Obsev, the same guys who brought you “Grandmas Try Fireball Whisky For the First Time” are back with the same grandmas and an even funnier video…”Grandmas Explain Millennial Terms.”
The grandmas take their best guesses about what millennial slang terms mean. Would your grandmother know?
via Obsev
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Transformation Tuesdays just got a whole lot QTer…New queers featured every week! Tag us, take a pic of us and follow us on Instagram at QWERRRKOUT, and you too could be the next QT! YOU BETTA QWERRRK!
Age: 22
Location: Pueblo, Colorado
About: “There’s no right or wrong way to do your art. If it makes you happy, then you’re already doing it right.”
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The first Neighbors film from 2014 gave us some of the most important Zac Efron fratboy moments in recent history. And in case you haven’t been paying attention, the hilarious trailer for Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising dropped today and features some very memorable scenes of shirtless fratboy Zacky as well. It’s going to be a good year!
Check it out (plus some GIFs):
And in case you forgot about the original Neighbors where fratboy Zac made his debut, here’s a refresher:
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Want to piss off your neighbors? Get some inspiration from these Roma mansions that line the streets of Buzescu, Romania. These homes belong to the Kalderash (coppersmiths), who built a fortune by trading metal across Eastern Europe after the collapse of Communism. Ugly, beautiful – whatever you call it, I’m obsessed.
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“What’s that? I should kill everyone and escape? Sorry. It’s the voices. I’m kidding! That’s not what they really said.” Are y’all ready for Suicide Squad? ‘Cause we sure are. If this trailer doesn’t have you leaping for joy and hitting replay over and over after 30 seconds, you might need to check your pulse. We don’t wanna spoil the vid for you, so just watch this delicious first look at some of our favorite DC villains doing what they do best: wreaking havoc in the most delightful way possible. Ugh, August seems so very far away… Can anyone make time move faster!?
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Steven Corfe
Bill Maher
Buzz Aldrin
David Lynch
Edwin McCain
Evan Peters
Gary Barlow
James Denton
John Michael Montgomery
Lorenzo Lamas
Melissa Rivers
Paul Stanley
Questlove
Rainn Wilson
Skeet Ulrich
Stacey Dash
Will Young
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January 29, 1920– Federico Fellini is one of the few directors with his name as part of the title of his films (apologies to Lee Daniels). Fellini Satyricon, Fellini Roma, Fellini’s Casanova. In the history of cinema, has there been a series of films that are so intimately identified with the man who directed them?
My own fandom came from a sordid little incident in the early 1970s, when I caught Fellini Satyricon (1969), an epic of decadence and the wanderings of a gay youth in ancient Rome’s disintegrating society, at a revival house in the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston while tripping on LSD. It fried my poor little teenage brain. But, seeing that film sent me on a trip of my own, a journey that led me to love Italian filmmakers, especially this master.
Fellini is a fine example of an artist capable of transforming himself into a work of art, a man who turn his own personality into a film. I grew to adore his films and also Fellini himself, and his world circuses and comic strips and cardinals and carnivals.
Fellini even appeared as an actor in some of his films: I Clowns (1970) and Roma (1972) come to mind. But, mostly he used an alter-ego, most famously Marcello Mastroianni in La Dolce Vita (1959), 8 1/2 (1963), La Citta Delle Donne (1980), and Ginger & Fred (1986).
Fellini was born in Rimini, on Italy’s northern Adriatic coast, into a middle-class family. As a child he was fascinated by circuses and music halls which were part in the summer fare of his resort city. As he one of the most autobiographical of filmmakers, almost every aspect of his childhood became the passions and preoccupation of his films’ themes. The lovely Amarcord (1974) is an especially loving look at of his boyhood daydreams in and around Rimini.
When he was 18 years old, he moved to Florence to work as a cartoonist for a comic book publisher, an experience that he would use as inspiration for the delightful comedy Lo Sceicco Bianco (1952). He was soon to leave for bigger things in Rome, where during WW2, he found work with a music-hall comedian, Aldo Fabrizi, serving as a costume and scenery designer, personal secretary and actor. This experience provided the background material for Fellini’s very first feature, Luci Del Varieta (1950). He also opened a small shop where he produced little drawings, portraits and caricatures for American GIs.
