OrangeMercury: 9/12/10

DIVA is a 1981 film directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix, adapted from a novel of the same name by Daniel Odier (under the pseudonym Delacorta).

Labels: Diva 1982 movie

The Vault | Friday, December 9
Wilhelminia Wiggins Fernandez
DIVA Hartford CT

Finally! I found my signed poster!

Labels: Diva, Diva 1982 movie

BREAKING! 1966
Joe Haskell Comes Out!!!
Censored Dark Shadows Clip

Joe going out for a night on the town

with the boys?

And he's not going to tell Maggie about "everything?"

Is it me or...

Labels: Dark Shadows 1966 – 1971

DIVA
The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Labels: Diva 1982 movie

GQ's International Man of the Year
Jon Hamm

David Vance | Erotic Images

Place your order here!

Labels: David Vance Miami, David Vance Photographer

Devil

Labels: Devil 2010, M Night Shyamalan

DIVA, meet THE QUEEN.

Labels: Freddie Mercury New Haven CT 1977

Meeting DIVA
Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez

Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez

Labels: Diva 1982 movie

Sacha Baron Cohen = Freddie Mercury

GAY BLOOD IS RED!
Repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell!

Labels: Don't Ask Don't Tell

Too good to pass up...
Best Media Quote, 2009
Anderson Cooper & TeaBaggers

"It’s hard to talk

when you’re teabagging."

- Anderson Cooper on CNN

Labels: Anderson Cooper 360º, tea-bagging

Talking Heads

Labels: CNN, Eliot Spitzer

Born this day in 1890
Agatha Christie, author
And Then There Were None...or
Ten Little Indians
Originally known as...

Unknown to many, but a popular book in most grammar schools' reading classes, the Agatha Christie detective story itself has a storied past. Herein, the cover of the first edition, released in 1939. Sadly, ironically, or just plain ol' WTF?, this particular edition is now worth about $110 USD.

It should be said that the term "nigger" was in common use at the time, both as a slur and a generic term. Don't believe me? Check out all 189 covers of the book, and see which title was used most often:

• Ten Little Niggers

• Ten Little Indians

• And Then There Were None

(the version I read)

Ten little Soldier boys went out to dine;
One choked his little self and then there were nine.

Nine little Soldier boys sat up very late;
One overslept himself and then there were eight.

Eight little Soldier boys traveling in Devon;
One said he'd stay there and then there were seven.

Seven little Soldier boys chopping up sticks;
One chopped himself in halves and then there were six.

Six little Soldier boys playing with a hive;
A bumblebee stung one and then there were five.

Five little Soldier boys going in for law;
One got in Chancery and then there were four.

Four little Soldier boys going out to sea;
A red herring swallowed one and then there were three.

Three little Soldier boys walking in the zoo;
A big bear hugged one and then there were two.

Two Little Soldier boys sitting in the sun;
One got frizzled up and then there was one.

One little Soldier boy left all alone;
He went out and hanged himself and then there were none.