Fashion Board 4-6-04 to 5-7-04

[Fugee]

Originally posted by tmdiva
[Beating Fugee to the punch] It also recently made an appearance on Law and Order.

tm

Blast and hell!!! It's a good thing I read before I posted or there would be a belated "I saw this on L&O" comment from me. Because I don't have cable, L&O (aka "glung glung" in the Fugee Family) is my way to keep up with things that don't make it in the Flyover News.

As for Josh Groban, they don't play his song on actual wingnut radio so I don't think it's an official wingnut song.

[Not Me]

• "We Built This City" is the single worst single ever constructed, according to Blender's ranking of reeking tunes.
  
  The magazine's list of "The 50 Worst Songs Ever," which hits newsstands Tuesday in New York and Los Angeles and April 27 nationwide, distills the lamest popular rock-era records into one sonic landfill.
  
  Starship's 1985 anthem, the runaway No. 1 stinker, "seems to inspire the most virulent feelings of outrage," editor Craig Marks says. "It purports to be anti-commercial but reeks of '80s corporate-rock commercialism. It's a real reflection of what practically killed rock music in the '80s."
  
  Also sealing the song's fate were Starship's steep fall from grace as the admired Jefferson Airplane and "the sheer dumbness of the lyrics," Marks says.
  
  "Achy Breaky Heart" comes in second, followed by Wang Chung's "Everybody Have Fun Tonight," "Rollin' " by Limp Bizkit and by "Ice Ice Baby." Rounding out the top 10 worst songs ever are "The Heart of Rock-and-Roll," "Don't Worry, Be Happy," Eddie Murphy's "Party All the Time," "American Life" and "Ebony and Ivory."
  
  The May issue, a sequel to the 2003 roundup of history's worst bands, coincides with a Blender/VH1 special, "The 50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs Ever," which airs May 12.
  
  Harvesting clunkers that range from The Doors' "The End" to Aqua's "Barbie Girl" entailed more digging than expected.
  
  Each dud had to be a hit to make the hit list. Though Right Said Fred's "I'm Too Sexy" got in, such novelties as "Macarena" and "Who Let the Dogs Out," which by design are cheesy, were nixed. The jury also whittled down the bulk of "rotten, excruciatingly bad low-hanging fruit from the '70s," Marks says.
  
  Blender had no qualms about riding herd on sacred cows, inducting the Beatles' "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da," R.E.M.'s "Shiny Happy People" and John Mayer's "Your Body Is a Wonderland." The entry most likely to peeve fans is Simon & Garfunkel's "The Sounds of Silence."
  
  "It's the freshman-poetry meaningfulness that got our goat," Marks says. "With self-important lyrics like, 'Hear my words that I might teach you,' it's almost a parody of pretentious '60s folk-rock.
  
  "If Frasier Crane wrote a song, this would be it."
  
  To accommodate coming horrors, the list can't be considered definitive. Noting that Clay Aiken's "Invisible "landed at No. 11, Marks predicts that "as soon as the "American Idol" season is finished, there will be a new entry."

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
I just bought a new Weber grill on Atticus's recommendation, and everything tastes fantastic. If I don't make it to the grocery store this evening, we're going to grill today's crop of credit-card solicitations and real-estate flyers, and I'm sure they'll be delicious too.

try Clarke's book, with saffron

[Dave]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
try Clarke's book, with saffron

Or, if you might be inviting dtb and the lurking forces of timminess over for dinner, try Eats, Shoots & Leaves --

(CNN's review is here with the heading "Forces of 'barbaric illiteracy' too strong ")

ETA: I want this book.

[mmm3587]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
=However, the context is different because the customs are different in the straight dating world and the gay dating world. apples, oranges. Hard to equate.

Why? It seems that both types of drink-receivers are playing on the willingness of the other party to buy the receiver a drink based on the remote possibility of romance or sex. And that the drink-receiver knows this, and might occasionally be interested. That might not be true for all drink-receivers, but it seems that if you're always hanging around a bar flirting with a party who wants to fuck you and drinking their drinks, post drink consuming fucking or romancing is not completely out of the realm of possibility.