In 1943, he met Giulietta Masina, one of greatest influences. They married and she served as his muse, playing Gelsomina in La Strada (1954) a Fellini cartoon brought heartbreaking to life. Masina worked for her husband regularly throughout his career, playing a prostitute in Le Notti Di Cabiria (1956), a bored housewife in the gorgeous Giulietta Degli Spiriti (1965), and as an older but still spry Ginger in Ginger & Fred (1986).
His other muse was with composer Nino Rota, who would write the score of every single Fellini film from the moment they met in 1952 until his passing in 1979. Rota’s death was a personal and professional tragedy for the Fellini. Rota’s witty music, with its delicious rhythms and swooning melodic lines is as Felliniesque as the director himself.
Fellini’s most famous film, the one that defines his work for Americans, is probably La Dolce Vita (1960), an lengthy, ambitious satire of contemporary Roman High Society, condemned by both by the Vatican and the Italian government, it became a world-wide success, a film fan phenomenon. Its title even entered the English language. Fellini’s work avoided linear narrative; his screenplays are rambling and episodic. But 8 1/2 (1963) did away with storytelling coherence completely, with fact and fantasy blending into delightful tale of a film director who is trying to pull together the pieces of his life and make sense of them.
Fellini’s later work has always divided film fans. Fellini said that to limit one’s admiration to his early films was simply an example of “arrested development”. He was one of the 20th century’s great inventors of forms, and had more ideas than he knew what to do with. Fellini films are filled with masks, masquerades, carnivals, startling faces, chaotic situations, rococo and baroque images, the outlandish prisms through which he viewed his life.
He was nominated for 14 Oscars and 4 Fellini films won Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Picture. He received an honorary Oscar in recognition of his lifetime achievements as a director and screenwriter in 1993.
Fellini’s influence is far reaching. You can see his inspiration in the films of Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen especially, but also in the movies of David Lynch, Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, Bob Fosse and Wes Anderson. My own sex-toy drawer in the bedside table has been labeled “Felliniesque”.
Fellini’s final credits rolled in 1994, a day after his 50th wedding anniversary. His memorial at Cinecittà Studios outside of Rome was attended by more than 80,000 people, fans and colleagues.
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Donald Trump and imbecile Sarah Palin are on the front page of the New York Daily News today. Brilliant! And don’t miss Trey‘s post about Sarah’s #WordSalad speech. He has the entire speech where she announces her endorsement of Donald Trump transcribed.
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These people are the fastest at what they do, bar none! They’ve got it all figured out. Hell, they’ve probably been doing the same repetitious thing for years and years. I was just sure someone was going to lose an appendage during this video. I wonder why I these people are never working at the fast food restaurants I go to.
Posted by Khawar Malik on Sunday, January 10, 2016
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TV chef Ľubomír Herko was caught cutting up a line of suspicious white powder during a live morning broadcast on Slovakian television this morning. HA!
From The Guardian:
Ľubomír Herko was preparing something in his studio kitchen when the action unexpectedly cut to him during Slovakian TV show Telerano on Tuesday morning.
A spokesman for TV channel Markiza, which airs Telerano, warned “there would be consequences” as a result of the “totally inappropriate joke”.
Cameras showed 36-year-old Herko cutting up a line of unknown powder using a credit card, with a rolled-up bank note lying close by.
When he notices he’s being filmed, he stops what he’s doing and gives the camera guy a sweaty, wide-eyed, shit-eating “who me?” look.
Watch below.
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NSFW! NSFW! OH HELL YEEEEEESSSSS! Everyone’s favorite poetry-reading porn star Colby Keller goes full-frontal for Dame Viv’s S/S 2016 ad campaign – “Mirror the World” – shot by legendary photographer Jurgen Telle “in and around the alleys & canals, shipyards and palazzos of Venice” and meant to highlight “the beauty & decay of the city and the urgent need to save it.” Go Viv!
“Vivienne Westwood is not only a fashion hero of mine,” Keller tells NewNowNext, “she’s a passionate advocate for the environment. We all need to focus our attention on the problem of climate change, especially when our political culture fails to address the catastrophe coming.”
Check out the pics of Colby NUDE, in high-heeled boots, and a rather fetching net frock.
See the uncensored version click here.
