The Monday Post Gets Some TGIF
It's a Pop Culture Double Brew
Welcome to the regular Monday post. On top of fun content, it’s my sardonic weekly wrap-up of all the week’s celebrity chaos and other current pop culture happenings like trailers/film announcements, and more.
Last week’s Monday Post was longer than I anticipated, and so was the TGIF post, so let’s make this week’s The Monday Post short and somewhat sweet. Here’s a lightning round of the spectacle that is celebrities:
Oscar nominations are going on out, and my reactions will be found on my Twitter. Although I can say pretty certainly, I may sleep in.
Happy one-year anniversary to Gal Gadot, spoiling W2 for the world; perhaps it’s her trying to warn us.
The royal family is in a PR crisis to restore their image to the public because of what a mess they caused; William chose more chaos while proving Meghan’s entire point by brushing off her mental health just to prove they aren’t racist.
Robert Downey Jr scored a Razzie nomination for Worst Actor, and well who can blame them since the trailers for Doolittle suffice?
In Armie Hammer news, the other shoe finally dropped. Vanity Fair published a family exposé, and it’s just as wild as you think.
Matthew McConaughey is once again thinking he’s doing something with his nebulous centrist teases for Governor of Texas— as a Texan, we’ve been through ENOUGH.
Lady Gaga and Adam Driver’s transformation playing the Gucci’s in Ridley Scott’s House of Gucci is sure to be entertaining since Patrizia Reggiani is the so-called Black Widow who hired a hitman to kill her then-husband.
The GRAMMYs were last night, so you know what that means— It’s a bonus edition of The Style Files which means it’s time for my best low-budget, Miranda Priestly, takes that no one asked for.
Here are some of my favorite looks from the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards; I don’t know who won other than Beyoncé. The drama revolving and unfolding around music’s supposed prestigious night has been outshining the ceremony for some time.
I guess in honor of last night’s GRAMMYs, but primarily for fun, here’s a bonus edition of The Audio Files, and no, it isn’t Say So (free Doja Cat from Say So).
While editing today’s newsletter, I still don’t know who won, but I know that WAP happily came back into song rotation.
The performance was hypnotic, those visuals were trippy, and it wasn’t the Napalm OG I had. Cardi and Megan Thee Stallion looking like Barbarella² was just *a chef’s kiss.*
The reactions are sure to be hysterically dramatic from conservatives who use their massive platforms to complain about being silenced from c*ncel culture while crying about a toy potato. Personally, there’ve been more significant scandals than two gorgeous women depicting different Sapphic sexual positions, and the government still owes the American people their money. So frankly, they should say less.
In a nutshell, the GRAMMYs were just vibes, no zoom screens. Megan Thee Stallion, rightfully winning Best New Artist, was a standout. Second-best is Billie Eilish closing with, “what’s up, Ringo?” However, watch Wet and Gushy below.
I wanted to take the time to remember and honor Breonna Taylor. Sadly, now Sarah Everard and so many others weren’t protected by those meant to— the local police who abused their positions of power.
No person should ever have to experience this; the responses have been ineffectual and downright hateful. These tragedies further fuel my advocacy for defunding the police. Something that sounds terrifying and radical, but at this point, we need radicals to help mobilize us since we still have so much to muck through in this fight for equality and humanizing respect.
Hopefully, the resource links can help someone on their unlearning journey into at least researching for defunding the police. People deserve the help they need, so I favor defunding the police to reinvest and reallocate funds/resources back into the communities. My intro years back was the incredible Angela Davis and Black Panther Party. Both helped spark a socialist and abolitionist perspective that’s rooted in community work. Hopefully, they can help someone else. 💞
Now that WandaVision has ended, a few friends asked me for a recommendation for its place. My pick is the 1998 classic comfort, which I re-watched throughout high school since it reminded me of the sitcoms I adored in my youth. Pleasantville is the Gary Ross directorial that will connect similarly to the series; after all, what is WandaVision if not Pleasantville persevering? I haven’t watched this film since probably high school, so I’m due for a re-watch. Hopefully, this week.
Furthermore, please feel free to tag or @ me with any follow-up recommendations or your honest takes on. Depending on the delivery, I’m sometimes curious about people’s subjective and objective thoughts or reactions. Some random telling me they hardcore disagree or hate something about a film or tv show I love— not so much.