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Published poet, short story writer, and now novelist! My 1st eBook The Playgirl is out now!
by Lexine

40 Of My Favorite Things: #14

Amazing Vocalists!

Aretha, Shirley, Whitney, and Christina…if vocals were energy, their pipes would power a metropolis for days. 

I will always love me down a singer that can sing. Having listened to pop and R&B during the 90s, I got spoiled by singers of the time. Whitney, Mariah, Celine, Toni Braxton, Faith Evans, Leann Rimes, Christina Aguilera…While I don’t mind an artist who may not boast the best pipes (but at least make catchy songs), what a great singer does with their voice–on top of making good songs–is next-level art that seems to be a rarity nowadays. (Really, who is the vocalist of the current generation of pop stars?)

Also, if you don’t know who Shirley Horn is, give her a listen! My favorite jazz station played one of her songs a while back, and I got hooked by her voice. She’s an underrated vocalist, IMO. 

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40 Of My Favorite Things: #15

My Sports Teams Winning! 

Today marks the 10th anniversary of this hit, this home run, this MOMENT that sent the Giants to the 2014 World Series! They would go on to win that World Series, the day before my 30th birthday, and that win was an amazing, albeit unexpected birthday gift. (I thought they’d lose that Game 7 to the Royals.) This sports fan got FED during the 2010s, honey. Giants Dynasty, Warriors Dynasty, the Pens going back-to-back…it all makes up for the ongoing drought my teams are currently having. At least I’m not a Buffalo sports fan. (I had to say it.)

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40 Of My Favorite Things: #17

Inside The NBA on TNT!

This is the one true Best Damn Sports Show Period. (The Emmys seem to agree, too.) It’s been on air since 1989, but I feel like it didn’t become that show until Barkley joined the crew in 2000. Since then, it became more than your standard pregame/halftime/postgame show. What other sports show would allow segments like Chuck changing a diaper, Kenny spelling “you’re” as “yo’re”, Chuck thinking the Congo is in Europe, Shaq choking up after eating spicy chips, Dyngus Day, “Mr. Sensitive”, “po-lice presence”, Chuck vs. Shaq, Chuck vs. Bavetta, Chuck vs. San Antonio women, “Gone Fishing”, and the always-hilarious annual editions of “Who He Play For?” Other sports shows have tried being like Inside *eyes ESPN’s NBA coverage* but can’t come close.

I’m saddened to hear that TNT will no longer carry NBA games after the 2024-25 NBA season, meaning no more Inside after this season. Not sure if the Inside crew will start something new with NBC or elsewhere, but that deal is proof that all good things eventually come to an end for the sake of money. For a long-time fan of the show, to quote Chuck, it’s turrible. 

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40 Of My Favorite Things: #18

The OG Dynasty!

This pic gives me more fashion, beauty, and glamour than the past 10 years of all the fashion glossies. 

This show defined the 1980s, hands down. Greed, excess, family drama, uber-wealth, power suits, shoulder pads, high glamour, big hair, bigger egos, shade fests, and, of course, thee Alexis Morell Carrington Colby Dexter Rowan! For the uninitiated…

Almost everyone on that show was a victim of her acid tongue, from Krystle and her ex-husband Blake to even her daughters Fallon and Amanda!

And this clip when Alexis first meets Dominique Deveraux remains a masterclass in shade and reading.

Twitter battles could never!

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40 Things I HATE!

I’m halfway through my 40 Favorite Things list, so here’s the flipside to it! It’s all in one entry, since I don’t like to pay too much attention to the stuff/people I hate. I’m sure there’s more than 40 things, but these made the cut:

1) Trump

2) Elon Musk

3) Andrew Tate (and his yucky brother too)

4) Diddy

5) anyone who supports/associates themselves with the first four

6) misogyny

7) bullshit

8) racism

9) anti-LGBTQ+ bullshit

10) all abusers!

11) people who don’t believe/mock the abused (May-June 2022 was a gross time, IYKYK)

12) liars!

13) all pedos

14) antivaxxers

15) all things MAGA

16) social media addicts (get off your phone!)

