I've got my new Chevy Corvair fully stocked with Fresca on ice, Nabisco Vanilla Wafers and my famous ambrosia salad in a Tupperware! Oh shoot, I gotta turn up the radio, that new song by Del Shannon just came on! So let's hit the open road, possibly drive to the beach to have a torch-lit luau this evening, or maybe stop for a picnic in the country under a weeping willow. Heck, we can go wherever we want! And wherever we decide to go, we can laugh and chat and talk about whatever we feel like, just like it's Open Post or something!

  Source: reddit This has been making the rounds on reddit/tiktok for, well, obvious reasons. Did you ever have wild hair? Perhaps a bright colour? A mohawk? A skullet?!

Greetings music sloots, and welcome to another edition of Manor Music Monday! Can you hear birds whistling tuneful songs? Or little animals singing cheerful ditties in three-part harmony? If so, then you are psychotic and should really speak to a doctor about your visual and aural hallucinations. I kid, I kid, because we all see and hear singing birds and animals, right? Right? Anyway-I-swear-I'm-not-on-Thorazine, the songstress we're celebrating today is both famous and not famous. And sang with animals.  Confused? You won't be if you swing by "Rumpy-Pumpy Wowza-Powza," the Manor's newest after-hours club and sausage-sizzle eatery, where DJ Li'l Scratch will be playing this gal's sweet-as-syrup and twice-as-nice LP that just might make you feel all kinds of gentle and good. "It was another time," as they say, and gentle and good was allowed. Look! Singer Ilene Woods was so pretty she just popped to life. "Wait," you ask. "Ilen...

  Credit: Santiago Felipe Here's Björk all dressed up to celebrate Echolalia, a one-day Icelandic festival celebrating the solar eclipse on August 12. The 60-year old sported a balloon dress designed by Robert Wun for his Fall 2026 collection. Glass of wine in hand, the singer performed an hour-long DJ set that kept 7,000 people dancing during the exact moment of the solar eclipse. How incredible does that sound! What do you think of this look, Peckers? Would you wear this to brunch?

Berdie with Straw Hat, 1956 Larry Rivers

 

I saw this car quite a while back, driving up the hill from the beach and I remember thinking, "That's not really an old car, it's a fake old car," and I guess I was right. Apparently it was a 1983 Zimmer Golden Spirit Limited Edition. In 1983 there was a ton of great books, tv shows and movies, including the monster hit "Flashdance" ... ...which starred the luminous Ms. Jennifer Beals and had a killer soundtrack, including this smash hit by the divine Ms. Irene Cara (I love the video because you can see how much she loved singing and dancing). La Cara, you were magnificent: She was Solid Gold, as are all of you, so let's all have a Solid Gold afternoon. After all, it's Open Post, darlings! Photo Credit: AK

  Credit: Wattie Cheung Suri Cruise Noelle is making her onstage debut! The 20-year old daughter of Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise has just started her run in Midsummer!  an adaptation of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream . Noelle plays Helena, Mustardseed, Flute and Thisbe in the student production, which runs from August 6th-19th at the Edinburgh fringe festival.  She's certainly a chip off the old block! Congratulations!

Greetings music sloots, and welcome to another edition of Manor Music Monday, Hotsy-Totsy Late Summer Edition! It's that time of year when we all need to be sitting on our porch or by the pool, preferably with a nice cool mint julep , and definitely with some cool jazz playing at just the right volume; not too loud, not too soft, but just noisy enough to wrap around you like a balmy breeze.  If you're up later, you really should slink over to the Manor's "Pump it Down!" after-hours lounge and dinette, because DJ Li'l Scratch will be playing some fine summer jazz by a swoon-worthy, yet forgotten, jazz bird, Claire Austin. Not much is known about her, or at least not that I could find out. A busy nightclub singer on the West Coast from the 1930s to the early 1950s, Claire cut only a few LPs, then - poof! - all but vanished from public consciousness. What makes Claire still interesting and her music worth listening to are all those giants of West Coast jazz that...

Do you remember your first Japanese crush? Was it an early manga, perhaps Jason or (edgier) Mark from GForce ? I remember mine.  Who could forget him? Berkley Publishing Group And he wasn't even Japanese. He was Filipino actor Mark Dacascos , who dominated the Iron Chef theatre in North America, as a dramatic, sensual, and invigorating host. For a man whose whole job is to pull a blanket off mostly vegetables, he's managed to make it a pretty sexy gig.  Mixed Asian Media The myth of the American show is that it's a relative of the Japanese OG. The chairman announces the start of each battle with: "So now America, with an open heart and empty stomach, I say unto you in the words of my uncle : 'Allez cuisine!'" And allez they do, although really the money shot has been spent, Yeah, you know what I'm talking about. The Big Reveal is key, and frankly, all the rest is fallout. But occasionally there's an upset worth hanging on for.  Instead of fortune t...

