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Sunday Morning Opera: Gerald Finley

February 3, 2019February 2, 2019 Art, Barihunks, Baritones, CULTURE, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA

Cheesy Christmas Movies

December 8, 2018December 7, 2018 Art, Classic Hollywood, Classic TV, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, MAIN PAGE

Originally published on December 21, 2014 During the month I basically stayed with my mother, with only 2 days of relief, she spent much

Historical Veracity and Liberal Versions of Christ

December 4, 2018December 3, 2018 Art, Christian History, CULTURE, FAITH, Faith, HISTORY, Roman

NOTE: I am dealing with personal business this week. Because I have no idea what I will be doing, or a timeline, I’m doing

St. Crispin’s Day

October 25, 2018October 25, 2018 Art, Classic Hollywood, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, England, Historial Ignorance, HISTORY, MAIN PAGE

If we follow the letter of the speech, then I must honor St. Crispin’s Day. One of my Clements ancestors was knighted on the

Hang On to Your Old Wicker

August 6, 2018August 5, 2018 Art, CULTURE, PERSONAL

I was going to wax poetic about the new anti-conservative censorship and racism that the left is using to basically doing what they can

To Boldly Go: STEM, the Arts & Wells Fargo, Inc.

July 18, 2018July 17, 2018 Art, Barack Obama, Classic Hollywood, Classic TV, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, ECONOMY, Historial Ignorance, MAIN PAGE, Music, Obama Administration, OPERA, Science Fiction, Star Trek

First published on September 6, 2016. FYI: My internet service has been down all day. In the mid-1960s, the late Doug Chaffee, a very

June 18, 1815: The Day the World Changed

June 27, 2018June 25, 2018 American, Art, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, England, Geology, Historial Ignorance, HISTORY, MAIN PAGE, Music, SCIENCE, Science Fiction, Technology, Vulcanology

First published on June 18, 2015, the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo “…”In the course of the evening the duke asked my

Why Trekkies Should Love Lucy

June 15, 2018June 14, 2018 20th Century US, Art, Classic Hollywood, Classic TV, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, Historial Ignorance, HISTORY, Music, Science Fiction, Star Trek 2

First published on September 7, 2016 I’ve been saying that the first woman to grace American currency should Lucille Ball, who became the first

Excusing the Barbarians

May 24, 2018May 20, 2018 Abuse, Art, Bigotry, Classic Hollywood, CRIME, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, FAITH, Historial Ignorance, HISTORY, ISLAM & WAR ON TERROR, MAIN PAGE, Racism

First published on January 15, 2016. NOTE: I consider myself to be a fairly well educated expert on the history of fashion in the

Women Composers: Part I: Women of the 16th Century

April 28, 2018April 27, 2018 Art, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, Historial Ignorance, HISTORY, MAIN PAGE, Music, OPERA

Gaspara Stampa (1523–1554) is considered to have been the greatest woman poet of the Italian Renaissance, and she is regarded by many as the

Are Good Manners Racist?

April 26, 2018April 25, 2018 Art, Bigotry, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, Historial Ignorance, Racism

First published on May 12, 2015. I’ll probably be accused of racism for what I’m about to say. Accusations of racism are now so

Why Do Liberals Need to Dye Christ Black?

April 16, 2018April 15, 2018 Ancient, Art, Christian History, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, FAITH, Historial Ignorance, HISTORY, MAIN PAGE, Racism, Revisionism

One of my favorite topics is trying to locate the earliest known images of Christ. One of the fascinating trends, which is now reflected

Girl Power

January 30, 2018January 29, 2018 Art, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, Historial Ignorance, MAIN PAGE

For nearly a year I’ve been spending way too much time on Twitter with a group of people who have absolutely nothing in common

PART II: Why Biblical Context Matters

December 15, 2017November 27, 2017 Ancient, Art, Christian History, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, FAITH, Faith, Historial Ignorance, HISTORY, Religious Cults

This was first published on April 16, 2015 This is what we have to work with. Note that I am only using ‘classical’ Western

PART I: Why Biblical Context Matters

December 14, 2017May 17, 2018 Ancient, Art, Christian History, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, Episcopal Church, FAITH, Historial Ignorance, HISTORY, MAIN PAGE, Religious Cults

First published on April 15, 2015. People much wiser than am I have said that you can use the Bible to prove anything. You

The Far Right’s Manly, Sexy Jesus of Nazareth

December 13, 2017November 26, 2017 Ancient, Art, Christian History, Christian Patriarchy Movement, Christian Reconstructionism, Classic Hollywood, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, FAITH, Far Righ Loons, HISTORY, Idiot Conservatives, MAIN PAGE, PERSONAL, Religious Cults, Roman

First published on March 7, 2014 Jerry Boykin’s homo-erotic musings about Jesus of Nazareth include what sort of gun he would use. Of course,

The Need to Strip Elizabeth I of Her Gender

December 9, 2017November 26, 2017 Art, Christian Patriarchy Movement, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, England, Historial Ignorance, HISTORY, MAIN PAGE, Victoriana, Vulcanology

First published on January 18, 2015. I am fascinated by the history of fashion. What people wear and wore is more than couture, it

Part I: Jerry Boykin’s Homo-Erotic Tribute to Manly Men

December 7, 2017November 26, 2017 Ancient, Art, Ayn Rand, Christian History, Classic Hollywood, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, ECONOMY, England, FAITH, Far Righ Loons, Historial Ignorance, HISTORY, Idiot Conservatives, MAIN PAGE, Roman

First published on November 21, 2013. Nothing annoys me more than historical ignorance being spouted as fact, lapped up by an equally ignorant audience.