When you say that the customs are different, are you saying that gay men don't sometime buy other men drinks to let them know that they want to fuck and/or romance them? Because that's my impression of how it works.

[Skeks in the city]

Originally posted by robustpuppy

Purebred cats are for fatties! Who went to second-tier law schools!

I wouldn't think low income lawyers could afford gourmet meat.

[Skeks in the city]

Originally posted by Not Me

I know saying this is going to make me unpopular around here

That assumes you aren't already unpopular.

[Skeks in the city]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic

FWIW, I've heard this was a Latino thing (i.e.: you're only gay if you take it up the ass).

I have no reason whatsoever to think that my source for this is remotely reliable, though.

The notion that penetrating others (men, women, boys, whatever) is not effeminate, but being penetrated is effeminate, is nothing new. Since the time of the ancient Greeks, that view has had supporters.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by mmm3587
Why? It seems that both types of drink-receivers are playing on the willingness of the other party to buy the receiver a drink based on the remote possibility of romance or sex. And that the drink-receiver knows this, and might occasionally be interested. That might not be true for all drink-receivers, but it seems that if you're always hanging around a bar flirting with a party who wants to fuck you and drinking their drinks, post drink consuming fucking or romancing is not completely out of the realm of possibility.

When you say that the customs are different, are you saying that gay men don't sometime buy other men drinks to let them know that they want to fuck and/or romance them? Because that's my impression of how it works.

OK, if a straight guy who is really straight (and not just on the down-low) accepts a drink from the gay guy, he is CATEGORICALLY not going to put out for that guy or any other guy, ever. Whereas, the vast majority of straight women, particularly those in bars, have put out for guys in the past and will in the future. So the guy buying the drink isn't categorically excepted. It's possible.

How difficult is this to understand? Not very. Jesus.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
OK, if a straight guy who is really straight (and not just on the down-low) accepts a drink from the gay guy, he is CATEGORICALLY not going to put out for that guy or any other guy, ever.

depends what you mean by "put out."

the vast majority of straight women, particularly those in bars, have put out for guys in the past and will in the future. So the guy buying the drink isn't categorically excepted. It's possible.

Are you hinting?

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by Not Me
NOT REPEATING THE DEFAMATORY AND LIBELLOUS MATERIAL NOT ME (Who is not me) SAID ABOUT MR. CRUISE, AN ENTERTAINER ABOUT WHOM I HAVE THE UTMOST RESPECT AND OF WHOM WOULD NEVER EVER QUESTION HIS HETEROSEXUALITY

How stupid are you? How many more warnings do I need to give? Jesus H. Christ. If the RIAA (and soon, the MPAA) can sue individuals on the internet for torts, certainly Mr. Cruise can and will. I'm getting out of here before we're all named jointly and severally.

[Not Me]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
How stupid are you? How many more warnings do I need to give? Jesus H. Christ. If the RIAA (and soon, the MPAA) can sue individuals on the internet for torts, certainly Mr. Cruise can and will. I'm getting out of here before we're all named jointly and severally.

Can you imagine the discovery you would be entitled to in preparing your defense? You do know his ex-wife Mimi Rogers is not too friendly with him and has made claims about their sex life or lack thereof, don't you?

Not to mention the money you would be able to make writing a book about the experience . . . .

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Not Me

When you were a kid and teams were divided into shirts vs. skins, did you become confused by what you viewed as a redundancy?

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
When you were a kid and teams were divided into shirts vs. skins, did you become confused by what you viewed as a redundancy?

I am sure that the PE teacher at my school would have loved nothing more than to get us to take our shirts off, but she was smart enough to know she would be arrested if she did.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by leagleaze
The man is straight, most straight men behave just fine in gay bars, but the occasional straight man does not.

I'm not up on the terminology, I guess. Isn't the "occasional straight man" more commonly called "bisexual"?