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The Tune We Need for Today: “Let’s Face the Music and Dance” with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers

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One of the saddest, most haunting songs of the 20th century. Written in 1936 by Irving Berlin for the film Follow the Fleet, it features Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in one of cinema’s most celebrated dances. The lyrics gives me goosebumps every time I listen to them. It’s the 1930s. The world is teetering on the brink of war. Shit’s about to get bad. Real bad. Nobody yet knows about the atrocities of Hitler’s concentration camps, his “Final Solution,” and the millions of deaths that are just around the corner, but there’s a feeling of dread in the air. Astaire is a sailor on leave, about to be shipped off to battle, when he meets up with Rogers. He sings:

There may be trouble ahead
But while there’s music and moonlight and love and romance
Let’s face the music and dance

Before the fiddlers have fled
Before they ask us to pay the bill and while we still have the chance
Let’s face the music and dance

Soon we’ll be without the moon, humming a different tune and then
There may be teardrops to shed
So while there’s moonlight and music and love and romance
Let’s face the music and dance

It’s coming. The bad times are coming. But before they do, let’s just enjoy one last moment of happiness.

From Wikipedia:

The dance is filmed in one continuous shot lasting two minutes and fifty seconds. During the first take, Ginger’s dress, which was heavily weighted so as to achieve a controlled swirling action, hit Astaire in the face midway through the routine, though the effect is barely discernible. He nonetheless selected this take out of twenty overall for the final picture. The set – designed by Carroll Clark under the direction of Van Nest Polglase – is frequently cited as a leading example of Art Deco-influenced art direction known as Hollywood Moderne.

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One of the Only Good Things to Come Out of Last Night: Anti-LGBTQ Gov. Pat McCrory of North Carolina LOSES

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North Carolina’s villainous Governor Pat McCrory – the man behind the detestable “Bathroom bill” that threatened to bring down his state’s economy–  has been given the boot.

Via the National LGBTQ Task Force Action Fund:

The likely defeat of Governor Pat McCrory sends a clear message: the people of North Carolina don’t like anti-LGBTQ extremism. It shows that the electorate sees HB2 as a multi-million-dollar political blunder that puts the economy and the welcoming reputation of North Carolina on the line. It also says that it’s time to repeal HB2 and to replace it with a comprehensive state wide non-discrimination law. Over the past year, the National LGBTQ Task Force has put staff and resources towards organizing People of Faith. On Election Day the Task Force brought 16 staff to Charlotte, NC to engage voters in our #FaithfulVoters project. On election day we collected more than 1,000 responses to our surveys of People of Faith on LGBTQ protections, racial profiling, and reproductive justice issues. Our work has confirmed much of what we already knew: People of Faith overwhelmingly support justice and liberation for all people,” said Rev. Rodney McKenzie, Director of the Academy for Leadership and Action, National LGBTQ Task Force Action Fund.

(via BoyCulture)

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Watch: Queer Artist Richard Kennedy Chooses Love in “Temple” feat. Charlton Diaz

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NYC-based artist/singer/songwriter Richard Kennedy has just put out a visual for intoxicating track Temple, off new EP Open Wound in a Pool of Sharks. Kennedy joins freestyle body mover Charlton Diaz (also featured in MSTRKRFT’s Runaway) in a sensual modern dance and embrace that will bring tears to your eyes. His debut mini-album focuses on  the heartbreak and trauma of unrequited love, and the fragmented emotional landscape that comes in its wake. Open Wound in a Pool of Sharks is available now at Sweat Equity on Bandcamp!

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Bob The Drag Queen Is Hopeful Trump Won’t Act On Hateful Rhetoric

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RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 8 winner and vocal activist, Bob the Drag Queen, spoke with Billboard about his thoughts post-Election and whether Trump is all talk and no walk or not. It’s both hopeful and uplifting, two things we could use a little more of right now.

Check it out:

How are you feeling?

