Happy Birthday, Eartha Kitt BOTD 1927

Who is your all-time favorite fictional driver? Sylvester Marcus

Mount your bidets, comrades! The revolution begins on the toilet! Bread! Land! And bidets!

Bread! Land! And bidets!

Me, 1975-2025, learning about the rise of Uncle Adolf and how he took over Germany by manipulating the levers of democracy: How could 67M Germans be so stupid? Me, life in the USA, 2015-2026: JFC

O M G This is legit video. He’s suffering from saliva buildup and difficulty swallowing, symptoms of a stroke and frontotemporal dementia.

The history of the United States is a record of Americans trying to expand democracy and Americans trying to restrict democracy

I missed the part where Redford romances Claudia Cardinale in a chalet in Cortina d'Ampezzo in the Italian Alps. Oh wait a minute, wait a minute. #WrongMovie #DownhillRacer #ThePinkPanther #TCMParty

I missed the part where Redford escapes from Blofeld’s secret mountaintop lair in the Swiss alps. Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute. #WrongMovie #DownhillRacer #OnHerMajestysSecretService #TCMParty

OH MY GOD He’s clearly in distress and suffering *and* he’s at a stage of his illness where he’s able to recognize it; what are his loved ones doing to help him, because for them to do nothing is elder abuse. He needs to be removed from office and given the care he needs.

Happy Birthday, Sal Mineo BOTD 1939 #TCMParty

So, he’s M💩G💩 and his wife is…an immigrant. OK. But consider the mental gymnastics and emotional rationalizations a white supremacist has to go through to accomplish this.

Although mass mobilization is not an easy thing to do in a country the size of the United States and where healthcare is tied to employment, which makes going on strike a huge sacrifice, that didn’t stop the protests for Civil Rights and against the Vietnam War in the 1960s. We can do this together

So, there’s no money for Medicare For All, Medicaid, SNAP, Social Security, student loan forgiveness, PBS? But...there's money for a ballroom, tax breaks for the 1%, ICE operations, seizing Venezuela, and buying Greenland? It was never about not having the money, but all about how to spend it.

The home seen as Monte’s beach house was located in Malibu, at 26652 Latigo Shore Dr, off Pacific Coast Highway (renamed in 1941 from Roosevelt Hwy); it was built in 1929, but destroyed during a storm in 1983. #TCMParty #MildredPierce

New York City’s new voice, its new mayor

Of course

But for you to marry that boy would be a disaster. Because there's two kinds of women. There are two kinds of women and you, as we well know, are not the first kind. You, my dear, are a slut. Happy New Year! From: Lara & Victor, at the Astoria restaurant in Moscow #TCMParty #DoctorZhivago

If you were mine, I wouldn't share you with anybody or anything. It'd be just you and me. You'd be at the center of it all. You know, it would feel a lot more like love than being left alone with your work. Happy New Year! From: Louise & Gene, at a summer rental in Provincetown #TCMParty #Reds

Denys: You've ruined it for me, you know. Karen: Ruined what? Denys: Being alone. Happy New Year! From: Karen & Denys, on a farm in Africa at the foot of the Ngong Hills #TCMParty #OutOfAfrica

The snowflakes are perfect. The stars are perfect. Not us. Not us! We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and...die! The storybooks are bullshit! Now I want you to come upstairs with me and get in my bed! Happy New Year! From: Loretta & Ronnie #TCMParty

Happy New Year! I should reach the frontier in about six weeks. With a little luck, the network will pick me up. From: Ripley, the last survivor of the commercial towing starfreighter Nostromo #TCMParty #Alien

I was just checking the linen rotation. If I'd had left it to the maids, the same twenty sheets would be used till they fell into rags. Happy New Year, but not new sheets From: Mrs Wilson, the perfect servant #TCMParty #GosfordPark

Said to me by two different guys over a timespan of 25 years… “If you had a (stable / better) job, I’d marry you in a minute”

Looking forward to the season finale of Heated Rivalry: Pax Romana. After five years apart, Judah and Messala are reunited in Jerusalem, and the sparks fly hotter than the spinning scythes on the hub of a chariot wheel! #TCMParty #BenHur #HeatedRivalry

Happy Birthday, Marlene Dietrich BOTD 1901 #TCMParty

The beauty of Heated Rivalry is the same beauty of Schitt's Creek: it's a gay love story with acceptance and without tragedy

Merry Christmas From: LALA Land, 1929

May your stockings be hung

Fröhliche Weihnachten From: Vicky and Al

Peace on Earth. Goodwill toward All.

How I'm showing up to the bluesky Xmas party.

Merry Christmas From: The Girls in the Window (1960), by Ormond Gigli

Having a blue Christmas? Well, lean into it, with Peggy Lee, flying high on the SSRI Express (I’d rather be crying in first class than laughing in coach) and muddle through with her, singing songs from her new holiday album: “Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind? Yes!”

Merry Christmas from The Christmas Music of 1959

Tonight! It’s the Fight for the Light. Yes. The semi-annual Battle of the Seasons. Will the Holly King, bringer of darkness, be defeated by the Oak King, bringer of light, to be reborn at the Vernal Equinox? Will life be renewed? Will Spring come again? Happy Winter Solstice

I’m Willoughby’s hat #TCMParty #SenseandSensibility

Happy Saturnalia, the ancient Roman festival honoring Saturn Romans During the Decadence (1847) Thomas Couture

And now, back to the bottoming in the Roman Empire discourse…

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Perfect for my holiday party theme, Christmas 1962: JFK is president, the Swinging Sixties era begins, the world just survived a potential nuclear war, the Beatles sing Love Me Do, James Bond debuts in Dr No, Lawrence of Arabia premiere, and we’re excited Judy Garland is getting a TV show next year.

A lyric in Connie Francis’s “I’m Gonna Be Warm This Winter” from 1962 reminds me of my favorite unconventional Christmas song from Sade in 1985: every day is Christmas, and every night is…New Year’s Eve.

Hey! It’s that holiday special from 1964 that reminds us to be careful who you ostracize for their nonconformity because their nonconformity just might be the thing that saves your Christmas, saves your teeth, or puts the star on the top of your tree. #RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer

Great Lobster and Bird Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 19th century

File under: When you know the leadership has given up When they don’t know how to control something that’s gotten out of control or how to fix a problem, they focus on something they *can* control or fix, in this case, it’s fonts

You will be visited by three spirits… #TCMParty

This is what bothers me: that the authoritarian clans have poisoned the well to create mistrust & pessimism, and a fear that every four years a change of administrations can just gut all we hold dear (democratic values) and upend our way of life (after all this time, still no universal healthcare)

“My life hasn’t exactly been a bed of petunias” #AliceDoesntLiveHereAnymore #TCM #TCMParty

Checkout Tom Stoppard’s contribution to the screenplay for #IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade #TCMParty

Happy Thanksgiving Eve From: Beth Jarrett who’s hoping for a Christmas in London that’s just out of Dickens #TCMParty #OrdinaryPeople