17) cell phone addicts (seriously, get off your damn phone!!)

18) Stan culture

19) when a favorite product of mine gets discontinued for good (RIP Gucci “Envy Me” perfume, NARS “Bad Girl” lip pencil, B&BW “Fall In Bloom” body mist…)

20) drivers who don’t signal

21) toxic people

22) entitled breeders

23) when my sports team loses in the playoffs (although I didn’t have to worry about that this year 😆)

24) prickly weeds

25) my eczema

26) unnecessary autotune in songs

27) two-faced bastards

28) when I cook/bake something that turns out awful

29) long recipe websites that don’t have a Jump To Recipe link up top

30) excessive photoshop in pictures

31) the “both sides are the same” crowd

32) psyops (especially political ones that try to convince gullible people to either not vote or vote GOP/third party)

33) AI everything

34) all “romance books” with an innocent cishet white girl who falls for the rich, “brooding” (translation: abusive and controlling) cishet white man and, despite all the shit he puts her through in the story, they still fall in love and have a baby in the end because rOmAnCe!!!! 😒)

35) clickbait!

36) lazy people

37) expensive perfumes that last only an hour

38) the media glamorizing/normalizing shitty people

39) gaining weight

40) wasting time on things I hate

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40 Of My Favorite Things: #20

The next few entries will be TV-themed, and I’ll start off with my favoritest (I know it’s not a word) show of them all: Married With Children!

It was the first sitcom I watched, although I didn’t watch it for the laughs but for Bud Bundy. David Faustino was my first ever Hollywood crush. As I got older, I started getting its snarky, self-deprecating humor, but little did I know that its brand of funny would not be for the delicate types. I first learned curse words thanks to that show. (Just “ass” and “bitch”, if you were wondering. It was on network TV, after all.) I learned how to clap back thanks to that show. And I also learned to never ever be a shoe salesman in my life. 😆 In a way, MWC “ruined” me for other sitcoms; I tried watching Friends but couldn’t find it funny. I watched a bit of Seinfeld and didn’t find it funny. The Office comes close but I wish they kept Steve Carrell for its entire run; it’s like getting rid of Ed O’Neil (Al Bundy) for the last two seasons–it makes no damn sense!

In my house, MWC remains the GOAT of sitcoms.

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Yep I Voted

I’ve been voting since I turned 18 and have never skipped a Presidential election. I’m grateful to have had relatives, friends, acquaintances, and teachers who emphasized the importance of voting, which is why I’ve always taken elections seriously. I’m also quite lucky to have grown up during a time when there was no social media to spew psyops and misinformation. (Although Faux News was all the rage 20 years ago, but I learned they were all bullshit from the start.) And, as a Bi woman of color, I learned it was best to not vote for leopards that would eat my face (thus my unapolgetic preference to vote Blue down-ballot). Third party? Non-voters?? I don’t know her.

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40 Of My Favorite Things: #21

Places With a View!

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Taken from the Getty Center back in June 2024. 

I think my love for places with a view started as a pre-teen. Having lived in the suburbs up until I graduated high school, the view from my home was boring, but I also lived right next to some hills. I was an adventurous kid so I’d sometimes take hikes up the hills. The views of my former hometown from hillside were fascinating. I don’t recall if I remember wanting to have a home with sweeping views of the city as a kid, but I know I wanted that when I was 19.

Twenty years ago, while on a Labor Day vacation in LA, I visited the Getty Center for the very first time. (Has it really been 20 years?) The views from there had me stunned! Panoramic views from downtown LA to the Pacific Ocean–the kind of views that anyone with money in LA get to have every day from their homes. I spent $10 for parking to experience those views for a few hours. (Admission was–and still is–free to the museum, by the way.) 

Where I live now is a place with a view. Top floor apartment with east-facing views, where I’m greeted daily by sunrise, sights of the Mt. Diablo mountain range, and the city I live in. (I’m also right above an alley, and I’ve seen some sketch things go down in that alley on occasions. Take the ugly with the beauty, I guess.)