We lost the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives, but maybe on the plus side, those Republicans on the other side are actual politicians — not crazy people. We didn’t vote in 1,000 Donald Trumps; we just voted in one. No one was expecting Trump to actually pull this off. Twice in my lifetime now there’s been a presidential candidate who received more votes and still lost the presidency. And that’s a hard pill to swallow looking at the way our democracy is shaped. You can receive less votes and still be the president of the United States of America. And it’s staggering by how many votes. They’re projecting it to be about 200,000 votes [in between the total count]. That’s like three Madonna concerts and one Beyonce concert full of people.

Why do you think Trump attracted so many people with his message?

In the last three elections, the voting count has gone down, and this was less than last time. But he did get a lot of people who didn’t vote before. It’s all fear-mongering. If you can convince people that all of our problems are foreign and not domestic, and the domestic problems are coming from higher-ups… Which by the way, most of our terrorism comes from within the United States by an overwhelming number, they just don’t slap the name terrorism on it when it happens here in America. But when someone is a Muslim, they slap that on it. Or that most of our methamphetamines are produced right here in the good ole United States of America — but they like to think that Mexico is the reason we have so many drugs in America. Or the idea that the problem with America is drugs. Or that black people, or as he calls us, “the inner cities,” don’t have education and that we shoot people walking down the street. You say the same thing over and over again, and whether it’s true, you keep saying it, people just believe it after a while.

For those scared by that, what do you think can be done?

Everyone is like, “I’m leaving.” First of all, I think Americans think it’s easy — but that’s not how immigration works. Also while Canada is physically a large country, most of its civilization is 20-30 miles north of the border. Canada has a tenth of the population America has. They couldn’t even support another 10 million who showed up — that would be adding a fourth of people to their own population, which is around 34 million.

And it’s running from the problem.

Right, you’re planning to leave behind everyone you were ready to fight for? Americans should try their best to hold him to his word [during his acceptance speech] that he’s going to try to unify our country. By the way, that’s the first time he’s ever said something like that. All he’s ever said was “I’m going to lock up Hillary Clinton, I’m gonna sue states for voter fraud, sue every woman who says I molested her, sue everyone, they’ll owe me money and I’ll be king of the land.” And the really scary thing is, I think, he thinks he tells the truth. During his speech last night someone in the audience yelled out “Kill Obama” and the little boy next to him, his eyes widened really big for one second. It’s a really jarring moment.

He did hold up an LGBT flag at a recent rally, something no other Republican presidential candidate has done.

I genuinely don’t think Donald Trump has real religious leanings. He’s wearing it. He was wearing the Republican garb to get the Republican vote. If you look at his ideals and life and his actions, he doesn’t lead an evangelical or conservative or Republican life. He leads the life of a liberal loudmouth with a lot of money. I didn’t believe Barack Obama the first time he said he didn’t believe in gay marriage, just like I don’t believe Donald Trump believes that. Candidates can’t be honest. Bernie was that candidate but America wasn’t ready for it. Americans weren’t ready for someone who thinks marijuana might be good for the country, someone who thinks the wealthy should do their fair share — for some reason our bipartisan system doesn’t represent that.

Read the whole interview here.

 

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And Unto Us a Child Is Born: Welcome to the World, Dream Renee Kardashian

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It’s a girl! Blac Chyna & Rob Kardashian have announced the birth of their child, who they named Dream Renee Kardashian (Renee is Chyna’s middle name). She arrived (via C-section) at 9:18AM weighing 7 lbs., 5 oz.

“She is gorgeous and has tons of hair!” a source tells E! News.

E! goes on to give us more diets than we could possibly want:

Chyna and Rob arrived at the hospital at around 6:40 a.m. PT Thursday morning and were joined by Chyna’s mom Tokyo Toni, who was dressed casually in sweats and a hat. Rob couldn’t stop smiling and also looked “giddy excited” as he and Chyna entered the hospital, E! News learned. Both looked comfortable in black sweatshirts and sweatpants. Kris Jenner and Corey Gamble also went to the hospital to be with Rob and Chyna.

And now you know.

