David Knopfler - British musician and singer-songwriter, original member of Dire Straits - 73 Timothée Chalamet - American and French actor - 30 Olivia Cooke - English actress - 32 Chloe Bridges - American actress - 34 Shay Mooney - American singer-songwriter - 34 Hayley Williams - American singer-songwriter - 37 Lily Cole - British model, author, film director, actress and entrepreneur - 38 Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce - Jamaican track and field sprinter - 39 Pleasure P - American singer-songwriter - 41 Emilie de Ravin - Australian-American actress - 44 Jay Ellis - American actor - 44 Javine - English retired singer-songwriter - 44 Masi Oka - Japanese actor, producer and digital effects artist - 51 Wilson Cruz - American actor - 52 Savannah Guthrie - Australian born American broadcast journalist and attorney - 54 Bill Goldberg - American professional wrestler, actor and former football player - 59 Eva LaRue - American actress and model - 59 Salman Khan - Indian actor, film produ...

Greetings, Manor Hors! Today "The Roving Pecker" presents two boxed gifts for Boxing Day from our own Raincoaster. Dare you open them? Bwahahahahaha! Who is it? Smee. But the question is: is that good news or not? A jolly country house Christmas party. All the food, all the comforts, all the jollity of the season due the prosperous English gentry. A happy bachelor guest, excited for a grand holiday. A posh game of hide-and-seek. “Every player is given a sheet of paper. All the sheets except one are blank. On the last sheet of paper is written...Smee. Nobody knows who Smee is except Smee himself – or herself. You turn out the lights, and Smee goes quietly out of the room and hides. After a time the others go off to search for Smee – but of course they don’t know who they are looking for. When one player meets another he challenges him by saying, Smee. “The other player answers, Smee, and they continue searching. “But the real Smee doesn’t answer when someone challenges. The se...

Hola, hors! This guy, like some lucky people, has ALL the talent. While I can't draw a straight line to save my life, my man is out here on the street whipping up masterpieces - USING A PUPPET! Oy, save some talent for the rest of us, will ya 😭

  James Mercer - American singer-songwriter and musician, founder of The Shins - 55 Jade Thirlwall - English singer-songwriter - 33 Eden Sher - American actress - 34 Weston Cage - American actor, recording artist, music producer and mixed martial artist - 35 Kit Harington - English actor - 39 Beth Behrs - American actress - 40 Natalie Nunn - American reality tv personality - 41 Alexander Wang - American fashion designer - 42 Chris Daughtry - American singer, musician and actor - 46 Tiffany Brissette - American nurse and former child actress - 51 Reichen Lehmkuhl - American lawyer, businessman - 52 Jared Leto - American actor and musician - 54 Bill Lawrence - American tv producer and screenwriter - 57 Lars Ulrich - Danish musician and drummer of Metallica - 62 Temuera Morrison - New-Zealander actor - 65 Tina Wesson - American actress - 65 David Sedaris - American humorist and comedian - 69 Ozzie Smith - American former professional baseball player - 71 Candy Crowley - America...

  Have a safe and happy holiday!               

  Darren Wharton - British singer-songwriter, lead singer of Dare - 63 Hailie Jade - American musical artist - 30 Juno Birch - English drag queen and sculptor - 32 Emma Slater - English-American professional dancer and choreographer - 37 Perdita Weeks - Welsh actress - 40 Jessica Origliasso - Australian singer-songwriter and producer - 41 Lisa Origliasso - Australian singer-songwriter - 41 Jeremy Strong - American actor - 47 Armin van Buuren - Dutch DJ and record producer - 49 Rob Mariano - American tv personality - 50 Dido - English singer-songwriter - 54 Helena Christensen - Danish model and photographer - 57 Alannah Myles - Canadian singer-songwriter - 67 Annie Lennox - Scottish singer-songwriter and philanthropist - 71 CCH Pounder - Guyanese-born-American actress - 73 Sissy Spacek - American actress, set dresser and singer - 76 Barbara Mandrell - American retired singer and musician - 77 Twink Caplan - American actress, comedian and producer - 78 Rickey Henderson - American ...

      In keeping with the shit storm of 2025, our Christmas eve theme is: Trash. Since most of humanity hasn't done even the bare minimum to spread kindness, compassion, and dignity towards others, Santa is giving everyone a lump of coal as he hops on his EV sled with 12 reindeers that are unionizing.  On behalf of PW Manor, thank you for another great year. Your support makes our little corner of the internet a fun place to hang out. H appy H olidays !     ► Sami Sheen (21), the nepo spawn of Denise Richards and Charlie Sheen who is showing her kibble & bits on Only Fans, is telling the world how life-illiterate she is when it comes to being a responsible adult. She went on Tacky Tic Tik Tok to tell her legion of followers (horny old men with a fetish for plastic blow up dolls) that she has no clue about basic things responsible adults do. She admitted she doesn't pay her bills on time because, "it's no fun", has no clue how to pay taxes, has no ide...

