Greetings, music sloots, and welcome to another edition of Manor Music Monday. Are you good at solving mysteries? Because DJ Li'l Scratch has a nice one today, and maybe you can help solve it. Be forewarned, it's a lot more complicated than his recent mystery, "Where's my stash?" or the one just after, "Seriously, where's my stash?" and the one following, "Im'a cut a bitch unless we find my stash." At any rate, tonight only at the Manor's "It's Pink Inside!" after-hours club and dinette, the DJ will be playing tunes by a mystery lass who really ought to be better known - and celebrated, too.  Who is Lea Roberts? Here's what we know. She was born Leatha Roberta Hicks in Dayton, Ohio in 1946, where her mother led the "Sweet Chariot" gospel choir at Corinthian Baptist Church - and gave Lea her musical start as a wee choir member. Years later, in the early 1960s, she briefly relocated to Detroit, Michigan to...

  Getty   Happy Sunday, y'all! I awoke to the news that Vancouver has evicted crooked little techbro mayor Ken Sim, and my old friend Sean Orr has received more votes than any council member in history! Both very well-deserved. Nothing like starting your day with good news.  In other news, my life is currently nothing but boxes and bags and donations and empty closets and drawers. So for today's Sunday Roast we are featuring the unglamorous but indispensable cardboard box! Where would we be without them? As with so many useful items, it's an American invention, and a comparatively recent one at that, making its first appearance in 1871.  You can read up on the entire history at this unexpectedly fascinating packaging website .

  Please enjoy this autumnal photo of Prince, taken by Herb Ritts in 1991.

Pleasures of the Sea, c. 1960-1970 Richard E. Howard

 You know what to do.  Do it in the comments section. Universal   From "The Bride of Frankenstein", taking a break between takes on the operating table.    

...they say you gotta make lemonade . Well, I don't have any lemons, and I'm all out of taco shells. Sometimes you have to improvise--in this case, by using nacho cheese corn chips to make some truly splendiferous nachos!  What does any of this have to do with that poor, misused '63 Mercury up top? Heck if I know, but hop in and get over here, these nachos are delicious and while we're eating, you can tell us all about  your day--after all, it's Open Post, darlings! Photo Credits: AK

Celebs: they're just like us! They have to drive themselves home after a long day of work! Jessica Lange recently sat on a panel at PaleyFest and shared that she and her fellow actors had to drive themselves home from the set during earlier seasons of FX's American Horror Story . "We would drive ourselves home at like 4 or 5 in the morning, park on some street in the French Quarter, and find our way home," Lange said. She was presumably talking about season 3 of the show, where Lange played a witch alongside Sarah Paulson, who was also on the panel. Paulson laughed when Lange shared he grievance, and Lange went on to say that FX was "too fucking cheap" to provide the stars with cars or drivers at the time. What do you think, Peckers? Is Lange being a little whiney, or do you see her point? On one hand, lord knows FX could have afforded a driver for the stars and it could easily have been budgeted for. On the other, many normies work 12-hour shifts in hospita...

Greetings, music sloots, and welcome to another edition of Music Manor Monday, today served with hair-raising peril and moody, heart-stopping music. By the way, have you noticed how DJ Li'l Scratch only appears in black-and-white? Sorry, there's no work around for this, no matter how colorful the setting you may find him in. As a hard-boiled creature of night and shadow, he will always look as if he's just stepped out of a film-noir crime-drama. Hissss!   I've always had a special place in my chilled heart for film-noir (and for  John Garfield , the ultimate dumb-luck hunk). And yet it's not just the skewed camera angles, concealing shadows, tempting femme fatales or nefarious storylines that have pulled me in. The music adds to the fun, and most of it makes for great listening (even out of context). Take Elmer Bernstein's landmark, daddy-o jazz score for 1955's "Man With The Golden Arm, " which is both rhythmic and menacing, a stunning innovation...

  Getty Enjoying October, possums? Where I live in the city the colours have only just started, but out in the country where I'm staying this week every tree is a riot of warm-toned brilliance, yellow to crimson and a few lime greens thrown in. And just as the fashions traditionally feature these colours (plus purple, for some godforsaken reason, every goddamn Fall), the local fairs traditionally feature a size queeny competition for the largest pumpkin.  Well, this year in Ontario we are all losers, because the biggest pumpkin didn't win because RULES. Honestly, what person with a functioning soul would discriminate against an innocent gourd like that. So it had a "soft spot." So what? Take a close look.   Jeff Warner Jeff Warner If a pumpkin of proper age wants to get its freak on (with an FBI agent, perhaps) who are we, or the judges, to judge?  

