurassic World: Dominion logo in the upper right corner the entire time.

Saw David Cronenberg's Crimes of the Future this past weekend, while not his best, still a provocative film with great performances, anything Cronenberg does is a must see in my book!

When The Bougie Man is under your bed: "Wow, the thread count on these sheets is pathetic"

Ever resented a salad all the way through?

Is your cuteness "out of bounds?"

That time when you someone introduces themselves to you and you are going to reciprocate and they say: "Nice to meet you Michael" before you even give them your name...

When life gives you lemons ignore the five on the ground and reach for the most difficult one on the tree, yeah that's it

So you think you can dance, and you can jive?

Woman Crush of the Week - Judy Garland who's 100th Birthday Celebration is tomorrow. Thank you for the magic and the memories!

Ask yourself: Are you hot enough to be in a celebrity threesome?

Take your purified water, sit down and STFU

When someone has access to every hole you have, discuss...

Ever wonder if cauliflower wings have bones?

I'm gonna head to Mimosa Beach today, no that was not a typo

Where you goin' today? Tell me here -

https://www.instagram.com/michaelshinafelt/?hl=en

https://twitter.com/MShinafelt     

Hump Day & Chill

Iconic 
Tab Hunter & Divine

Being that it's Pride Month and such, today's Hump Day & Chill is brought to you by Tab Hunter & Divine in John Waters Polyester!

Nothing quite says LGBTQ like this combo. They are quite iconic and did go on to star together in another movie titled Lust In The Dust.

I met Tab Hunter once at an HRC event for his autobiography Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star.

He was truly a star with a capital "S" and one of the nicest, most down to earth people one could ever encounter.  

Sadly I never had the pleasure of crossing paths with Divine, that would have been epic as well. 

So let's raise a glass, turn and face the strange and all that jazz with a Hump Day & Chill to these two LGBTQ icons shall we?

We shall and we will!!! 

Polyester on Wikipedia -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyester_(film)