The Wheel and Axle

Just because it’s been a busy week for me (and damn, it’s not even halfway through), I’m just going to leave a couple of music videos for your pleasure.

First up is one from Culture Club’s concert in Manila last Saturday night. I’ll review the event soon (spoiler alert: it was awesome!), but for now, enjoy this great song which they themselves aren’t fond of but which I love. Also, it’s still pretty relevant for the times.

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Peter Vincent: How did you get in here?

Charley Brewster: Well security is a little lax since everybody got their throat torn out.

– Fright Night (2011)

RIP, Ensign Chekov.

Anton Yelchin

11 March 1989 – 19 June 2016

Oh, my God, Bamboo. Marry me!

Video from the official Facebook page of The Voice of the Philippines.

Le Famille.

Father’s Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, “This is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.”

– Michael Gurian

Happy Father’s Day to all the fathers out there!

Meanwhile, here’s a 2012 tribute that I made for the fathers in my own life.

Yes, because Bonaparte would actually celebrate Waterloo.

… was apparently the Battle of Waterloo, where the Brits and Prussians handed Napoleon his ass. This also led to an unfortunate new meaning for the name of the village near where it all happened.

It was apparently timely, then, that I coincidentally also wrote about ABBA yesterday.

In honor of this historical event, I present to you this special commemorative song that no one else but ABBA can really do justice to.

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Yetta: Read me my horoscope.
Fran: Oh, OK. Ah, “Scorpio. Tomorrow, you will awaken…”
Yetta: [excitedly] Whoo-hoo!

– The Nanny, Season 5 Episode 9

Bubbe Yetta has passed away.

She will always be one of the best and most hilarious grandmas on TV other than the Golden Girls.

Have a good sleep, Yetta. You may no longer awaken tomorrow, but you deserve the well-earned rest.

Don’t smoke too much in heaven.

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I am of the belief that everyone is either an ABBA fan… or a closet ABBA fan.

Come on, admit it, you love them.

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Just as I wrote recently, certain sectors have begun (and continue) to ignore the inherent hate crime slash homophobic nature of last weekend’s horrific Orland massacre. These people have chosen instead to insist that this attack was purely terroristic, motivated by religious extremism, and that choosing to target an entire club full of queers was completely and totally random and not at all deliberate.

Hey, keep that homophobia checked in, why don’t you? And instead, let’s intensify your chosen hate du jour, which in this case would be Islamophobia and xenophobia.

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… but Sophia more so.

Photos: http://attitude.co.uk

… and not just mere statistics.

So many lives lost, and we will remember them all.

Our hearts go to the families, friends, and loved ones that they left behind.

And because of their inspiration and sacrifice:

We will not be silenced by fear.

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