On uppity women and sluts

(h/t Sonya)

OMG, what is the deal with women girls these days?! First they have the audacity to not want cervical cancer, or they pretend to not want it to justify their getting Gardasil, so they can be total sluts.

That is the only reason a girl would want Gardasil: to be a slut.

Then they sent some slut to Congress to testify about how she needs to get paid so she can have sex, or something. I don't know, Rush wasn't particularly clear and he's changed his story on that one. But you know she's a total slut.

OH, HEY, here's a great joke: What's the difference between a bitch and a slut? A slut has sex with anyone, and a bitch has sex with anyone but you!

Where was I? Oh, right, slutty bitches and bitchy sluts seem to have a new champion, a Nina Turner from the Ohio State Senate. And in addition to her being a slut and a bitch she is also uppity. You can just tell by looking at her (if you know what I am saying and I think you do because OBVIOUSLY she is black and we AMERICANS don't like it when people in authority are black... and exert power... she's probably Muslim or Kenyan or a pirate or something).

Listen to her going on, blah blah blah "my vagina" blah blah blah "pay me for sex" I can't even listen.

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You go girl!!! Into the  kitchen and make me a sandwich!

(OMG if you don't know I'm kidding I don't even know what to do with you.)

Senator Turner, I am awarding you the second Sugarbaker Award for Strong Southern Women (named after Dixie Carter's character in Designing Women, and yes, I am gay).

Song of the Day: "My Better Self"

Former
Ultimate Babe of
the Universe
Jim Courier

When you listen to this track from Tennis you won't wonder why I fell instantly in love with the band.

You might wonder why I hesitated, and waited a full 24 hours before buying the album.

Or, like me, you'll wonder how it is that they're from Denver. Denver!!!

The one in Colorado. The one where they kill family pets if they decide they are "pit bulls."

But the pit bulls thing isn't the confusing part with respect to the band. It's just... they're not British? WHA?

Young & Old, their second album, was released last month and I'm downloading it from Amazon as I type this. I have their first on order from my library. Sometimes you get $ from me, sometimes you don't.



Song: "My Better Self"
Artist: Tennis

Song of the Day: "Some Nights"

H/T to the boss (Darrin, not Springsteen) for bringing in the fun. album the other day. Otherwise I might never have known their vaguely Queen-esque sound which isn't too bad. And by that I mean pretty good. Check this shit out...



Song: "Some Nights"
Artist: fun.

C'mon Chan Man!

Hepatitis A, you can also get it from butt sex... or so I've heard.

Song of the Day: "Robin Egg Blue"

Another track from Cass McCombs and his Humor Risk album.



Song: "Robin Egg Blue"
Artist: Cass McCombs

Song of the Day: "Easy Money"

Everything I've read about Bruce Springsteen's Wrecking Ball album suggests that I would hear a distinct through line, that it was a concept album about avarice and decay. I wonder if the reviewers are all operating from the same talking points issued by Columbia Records, or what -- there are certainly songs that touch on that thematically, but to me it's as much about Bruce still haunted by Tom Joad (which, I guess, has parallels).

Regardless, this song stands out as one of the best in my never-humble opinion, and Paddy McAloon owes Bruce an apology. Or maybe that fact that you have no idea who Paddy is, is all you need to know.



Song: "Easy Money"
Artist: Bruce Springsteen

Happy Birthday Billie Thomas

Is it weird that 1930s Our Gang short films have more racial diversity than CBS's Monday night line-up, right? As Buckwheat, Thomas is iconic -- and is probably the biggest child star of color until Gary Coleman (or am I overlooking someone?).

There are complaints that Buckwheat was just a perpetuation of pickaninny characters, as if Alfalfa and Spanky were somehow non-caricature. So long as everyone's a type, no one's a type. And Buckwheat was an equal among the gang.

After Our Gang, Thomas served in the army and worked as a film technician and editor for Technicolor.

10 years after Thomas's death, 20/20 interviewed a man claiming to be Buckwheat who had become a grocery bagger in Arizona. But that was before Twitter and no one likes to do research.

More recently Corey Poitier referred to Barack HUSSEIN Obama as "Buckwheat" when discussing Obamacare and the fact that you have no fucking idea who he is, tells you all you need to know.

Happy birthday Billie. Rest in peace.