Other cute pics from the campaign…
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Punk band Bleached releases first video for single “Keep On Keepin’ On” off their highly anticipated sophomore album Welcome The Worms from Dead Oceans. WATCH BELOW (and get your whole entire life) and then we’ll discuss:
This fan’s comments singularly describes how we are all feeling at this moment:
Directed by the mega-talented Lana Kim, sister duo Jen and Jess Clavin with Micayla Grace and Bosh Rothman make up this dreamy, melodic Southern Californian punk band. And from the sounds (and looks!) of this KOKO video, there’s much in store for their new LP for your ears (and your hearts).
What’s next for fans?! – besides scooping up Welcome the Worms on April 1, 2016 – why, seeing them on tour of course! Click HERE to see if their coming to a city (or country) near you this coming Spring.
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10 reasons to follow Anatoly Goncharov on Instagram. There are plenty more!
1. He promotes Vitamin D.
2. He appreciates a nice sofa.
3. He can weather the cold. 
4. He has talents in the kitchen.
5. He seems affectionate.
6. He is musically inclined.
8. He is on his way to reaching his goals.
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January 21, 1905– Christian Dior
FADE IN:
EXT. RED CARPET, KODAK THEATRE – DAY
RYAN SEACREST & MOVIE STAR on a pedestal with microphone
SEACREST
“Who are you wearing?”
STAR
“Vintage Dior Couture. I’m the main attraction.”
What is with the tortured, tragic lives of the great fashion designers?
Christian Dior was one of the most influential fashion designers of the 20th century. He was born in Normandy, the heir to a French fertilizer fortune. As a child, Dior loved to draw and he was able to sell his sketches for a few coins. In his early 20s, Dior’s father financed a small Paris art gallery for his talented son.
Starting as a sketch artist, Dior worked his way up to a designer in The House Of Piguet. He left to serve in the French Army, but after WW2, Dior established his own fashion house with the backing of his lover, a very wealthy textile magnate. Within 12 years he expanded his business to 15 countries and employed over 2,000 people.
Dior is known mostly for the look which employed narrow shoulders, a constricted waist, an emphasized bust, and a long, wide skirt, all in striking contrast to the severity of wartime fashions. His designs represented consistent classic elegance. Dior’s “The New Look” revolutionized women’s clothing and reestablished Paris as the center of the fashion world after WW2. Dior spread his fashions around the world when he and his partner, Jacques Rouet, started franchises in the fashion industry. In 1953, Yves Saint-Laurent became Dior’s assistant and was destined to be his successor but was reluctantly forced to leave when the time came for his own military service, if you can imagine such a thing.
Dior introduced its first collection called “Ligne Corolle” with ultra-feminine dresses, inspired by the French fashion of the late 19th century. Elegance and charm have distinguished his creations. He experimented with new silhouettes and new lengths, using sophisticated and luxurious materials. The Dior woman had rounded shoulders, long flared skirts 8 inches from the ground, wide, flat hats, the famous corset, long gloves and high heels.
It was in direct contrast with Coco Chanel’s style, which in that era had allowed the woman to enjoy stylistic freedom. Instead, Dior gave a romantic, elegant, feminine model for women. Clothes were works of art, built and structured in every detail that only in the mid-1950s saw lighter, more comfortable, simpler lines. Dior was the first to associate the style of accessories to the lines of clothing, selling bags, shoes, scents and cosmetics.
His favorite places to sketch were in the bath tub or bed. Dior became the first designer to be featured on a 1957 cover of Time Magazine proving he was true fashion royalty. Hollywood embraced Dior’s designs and the world’s most elegant and fashionable women chose his designs: the Duchess Of Windsor, Rita Hayworth, and Ava Gardner. Dior designed Marlene Dietrich’s entire wardrobe for Stage Fright (1950) directed by Alfred Hitchcock (who never wore Dior).
Towards the end of his life, Dior’s had a hectic round of special injections to wake up in the morning, injections for his appetite, and more injections to sleep. His niece, who was his favorite relative, openly blamed Dior’s Jewish manager who procured his medications, along with Dior’s collection of hot young men, of being part of a Jewish plot forcing him towards his death. Dior found himself at odds with his family as his wealth grew and he eventually disinherited the entire bunch.
“Finally, everything that has been part of my life, whether I wanted it to or not, has expressed itself in my dresses.”
Bisexual, with many lovers of both sexes, Dior’s last companion was Jacques Benita, a young Algerian singer, who he met in 1956 and who, from that time, had to be included in everything on Dior’s social calendar. After the Fall 1957 Collection, Dior was desperate for a rest & decided to take Benita to Tuscany, despite the warnings of his astrologer, who was very much against the vacation. Dior was so infatuated with Benita that he decided to diet to try to become more attractive, even though Benita said this really was not necessary. Dior was a drug addict who was taken from this world by an overdose while enjoying a special sexual liaison. He was just 52 years old.
