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Ruby Starr, who has since left us, keeps pulling her very short skirt/something down so her bottom won’t show on national TV.
Yep, juvenile. How else to deal with someone like this?
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The Scorpions, the German pop metal band cosmically famous in the mid-to-late Eighties, have just issued Comeblack, an album of covers. Most of which are total crap. However, a redo of the Small Faces “Tin Soldier” is worthy, if in a special way. And I’ve set up the blog post so you can see how I mean it.
The Scorps “Tin Soldier,” with Klaus Meine singing, “I’m a little tin solder that wants to jump into your fire” and more, is — well, so very gay. And I mean this in a good way, think Village People and camp, so to speak.
I’ve set this up so you can see this version of “Tin Soldier” as the soundtrack for the trailer to Taxi Zum Klo, an old and rather charmingly amusing foreign movie about life in gay Germany.
For this to work, now — achtung (!), turn the sound on the first YouTube video to off. It’s called muting.
Now start the trailer. Then quick start the Scorpions tune in the lower embed. Ignore it, easy to do, and watch the trailer with the new music. (The trailer is only 1:35, enough to get the feel. But if you want, since the Scorps tune will still be playing, haul the trailer track button back into replay.)
Wunderbar!
Taxi Zum Klo, Taxi to the Toilet, herein as Scorpions zum Klo.
I could have stripped the music from the original movie trailer and overdubbed the video with the Scorpions track. But using this method, there’s no need to mess with the original owners with a new upload.
Still, I love the results and I hope you’ll appreciate it in the spirit intended. I like the movie and the tune.
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“And sent from on high, would come a prophet, in simple sleeveless vestments, to help the faithful defeat the wicked king, before he spreads his health care seed!”
Mark Fiore cartoon animation on the wisdom of the bishops. The guy who does the voices is teh shit!
Here. Go now.
Evil Boys, a Dead Boys tribute band, doing the best version of “(I Don’t Wanna Be No) Catholic Boy” on YouTube. Finns, yet. Who’d figure?
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Since no one else will link. My generation is way too full of goody-two shoes-es.
Many have fond memories of colorful sloe gin fizz misadventure.
Back when I still had hope I managed a swimming pool in the summer. During the season we had private parties for the staff. My best friend was the pool handyman and toward the end of the night he boasted he could drink just about anything.
I eyed a half full bottle of sloe gin on the table beside him. Betcha can’t do that, I said.
He accepted that challenge. Took about five minutes to wind up on the sidewalk outside.
I drove by the next day and the owner of the rental where we’d had the party was out trying to hose a baked-in stain off the cement.
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In the expert torturer’s hands, the idiot algorithms are made to gibber the truth.
At GlobalSecurity.Org here. I’m into malicious misuse of tags and keywords, too.
Another benefit is the scaring off of readers without a well-developed sense of humor.
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“Slaves can not play hockey.” Who would argue?
My favorite unique social protest group, the Ukrainian FEMEN, again in a collection of photos, this time in Zurich, Schweiz (the well known country for stealth banking and corporate wealth tax evasion), protesting the Hockey World Cup.
Their photographer has quite some talent.
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A collection of photos taken of FEMEN, a unique Ukrainian social protest group, at the World Economic Forum in Davis, Schweiz, is here at Cryptome.
Do go there at once to see them full size and — ahem — in the flesh.
The Davos World Economic Forum is where all the parasites and arch-villains masters of the global economy and idea farm meet each year to discuss how things are to be messed up in the coming months.
I think you’ll agree, though, the action to not be missed was all outside and of more humble origin. It was good to be a policeman on that day.
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The deluxe version comes with a year’s supply of injectable anabolic steroids in an on-board mini-fridge. Six gunports provide extra-clear fields of on-demand retaliatory fire.
Wha? Even local shires with no significant history of violent crime or threat try to get into the act. The Los Angeles Times informs today that South Pasadena, generally known for its population of swells, tree-lined streets and swank/genteel bungalow homes has acquired an urban combat vehicle for one dollar, sold off by Burbank, which is trading up on homeland security bucks.
You have to see the piece to believe it.
Reads the newspaper:
These days a dollar can buy a can of soda, a song on iTunes — or, in South Pasadena’s case, an armored vehicle.
Last week the city took delivery of a vehicle known as a Peacekeeper, paying Burbank $1 for the privilege. Burbank originally received the Peacekeeper as surplus from the U.S. Air Force …
The Peacekeeper saw no action during its Burbank years …
“Active shooter training is also a high priority for police officers that are facing a new type of terror threat as was seen in the Mumbai, India, terror attack,” [a South Pasadena city report on the Peacekeeper acquisition] said …
Burbank decided to sell the armored vehicle after it obtained a new BearCat SWAT vehicle in February 2009 through a $275,000 Homeland Security Department grant.
An advert for the Lenco BearCat is here. Grrrrr!
The Peacekeeper is made by arms manufacturer, Textron.
Population of South Pasadena: 25,000
Median home value: $600 — $700,000
Gus’s Barbecue in SouthPas, where I have eaten. Toggle the street view. A fine cigar shop is adjacent to Gus’s on the left.
Footnotes: Religious GOP extremism synonymous with being crazy AND unusually repellent.
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett is married to a lady who came from the same neighborhood I did in Schuylkill Country. We lived on the same street, her sisters were acquaintances, one in my class, and I occasionally had been in their house.
Watch closely and you’ll see actual heevahavas. If you’re a longtime reader you know what it means. If not, check the definition. It’s from the old Crypt Newsletter. In this case, the heevahava is not a Pennsylvania Dutch farm hand but an Englishman in that part of the race horse industry devoted to furthering genetics.
Editorial heavy lifting — Pine View Farm.
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The Mitt Romney Blues is the soundtrack and you had it here a couple weeks ago. And if it had been Jon Stewart who made it instead of me, you’d have told everyone you know to stick it in their iKit.
With a cynical little push from Newt Gingrich, the Republican voters who aren’t in the 1 percent are figuring out it’s easy to despise the vulture capitalist symbol-of-the-system who jokes about being unemployed, patronizingly insists corporations are people, likes firing people and hides his investment income in the Cayman Islands and Switzerland.
It’s a bounty of riches in SchadenFreude.
Image from this piece at DailyKos.
Choose one epic case of Unpleasant Crazy Scapegoater from column A …
Or the Guy Who Fired You and acts like the jokers in Damn It Feels Good to Be a Banksta, from B.
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