Sunday Overnight Open Thread - January 26, 2025 [Doof]

Howdy Hordelings, and a good evening to you all! Wow - this is the last Sunday ONT of January. Time sure does fly. Thanks for pushing the pause button and hanging out here for a little while tonight!

If you are a fan of the CHEFS or the ELGSES (nope - neither are typos), congrats on your team reaching that game with the unmentionable name.

Trump 47 - First Week

Trump Has 'Hit the Ground Running'

President Donald Trump, in the first week of his return to the White House, has "hit the ground running," former Rep. Pete King said on Newsmax Sunday.

"What struck me most is the energy he's shown," the New York Republican said on Newsmax's "Wake Up America." "I mean, he's done more in the first four or five or six days than Joe Biden did in the last three or four years. And having been in Washington, I'll tell you, the energy level, the enthusiasm."

Matters were different when Trump first came to office in 2017, he added, because people did not know what he was going to do.

Everything, everywhere, all at once.

Donald Trump has shaken up America and the world in an extraordinary first week back in the White House that saw him remake the US political universe in his own image.

On his first day, Trump signed more executive orders than any president in history, consolidating his power over every lever of the US government.

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The theme has been "promises made, promises kept": starting with his mass pardons for the 2021 US Capitol rioters peaceful rally-goers and a slew of executive orders from immigration to gender.

From Trump and his supporters, the theme has been one of regal, even divine, power.

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And the contrast with Trump's own first term could not have been greater.

Instead of chaos and fights, the first days of Trump 2.0 have been marked by what appears to be careful planning, steely discipline and intense messaging.

Internationally, Trump appeared at the Davos forum on a huge screen where he towered over the gathered global elite.

Trump has told other countries to either make products in America or face tariffs.

Fashion Segment
(H/T to Ben Had for the idea)

Inauguration Day 2025 was memorable and exciting for many reasons. This evening, the ONT would like to take a look at some of the fashion on display on the first day of "The Golden Age of America".

✨ Fashion highlights from the U.S. presidential inaugural! Melania Trump wowed in a stunning strapless gown while Usha Vance turned heads in Oscar de la Renta.

A night of glamour and elegance that set the tone for the new era.#Inauguration #Fashion #MelaniaTrump pic.twitter.com/9f59gjyWFT

— DR KAMLESH KALI (@KaliKamlesh) January 21, 2025

Here's another one from Maggie Howell.

For a very interesting look at fashion history, check out the Fashion History Timeline from the State University of New York's Fashion Institute of Technology.

The Fashion History Timeline is an open-access source for fashion history knowledge, featuring objects and artworks from over a hundred museums and libraries that span the globe. The Timeline website offers well-researched, accessibly written entries on specific artworks, garments and films for those interested in fashion and dress history. Started as a pilot project by FIT art history faculty and students in the Fall of 2015, the Timeline aims to be an important contribution to public knowledge of the history of fashion and to serve as a constantly growing and evolving resource not only for students and faculty, but also for the wider world of those interested in fashion and dress history (from the Renaissance scholar to the simply curious).

Accurate knowledge of dress and fashion history is vital to the practice and study of not only art history, but also archaeology, classics, history, literature and visual culture. Yet analyzing and understanding dress can be daunting to scholars and students who have not been trained in fashion history. The Fashion History Timeline is intended to demystify dress and fashion, offering the academic community and the public an easily accessible starting place for their research. Decade and century overview pages offer visual examples of period styles, a visually rich fashion dictionary defines key terms, and hundreds of examples of dress analysis from antiquity to the present day model the complicated task of discerning whether something is fashionable or merely everyday dress, as well as the historical implications of that distinction. The Timeline equips students and researchers with essential facts, vocabulary, and models of analysis. In the future, with further funding, we plan to add expert-written overviews of period styles, biographies of 18th- and 19th-century fashion designers, and coverage of non-western fashion as well.

The website tracks fashion from The Ancient World all the way up through the 2010-2019 decade.

Taking a trip in the AOSHQ wayback machine, let's revisit a Saturday afternoon Chess/Dress thread from the late great Oregon Muse (do not attempt to comment on old threads). Some of you may remember these regular threads on Saturday afternoons. During the Trump 45 era, OM began to include a "Dress Pr0n For The 'Ettes" segment in his weekly Chess Thread. He would often include photos of Kate Middleton and Melania Trump. The photo below is from the final Chess/Dress Thread of the Trump 45 term, posted on Jan. 16, 2021.

If the Horde is interested, perhaps the ONT or some other regular thread might feature a dress pr0n segment during the Trump 47 era. Please let your thoughts be known in the comments.

DJ Doof – Eddie Van Halen Version

The legendary Eddie Van Halen was born on this date 70 years ago. No discussion of the all-time greatest guitarists can be valid if EVH is not mentioned. Tonight we celebrate his greatness, along with that of his extremely talented son Wolfgang.

Happy heavenly birthday to legendary guitarist Eddie Van Halen.

Here's Eddie Van Halen performing "Eruption" with one of the greatest guitar solos in Rock History. pic.twitter.com/4XA9UKwR79

— 🎸 Rock History 🎸 (@historyrock_) January 26, 2025

10 Stories Behind Van Halen Songs That Make Them Unique

Finish What You Started

This is the only Van Halen song that Sammy Hagar plays guitar on. Also, Sammy tells the story on the Howard Stern show. Eddie came knockin' on his window, throwing rocks to wake up Sam, and Sammy says he was trying to work out a little evening plan with his lady. Ed wouldn't let up. So Sammy grabbed his guitar and they sat on the beach and worked the whole song out. Sammy said he had the idea that he might get back in the bedroom and his wife would beg him to finish what he started. Indeed, that never happened. Sammy said the night was a bust, he went back inside after the song was done and his wife was asleep.

Check out the whole article and read about 3 other songs from the Hagar era and 6 from the Roth era.

The song "Distance" from the debut album of Wolfgang Van Halen's band Mammoth WVH. Dust warning - video features home video and other personal footage of Eddie and Wolfie.

Bottom half of this photo sure does tie in to EVH's reputation. If he were alive today, which do you think he'd say is a better approach?

Tonight’s ONT brought to you by Trump's most important proclamation.

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