Pictures of the latest Kardashian to come. (Photo of Rob and Chyna via Pacific Coast News)

 

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Covergirl Signs Its First Ambassador to Wear a Hijab, Muslim Beauty Blogger Nura Afia

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Covergirl has named gorgeous, 23-year-old Nura Afia an ambassador for its So Lashy! BlastPro Mascara campaign. She joins fellow spokespersons Katy Perry, Sofia Vergara, and CoverGirl’s first male spokesmodel, James Charles in the inclusive new ads (see above).

Afia makes history by becoming the first Muslim woman to wear her hijab in a mainstream cosmetics campaign.

‘At CoverGirl, we’ve always stood for inclusive beauty that supports any and all types — from skin types to lash types,’ the brand captioned the photo.

‘We know that whether you have short, straight, light or long lashes, you all crave the same bold end look, so we listened and created #SoLashy mascara: the first mascara designed for any and all lash types.

Says Afia to Glamour magazine:

‘It feels so surreal. I never thought I would see Muslim women represented on such a large scale.’

She confesses to being insecure about wearing a hijab, especially as she was growing up. Now, though, in her YouTube tutorials about date-night makeup and berry lips, it always makes a proud appearance. (And some videos are actually dedicated to styling a turban hijab; the most popular of these has racked up over 300,000 views.)

This candidness is what made her a member of CoverGirl’s #LashEquality campaign, which stresses inclusivity within beauty and celebrates the launch of the brand’s So Lashy! BlastPro Mascara (which is designed to flatter every lash type). It’s paying off in big ways. Afia, her hijab, and her serious makeup skills will now appear in commercials and on a giant billboard in Times Square in New York City. CoverGirl’s emphasis on inclusivity and diversity is an exciting—and welcome—development in the beauty industry.

(via Daily Mail)

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Don’t Miss An All New RuVealed Season 6 Tonight on Logo

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Oh yes she better did! RuPaul’s Drag Race RuVealed Season 6 is back to Logo TV  with an all new episode TONIGHT at 8/7C on Logo.  And it’s a SCREAM! There’s new catch phrases, fishy fights, and every fall from grace will be catalogued, cat-called, and on display for your viewing pleasure. Re-visit the iconic season with Bianca Del Rio, Adore Delano, Courtney Act, Darienne Lake, Ben Dela Creme, Laganja Estranga, Milk, Kelly Mantle, Vivacious NYC, Trinity K Bonet, Joslyn Fox, Gia Gunn, April Carrion and Magnolia Crawford.

Check it out:

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Stream: Lotic “Formation” Beyoncé RMX (Election Anxiety/America Is Over Edit)

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Berlin producer Lotic (originally from Texas) has decided to address his concerns over the recent US election through music. His latest track Formation (Election Anxiety/America Is Over Edit) is a reimagining of Beyoncé’s empowerment anthem…but he’s layered a more guttural percussion silo alert style over her vocals, resulting in an alarming call to action against hate, embracing love instead. Check out what he said on his Facebook page recently, and the full track below. (photo by Tonje Thilesen)

 

Lotic:

“Being in the time zone I’m currently in meant that I woke up just as the first polls were closing. I watched anxiously, while trying to go about my day as usual, as [Trump] consistently held the lead both in the popular and electoral vote. While not surprised, I immediately began to mourn for those whose lives will immediately be affected by the unfortunate outcome of this election. All I knew to do was to try to offer the tiniest bit of hope to them, to all of us. I know it’s not much, but working on this helped me keep sane (?!) throughout this tragedy. Here is my ‘election anxiety/America is over edit’ of Beyoncé’s Formation.

All we can do right now as we look hate in the face is respond with love. Channel your anger, your sorrow, all of your confusion, for good. Stay safe, but offer a loving hand. Mobilize!”

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The Top Ten Things That Make Us Go WOW! for Radio Andy on SiriusXM

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From Hollywood Boulevard, it’s The WOW Report for Radio Andy on SiriusXM! That’s right WOWers, World of Wonder Co-Founder Fenton Bailey, Executive VP of Development Tom Campbell, and WOW Report Editor James St. James have collaborated with reality TV guru and friend of WOW, Andy Cohen, on a weekly Top Ten Countdown of the things from the past week that make us go…WOW!

