Birthday Sluts

Michael K how can you not mention the QUEEN Diana Ross?! It's her birthday today too.

...that is not a flattering image .. esp of her next to that 'life-sized' cake... now I want to listen to 'Think'... listened to it just this weekend...

Team Cameeeerrrrroooon!

RIRi. Happy birthday Queen. Go ahead and have some ice cream.

I'm cooking for company next Friday.
I always cook as much as I can ahead of time.
I'm the ultimate hostess.

I would love to have you over for dinner!

Heck, I'd even invite boston61 and AttFinch and we would all have a great time.
Great food, booze, music and no politics.
No problems with loud music blasting away either!

All of my neighbors and hubbie's Texas relatives love my international cooking.

Ugly as all fuck but who isn't by the time they reach 70?

You go, URETHRA! Eat that mutha fuckin' cake! Might be the last cake ya eat. Live like tomorrow may never come! Fuck the fat haters.

Happy Birthday Paul Manfred Glasser! He is a class act and very well-educated. I wish we could see more of him.

Luvs2tango - you and I are on the same wavelength today! Your menu is superior, though, I admit! Next Aretha's birthday, I'm coming to your house, okay? :)

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We worked hard for our money! So hard for it, honey!

Yup, been cooking (Chicken Biryani, Lamb Samosas and Baklava) all afternoon and playing Aretha.
Hubbie is outside smoking a brisket.

Had 'Ain't No Way' on about an hour ago!!!!!
This is one of my favorites.

We have a humble home, overlooking Ft.Worth, but have top of the line electronics. Hubbie is in IT and can wire anything.

I wanted a sound system as good as a gay disco since I have always been into music and dance.

We have wonderful speakers on the ceiling all over.
The house rocks with wonderful music and today has been an Aretha concert day.

Oh Happy Day.
When Aretha sings gospel, I believe in Jesus.

I've been cooking and listening to Aretha all afternoon - this one features none other than than Whitney Houston's mother Cissy in the background, singing that high, swooping part:

"Ain't No Way"
http://youtu.be/N6HhtnxA4F0

(also written by Aretha's sister Carolyn, I believe)

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We worked hard for our money! So hard for it, honey!

Hey for all the cake talk, realize this: Aretha #1, numero uno!
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-singers-of-all-time...
And that is among some very stiff competition. Eat all the cake you want baby! <333

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Submitted by TelevisedRevolution

Aretha, Live, at the piano, playing a song her sister Carolyn wrote:

"Don't Play That Song for Me"

http://youtu.be/KSoXJl2ALUk

I've always loved this song!
Thank you for the clip.
So damn special...so many songs to have as my favorite of favorites.

Aretha's "Amazing Grace" gospel album was and is spectacular.

"Bridge Over Troubled Water" is life changing...especially great when "chilling down" from rolling on 'e' all night.

I know *I* am not waiting until I am 80 to say/do what the fuck I want to. I do that NOW. 80 is not promised to me. So fuck THAT!

And it always trips me the fuck OUT that people don't know shit about Aretha Franklin, but they can sing every Britney track.

*smdh*

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Aretha, Live, at the piano, playing a song her sister Carolyn wrote:

"Don't Play That Song for Me"

http://youtu.be/KSoXJl2ALUk

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We worked hard for our money! So hard for it, honey!

♩ ♫ ♬ "Come to the Florida Sunshine Tree
For fresh tasting homophobia, naturally" ♫ ♬

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Aniston is artistically, intellectually and reproductively barren.
Paltrow is every argument against nepotism rolled into one.

Happiest of birthdays to the Queens Aretha and Elton!! Your majesties. *bows deeply and shoves Anita's face into her cake when she goes to blow out the candles*

And Gloria Steinam, what can I say. Women owe you so much. What a phenomenal bunch of people born today.

