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The Odor that was Pat Boone
Hustler featured him as a Fart in the wind of the month decades ago and the odor is again trying to rise from the dungheap of history. Pat was the ultimate Mr Whitey back in the day right down to his white socks and loafers.He thought he was the ultimate bad boy since he got rich performing what was known as Race Music.Yep he was the Vanilla Ice of his day and just as talentless.But he keep it going for a lot longer thanks to Jim Crow.The Black performers and writers he stole from had no standing in that era,they couldn't sue to recover what he took from them and called his own. Ed Sullivan and Dick Clark were the guys who did his career in as well as the british invasion of the mid 60s.These guys sought out and showcased the actual talent. The Simpsons once referred to Branson as Vegas as run by Ned Flanders (please note i like Ned Flanders despite his ways he's a good guy).Pat still got wealthy being the Rat Pack of Branson and had enough money to inflict his daughters screeching voice upon us by bankrolling her career. Sometimes it's just best to be forgotten,Pat had slipped from my mind decades ago just like the lyrics to you light up my life.Rotten Tomatoes wasn't around back then to give those things their proper reward.I can only say that the white sport coat and a pink carnation beg to be a target like the guy who would wear them.Should have stayed under the radar instead of outing yourself as an ugly chapter in American history.
Santorum-what goes round
Rick the Dick finally caught a taste of his own medicine or more precisly"the frothy mix of lube and fecal matter,a by product of anal sex" as defined by Dan Savage in his advice column Savage Love. Santorum the former pennsylvania senator brought down by his vocal outspoken hatred of anyone different from his kind.Dan Savage started the definition of Santorum campaign over a decade ago thru his mass readership to give Rick a taste of what was spewing from his mouth. Looks like it paid off since any Google search provides 6 results listing the definition before Santorums for President website. Rick is publicly crying because Google won't remove or ban results listing his earned definition and is threatening to sue Google if they don't fold from his supporters pressure campaign.Who does he think he is,the Chinese government? It was a really stupid move on his part because now the Flat Earth types know what was formerly a inside joke about him only known to the modern folks.As everyone now checks it out it only causes billions of more hits on the definition that was Dans vision of well earned payback for Penn states version of John Birch. Now i'm trying to think of Charlie Daniels song about his escape from the Deliverance types on his way to LA back in the 70s.
Remember Fahrenheit 451
I think the book came out in 68 and the movie soon followed its run on the bestseller list. It was about the near future when all books and print were banned,the job of Firemen was mainly to find and burn books.Paper would burn at 451 degrees hence the title. An e-mail this week made the unthinkable seem more possible than ever.I got a mass mailing from Borders saying that if i had any of their E Reader books i needed to register them with the new company that bought that service or the content would be turned off. Books gone in the blink of an eye.Made me think of Nazi Germany or Teabag Texas.Or the struggle of wikipedia to keep the extremists from re writing history to fit the words mouthed by their whacko leaders. Kinda the reason i never got into this E book fad anyway.I prefer reading print on paper as well as periodicals i like the feel.I'm also cheap,since i bought it i like to keep it out of a sense of history. I collect old car books as well as the handyman mags from the past.They give you a better sense of life in the times than any history book can.The popular mechanics/science and mechanics illustrated from say a century ago thru the 60s were full of illustrated articles on how to build and fix pratically everything.Now a days everyone is broke from having to buy things since they can't be fixed or are too complex to be made outside of the factory in china. Anyhow to be brief i won't be surrendering control of my collection of history and knowledge to some faceless corp trying to rule the world.This on top of the latest Fox media scandal should serve as a warning to all.
I can hear Royko Laughing from beyond the Grave
Before Fox and the Faux News Rupert the lowlife came to Chicago to pillage and plunder at the Sun-Times,he had just bought his citizenship from Reagan under a special investment program that gave expedited priority to those willing to invest 6 figures in US based business.What normally had a 5 year waiting period could be his instantly for the cash. Murdoch had to be a citizen before he could buy his first station and the paper was to establish that he was worthy to be in the media industry. This never sat well with plain spoken Mike Royko.The least derogatory think he ever said about murdoch was to name him "the Alien",never ever called him boss or by his given name. Mike wouldn't play the fox media game of sucking up to and bribing the politicos.Hell even Daley the first couldn't get Mike to play along,when the machine goon squads got to intense Mike wrote the book "Boss" detailing how the Daley machine operated naming the names and what they got for their services. Mike was so perturbed by "the Alien" that he fled the Times for the Tribune figuring it to be the lesser Hell. "The Alien" was furious having lost the papers top draw and writer/investigator,he vowed to use all his lawyers to force Royko back or silence him but it never happened since they were in such a hurry to buy the paper to become legit that they never made sure of the details. Royko stayed at the trib until he died the result of too many late night into day binges at The Billy Goat. Once the Fox network began "the Alien" lost interest in the Sun-Times and unloaded it on her majesties Ponzi man Conrad Black who did the print version of what the "GoodFellas" did to the restaurant. Like Studs Mike was a born writer and he left us a couple good books besides the best seller Boss.One i like is "sez who?,Sez Me"
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