Where the Kids Come to Mouth Off

[Anne Elk]

According to boston.com Yusaf Islam, formerly Cat Stevens, was denied entry into the US. His name appears on a federal watch list. He's hanging out in Bangor, ME waiting for the next flight out of the country.

I know some of his songs can be painful to listen to, but this seems like overkill.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
SS,

Please, for Chrissakes, do not use the term "tummy". Its awful.

Thanks,
SD

How's the belly, bunny?

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
They left out my favorite:

"When I was a little boy, I wanted to be a baseball player and join the circus. With the Yankees, I've accomplished both."

- Graig Nettles

They left out every Yogi-ism.

TM

[leagleaze]

Originally posted by Aloha Mr. Learned Hand
Not to be the human sexuality Timmy or anything, but isn't dancing with the old dude to the end of love a tad inconsistent with your newfound lesbian -ism, -ness, -osity, -whatever?

No, dancing with old dudes is quite consistent with lesbianism, both new and old found. Dancing with hot, young dudes (unless gay) not so much.

[Aloha Mr. Learned Hand]

Originally posted by Anne Elk
According to boston.com Yusaf Islam, formerly Cat Stevens, was denied entry into the US. His name appears on a federal watch list. He's hanging out in Bangor, ME waiting for the next flight out of the country.

I know some of his songs can be painful to listen to, but this seems like overkill.

The whole "Peace Train" crap didn't work out I guess, so he started funding Hamas.

He should be deported for his body of work if nothing else, but if that were the standard we'd need a whole new federal agency to round up other purveyors of crap across the country...

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Someone explain line dancing to me. I don't get it.*

Guys and gals (work with me) put on their best acid-washed jeans, cowboy hat and cowboy boots, shine up their biggest buckle and put on their bestest denim shirt with the leather patches on the shoulders, drive their pickup down to the most popular watering hole, knock back a couple six-packs of Bud and stand in lines, two feet apart from each other and proceed to plug their thumbs behind their belt buckles while performing the same, previously agreed upon 4 variations of the two-step** while not so subtlely counting out the beats with silent lips?

I only started noticing it after the Electric Slide (which is a stain on our culture) died the death in a way that made it only acceptable to do at really bad weddings -- and that was like 1990. Is there some long tradition of line dancing that I should know about?

Someone help me out with this. And when you're done, help me with this photo:

TM

*Maybe Hank invented it?

**I've gone hyphen crazy!

I meant to post this last night. One of the most surreal things I've ever seen was at a gay rodeo somewhere around Frederick, Maryland in 1999. 250 gay men, in a very complicated line dance to a remix of Madonna's Don't Cry For Me Argentina. Not a single step was missed. It was a sight to behold.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

I'll echo the happy birthday to Leonard, the alpha and the omega, and for whom I'd gladly bear children and sweep his hut for the rest of my life.

In other news, pioneering filmmaker and director of one of my favorite kitschy hot-violent-chicks-with-torpedo-tits films*, Russ Meyer, has died. Kill, kill indeed.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp..._us/obit_meyer

*hyphen-madness

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Mister_Ruysbroeck
Interesting development. I've never seen someone "come out" on-line. So, are you gay or bi or trying to figure out which?

I'm pretty much the same as I've always been. I just didn't realize that meant I was a lesbian.

[baltassoc]

Originally posted by leagleaze
No, dancing with old dudes is quite consistent with lesbianism, both new and old found. Dancing with hot, young dudes (unless gay) not so much.

Since I am rapidly approaching being an old dude, and am certainly not a hot, young dude, I'm going to take this as a silver lining.

Congratulations, RT, on your new-found clarity.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I meant to post this last night. One of the most surreal things I've ever seen was at a gay rodeo somewhere around Frederick, Maryland in 1999. 250 gay men, in a very complicated line dance to a remix of Madonna's Don't Cry For Me Argentina. Not a single step was missed. It was a sight to behold.

Glorious Frederick. I used to drive through Frederick on my way to DC and loved that HUGE liquor store/gas station in it. Ever been there? Its nuts... like a Walmart of liquor right in a gas station complex, with super low prices. I wonder if its still there... God, I miss DC.

[dtb]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
When people meet IRL, say ACL, do you sometimes use monikers to refer to each other? I know you have to use real names because there are others there.

When you guys post do you sometimes almost say Bob or whatever, instead of SS?

I don't understand your question, oh grammar-challenged one. Have you been at the demon liquor again?

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

[spoiler maybe]






So, is American Airlines particularly excited that the race was decided essentially because American's flight out of Calgary was cancelled/delayed because it didn't get in the night before, and then couldn't put people on its flight because of FAA restrictions on checked baggage?

Good ad for the airline industry.

Oh, and be glad Twinkies keep for decades, so you can stock up now.

[Shape Shifter]

I saw the real-life Soup Nazi interviewed on some fox news show last night. He spent the first few minutes protesting that Seinfeld's characterization of him was unfair. Then he announced that he would be franchising his soup stores, and that his soup would soon be available on a wide scale for $30 a quart. When questioned about the steep price he replied, "Well, you must be qualified to get that soup!" I almost fell out of my chair.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by dtb
I don't understand your question, oh grammar-challenged one. Have you been at the demon liquor again?

I think I see what he's getting at. Hank, it is not normally a problem with posters because you're used to referring to them by their monikers online. However, when I was doing the ACL recaps, because she doesn't have a moniker, I had to keep reminding myself to refer to RT's sister as "RT's sister." I kept wanting to write "Penelopee."

[Shape Shifter]

Well, I missed the Emmys. But thanks to blogmeister Ty, I have been reading James Wolcott's blog. His amusing Emmys recap can be found here.