Tags
Now that's a tight end!
Sorry. Y’all will have to accept some potato in your diet this weekend because I couldn’t find appropriate pix of Asian football players. It’s not a sport they excel at. Meaning it’s not ping pong. And tomorrow is Super Bowl Sunday, the day each year all the gay men in America gather around the television for thirty minutes, bookended by the country’s dykes’ fascination with hunky men playing with their balls. The Super Bowl, for you non-Americans, is the big annual playoff between the best two football teams in the country. That’s be American football, not what the rest of you mistakenly call football.
If you haven’t heard, Madonna is making her not-comeback at this year’s Super Bowl. She’ll be the headline act during half-time. Madonna has promised she is bringing the ‘old Madonna’ back and will reclaim her throne because she is just as tired of Lady Gaga as the rest of us. Britney Spears will be joining her for one song during the opening stop of her 2012 Has-Been Tour.
If Madonna is really going back to her roots, we should expect to see an ‘accidental’ wardrobe malfunction ala Janet Jackson. That’s what the original material girl would do. But then at 53, let’s hope someone in her encourage has enough balls to tell her to keep herself covered. No one wants to see a senior citizen’s tired, old sagging breast.
And speaking of old tired sagging breasts, while campaigning in Florida this week Mitt for Brains serenaded an old-folks home by singing America The Beautiful. Several choruses in fact. Mitt ain’t no Ray Charles. If you are not familiar with the song, it’s a beautiful ode to an America that no longer exists. But then Mitt’s America doesn’t either, so no foul.
Mitt’s sudden desire to channel Rosemary Clooney was brought on by President Obama’s recent rendition of the Al Greene classic Let’s Stay Together. Let’s see, a 64-year-old Mormon and his magic underwear in a sing-off with a black man. You have to wonder what whoever does Mitt’s thinking for him was thinking.
We could avoid the excruciating boredom of this year’s presidential election by having the candidates appear on a special episode of American Idol instead. But then a battle of ancient crooners could just mean Madonna would be our next president.
It looks more like a wide receiver in the photo — not a very tight end. Of course you do like ’em a little bulkier than some. 🙂
Your blog gets better & better. So shocked to read this week the thin-skinned comments of fountainbore and thaiworthy (e.g., “vile and disgusting beyond imagination” http://www.gaythailand.com/forums/topic/7676-the-value-or-otherwise-of-blogs/)! It must be such an honor to have fountainbore take a break from making cucumber sandwiches for his low tea to comment on your font size!
Thanks Mitch, and yeah I was thinking his butt was still a bit on the small side.
🙂
“vile and disgusting beyond imagination” ???? I’m sure if Thaiworthy took better care of himself the boys wouldn’t say such unkind things about him. Geeze, imagine what they say after he gets his clothes off!
I missed that thread on gaythailand, but then I haven’t clicked over there for quite a while. Last time Jabaa made a visit and that just about killed it for me. Besides, once every few months is enough; that’ll catch ya up to speed, it’s not a very active board.
Just remembered a Sports Illustrated article from late last year on Hmong football players (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1192874/1/index.htm — “4’11” and weighed 125 pounds” or “4’9″ and 120 pounds”). Photo: http://dz43m3bsp6hck.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Hmong-Football-Players.jpg
Thaiworry is in a fragile emotional state at present due to his postings on multiple message boards about how to get a retirement visa. It is such a complex process for the simple-minded that only thousands of people a year are able to get a retirement visa (or, as fountainbore would be dull to point out, a “Non-Immigrant Visa “O-A” (Long Stay)” http://www.mfa.go.th/web/2482.php?id=2493). Such a commotion on the boards lately on which immigration offices use “retirement” stamps, re-entry permits, yawn…
Cool link, thanks Mitch.
TW’s moving to Thailand? Damn. Now I have to go back and edit my post from earlier this week to 26 Uses For A Dead Elephant.
Although I enjoy your blog and your musings on Thailand and life in general, I am growing a bit weary of the knee-jerk political comments. They always bring back the suspicion that my gay brothers vote with their dicks instead of their brain cells.
Fair enough Rob, though the political commentary I post has more to do with humor I find in the current affairs of those who would like to lead our country out of the mess we have found ourselves in. Sorry, but when one of the leading candidates runs on a ‘family values’ platform while his record is filled with cheating on his spouse(s) and divorce, or thinks the country’s efforts should be to colonize the moon when one in four Americans have lost their house . . .
But thanks for your comment; criticism is as valuable as applause. And I’m glad you have been enjoying the nonpolitical portions of my blog.
Here’s one vote “for” your political comments! Wit is from the brain & anyone with something between their ears can easily differentiate humor from analysis. One comment above is akin to Fox News’ actual practice of showing clips from “The Colbert Report” or “The Daily Show with John Stewart” and complaining how unfair and unbalanced those shows are to the only true patriots!