It’s a pop-culture obsessed hour complete with colorful diatribes, opposing opinions, and a dissection-like discussion that will make your drive home from work more fabulous!

We air TODAY at 4PM EST on SiriusXM, and it will play again at 4PM PST (7PM EST). You can also catch it on the SiriusXM app!

With no further adou, here’s our Top Ten of the things that made us go WOW this week:

10) Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party

Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party airs every Monday at 10PM on VH1

9) The Crown

Stream The Crown now on Netflix

8) The Art of the Hollywood Backdrop

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The Art of the Hollywood Backdrop is available now on Amazon

7) Music for Cats

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Composed by cellist Davie Teie, Music for Cats is exactly what it sounds like. It’s music for your pussy! Order your copy here or on iTunes!

6) Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey

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Guilty Thing is available now on Amazon

5) Germany around 1900: A Portrait in Colour

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Germany around 1900: A Portrait in Colour is available now on Amazon

4) OWN HQ

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We discuss Oprah’s new headquarters on Santa Monica in West Hollywood

3) Alicia Keys vs Disney’s Snow White

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Find out why Alicia Keys won’t let her kids watch Disney’s Snow White

2) Formica Forever

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Formica Forever is available now on Amazon

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What could top all of these? You’ll have to FIND OUT at 4:00PM EST and again at 4:00 PST (7 PM EST) on SiriusXM!

Thanks for tuning in! Be sure to give your ears the gift of THE WOW REPORT on Radio Andy SiriusXM EVERY Friday.

And remember, do something this weekend that makes YOU go WOW!!!

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JSJ Interview: Carson Kressley on Giving Your Closet an Enema in His New Book “Does This Book Make My Butt Look Big?”

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The ever-delightful Carson Kressley stopped by the WOW studios last week to chat about his new how-to book cheekily entitled Does This Book Make My Butt Look Big? We kiki’d about shopping and ponies and Drag Race and fashion and clubbing in the ’90s – PLUS: How to give your closet and lovely, cleansing enema. Fabulous! I had never met him before but it felt like we’d been friends FOREVER – and WHAT a force of nature! \ Watch the interview below.

From Amazon:

Carson Kressley, the Emmy-winning TV star and New York Times bestselling author of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, has spent the last decade transforming thousands of women and connecting with millions more on Oprah Winfrey, Good Morning America, and countless other national broadcasts. He knows what makes women tick. Whether we live in Tacoma or Tallahassee, there is a common thread among all of us: we want to feel beautiful but don’t always know where to start. We’re frequently frustrated by fashion and can’t figure out which trends to follow and which to flee.

Does This Book Make My Butt Look Big? is a roadmap for all of us to build unshakable body and fashion confidence. Nowhere else is there a fun and accessible book created for the underserved masses like us, who just want to get out the door looking and feeling fabulous. Who don’t have gobs of money to drop on our wardrobe and feel left out of the game. And when it comes to how we feel about our bodies, all we see are roadblocks…and signs for Burger King!

We need to be reminded that fashion is FUN. We need to know that with the right tools, we have the power to transform our self-perception by shifting our mindset from woe-is-me to wow-is-me. We need the secrets of playing to our strengths and minimizing our flaws. We need to take more chances, and leave what doesn’t work in the dust. Most of all, we need Carson, our peppy, blond fairy godstylist, to show us the way!

Buy your copy here.

And, btw, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CARSON!

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Mark-Paul Gosselaar Strips Naked To Save America’s Depression

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Day 3 of “Trump America” and we’re all not okay. Periodically going between stages of grief, anger, and eating/drinking ourselves into a gluttonous state of ecstasy, it’s left most of us in a zombie-like comatose and we’re finding it hard to say “it gets better” each day. To escape from the Hellmouth we are all living in currently, I give you Mark-Paul Gosselaar (nude) for an all new episode of Pitch on Fox.

Check it out:

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Leslie Knopes Pens Letter To America After President-Elect Announcement

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Spirit animal, Leslie Knope, had a lot to get off her chest in the hell-freezing-over aftermath of the Election results Wednesday morning. Like most of us, she’s disappointed and in her Leslie Knope candor, she somehow will make you laugh, cry, and then ugly cry all in the same letter she penned America by Vox. Can she just be president?

