EVENING NIGHTCAP: Danglecore Trend. I Gotta Pay $18 FOR WHAT? Kevin Spacey Backpeddles.

 

► I'm not into trends these days. Frankly, most of them suck. In the era I grew up, we had kick ass trends that included big glam rock hair, acid washed jeans, leg warmers, and mullets. When I heard of "danglecore" I thought it was planking's idiotic cousin. I visualized people dangling off  buildings, or highway overpasses, grain silos, or parking ramps. NOPE!  Danglecore refers to people dangling cutesy charms and stuffed animals on their backpacks, purses, jeans, coats, etc. Anywhere you can dangle an overpriced or bedazzled knick knack. The trend got its start with Labubus....which is this decade's Beanie Babies. Even fashion houses and the rich are fawning over danglecore. Fendi is selling $1,000 charm in the shape of bowl of fettuccine; Bottega Veneta a $650 leather kitty; and Gucci a $850 charm.  Read More

Comment: Pfft...motorcyclists and the dive bar leather crowd have been doing danglecore for decades with wallet chains. So have janitors with 80 keys dangling off a key ring. Give me a glue gun, a bag of assorted beads, sequins, rhinestones, bedazzler, and a roomful of cats and watch us create better baubles than any high end fashion house. 
 

Example of danglecore trend. Photo: Victoria Ellis/ Yahoo.com

 

► The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is a gnat's fart away from implementing a $18.00 fee to travelers who want to board a plane and do not have a READ ID. As to what...a fake ID? Americans have had 20 years to get a REAL ID based on a law passed when President George Bush Jr. was in office.Those were simpler times. The current administration is about grifting and authoritarianism. So, it makes sense for the TSA to implement new biometrics and the $18 fee as punishment for people who couldn't be bothered to put down their Slurpee and drag their ass to the DMV and pay $45 for a REAL ID. That was my excuse last year. I renewed my driver's license and thought, "yea, sure I'll get a REAL ID. It can't be that difficulut". Let me tell you, it was not easy. I had to go back twice with a dossier of paperwork that included a current passport, original copy of my birth certificate, SS card, and 2 forms of proof that I was a resident at my home address. JFC, I felt like I was applying for top secret clearance. A spokeschimp for the government said this: Read More

"The TSA is launching a biometric identity verification program at its checkpoints to screen individuals who don't have a Real ID or other suitable alternative form of identification, such as a passport. Alternative ID verification methods are "time and resource intensive," the TSA said in proposing the fee."

Comment: I predict the $18 fee will end up being imposed on everyone. Someone's gotta pay for HBIC of Homeland Security Kristi Noem's private jets, hair extensions, and face fillers. What's next? $25 fee to enter the airport? Another $25 to leave the airport? 

Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security. Photo: Google.com

 

► Last week, actor Kevin Spacey made headlines when he claimed he was homeless and bouncing between hotels and AirBnBs. The public's reaction was, "that ain't being homeless you wanker". Homeless is living on the streets, or in a box, or sleeping in a culvert. After the backlash, Spacey must have looked up the definition of homeless because he's backpedaling at warp speed and blaming the Telegraph Herald for misquoting him. Uh-huh. What's next? Deny the interview never happened? In a video he uploaded on Twitter (X), he did some of his best acting by squirting out this horseshit explanation: Read More

 “But I feel it would be disingenuous of me to allow you to believe that I am indeed homeless in the colloquial sense. In my conversation with Mick Brown, the wonderful journalist who wrote the story that was in The Telegraph where this rumor first began, I said I was basically living in hotels and Airbnbs and going where the work is, just as I did when I first started out in this business,” he continued. "I’ve been working nearly nonstop this entire year, and for that I have so much to be grateful for. And there are many people, as we all know, who are indeed actually living on the streets or in their cars, or in terrible financial situations, and my heart goes out to them,” Spacey added.

Kevin Spacey at the 2025 Venice International Film Festival. Photo: Aldara Zarraoa/Getty Images/The Wrap.com

Comment: First of, it wasn't a rumor. He was quoted by the interviewer. What Kevin wanted was a sympathy party and what he got was a big F.U. by the public. He also wants Hollywood to welcome him back to their good graces. He even mentioned that it's going to take a phone call from Tarantino or Scorsese to make that happen. Ha,ha...good luck with that. They have better things to do. He should have said Woody Allen, Roman Polanski, or Mel Gibson for assholery trifecta.