President Obama lives the family values that the religious right claims to want. He has one devoted wife and two very well-regulated children. Unfortunately, folks like Rush Limbaugh have brainwashed their audiences to think President Obama is a Kenyan-born, socialist Muslim that was not once seen by any classmates when editor of the Harvard Law Review (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/images/2008/07/13/newyorkercover71408.jpg). Personally, I’m a big fan of President Obama. I like his politics, personality, and performance on the job especially in extricating us the bogus Bush wars and returning to diplomacy in foreign affairs. Four more years!
In contrast, some of the Republican candidates this primary season could have been characters in Peyton Place. Newt could emulate Jimmy Swagart’s tears and Bible carrying/thumping while declaring “The Lord told me it’s flat none of your business” to explain one of his divorces from a hospitalized cancer patient. Polygamy is in the not that distant past of one candidate’s religion and is still practiced by some fringe & splinter elements of that same religion. Not my idea of traditional family values! [Blacks could not join the Mormon church before 1978. Ancient history?] Did you ever watch the Borat movie where the moves are put on Ron Paul? “Queer” was Ron Paul’s most frequently used word (and he is the least homophobic of the remaining Republican candidates). It’s very tragic for the children, parents & family involved, but do you really want the country led by people (i.e., Palin or Santorum) who are too dumb to even know that having children too late in life is dangerous (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Trisomy21_graph.jpg or http://www.jstor.org/pss/3702393)?
But tell us how you really feel Mitch!
🙂
Thanks for your input and vote of appreciation.
To be fair, President Obama will undoubtedly open himself to ridicule too once the battle is between him and whomever. I’d love to see both candidates debate issues at the point, but I’m not going to hold my breath. So I’ll get lots of jokes in instead.
Personally, I tend to fall more on the conservative side of most issues but think overall the Democratic party offers the greatest chance to bring equality closer to reality for gay people in this country. Once you throw out the truly crazy stuff some of them spout, there is not a real big difference between the two parties any longer.
I watch Bill O’Reilly as often as I do Bill Maher and Stewart/Colbert. They all come from an extreme side, somewhere in the middle is where the truth sits. I think Stewart probably comes closest to being fair in his overall coverage of political events, but O’Reilly makes me laugh more. It’s a shame there is not a news program that presents politics without taking sides, but then that’s not new, news organizations have always preached to the choir.
The election after President Obama’s second term will be the one to really watch and I hope both parties come up with intelligent candidates who will consider the good of the country before bipartisanship politics. But then I also hope I win the lottery too.
I was a registered Republican until the Gore v. United States decision; however, I never voted for Bush 43 (a disgrace to the office & the country).
It’s certainly true that people tend to move away from their campaign rhetoric and govern more moderately after taking office. Campaigning against big government, yet increasing federal headcount while in office would make you a good Reagan Republican.
The Republican party used to be pro-business. Now it is pro-business executive. Beholden to special interests, donors, lobbyists, etc. Once the party that freed the slaves. Now the party of choice for klansmen and other bigots!
I’m for limited government & strong defense, but I can’t support a party that hates people like us. Quite unjust for a majority to think it’s okay to discriminate against a minority. We know how many countries (and states) allow gay marriage & so far none of those governments or societies have collapsed from allowing gay marriage. We know how many militaries allow gays to serve & how many of those militaries have collapsed after integration of gays. Just bigotry from the majority against a minority.
We have excellent health care if you have money or insurance. Per capita health care expenditures are off the chart for us, yet millions of Americans are uninsured. Being the only developed country without universal coverage isn’t anything to boast about. Any plans from the Republicans aside from saying anything from Obama is terrible? Too few doctors? Tort reform? Copy other countries for more affordable pharmaceuticals? No, just say anything from the opposition is terrible.
I turn the channel when the guests talk over each other & especially when the hosts interrupt the guests. I guess it passes as entertainment these days. O’Reilly interrupting the President repeatedly in an exclusive interview. What a jerk!
Yup Mitch, that’s why I tend to focus on the gay issues when considering candidates. It’s one of the few areas where there is a dividing line between the parties. And for some reason the Republicans have decided to claim the homophobe block.
I’d like to blame the politicians for turning races into popularity contests and issues into sound bites, but it really is more the fault of the public. They listen to their favorite talking head for a 15 second synopsis of an important issue and then rally behind the banner even when it goes against their best interest. Health care is a good example. The majority of the people who were so irate at those town hall meetings were the people who the proposed legislation would have helped. But their ‘leaders’ said it was bad, so they were against it.
Which, I think, was the point Rob P. was making.
Single issue politics will NEVER solve the enormous problems our democracy faces today and neither will Presidents, such as the one who currently occupies our White House, who panders to special interest groups and spends what little is left of our public treasure like a drunken sailor. One can only hope that the voter this November will look beyond his/her sexual preference and consider the bigger picture.
True Rob, but my point is that I do not see a Republican candidate offering any other solutions to our many problems, and so instead focus on gay issues to differentiate between the two parties. Maybe when a nominees is selected we’ll hear about issues and solutions rather than sound bites, but I doubt it. Quite frankly I’d put gay issues aside in favor of any candidate who has a sensible plan for improving our country.