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The Preachers: Jim and Tammy Faye: Part 3.
Image and caption from PTL. When PTL fell apart, I was just 5. I didn’t know about the sex scandals, but I do remember my parents discussing the Bakkers’ outsized lifestyle.…
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The Preachers: Jim & Tammy Faye: Part 2.
Jim and Tammy Faye (Image Source) It was thirty years ago that the tremendous house of cards that Jim Bakker had constructed out of TV ministry, millions in donations, and…
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Come Clean: 90s Music Videos Had Me Wanting to Go to a Carnival. Or the Shore.
Jordon Knight gave it to us back in ’99- the baggy cargos, the long sleeve turtle kneck sweater, the racially-mixed back up dancers. Seriously, besides a love of belly shirts, glittery eye…
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Come Clean: I still cringe at “macaroni with the cheese”.
My face is literally that of Mase every. single. time. I’ve heard this song over the past two decades. (Video screen capture via YouTube) Twenty years ago, Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs…
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Come Clean: I don’t know why Al B. Sure’s face…
…was so angry in the 1988 video for his hit song, “Nite and Day”. Like Dude snarled through the whole thing… and he probably growled, too, but the track drowned it out.…
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Some Sunday Stuff: September 24th.
Happy Sunday! It’s been a couple of months since my last “Some… Stuff”, so let’s kick off the start of Fall with some links, shall we? (Getty Images) First up, this…
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Throwback Thursday: Let it be.
Note: This post first appeared at my old blog, Far Above Rubies, on October 4, 2010. ~Alisha I’m sitting in the local diner writing this on my laptop, the…
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Flashback Friday: That time Albert Einstein hosted Marian Anderson.
There’s a lot I’ve just found out about Albert Einstein. For example, who knew old Al was quite the ladies’ man, a master at science and charm? But another fact that I…
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Throwback Thursday: Pain in heels while walking.
Note: This post first appeared on my old blog, Far Above Rubies, on March 9, 2012. ~Alisha If you clicked on this post expecting a piece on platforms, sorry, not getting that.…
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Flashback Friday: The tragic last days of Lady Day.
Billie Holiday the d’Orly airport, Paris, photographed by Jean-Pierre Leloir, 1958. (Photo Image and Caption via Abongond) I was listening to “On The Media” a couple of weeks ago and the…