SJP makes a fool of herself running around town trying to be Fe Fendi or Muffie Potter Aston or (now that she's getting older!) Brooke Astor. She buys her way on to every board in town, but without having any real interest in the organizations' governance. Where does this social climbing insecurity come from? Does the fact she has a horse face have anything to do with it? She can't pull off the high society pose, so she needs to stop before she's laughed out of Manhattan.

pathetic.

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Aniston is artistically, intellectually and reproductively barren.
Paltrow is every argument against nepotism rolled into one.

Submitted by parissucksliterally on Sun, 03/25/2012 - 2:39pm.

Aretha is a great talent. But I'd appreciate it if she wore sleeves to cover those bat wings.

Bat wings? Those are Pterodactyl wings.

Submitted by Hekki on Sun, 03/25/2012 - 2:37pm.

"I agree. If I make it to 80, I have given myself permission to start smoking again. If cigarettes are still available, that is."

Just hop on a plane to my neck of the woods then. Even though smoking is legally banned in bars, most owners of small bars have a 'fuck you' attitude towards the law. The Dutch have a taste for public disobedience.

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"We are here on earth to do good for others.
What the others are here for, I don't know."
W.H. Auden

In 1967, I landed in Wall Street as a secretary the week after I graduated from high school in Staten Island, NY. I was 17.

The mailman within company befriended me and he took me to Harlem to see Aretha Franklin in concert. WOWZA! I lied to my mother and told her I was seeing, Sergio Franchi at The Rainbow Room in Rockefeller Center.

Aretha's body of work is tremendous. Genius.
Saw her again a couple of years later.
Then one more time a decade later.

I always wanted to be Aretha and Gladys Knight.

I was very lucky to see the music of Motown up close and personal in it's heyday.

Aretha is a great talent. But I'd appreciate it if she wore sleeves to cover those bat wings.

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So you found a girl
Who thinks really deep thoughts
What's so amazing about really deep thoughts
Boy you best pray that I bleed real soon
How's that thought for you?
-Tori Amos

Submitted by mike: "My feeling is that once you reach a certain age, do whatever the fuck you want - eat whatever, smoke, drink - your days are numbered."

I agree. If I make it to 80, I have given myself permission to start smoking again. If cigarettes are still available, that is.

Submitted by dementa on Sun, 03/25/2012 - 1:38pm.
Well every five-ten years or so, we need a legendarily bad mainstream movie that becomes notorious for how bad it is. I think the last one was "Catwoman" or "Gigli."

So we're about due.

Yup. I'd add Dragonfly and Because I Said So--both execrable, and not in a good way. Oh, and anything with Ashton Kutcher.

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Please: It's "rahnday."

Submitted by joe shmoe on Sun, 03/25/2012 - 2:01pm.
Submitted by TelevisedRevolution on Sun, 03/25/2012 - 1:26pm.
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Well said, TV, and I concur :D

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Very well said!

*claps*

Submitted by TelevisedRevolution on Sun, 03/25/2012 - 1:26pm.
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Well said, TV, and I concur :D

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Luvs me some You-Reef-Rah!

She looks gorgeous in this picture! Is this a recent pic?

REEEEE REEE REEE REEE SPECT!

I always wondered about the etymology of the idiomatic expression 'This takes the cake!". Thanks to MK I now know its origin.

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"We are here on earth to do good for others.
What the others are here for, I don't know."
W.H. Auden

Happy Bday, Aretha!

My feeling is that once you reach a certain age, do whatever the fuck you want - eat whatever, smoke, drink - your days are numbered.

I can't believe Gene Shalit's so old.

Happy Birthday Her Majesty Aretha, plus Ms. Patrick, and everyone else on the list. :)

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"Any guy who values stick thin and young over smarts and personality isn't worth it and has NOTHING interesting to say anyway."-- Mrs. Kravitz

This is a great batch of birthdays.

HB to the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin.

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Submitted by RandéSleepover on Sun, 03/25/2012 - 11:59am.

Well every five-ten years or so, we need a legendarily bad mainstream movie that becomes notorious for how bad it is. I think the last one was "Catwoman" or "Gigli."

So we're about due.

