Congratulations to the winners of yesterday's Caption This contest!

  Justin Hayward - English musician and singer-songwriter - 79 Rowan Blanchard - American actress and activist - 24 Lourdes Leon - American singer-songwriter and actress - 29 Jared Goff - American professional football player - 31 Mia Wasikowska - Australian actress - 36 MacKenzie Mauzy - American actress - 37 Christine Quinn - American actress - 37 Max Thieriot - American actor - 37 Pia Toscano - American singer - 37 Jay Pharoah - American stand-up comedian and actor - 38 Skyler Shaye - American actress - 39 Ben Whishaw - English actor - 45 Stacy Keibler - American actress and retired professional wrestler - 46 Usher - American singer-songwriter and dancer - 47 Natalie Maines - American singer-songwriter - 51 Jon Seda - American actor - 55 Steve Coogan - English comedian, actor and screenwriter - 60 Karyn White - American singer - 60 Lori Petty - American actress, director and screenwriter - 62 Isaac Mizrahi - American fashion designer, actor, singer and tv presenter - 64 T...

The hour was indecent again—the kind that makes the world sound hollow. Same lobby, same hum. I’d promised myself I’d never meet him twice, but ghosts don’t honor boundaries; they find a crack in your resolve and call it a doorway. Roy Cohn was already sitting there. No announcement, no chill, just presence. He looked freshly dead, which was impressive after forty years. “Don’t act surprised,” he said. “You people keep invoking me. Every time someone shouts down a fact or sneers at empathy, I get the call.” He smiled the way a courtroom smiles after a conviction. “I told you,” he said, “I don’t haunt places. I haunt behavior.” Cohn and Joseph McCarthy He began as a prodigy of menace. At twenty-three, Cohn helped prosecute Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for espionage. Evidence was thin, but spectacle was thick, and he made sure the execution went forward. Two dead parents were résumé material in 1950s Washington. The Justice Department noticed his appetite for intimidation, and Senator Jose...

"Xest sx̣lx̣alt," music hors, or "Good day" in the highly-endangered Salishan Indigenous American language. After all, it's Indigenous People Day in the U.S. (Columbus who? We don't know her). Confused? Curious? If it makes you horny, don't worry, you're a hussy and you're in the right place.  Welcome to another edition of Manor Music Monday, today with a lass who popularized the swooning, bluesy, "Lover Come Back To Me" in 1938, though it was her versions of "Georgia On My Mind" and "Rockin' Chair" that really made her famous. DJ Li'l Scratch and I just love her to bits, and tonight at the Manor's "Pink And Sloppy" bar and taco dinette, he'll be spinning her tunes for all to savor.  So rejoice jazz fans  - and Indigenous Americans, too! Mildred Bailey, a jazz chanteuse extraordinaire who was known as "The Queen Of Swing" in her day, is here at last. Born in northwestern Idaho on...

  Paul Simon - American singer-songwriter - 84 Caleb McLaughlin - American actor - 24 Jimin - South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer - 30 Noah Crawford - American actor and singer - 31 Lumidee - American singer-songwriter and rapper - 41 Courtney Lopez - American actress, singer, dancer - 43 Ian Thorpe - Australian retired swimmer - 43 Kele Okereke - English singer-songwriter and musician - 44 Ashanti - American singer-songwriter and actress - 45 Paul Pierce - American former professional basketball player - 48 Kiele Sanchez - American actress - 48 Billy Bush - American radio and tv host - 54 Sacha Baron Cohen - English comedian, actor, writer and producer - 54 Serena Altschul - American broadcast journalist - 55 Paul Potts - English tenor - 55 Rhett Akins - American singer-songwriter - 56 Nancy Kerrigan - American former figure skater - 56 Tisha Campbell - American actress and singer - 57 Kate Walsh - American actress - 58 Matt Walsh - American comedian and actor - 61 J...

I came across this looking for something to post for PAPS, and this made me ugly cry. I miss my Octavian. He was the guardian of the children and took his job seriously. I miss those soulful eyes and soft fur. His sidekick German Shepherd, whom we love too, looked for his big brother for a while. He has his own GS ways. He is watchful, has the breed traits, but he is bonded most to my son, who is still home. He sleeps with him and is happiest when he's around. We love them so hard don't we? Letting them go is never easy. 

  It began in the fields when the year was dying. The Celts called it Samhain—a night when the border between worlds turned porous as breath. Fires burned on the hills; the living disguised themselves to fool the dead, who wandered freely, homesick for warmth. Cattle were slaughtered, hearths were blessed, and every shadow felt personal. It was the year folding itself shut. Centuries later, the Church pressed its seal upon the fire. All Hallows’ Eve, they called it, the eve of saints and souls. But the fire would not behave. It danced in doorways and behind church glass, wild as memory. The saints stayed in their windows; the ghosts stayed in the streets. Years passed, and the night put on different masks. Lanterns carved from turnips. Apples bobbing in water. Faces painted white. It crossed oceans, found new soil, learned new songs. The fields became suburbs. The bonfires became doorbells. The disguises, more flattering. But the impulse—the small, lovely terror of being seen and n...

  Rick Parfitt - English musician, member of Status Quo - (1948-2016) Iris Apatow - American actress - 23 Josh Hutcherson - American actor - 33 Calum Scott - English singer-songwriter - 37 Tyler Blackburn - American actor, singer and model - 39 Katie Piper - English writer, activist, tv presenter and model - 42 Tom Guiry - American actor - 44 Marko Jaric - Serbian former professional basketball player - 47 Bode Miller - American former alpine ski racer - 48 Marion Jones - American former track-and-field athlete - 50 Joseph Kahn - South Korean-American film and music video director - 53 Kirk Cameron - American actor, and birthday parties’ desolate - 55 Martie Maguire - American musician, founding member of The Chicks - 56 Hugh Jackman - Australian actor - 57 Bob Schneider - American musician, former lead vocals of Ugly Americans - 60 Carlos Bernard - American actor and director - 63 Chris Botti - American trumpeter and composer - 63 Deborah Foreman - American photographer and act...

 

 

  Taylor Momsen, who Michael K once described as "the hardest bitch of the playground," originally rose to fame for her role as Cindy Lou Who in 2000's How The Grinch Stole Christmas starring Jim Carrey. She later acted in Gossip Girl while kicking off her career as the lead singer of the band The Pretty Reckless since 2009. Well it seems Momsen wants to return to her festive roots this year by releasing a Christmas album. The singer posted on her socials about the band's EP that will be releasing on October 31st. Talk about a Nightmare Before Christmas, amirite?!  Source: Blabbermouth