The People's Poet Is Dead

Rik Mayall

1958 - 2014

Someone's In The Kitchen With Bob Dole

For Ken, the one person on the planet who gets it when I suddenly sing, "When Johnny comes marching home again," and will answer, "He's gay!  He's gay!"

That's a good man right there, and I had the smarts to get myself hitched to him.

Happy Valentine's Day.

 October 1992

Sigma Tau Gamma hay ride and dance 
 If you look really closely (and can get past those eyebrows!), you can see that I am wearing Ken's fraternity lavalier (his fraternity letters, in silver, descending down as a pendant), which he had just given me.  He hid it in an Eli's chocolate chip cheesecake.

I wore the lavalier on our wedding day.

For You Bunch Of Boozers, Users, And Losers

Booze Movies: The 100 Proof Film Guide

I have spent a chunk of this evening perusing this wonderful, hilarious site.  I had to share it with all of you.  Very well done, great writing.  I love it.

From 1987: When Pee Wee Herman Marries A Bowl Of Fruit Salad

November 21, 1987

I say with some sadness that I doubt a scene like this would air on television today, particularly in a children's program.  Adults are too uptight; hateful JesusFreaks would call it "a gay agenda."  This does a real disservice to kids everywhere, because kids have a natural sense of absurdist humor, like you saw on Herman's show.

From 1977: Up Your Nose With A Rubber Hose

A history of Crazy.
(I was always a Cracked girl, myself.)

Plaza Sesamo: Lucas Hice Un Sandwich

I've found that watching Plaza Sesamo (that is, Sesame Street in Spanish) is a great way for me to work on learning the language, which I have found really difficult.

And Cookie Monster is funny in any language.  Enjoy.

I love it when he calls the little girl "Muchachita."

Hooray For Michael K.

If you aren't already a regular reader and huge fan of Dlisted, you must start today.

There are several truly hilarious writers on The Information Superhighway, and Michael K. tops my list.

Here he is profiled by Paper Magazine. He's the one without the stylist. (Yeah, you read that right. The other guy had a stylist.)

Thank you, Michael K., for a million laughs (especially recently, when I haven't felt like laughing about much of anything), and for giving me one of the biggest laughs I have ever had, the bit about your cousins droppin' it like it's hot in the parking lot at Del Taco. I am laughing as I type those words.

He's Written A Letter To Daddy...

My good friend Pax's awesome site, Billy Loves Stu
with the greatest tagline ever
"for homos who love horror and the non-homos who love them"

It is my goal in life to get together with Pax for a never-before-seen re-staging of Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?. The best part of the show will be the fistfight between Pax and me over who gets to play Baby Jane Hudson.