So we can investigate and convict all the assholes involved—even peripherally—in the January 6th insurrection.
Just Sayin’
Not Bad for Ten Dollars…
As I rebuild my CD collection, I was looking for Ella’s Best of the Love Songs disc, and while on Discogs I stumbled upon this 3-disk box set. It contained not only Best of the Love Songs, but also Best of the Songbooks and Best of the Ballads, both disks I’d also owned previously. Checking prices on the individual disks, it would’ve cost me around ten dollars a piece (including shipping) to replace them, but here was this collection for ten dollars for all three! In the interest of transparency, there were several copies offered by different sellers, all in the same price range, but this was the cheapest one listed as NM (near mint) condition.
This is a nice collection if you like a little Ella now and then, and as I said it can be picked up for just a few dollars. If you want a brand new copy, it’s still available through Amazon for about $35.
On the other hand, If you want all the Ella The Complete Ella Fitzgerald Songbooks 16-disc set, expect to lay out anywhere from $120-$450. (The latter being for a mint, never-opened copy.)
I certainly don’t remember the circumstances of where or when I originally bought a lot of my music, but for some reason Best of the Love Songs stands out. I was meeting friends at Scottsdale Fashion Square back in 1998 to see Billy’s Hollywood Screen Kiss, but I arrived way too early and popped into a record store to kill some time. The disc caught my eye, and at the time just starting to get into classic jazz, I decided to take it home.
In one of those kismet moments that’s forever burned into my memory, when I moved back to San Francisco later that year, I Remember You was playing as I crossed the Bay Bridge back into the City.
The More You Know…
I’d Find It…Hard… To Concentrate
Since I Have Another Review Coming Up…
And frankly, at this point—with 250 or so calendar days to go before I retire—what’s the fucking point? If I don’t meet my goals in a year you’re going to do what? fire me after I’ve been gone six months? leave a derogatory note in my employee file?
Blast From The Past
Always one of my favorites, although I don’t think I never knew his name…
Sunday Sacrilege
366 Days of UNF: May 19th
Thank You, Thank You! I’m Here All Week…
I Apologize In Advance
Do NOT Mess With Jasmine. She Will CUT You.
He Looks Like A Fun Afternoon
Right?!
Because It’s True
Vomiting It All Up
And lastly…
Congratulations, Boys!
DJ Qualls Reveals He’s Engaged to ‘Supernatural’ Costar Ty Olsson: ‘We’re Going to Be Old Men Together’
Supernatural stars DJ Qualls and Ty Olsson are engaged!
The actor, 45, revealed the big news on the May 15 episode of his Locked and Probably Loaded podcast with Kelly Blackheart. During the episode, he shared that he and Olsson clicked after they met and then built a strong bond over the years as their friendship evolved into something more.
“Ty and I became inseparable at the very beginning, just immediately,” Qualls shared. “And over the last 10 years our relationship evolved to what it is today, and now we’re getting married.”
The actor, who played werewolf Garth on the series, also recalled how he first met his fiancé, who played the vampire Benny on the show, at a convention for the popular CW series. He said they “didn’t know each other at all,” adding, “We maybe said three words together at the Supernaturalconvention, and then we went to London for four or five days afterward.”
“And then I was going to Turkey with a friend — and he is such a pure, awesome guy. He came up to us — we all went out as a group — and he was like, ‘Can I come on your trip with you?’ “ the Z Nation actor said.
“And I’m like, ‘That is so ballsy!’ I could never invite myself on somebody’s trip. ‘Cause I’d be afraid they would begrudgingly tell me yes and then not want me there. But it was just so pure and awesome, and that’s who he is,” he continued. “I didn’t know him. And it was the beginning of our friendship.”
Qualls went on to describe Olsson as one of the “most wonderful” people he’s ever met.
“It’s just so crazy that this person who was just my friend, now I think about all the time and he sends the best messages, and he supports me and loves me unconditionally in the right way,” Qualls continued.
The Turning Point actor further pointed out on the podcast that he felt that “unconditional love” comes with the condition that “you treat that person with some respect and their best interests are your best interests,” and that was something Olsson did with him.
“Ty was the first person in my entire life, my entire life that [I] ever had that with,” Qualls said. “I say just a friend. [He is] the best friend I ever had, and now we’re going to be old men together, which is so crazy.”
