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  I was reminiscing about the bizarrely hilarious pap photos from right after Dominic West's affair was exposed. Are there any celebrity photos you find yourself thinking about to this day? Photo credit: Richard Simpson You can find our weekly lunocracy post HERE !

Do you sizzle when you burn? Does your bomba go boomba? Of course it does. DJ Li 'l Scratch knows this, and he's only too happy to provide you and yours with tunes to keep the fires burning at "The Smokin' Pole," the Manor's exclusive after-hours lounge. Speaking of all things sizzling and going boomba in the night,  is your figure is svelte as Helen Grayco's? Probably not, but then Helen had lots of competition growing up - being the tenth of eleven children born to her Italian Catholic parents  - plus, she got her very first singing gig when she was just eight-years-old. "She sings like Hollywood!" exclaimed her earliest fan, Bing Crosby, and from there, she was on her way.  She dabbled in movies for a bit, but really hit her stride with singing, collaborating with the starry likes of Stan Kenton, Chuck Cabot, and fellow singer and comic, Spike Jones, whom she'd later marry. And let's be blunt, Helen was a dish. Which meant that every m...

D o you still brunch as much as you used to brunch? During COVID lockdown, many things came to a screeching halt, and once lockdown was lifted, they only half-heartedly resumed, one of them being Sunday brunch. This is only by my estimation, of course, but it's noticeable.  Friends of ours more often than not "don't have time this week" for a myriad of reasons, and when the hubs and I do go out to brunch, with ourselves or with others, we see more empty tables than we used to, and shorter lines at the "hot" restaurant of the moment. This is across all generations. 20 and 30-something friends of ours got out of the habit during COVID and now cite cost as a prime reason not to go any longer. But with the bar scene decimated, where are the youngins supposed to go to get their drink on? And flirt with the guy or gal at a nearby table and maybe get their number? Or leave with them for a little afternoon delight ? In many ways, it's a shame. My generation once...

  Benny Blanco took to TikTok yesterday to share what he did for his fiancée, Selena Gomez. He said that she's not much of a flowers girl so he did the next logical thing and gifted her a bathtub full of queso. Delicious!  Source: TikTok You can find the weekly Lunocracky post here !

Norma Was Always Park Ready by Alison Friend Just look at her. LOOK AT HER! I can't take it! The snacks in the pocket, the tiny paw resting on the tennis ball, the look of contained excitement on her face - I can't stand it! For god's sake, take this being of pure innocence to the park IMMEDIATELY!! Peckerwood's Weekly Lunocracy Post is RIGHT HERE .

Peckerwood's Weekly Lunocracy Post is RIGHT HERE.

Bummed about the state of the world? We all are. But there's a cure. Give yourself at least a few moments a day to go full-out Liza!   I'm serious. Do not let nefarious foes rob you of your own joyful moments, no matter how small they may be. Make sure and Liza today! Do it more than once. No, really. It helps. I promise.  Peckerwood's Weekly Lunocracy Post is RIGHT HERE .

  Poor LaToya Jackson! Eagle-eyed fans recently noticed that the singer's Spotify profile appears to have been hacked, with her bio being updated (see above). I can't imagine anyone having such strong feelings about LaToya but it appears her detractors are alive and well. She's going to have to put on her detective cap and find the culprit! Source: Spotify Peckerwood's Weekly Lunocracy Post is  RIGHT HERE .

Welcome, fellow felines, to Manor Music Monday! There's a bit of a chill in the air, so tonight - at the Manor's exclusive Cooch Cork Lounge - DJ Li'l Scratch will be blasting tunes to warm your spirits. Yes, it's true, he's letting Caterina Valente have free reign.  And goodness, just look at Caterina! All shiny and pink - and with a startling, gleaming yellow background. I swear the illustrator must have been flying on dexies because it's all so bright-bright-bright!  And so unreal, but then maybe that's as it should be, because Caterina, the multitalented, French-born daughter of itinerant Italian circus performers - her mother was a clown; her father played accordion - sounds as if somebody combined one-part Charo, two parts Carmen Miranda, a dollop of Sophia Loren, then pressed puree on a blender. Wheeeeee! How can she be real? But she is. And she's wonderful. Caterina spoke six languages fluently - and sang in them, too, recording hundreds upon hu...