Check it out:

Dear America,

Amidst the confusion, and despair, and disbelief, it was suggested to me by a very close friend of mine (I won’t say her name to protect her identity) (Ann. It was Ann) that perhaps a few people would enjoy hearing my thoughts on this election. So I sat down at my computer, cleared my head, and opened a document.

Then I started crying. So I had some hot chocolate, and my close friend (Ann) rubbed my back for a while, and I got myself together, and sat down. And started crying. Then more Ann comforting me, and more hot chocolate, and back and forth like that for about six hours or so, the chain of hot chocolate and back rubs only interrupted briefly when I had to run to the store for more hot chocolate packets (“Just give me all of them, all the boxes,” I remember saying, through tears, to a very scared stockroom boy), and now I am ready to go.

When I was in fourth grade, my teacher Mrs. Kolphner taught us a social studies lesson. The 17 students in our class were introduced to two fictional candidates: a smart if slightly bookish-looking cartoon tortoise named Greenie, and a cool-looking jaguar named Speedy. Rick Dissellio read a speech from Speedy, in which he promised that, if elected, he would end school early, have extra recess, and provide endless lunches of chocolate pizzandy (a local Pawnee delicacy at the time: deep fried pizza where the crust was candy bars). Then I read a speech from Greenie, who promised to go slow and steady, think about the problems of our school, and try her best to solve them in a way that would benefit the most people. Then Mrs. Kolphner had us vote on who should be class president.

I think you know where this is going.

Except you don’t, because before we voted, Greg Laresque asked if he could nominate a third candidate, and Mrs. Kolphner said “Sure! The essence of democracy is that everyone—” and Greg cut her off and said, “I nominate a T. rex named Dr. Farts who wears sunglasses and plays the saxophone, and his plan is to fart as much as possible and eat all the teachers,” and everyone laughed, and before Mrs. Kolphner could blink, Dr. Farts the T. rex had been elected president of Pawnee Elementary School in a 1984 Reagan-esque landslide, with my one vote for Greenie the Tortoise playing the role of “Minnesota.”

After class, I was inconsolable. Once the other kids left, Mrs. Kolphner came over and put her arm around me. She told me I had done a great job advocating for Greenie the Tortoise. Through tears I remember saying, “How good, exactly?” and she said, “Very, very good,” and I said, “Good enough to—?” and she sighed and went to her desk to get one of the silver stars she gave out to kids who did a good job on something. And as I tearfully added it to my Silver Star Diary, she asked me what upset me the most.

“Greenie was the better candidate,” I said. “Greenie should have won.”

She nodded.

“I suppose that was the point of the lesson,” I said.

“Oh, no,” she said. “The point of the lesson is: People are unpredictable, and democracy is insane.”

Winston Churchill once said, “Democracy is the worst form of government, except all those other forms that have been tried.” That is perhaps a pithier and better way to get my point across than that long anecdote about Mrs. Kolphner. Should I just erase all of that and start with this? Whatever. I’m pot-committed now, and is there extra caffeine in that hot chocolate? Because my head feels like a spaceship.

The point is: People making their own decisions is, on balance, better than an autocrat making decisions for them. It’s just that sometimes those decisions are bad, or self-defeating, or maddening, and a day where you get dressed up in your best victory pantsuit and spend an ungodly amount of money decorating your house with American flags and custom-made cardboard cutouts of suffragettes in anticipation of a glass-ceiling-shattering historical milestone ends with you getting (metaphorically) eaten by a giant farting T. rex.

Like most people, I deal with tragedy by processing the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. My denial over the election results was intense. My anger was (in Ron’s words) “significant.” My bargaining was short, but creative — I offered my soul and the souls of all of my friends in exchange for 60,000 more votes in Milwaukee, to any demon who cared to accept. (Tom told me it was a terrible deal, but in that moment I didn’t care.) My depression I have already mentioned. Which brings us to acceptance. And here’s what I stand on that:

No. I do not accept it.