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I'm here to kick ass and drink tea. And I'm all out of tea.

Most people don't realize that's you playing piano and singing on your hit songs, Miss Aretha. They don't know what a fine musician you are, since nowadays CEOs pay their minions to squeeze music out of a tube marked "pink slime," just like all the other products they sell.

But you come from a different time, when musicians still had to play, and engineers had to understand sound, and composers could write, and singers could SANG, and soul was a real thing.

I've known your music since I was in the womb, and I'm so glad to wish you a HAPPY BIRTHDAY, and I hope you have many many many more!

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We worked hard for our money! So hard for it, honey!

R.E.S.P.E.C.T. for Aretha on her birfday. Fuck the haters, she can eat all the cake she wants.

HB to the other sluts except that misogynist homophobic asshole Anita Bryant.

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It's scary that there are two dorks in this world with artichoke choke fur on their heads. - Dog on the subject of Jedward, Tue, 03/20/2012 - 9:05pm.

LAND WHALE HO! That's her portion of cake. Where is everyone else's?

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70? i thought she was older for some reason. i like some of her songs a lot. very talented lady! it's her birthday so she should be allowed to enjoy, maybe not the whole cake like some of you suggest, but at least one nice piece :) happy birthday, mrs franklin!

'We are responsible for what we do unless we are celebrities.'

HB to Ms. Steinem & Ms. Franklin. Goddesses.

Anita Bryant needs another pie in the face, or perhaps Aretha's cake. Make it a big ol' rainbow cake, too. Backward bitch.

Aretha is happy because she is about to eat the entire cake herself!

AnnaSophia Robb, who plays young Carrie in the CW prequel, looks way hotter than SJP ever did. And who decided we even need a prequel?

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Please: It's "rahnday."

HB SJP and Aretha. Thanks for Sex in the City (the tv show and not the movies) and the juicy tunes.

HB Gene Shalit - your facial hair has freaked me out since I was a kid...your movie reviews were a bit snarky too, so thanks for that!

Anita Bryant - I hope you learned that Christianity is supposed to be about love and not hate.

I don't care about the rest of these ho's but Edgar Ramirez is one hot piece of 35 year old ass....

"NOSOPD -Not our sort of person darling"

DP!

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How many cakes does Aretha have UNDER the dress?

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Submitted by Margo on Sun, 03/25/2012 - 11:24am.
....Then someone tossed a pie in her face.

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Banana cream. To which she cracked, "At least it's a fruit pie." Once an entertainer, always an entertainer. Seems like her Christian beliefs are in still in force, but alas had no money to pay a lof of her employees a while back.

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HB Aretha Franklin, the most important female musician of the last century :)

Crappy birthday to Anita Bryant.

To illustrate what a crazy kind of fundie school I went to: in fourth grade we had to do an oral report and dress as a famous person we admired. I chose Louisa May Alcott. My BFF chose Anita Bryant. Bunch a wackos.

HB and thank you, Aretha, Gloria and Elton. 3 of my all time favorite people -- good job, March 25th!

well, except for Bryant. could have skipped that, 25th. even as a kid i knew everything that bitch was saying was wrong, wrong, wrong.

"Voodoo is forgetting who's the john and who's the whore." MK, 3/20/12

Happy birthday to Aretha, Elton, Bonnie, Paul, Gloria, other sluts today! Hubba-hubba to Edgar & Sean who get extra icing. ;P

No birthday cake for Bryant!

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Happy Birthday, to Reg Dwight (aka Elton John)! One of the greatest performers, songwriter (with Bernie Taupin) and diva, EVER! Love him!

Happy Birthday, Gloria Steinem. Glad she is still around to help fight the neanderthals who would pull women back into that cave if they could.

Happy Birthday, Queen Aretha! But where is everybody else's cake?

"JUST SMILE LIKE A NORMAL FUCKED UP PERSON."
Charles Manson

Lee Pace's Aaron in Wonderfalls was fantastic, I'll always love him because of that character.

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Silvio Berlusconi, just die already.