At the time of his passing, Dior salons had been opened in 24 countries. The House Of Dior, led by designers Yves Saint Laurent, then Marc Bohan, continued to be a fashion leader and is now associated with a much wider range of merchandise: men’s wear, household linens, and fragrances.
Dior was a classic designer and he was a star. His life was filled with parties, exquisite things, pretty boys, illegal substances… all the things that famous people eat, feel, and own.
“I came from the people
They need to adore me
So Christian Dior me from my head to my toes
I need to be dazzling
I want to be Rainbow High
They must have excitement
and so must I”
Evita (1978)
Tim Rice, lyrics
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Bia Labate, the noted Brazilian anthropologist living in Mexico, who is known for her studies in psychoactive substances, drug policy, shamanism, ritual, and religion, has written an interesting article for Huffington Post about the effects of ayahuasca on veterans suffering from PTSD. Ayahuasca, of course, is the trippy drink made from a South American vine that is both psychologically cathartic and mind-blowingly life-changing (it’s also the one Chelsea Handler is planning to drink on her new Netflix series.)
Bia wondered: “Did they regret having killed people? Did they think they were doing the right thing by going to war? Could ayahuasca really help them? Would their presence in the ceremony influence my own experience? Would they perhaps display aggressive feelings, as ayahuasca was traditionally used in warfare among indigenous people in the Amazon? Could they actually be re-traumatized by their visions?”
She was completely caught off guard by her experience. Says Bia:
One of them cried and screamed the whole session. He rocked back and forth, like a child. He also whispered, and talked to himself. He made guttural and profound sounds for hours, which were kind of disturbing. These sounds seemed to come from another world.
After the first ceremony, he shared with me some war stories, his panic while in the field, having to shoot, and seeing ahead only women and children, smoke, fire, buildings falling down, chaos. He told my friend a vision that constantly haunted him: a frozen black burnt body with the arms outstretched, like a statue.
The next day, we all took the brew again. I was processing my own stuff. There was a moment that I felt an urge to purge, and went to the toilet. While vomiting, I saw a horrible war scene, perfectly clear and visual. I had the feeling I was vomiting for him. This is something that can happen in ayahuasca; its part of the “tradition” so to speak. Of course, one can argue that what I saw was informed by what he told me, the movies or the media; or, that I was just in a suggestive state. However, I sincerely felt I was relieving some of his pain.
However, she explains that it was a joy to hear the vets’ stories, and left the retreat feeling positive that ayahuasca can definitely help war veterans! Read the entire article here.
Bia has worked on many books on the subject of ayahuasca with WOWlebrity (and WOWL superfan) Clancy Cavnar including:
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Check out the spotlight video for Sarahh Rush. She’s one of the content creators in the WOWPresents Network. Subscribe to Sarahh’s YouTube channel!
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TBT – Joan Rivers in a bouffant on Ed Sullivan circa 1967. The hair is dated but funny stays relevant.
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Balthazar Getty
Beverly Mitchell
Christopher Masterson
Diane Lane
DJ Jazzy Jeff
Gabriel Macht
Guy Fieri
Jim Jarmusch
John Hurt
Larry Birkhead
Linda Blair
Olivia d’Abo
Piper Laurie
Seymour Cassel
Steve Perry
Steven Adler
Willa Ford
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January 22, 1561– Sir Francis Bacon:
“Silence is the virtue of fools.”
Have you ever checked out the amazing Michael Curtiz directed The Private Lives Of Elizabeth And Essex (1939) starring Bette Davis as Queen Elizabeth I, Errol Flynn as Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, Vincent Price as Sir Walter Raleigh, Olivia De Havilland as Penelope Gray, Nanette Fabray as Margaret Radcliffe, and Donald Crisp as Sir Francis Bacon?
It has been suggested that Sir Francis Bacon was the secret son of Queen Elizabeth I & her lover Robert Dudley. He has also often been identified as the “real” William Shakespeare.
Bacon was an English philosopher, statesman and essayist, but he is best known for leading the scientific revolution with his new “observation and experimentation” theory which is the way science has been conducted ever since.