Greetings, Manor Hors! Periodically, "The Roving Pecker" presents urgent missives from filthy esteemed guest writers. Today's entry is from Raincoaster! If there's one thing we know about Jerome K. Jerome , it's that his parents were people of remarkably little imagination. That said, it's a flaw their son did not share. One of the most famous and popular humourists of his time, Jerome K. Jerome had a talent that hasn't become stale with age, unlike many of his peers. For that reason, today we're posting his explanation of why, exactly, ghost stories are traditional at this time of year.  It's the old pagan idea,  evolved over centuries,  that the powers of evil grew stronger with the darkness; with Christianity, it's the idea of evil becoming more powerful until the birth of Jesus, who beat them all back, leaving them to flee until Halloween. But there, I'm getting ahead of my betters. Let's learn from the very best - and the funniest ...

6 years ago, I wrote : So I just returned from a matinee of "Cats," and I have a few thoughts. When the surly teenager manning the ticket booth said "Which movie?" I said "'Cats,' naturally!" He kind of sneered as he pushed the ticket through, saying "Don't get crushed by the mob." I've a good mind to call his manager! When I went into the cineplex I was the ONLY PERSON THERE. (I'm not kidding; I'm thinking everyone just assumed it was sold out and figured it was useless to even try to get tickets). I've never seen the play but I had a vague idea what it was about (cats singing or something), so I was prepared to be wowed by Andrew Lloyd Webber's magnum opus, but honestly...I found it lacking in the dramatic department. There's not a great plot. The majority of the film is introductions to kitty characters vying to be reincarnated (or something). And let's not even TALK about the tap-dancing cockroaches! A...

  Diane Tell - Canadian musician, singer-songwriter - 66 Louis Tomlinson - English singer-songwriter and producer - 34 Austin Stowell - American actor - 41 Robert Schwartzman - American director, screenwriter, actor and musician - 43 Michael Raymond-James - American actor - 48 Stephanie Ruhle - American journalist and tv personality - 50 Ryan Seacrest - American media personality, game show host and producer - 51 Stephenie Meyer - American novelist and film producer - 52 Ricky Martin - American singer-songwriter - 54 Amaury Nolasco - Puerto Rican actor and producer - 55 Will Oldham - American singer-songwriter and actor - 55 Diedrich Bader - American actor and comedian - 59 Mark Valley - American actor - 61 Mary Ramsey of 10,000 Maniacs - American singer and violinist - 62 Lee Daniels - American producer, director and screenwriter - 66 Ian Burden - English musician - 68 Anil Kapoor - Indian actor and producer - 69 Peter te Bos - Dutch graphic designer - 75 Kate Spade - Am...

► One of my favorite entertainers/singers, Barry Manilow (82) has been diagnosed with lung cancer.  During a routine physical exam, his doctor ordered an MRI as a precaution. It came back showing a cancerous spot on his lung. Barry said, “The doctors do not believe it was spread and I’m taking tests to confirm their diagnosis. So, that’s it. No chemo. No radiation. Just chicken soup and I Love Lucy reruns.” Barry is canceling tour dates in January to allow himself time to recuperate.  Read More Barry Manilow in concert, July 2025. Photo: Mat Hayward via Getty Images/Huffington Post Comment: Barry is so talented. A good piano player, singer, songwriter, and entertainer. He started his career writing commercial jingles. He hit his career stride in the 1970s - 1980's with one hit song and album after another. He has so many songs that I love. I never get tired of hearing them.  One of my favorites is "Weekend in New England". Wishing Barry a speedy recovery and good he...

Greetings, Manor Hors! Periodically, "The Roving Pecker" presents urgent missives from filthy esteemed guest writers. Today's blood-cirdling entry is from Raincoaster! You won't thank me for this one. If Tarnhelm was creepy, this seasonal story is next-level terrifying. Ready your night light; you'll need it. A jarring mashup of an anticipated jolly holiday for a joyful young man, and a terrifying, yet morally understandable haunting by the most horrific of criminals, this tale shows the true mastery of the short story form by Anglo-Canadian author Algernon Blackwood . He wrote several seasonal stories, and his catalogue is rich, even if he never was. Blackwood had the kind of resume to which modern writers can only aspire: dairy farmer, theosophical society founder, yellow press reporter, proto-pulp author who skillfully wove indigenous legends into contemporary fiction, whether the setting were the French marshes (The Willows) or the northern Canadian woodland...

  Greetings, Manor Hors! Periodically, "The Roving Pecker" presents urgent missives from filthy esteemed guest writers. Today's seasonal entry is from Glamour Doll! I unabashedly love it when local radio stations start playing Christmas music in November. I even have a Christmas playlist I start playing while cooking for Thanksgiving. Recently, I was groovin' in my car to the Christmas station when "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" by Martina McBride came on, I immediately - Grinchly - frowned and changed the station to protect my sanity. See, I despise that song because it's dreadfully slow and boring. I grew up watching "Meet Me in St. Louis", where the song was debuted by Judy Garland herself. And yes, literally every time I watched that movie, I fast-forwarded through that song (remember doing that?). I have never heard a rendition of it I can tolerate. Judy's is about 2.5 minutes, Martina's drags on for over 4 minutes. Who ...

  Happy Christmas Eve Eve, Peckers! Here's a piece by Louis Wain from 1910. Those cats know how to get down! You could say they're some real party animals.