  It's called fashion sweaty, look it up! Source: katy perry on instagram

Three-Cornered Hat, 1943 Walt Kuhn

You know what to do. Do eet! Tell us what Ed Sheeran is looking at on his screen.  Zoom

Saw this '55 Thunderbird the other day, and my gosh it was short (it looked almost child-sized)! Lots of great films in 1955, but one of the weirdest was " The Sea Chase ," starring John Wayne (as a WWII German ship's captain who really doesn't like the nazis too much) and that tramp Lana Turner as a sorta nazi spy who eventually turns out to be a swell egg. It's not a great movie (or even a good movie), and neither star bothers attempting a German accent, but inexplicably it was a massive hit. The only reason to watch this ridiculous film is to see Lana (who never looked Lana'er) looking fabulous in Warnercolor, with not a lacquered hair out of place, and wearing a spectacular gown by Moss Mabry , even as the ship's getting shelled and their future's looking grim. So since it's Wednesday, let's all do our level best to be as idiotically glamorous as La Lana in such improbable circumstances. Someone's a jerk to you at the convenience st...

Are you bored of seeing celebrities' panties and nips on the red carpet? Do you want to see a new, never-before-seen part of their body? Well don't worry, Thierry Mugler has got you (un)covered! Mugler unveiled (literally) their Spring/Summer 27 collection and Paris Fashion Week, aptly titled "Naturalia." This is the third instalment in the designer's runway series called "Glorified Clichés." Here is some more of the collection: What do you think of these lewks, Peckers? Anything you'll be snatching up? Credit: The Zoe Report

Greeting music tramps, and welcome to another edition of Manor Music Monday, today with a lovely songstress and a whiff of scandal. Speaking of the latter, DJ Li'l Scratch has had many lives, as you know, and let's just say that he's never been snipped. In other words, if you notice your own puddytat half-closing their eyes and grooving to cool jazz, then they're surely a descendant of the DJ. All cats love jazz, of course, but his progeny really and truly feel that backbeat rhythm. If you believe your cat is a scion of DJ Li'l Scratch, they may be entitled to compensation in the form of extra treats, hugs and gentle patty-butt spanks. So very groovy, right? Speaking of groovy, say hello to Miss Georgia Gibbs: Though she found success and love as an adult, Georgia's life began in tragedy. Her father died when she was six months old, causing her and her siblings to spend nearly a decade at an orphanage where they were visited by their destitute mother only once a...

Getty Happy Sundog, possums! Today we have a tale of Tommy, he of Two Mommys. STAB Rescue Awww, who's a gooboyyyyy? Tommy is! You can see it from his Petfinder profile right cheer . One thing you will notice right away is that Tommy, currently being fostered with two mommys from STAB Rescue , (Facebook here ) is too much dog for any one man.  Or any two men. Or any number of men. And possibly an indeterminate number of bears as well. Tommy, you see, has had bad experiences with men throughout his young life, and needs females as his humans; additionally, he needs two because while he's a gooboy as previously established, he's just too much dog for one single person. And so it said in his listing, quite clearly. Now, how do you get two females? You ask for lesbians, and he did. Possums, the internet lost its freaking MIND! Tommy had to stir from the sofa and take to the keyboard to smack down the BIG FEELS HAVING boychilds of the interwebs.  Tommy the pit bull seeks two moms...

  Yes it is Caturday, but it's also Mean Girls Appreciation Day! For the uninitiated, October 3rd is referenced in the iconic movie when Cady Heron is writing about her crush on Aaron Samuels. She sits behind him in math class and things got really hot and heavy when he asked her what day it was. Smoldering.  Did you love Mean Girls, Peckers? Can you believe it came out 22 years ago?! Credit: Paramount Pictures

Won't You Celebrate With Me, 2022 Z éh Palito

  ABC Well hello there, boys and girls but especially you boys! Autumn is at its height, the leaves, they are a-fallin’, and as the darkness swallows the light, a sniggering laugh whispers on the wind.  Who can it be? Why, it’s everyone’s favourite force of nature and (barely)  closeted druncle, Paul Lynde, with his fabulously exotic entourage! The Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton), Witchipoo (Billie Hayes), and, of course, KISS, were all bit players in a show that was really all Paul.   ABC “Marrying Paul to Halloween seemed like a good idea, because there was something essentially witchy about Paul Lynde.” Bruce Vilanch The Paul Lynde Halloween Special  from 1976 is something I was never allowed to watch as a child for reasons that escaped me at the time, but now that I’m in my crone era there’s nobody to stop me. Shall we watch together?  Wouldn't that just be lovely?   What are you watching this spooky season?

Not a new pic (grabbed from my IG), but I love everything about it.  Meanwhile, it's that time of year when it starts to cool down and the days grow shorter but it's still warm and windy and sunny. There's a tinge of regret for the end of warm weather, but anticipation for the leaves changing colors and the upcoming Holiday seasons . And just to bring it full circle to the Ford Fairlane Skyliner , here's a reaction video of some dude listening to "Since I Don't Have You" by The Skyliners for the first time. Unusually for reaction videos, he lets the whole thing play before giving his thoughts and I love this comment: "This makes me want to go and slow dance with my wife." Whether this makes you want to slow dance with your wife, or your husband, or gambol in nature with your 4-legged friends or just go outside and take a deep breath of clean, fresh air, happy Open Post, darlings! Photo Credits: AK