Bacon also loved the theatre and he became a playwright when he was just 16 years, when his play History Of Errors, which is not about my own life, I hadn’t been born yet, was presented to the Queen and her royal court. After 3 years in France and then law school, Bacon became a politician and Member of Parliament.
He was immensely popular in intellectual circles and succeeded in creating a special underground society of writers, social reformers, and religious leaders who brought in the English Renaissance and helpe strengthen the Protestant Reformation movement. The small group worked in top secrecy against Spain and Britain’s own blood thirsty Catholic Bishops, ever anxious to help Spain conquer England. However, Spain’s great, world famous Armada of ships were defeated in stormy weather when they attacked England.
According to the film, Bacon was instructed to keep his royal birthright a secret and Queen Elizabeth I continued to call herself the “Virgin Queen”, which was a very popular image to the masses, and in the craziest of coincidences, my screen-name on Grindr. Due to his advancing diplomatic positions, Bacon was forced to conceal his great achievement as a terrific playwright.
In his era, Bacon was the most popular politician in England. He rapidly ascended to fame under the gay King James I. He was knighted in 1603, and named Lord High Chancellor in 1618, the highest public post next to the throne itself. Bacon was undoubtedly a man of uncommon abilities. But the swiftness of his rise was probably influenced by his personal relationship with King James I, who shared the same tastes in men.
In an effort to help educate the masses, with 95% of the population being illiterate, Bacon was busy producing entertaining plays based upon ethics and good morals, but he was also writing plays anonymously, which portrayed the abuse of power by the Kings & Queens of the country.
In 1606, impoverished Bacon married Alice Barnham, the daughter of a wealthy London nobleman. Nothing is known of their married life together. They had no children. In his will he disinherited her. There is substantial evidence that Bacon’s emotional interests lay elsewhere. Bacon’s fellow member of Parliament, Sir Simonds D’Ewes, in his memoir and letters writes of Bacon:
“Yet would he not relinquish the practice of his most horrible & secret sinne of sodomie, keeping still one Godrick, a verie effeminate faced youth, to bee his catamite & bedfellow.”
Bacon’s mother, Lady Ann Bacon, expressed clear exasperation with what she believed was her son’s gay behavior. In a letter to her other son Anthony Bacon (also gay), she complains of another of Francis’s buddies: “That bloody Percy, he kept yea as a coach companion and a bed companion”. The interior of a traveling coach was one of the few places 2 guys could find privacy. Bacon showed a strong penchant for young Welsh serving men. One of them, Francis Edney, received the enormous sum of over 200 pounds in Bacon’s final will. Another was her servant Tobie Matthew, widely known in gay circles for his charm, his gym body and good looks. He had appeared in one of Bacon’s plays at Gray’s Inn in 1595, and he quickly became Bacon’s BFF. Matthew had previously served as a spy on the Continent. The gossip magazines observed that Matthew, while living with Bacon, had: “Grown very gay or rather gaudy in his attire, and noted for certain night walks to the Spanish Ambassador.” Matthew was the inspiration for Bacon’s most famous essay, Of Friendship.
Bacon had a vision for a Utopian New World in North America, where there would be equal rights for women, the abolition of slavery, elimination of debtors’ prisons, separation of church and state, an embrace of Disco music, plus freedom of religious and political expression. Bacon played a major role in creating the British colonies in America, especially in Virginia, the Carolinas, & Newfoundland. Thomas Jefferson wrote:
“Bacon, I consider him as one of the greatest men that have ever lived, without any exception, and as having laid the foundation of those superstructures which have been raised in the Physical & Moral sciences.”
Bacon was one the first writers in the English language to use the term “masculine love” and he rhapsodized about the beauty of men. He also insisted that the important thing is to “Be so true to thyself as thou be not false to others,” a platitude that Shakespeare (who may have been Bacon himself) modified in Hamlet as: “To thine own self be true: thou canst not then be false to any man.”
In 1626, after traveling throughout the known world, Bacon moved back home to London. He continued his scientific research, and he was inspired by the idea of possibly using snow to preserve meat. He purchased a chicken to carry out this experiment. While stuffing the chicken with snow, he contracted a fatal case of pneumonia. He passed over to the other side in April of 1626. It is said that the chicken still haunts Pond Square in London.
Note: Francis Bacon shares a name with another rather famous gay British dude, 20th century artist Frances Bacon.
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Ann Wedgeworth