Sundays are fundays, right? And yet sometimes a powder keg explodes.  On October 20th, 1963, Charles Schulz published the strip above in Sunday papers worldwide, creating a now infamous controversy. It's one of my favorite Peanuts strips. But in 1963, it was no joke, since the issue of prayer in school was again rearing its ugly head in America, a perennial battle between the so-called "faithful" and those seeking to maintain the separation of church and State. The strip is very much open to interpretation, deliciously so, and though Schulz was a devoted churchgoer through at least middle-age, he was on record as opposing prayer in schools and acknowledged the importance of respecting different beliefs. Much later in life, he modified his personal faith and described himself as a "secular humanist."  The firestorm generated by the Sunday strip caused Evangelicals to claim it for themselves. Here, they insisted, was an example of the abject terror children endure...

Here's Angelina Jolie last night at the 40th annual Critics' Choice Awards sporting Elie Saab Spring/Summer 2025. Hmmm! Source: Getty Images Peckerwood's Weekly Lunocracy Post is  RIGHT HERE .  

And here I am worried wearing skinny jeans will make me look silly.  Peckerwood's Weekly Lunocracy Post is  RIGHT HERE .

  Peckerwood's Weekly Lunocracy Post is  RIGHT HERE .

Sofie Juel-Andersen's dumpster diving adventure kicked off while she was living in Sydney, Australia. At first, she only took fresh produce from designated bins, but she quickly discovered that she could find so much more!  “My sister sent me a photo of some hidden treasures she had found while dumpster diving. I knew it was a thing, but I never thought of it as a way to keep food on my table,” she said enthusiastically.  One day, she decided to team up with a friend and check out some supermarket bins around Sydney, and she was hooked! They stumbled upon a treasure trove of fresh veggies, and even though the 30-year-old could always afford to buy food, she realized this was a fun and budget-friendly way to stock up her kitchen. “It was always the supermarket dumpsters I visited,” she noted. “I never looked behind restaurants or in private homes since that can be a bit tricky and even illegal in some places.”  “The things I found were just amazing! The dumpsters were pack...

  Hunters gathered in Dortmund, Germany this weekend for the national stag calling championship. They used specially made ox horns, triton snail shells, glass cylinders, and other other instruments to mimic the sound of a red deer in order to lure stags for hunting. The hunters were challenged to recreate three different deer sounds, while the judges listened with their eyes closed. The title went to Fabian Wenzel of Bavaria, who has now won for the fifth year in a row. Congratulations! Source: AP News Peckerwood's Weekly Lunocracy Post is  RIGHT HERE .

It's February, hors, or as DJ Li'l Scratch laments, the shortest damn month to gather up your mortgage or rent. Which means he's taking on extra gigs at the Manor's Tickle Stick Lounge, but, hey, gotta keep that catnip and Alaskan cod coming, amirite? Today, Li'l Scratch presents you with an artist you're likely very familiar with. She has many sobriquets: Madge. Nonnie. Esther. Vadge. Gammy. So many names for a pop star who's determined to stay "relevant." Is she succeeding? For many decades she did, and then - ka-boom! - she ran out of gas, drove off a cliff and exploded in a fiery blaze of meh, whatever and pff with her 2008 release, "Hard Candy," her first album in which, as many critics noted, she followed pop music trends instead of making them, utilizing near-passe hit producers, like Timbaland, The Neptunes, and, of all people, Justin Timberlake, whose careers were already flagging or soon to extinguish. Every song is lazy, prog...

Art Credits: Joey Murphy/Quickies; Ben Chen; John King Peckerwood's Weekly Lunocracy Post is  RIGHT HERE .

It seems people get stupider every day. But maybe that's just because we have social media and are more aware of it? Hard to say. Take Emily James, for example. The 27-year old "influencer" paid $17,000 to remove six of her ribs for the purpose of having a smaller waist. But don't worry, she's going to put those ribs to good use (they were kinda pointless in there anyway, protecting her organs and all). She says she's going to have someone make her a crown out of them! Well you know what they say: empty is the head that wears the crown! Source: Vice News Peckerwood's Weekly Lunocracy Post is  RIGHT HERE .

Peckerwood's Weekly Lunocracy Post is  RIGHT HERE .