My irrepressible and irreplaceable friend Lola Mitchell — aka Gangsta Boo of the trailblazing rap group Three 6 Mafia — would have turned 44 today. But, tragically, Lola died on January 1 in her hometown of Memphis. As I said in my previous blog post, I started writing a tribute to Lola the day I…
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Montreal Memories, Part I
After publishing my last post, I felt weird about it being Fled Cruz that made me want to flee the country this year. I thought for a second, “Oh no, am I as bad as Fled? Running away when the going gets tough?” Then I remembered that I am not a Texan senator who flew…
Oldchella and a Straw Hat Argument
In a debate, a “straw man argument” is a way of misrepresenting (or oversimplifying) your opponent’s position in order to make that position easier to defeat. For instance, in an April article in Foreign Policy magazine, Paul D. Miller wrote that Donald Trump’s “America First” policy is a straw man because it offers “a stinging…
Oldchella Day 3 and Bob Dylan the Nobel Winner
Yesterday, Bob Dylan became the first musician to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. That makes him one of the 11 men — all aged 65 and up — to be honored in the six Nobel categories this year. No women won a Nobel Prize in 2016, for the first time since 2012. (Nobel…
Coachella 2016: My Music Highlights
From the media coverage, you might think that everyone who goes to the Coachella music festival in Indio, Calif., cares more about fashion than music. (Vanessa Friedman of the New York Times — praising the way clothes serve the message in Beyonce’s new visual album Lemonade — writes, “It is the anti-Coachella: the opposite of…
Wanderlust 2014: Scenic Santa Monica, California
MrB and I went to California on Labor Day weekend to visit family and friends. We stayed near the beach in Santa Monica and it was so beautiful, daytime … … and nighttime. The buildings were pink, there wasn’t a cloud in the sky … … and the Champagne sangria was delicious. MrB and I…
What Wendy Wore: Coney Island Adventure
Gorgeous designer Stacy Lomman and I have talked about going back to Coney Island since our last visit in 2010. Yesterday, we finally did it! We spent a couple of hours on the beach. Stacy worked on her tan and I worked on maintaining my pallor. Then we went to the boardwalk so I could…