Credit: Getty Here's Geena Davis at the The Wrong Girls premiere this Thursday in Los Angeles. The 70(!)-year old actor plays the partner of Kate McKinnon's Dr. Olsen, who created an experimental telepathic drug the main characters of the movie discover. But nevermind all that. The REAL star of this show is Davis's amazing fish purse. Why does she have it? Where did it come from? Does it sing, like those bass plaques we all bought our dads in the 90s? It looks perfectly at home in Geena's arms. She looks amazing! Sources: InStyle, NEON Rated

Greetings, peckerocinis! There are more times than I'm willing to admit that I have partaken in the activity of drawing celebrities (poorly) while under the influence of the devil's nectar. So here's one I did over the winter! Anyhor, can you guess who it is? Answer: It's Gwen Stefani!

  Tamale smothered in Italian marinara sauce, American style (aka ketchup).  An explosion for the taste buds!  

This one looks kind of odd to me. I saw it a while back about a block from my workplace and it's an earlier vintage than I usually see. The finish seems strangely matte (to me, a Caddy needs to be souped-up, glossy and gleaming), but still, it's pretty sweet (if rather bulbous).  In 1938, some of the top films were "Jezebel" (starring the astoundingly talented Bette Davis ), the Alfred Hitchcock masterpiece "The Lady Vanishes," Norma Shearer in "Marie Antionette" and one of the truly most enjoyable films in history, "The Adventures Of Robin Hood" starring Errol Flynn. And the legendary Ella Fitzgerald had a #1 song that year with "A-Tisket, A-Tasket:" So come on, let's hop in that big boat of a car and hang out at a glamorous nightclub. After all, it's 1938 and it's Open Post, darlings! Photo Credit: AK

TheImageDirect Here are Heated Rivalry stars Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams being papped while walking downtown Toronto. Rumour has it they're preparing to film the second season of their hit show. It's not hard to tell that the two are on a walk to the gym...those biceps and quads speak for themselves! That's it, that's the post. I see hot men, I post hot men!

Greetings, music sloots, and welcome to another edition of Manor Music Monday, today with a cool breeze from more innocent times. How innocent? Let's just say that tonight at the Manor's "Booty Bang" lounge and dinette, the singer DJ Li'l Scratch will be playing, who first hit it big in the 1950s, is the epitome of sweetness and light. If you're looking for lewd innuendo or dirty-minded growls (You: "Always," Me: Same, bitch"), then you won't find them here - and I mean that in a good way. Especially now, in the brutal heat of summer, we could use some breezy, carefree, and yes, innocent, music, don't you think? Me, too?  And truly, there's no one more breezy and carefree than Joanie Sommers. Wheeee! Peppy Joanie had a varied career from the 1950s through the early 80s, going back and forth from jazz to standards, and with the advent of rock 'n' roll, pop-rock tunes. All the while, she was appearing at top-flight night clubs ...

Doctor Younan Nowzaradan, aka Dr Now, is the cold-blooded and seen-it-all central figure of My 600 Pound Life and the 6000 Pound Diaries . He and his blinged-out stethoscope have heard all the excuses, and the key to his appeal is the fact that he's seen all of it and is over 99% of it.  As befits a global legend, he grew up in an exciting time in an exciting nation, ie 70's Iran , and then moved to the US. He specialized in bariatric surgery, doing gastric sleeve and gastric bypass operations just as obesity exploded across the USA.  At some point his son Jonathan recognized that not only was there a market for bariatric surgery, there was a market to WATCH it as well, and thus a dynasty was born. This son created a media company which filmed his father from a single special program, which attracted enough attention that it evolved into multiple different series. My 600 Pound Life begat the 6000 Pound Diaries (a vlog-based version). And it spawned imitators: we have 1000 Po...

  Credit: Warner Bros. Remember 2023? When everything was pink? Well prepare your retinas for a likely sequel to the Barbie movie, as it's being rumoured that the talent from the first movie are in negotiations for one right now. According to the New York Times, Warner Bros. are scrambling to secure a deal with Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling and Greta Gerwig. If they don't get something together by December, the rights will revert to Mattel. The talks have allegedly been going on for months and they have yet to finalize something.  No word yet on whether Oppenheimer will also have a sequel, so we can have Barbehnheimer 2: Nuclear Boogaloo ! Will you be checking out Barbie 2 if and when it comes out, Peckers? Or was the first one....Kenough? I'll see myself out. Sources: NME, NYT

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