Following the news, several fans on the show congratulated the couple on social media. One person wrote on X (formerly known as Twitter): “Congratulations DJ Qualls and Ty Olsson what a time we live in.”
In response to the fan comments, Olsson shared on X on Thursday, May 16, “Thank you everyone for all the love and support and kindness today 🙂 sending you all some love and hugs.”
Bwahahahaha!
So good: After taunting the Arizona Attorney General who could not find Wrong Again Rudy to serve papers for the insurrection case there, the Arizona Attorney General served Rudy. At his 80th birthday party. In front of Roger Stone, Steve Bannon, and 75 MAGA guests:
Rudy Giuliani‘s 80th birthday party in Florida was interrupted when the former New York City mayor was served with a notice of indictment in an alleged plot to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Arizona.
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes confirmed on social media that Giuliani was served with a notice of indictment Friday evening.
[…] Giuliani was served shortly after he posted a since-deleted message to social media taunting Arizona authorities.
“If Arizona authorities can’t find me by tomorrow, they: 1. Must dismiss the indictment; 2. They must concede they can’t count votes,” he wrote.
People who live in glass houses shouldn’t invite Roger Stone to their birthday parties.
What’s Your Favorite Color?
Who’s With Me?
Vote BLUE in November.
Someone Give That Man A Medal!
Just Sayin’
Triptych
Orville is just adorable.
And Here I Thought This Was An Out-Of-Drag Outtake from Pit Stop
I Am Cautiously Optimistic
But I’ve been so disappointed so many times by my fellow Americans over the past eight years I’m not betting any money.
Regardless of how much Bidens wins by, you know there will be knuckle-draggers claiming election fraud and planning who-knows-what as retribution. Hopefully this time the government will be properly prepared for January 2025…
Can I Print This Out And Hang It In My Cube At Work?
Exactly
“I Felt A Great Disturbance In The Force, As If Millions Of Gay Bears Suddenly Cried Out In Anguish And Were Suddenly Silenced.”
Supernatural stars DJ Qualls and Ty Olsson are engaged!
The actor, 45, revealed the big news on the May 15 episode of his Locked and Probably Loaded podcast with Kelly Blackheart. During the episode, he shared that he and Olsson clicked after they met and then built a strong bond over the years as their friendship evolved into something more.
“Ty and I became inseparable at the very beginning, just immediately,” Qualls shared. “And over the last 10 years our relationship evolved to what it is today, and now we’re getting married.”
The actor, who played werewolf Garth on the series, also recalled how he first met his fiancé, who played the vampire Benny on the show, at a convention for the popular CW series. He said they “didn’t know each other at all,” adding, “We maybe said three words together at the Supernaturalconvention, and then we went to London for four or five days afterward.”
“And then I was going to Turkey with a friend — and he is such a pure, awesome guy. He came up to us — we all went out as a group — and he was like, ‘Can I come on your trip with you?’ “ the Z Nation actor said.
“And I’m like, ‘That is so ballsy!’ I could never invite myself on somebody’s trip. ‘Cause I’d be afraid they would begrudgingly tell me yes and then not want me there. But it was just so pure and awesome, and that’s who he is,” he continued. “I didn’t know him. And it was the beginning of our friendship.”
Qualls went on to describe Olsson as one of the “most wonderful” people he’s ever met.
“It’s just so crazy that this person who was just my friend, now I think about all the time and he sends the best messages, and he supports me and loves me unconditionally in the right way,” Qualls continued.
The Turning Point actor further pointed out on the podcast that he felt that “unconditional love” comes with the condition that “you treat that person with some respect and their best interests are your best interests,” and that was something Olsson did with him.
“Ty was the first person in my entire life, my entire life that [I] ever had that with,” Qualls said. “I say just a friend. [He is] the best friend I ever had, and now we’re going to be old men together, which is so crazy.”
Following the news, several fans on the show congratulated the couple on social media. One person wrote on X (formerly known as Twitter): “Congratulations DJ Qualls and Ty Olsson what a time we live in.”
In response to the fan comments, Olsson shared on X on Thursday, May 16, “Thank you everyone for all the love and support and kindness today 🙂 sending you all some love and hugs.”
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