When I have a few too many beverages its all nostalgia all the time. Hungraaaaaaaaaaaay.
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Fuck Lee Siegel. Not In the Nice Way.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/30/memo-to-the-south-go-ahead-secede-already.html
Lee Siegel, flaming bag of shit, has written an article titled thusly: Memo to the South: Go Ahead and Secede Already!
Now look, I get it. Y’all are tired of our rootin’ tootin’ rough and rowdy ways. Our “traditional values” (racism). Our cusine (fat fat fat). I get frustrated with this place too. I do. But you need to chill that “THESE STATES WANT TO SECEDE!” shit out. Some rather loud wack-jobs want to secede. Most people in the south do not want to secede.
Again, I get it. We’re fat, ignorant, racist, gun-toting, weirdos who talk funny. We also happened to give the world Jazz, blues, country, rock and roll, William Faulkner, Carson McCullers, and Jimmy Fucking Carter. We also give you more military personnel than any other region. It kills me, but here is a (ugh) Heritage Foundation link about regional demographics of the military.
http://www.heritage.org/static/reportimages/E8F05D884C7E78E45A200DC953ED3854.gif
This country didn’t go through the crucible of the Civil War only to fracture because we couldn’t get together on health-care.
History is FELT here. The sickening legacy of slavery led to one of the bloodiest conflicts in history and that led to the shameful post-bellum era in which people of color suffered mightily at the hands of their former slavers and would-be slavers and the generations who came after. A post-bellum era that only ended in the 1970s if you want to be generous. An era that still echoes loudly in some dark corners. An era that still continues today. (See Barack Obama’s campaign and Tea-Partiers reaction to it)
Third time: I GET IT. I am a holder of minority opinions down here. But I’m tryin’, Ringo. I’m tryin’ real hard. We’re moving the dial a little bit to the left with every generation. If it’s too slow for you, maybe you should shut the fuck up and instead come down here and try to change some minds. Try to re-frame the issues. TRY TO HELP.
I believe, as William Blake said, that a dog starved at his masters gate predicts the ruin of the state, I support a woman’s right to choose, gun control, affordable health care, campaign finance reform, the separation of church and state, and Lee Siegel’s right to whine about things which he knows not of, AND I SUPPORT THE STATE OF LOUISIANA IN ALL HER GLORY. (Except for Bobby Jindal and David Vitter and the like)
Lee Siegel: a person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices; especially : one who regards or treats the members of a group (as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance
Oh wait. That’s the definition of “bigot” according to Merrriam-Webster.
Fuck people who want to secede, fuck Brad Paisley, fuck LL Cool J, and fuck Lee Siegel. This has been “How to Lose Followers and Alienate People with Deepsouthlefty” I leave you with this:
How then shall we perform it? At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest, with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years.
At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, If it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
—Abraham (BORN IN KENTUCKY) Lincoln
Speech given at the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois. January 27, 1838
A message to all you rude boys out there…The Specials are still ridiculously cool.
(Source: rockabilliejoe, via luciel0u)
In my mind I see you there
with your raven eyes
and your coal black hair
down on Tchoupitoulas Street
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Oh Oh, Domino
Say it again, I said oh oh, Domino.
Bon anniversaire to Claudine Auger, who played Domino in Thunderball.
She’s right up there with wine, cheese, and art in reasons I’m a Francophile.
Ooh la la. 
Zut alors!
Who needs TV when I’ve got T-Boz?
Happy 43rd birthday to Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins. I know this video doesn’t have the amazing 90s CGI of “Waterfalls” but I feel that it more than makes up for that in the over-sized silk pajamas department.
LISTEN TO THIS NOW!
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The Temptations had a hit with this Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong penned song in 1970. The lyrics were still relevant in 1985 when Love and Rockets put it on Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven and they are still relevant today.
“Segregation, determination, demonstration,
Integration, aggravation,
Humiliation, obligation to our nation”
IVE NEVER LAUGHED HARDER IN MY WHOLE LIFE OMG
“What? I’m just touching it.”
Big Trouble in Little China by bcapazo
When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol’ Jack Burton always says at a time like that: “Have ya paid your dues, Jack?” “Yessir, the check is in the mail.”-Jack Burton (Kurt Russell)