I acknowledge that Donald Trump is the president. I understand, intellectually, that he won the election. But I do not accept that our country has descended into the hatred-swirled slop pile that he lives in. I reject out of hand the notion that we have thrown up our hands and succumbed to racism, xenophobia, misogyny, and crypto-fascism. I do not accept that. I reject that. I fight that. Today, and tomorrow, and every day until the next election, I reject and fight that story.

I work hard and I form ideas and I meet and talk to other people who feel like me, and we sit down and drink hot chocolate (I have plenty) and we plan. We plan like mofos. We figure out how to fight back, and do good in this infuriating world that constantly wants to bend toward the bad. And we will be kind to each other, and supportive of each other’s ideas, and we will do literally anything but accept this as our fate.

And let me say something to the young girls who are reading this. Hi, girls. On behalf of the grown-ups of America who care about you and your futures, I am awfully sorry about how miserably we screwed this up. We elected a giant farting T. rex who does not like you, or care about you, or think about you, unless he is scanning your bodies with his creepy T. rex eyes or trying to physically grab you like a toy his daddy got him (or would have, if his daddy had loved him). (Sorry, that was a low blow.) (Actually, not sorry, I’m pissed, and I’m on a roll, so zip it, superego!)

Our president-elect is everything you should abhor and fear in a male role model. He has spent his life telling you, and girls and women like you, that your lives are valueless except as sexual objects. He has demeaned you, and belittled you, and put you in a little box to be looked at and not heard. It is your job, and the job of girls and women like you, to bust out.

You are going to run this country, and this world, very soon. So you will not listen to this man, or the 75-year-old, doughy-faced, gray-haired nightmare men like him, when they try to tell you where to stand or how to behave or what you can and cannot do with your own bodies, or what you should or should not think with your own minds. You will not be cowed or discouraged by his stream of retrogressive babble. You won’t have time to be cowed, because you will be too busy working and learning and communing with other girls and women like you. And when the time comes, you will effortlessly flick away his miserable, petty, misogynistic worldview like a fly on your picnic potato salad.

He is the present, sadly, but he is not the future. You are the future. Your strength is a million times his. Your power is a billion times his. We will acknowledge this result, but we will not accept it. We will overcome it, and we will defeat it.

Now find your team, and get to work.

Love,

Leslie

—written by a member of the Parks and Recreation writing staff

Leslie Knope works for the US Department of the Interior, Midwest Branch, in her hometown of Pawnee, Indiana. And she believes that optimism defeats pessimism. She asks that if you have the means, you kindly make a donation to the ACLU, the International Rescue Committee, or the charity of your choice, to help the country and those most in need.

 

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#FBF: 19 Years Ago TODAY, Destiny’s Child Released Their First Single

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As bleak as the world seems right now, imagine it if there was no Beyoncé, no Kelly Rowland, no Michelle Williams, no “I’m a Survivor,” no “Bills, Bills, Bills”… It would be a sad place indeed. So let’s pause today and give thanks for the greatest girl group in HERstory (sorry, Supremes, sorry Go-Gos). Yes, on this historic day, Destiny’s Child’s first single, “No No No,” hit the airwaves. (Michelle Williams was not part of the original group; in her place were members LaTavia Roberson and LeToya Luckett.)

Let’s watch it below.

Jake wanted me to remind everyone about the time the group was being interviewed when Kelly announced that she was “second lead vocalist” and Beyoncé coughed.

“No, No, No,” the first single by Destiny’s Child, was released on this day in 1997!

A video posted by Destiny’s Child (@destinyschild) on

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Brian Justin Crum’s Sexy New Single and BTS Interview from Marco Marco Show 2016; A Night in the Red Light

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Brian Justin Crum from America’s Got Talent performs his new single “Name On You” at the 2016 Marco Marco Show for Collection Five at the Globe Theater in Downtown Los Angeles.

Check out this this exclusive interview with Brian Justin Crum about his new sexy single and his inclusion at the  2016 Marco Marco Show for Collection Five:

What’s not to love?

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