Just Miss Jac

He’s getting his groove on (full version) 🎵 ~ Turn up the volume 🎙📻🎵

I was taught to do my makeup by queens in gay bars in New York City. I made my Broadway debut at 14 years old and did 8 shows a week but there was never a night I was too tired to run to a gay bar and do a quick Whitney cover before bed. My music being embraced and celebrated by the LGBTQ community is all I ever truly cared about when I thought about my career goals early on. There’s no award I could win or accolade I could receive that would fulfill me more than seeing a 6-foot queen with a 4-foot ponytail walk into my meet n greet and say “hey girl” or meeting a young queer person at Starbucks and them letting me know that my music has helped them become who they are. Literally nothing. Love is like music. It knows no boundaries and isn’t exclusive to any one gender, sexuality, race, religion, age or creed. It’s a freedom and a delicious luxury that all people should be able to sink into and enjoy every moment of. I am eternally indebted to and inspired by the LGBTQ community. I hope to create anthems for you that wrap you up with comfort and make you get your best life for as long as I live. Thank you for celebrating me the way I celebrate you.

I love you forever.

*camera switches to interview where dog barks and mounches on the reporter’s mic (who allows him do it)*

This is one of the best stories we read in a long time. An arborist AKA a tree caretaker and tree surgeon from Redondo Beach, California had to watch the death of one of his favorite trees, which was ordered by the mayor. Although he lost a great battle, he won the war. Find out how he avenged the death of his 30-year-old pepper tree named Clyde.

His story was recently shared online and has already been shared over 150k times. RIP Clyde.

Crow

Hawk

Nightingale

Raven

Quail

Partridge

Hoopoe

Phoenix

It can be tricky at first, but hopefully this illustrates some of the key differences.

ESTHER QUEK

“Bitch the pot” - Pour the tea (HOW RELEVANT IS THIS!?)

“Bang up the elephant” - Absolutely perfect; super stylish

“Well, that’s shot the bale” - Something that has missed the mark entirely

“Church-bell” - A woman prone to gossip

“Chuckaboo” - A dear friend, a bosom chum

“Beer and skittles” - A great time (see also: Irish Gaelic “craic”)

“Butter on bacon” - Something overdone or too extravagant

“Cupid’s kettle drums” - Breasts, particularly large ones

Back slang it (Thieves’). To go out the back way.

Butter upon Bacon (Household English). Extravagance resulting out of the condemnation of eating bread and butter with bacon, instead of the plain loaf. ‘What—are you going to put lace over the feather—isn’t that rather butter upon bacon?’

Blood or Beer (Street). A challenge to fight or stand, i.e., ‘pay for’ malt refreshment. A jocular phrase bordering on bullying. Real fighting is inducted by the phrase 'Take off your coat! This is serious.’ 'Come on, ruffian. It’s blood or beer’ is simply friendly suggestion.

Drunk as a lord (Streets). Very intoxicated. Descent from 18th century middle-class when drunkenness was honourable.

Flash (Street). Grand, splendid. Evidently derived from strong flash of lightning. 'They’re so flash that it’s a blooming wonder they know themselves.’

Flash dona (Thieves’). A high-class low-class lady.

Mafficking (Street, 1900). Street rowdyism. April 1, 1900, added this word to the English language. On the evening of that day the news of the relief of Mafeking arrived at about 9 P.M.—by eleven o'clock the streets were absolutely riotous.