Christ Was Black, or a Palestinian & Other Revisionist Lies

December 2, 2017November 26, 2017 Ancient, Archaeology, Art, Bigotry, Biology, Christian History, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, DEMOCRAT, FAITH, Faith, Historial Ignorance, HISTORY, MAIN PAGE, POLITICAL, Racism, Revisionism, SCIENCE

First published on April 12,2017 I consider myself a historian. As such, perhaps the entities I loath the most are revisionists. I detest people

Christ Was Black, or a Palestinian & Other Revisionist Lies

October 10, 2017October 8, 2017 Ancient, Art, Bigotry, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, DEMOCRAT, FAITH, Faith, Historial Ignorance, HISTORY, Racism, Religious Cults

First published on April 12, 2017. I consider myself a historian. As such, perhaps the entities I loath the most are revisionists. I detest

Science for Snowflakes

September 13, 2017September 13, 2017 Art, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, Historial Ignorance, HISTORY, MAIN PAGE, Music, SCIENCE

“…At least science is helping us make progress, right? Science is sold to us as an almost holy, objective pursuit: a pure endeavor, a

The Great Pedophile Witch Hunt

August 4, 2017August 4, 2017 Art, Boz Tchividjian, Classic TV, CRIME, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, Fighting Pedophiles, HISTORY, MAIN PAGE, Pedophiles, Science Fiction, Star Trek, Star Wars

Anyone who knows me knows my backstory. When I was in the third grade I was molested by the principal of the elementary school

The Glory of Creation

June 29, 2017June 27, 2017 Anthropology, Archaeology, Art, Astronomy, Biology, Catholic, Christian History, Classic TV, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, Egyptology, Evolution, FAITH, Far Righ Loons, Geology, Historial Ignorance, HISTORY, MAIN PAGE, Medical, Meteorology, Paleontology, Planetary, Psychology, Quantum Physics, SCIENCE, Science Fiction, Seismology, Sociology, SPACE, Vulcanology

Pink Flamingo ‘rerun’ week continues… This is from March 18, 2014. Did you know that the dastardly, ungodly Big Bang Theory was developed by

Stuff, Part II

February 13, 2017February 13, 2017 Art, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, Historial Ignorance, HISTORY, MAIN PAGE, PERSONAL

Let’s be honest here. The last thing any Boomer wants is to get stuck with our grandmother’s tacky French Provencal furniture. You know the

Sunday Morning Opera: Celebrating the Greatest – Ever

January 9, 2017January 11, 2017 Art, Barihunks, Baritones, Beverly Sills, Classic Hollywood, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Hank Aaron, Historial Ignorance, HISTORY, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, PERSONAL, Sherrill Milnes

Beginning at midnight on January 10, I’ll be tweeting 24 hours of music honoring the greatest baritone there ever was. There is a classic

Hillary, Performance Art, and Satanism

November 5, 2016November 5, 2016 2016, Art, Catholic, Christian History, Clinton, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, FAITH, Historial Ignorance, MAIN PAGE, Trump

Performance art is performance art. It is designed to be edgy, outrageous, and bazaar, primarily because the so-called performance artist is not actually an

Revisionists Attacking Good King Hal

October 25, 2016October 24, 2016 Art, Classic Hollywood, CULTURE, England, Genealogy, Revisionism

Revisionist historians are at the top of the list of things that frosts The Pink Flamingo’s cookies, even more so than Democrats.

The Pink Flamingo owes King Hal and St. Crispin an apology. I forgot. St. Crispin’s Day is October 25. I blew it.

I always try to remember St. Crispin’s Day because I had an Clements ancestor (I share with Sam, Mannen, Jep, and Wes Hardin) who was knighted that day, by Henry, for saving his life!

The usual Henry Haters are at it again. Anne Curry, who has made a career out of damning Henry V, says the French did not have all that many troops, and the lopsided battle was all a lie.

Fortunately, cooler heads prevail.

The Trump Generation

October 13, 2016October 12, 2016 2016, Art, Clinton, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, Historial Ignorance, James Bond, Music, Trump

While I was gagging while listening to yet another revelation of allegations of groping, something dawned on me. Donald Trump is at the beginning

Remember the Incroyables?

September 14, 2016September 13, 2016 2016, American, American Revolution, Art, Barack Obama, Bigotry, Clinton, CRIME, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, DEMOCRAT, England, Historial Ignorance, HISTORY, ISLAM & WAR ON TERROR, MAIN PAGE, Music, Obama Administration, POLITICAL, Racism, Republicans, Revisionism, Trump

Do you remember the Incorybles and the Merveilleuses? Of course not, unless you are a student of the French Revolution, Regency and Imperial fashion,

My Over-Indulgent Star Trek 50

September 9, 2016September 8, 2016 Art, Classic Hollywood, Classic TV, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, Historial Ignorance, MAIN PAGE, NASA, NASA History, Science Fiction, SPACE, Star Trek

James Tiberius Kirk (the original) See #2 below – Faith of the Heart – every dream of the future Being able to grow up