NTTAWWT

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Happy 4rth, Jabrones.

Some of my fondest memories were blowing up my my sister's barbies with M-80s!

Boom.

I did make it 45 minutes into Hamilton before I retreated into the basement to watch The Dark Night Rises. History is cool and all, but it never makes me want to belt out a song.

That guy should be very appreciative. I can't believe you spent 45 minutes in him. NTTAWWT. Did you need the money? People are willing to do crazy things for money. It seems understandable to retreat to a safe place like a basement especially if you are ashamed of your actions. Indeed a dark night, I don't blame you for not being happy enough to start singing, especially if you have history with the guy. I hope you are OK.

Musicals are just not my thing. Even if there was musical porn, I would not be interested.

#metoo

See you said musical porn, and I immediately went about thinking how that would work. Would the songs be interludes to the sex scenes or would the plot play during the talking parts and the sex scenes contained the singing.

You're supposed to masturbate Will... not worry about the music.

Definitely over thinking it!!!!!

LOLOLOL

Think Deep Throat with West Side Story dancers in the background. It would be pretty hard for her to sing during most of the scenes.

Wikka-wikka-wow-wow!

musical porn

grunting in tune. Now that's talent.

The Blue Oyster presents "The Fondler on the Roof"

Even if there was musical porn, I would not be interested.

Even thinking about that is disturbing ........

I have won for today.

This wasn't exceptional comment, but I think you are being a bit hard down voting yourself.

LOL

Didn’t even noticed I did that. Love my replacement 6s screen.

Oh, God. A musical.

That was pretty fkn bad. Some musicals have great songs. That one not so much.

A Nation's Story: "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"

On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass gave a keynote address at an Independence Day celebration and asked, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" Douglass was a powerful orator, often traveling six months out of the year to give lectures on abolition. His speech was delivered at an event commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence, held at Corinthian Hall in Rochester, New York. It was a scathing speech in which Douglass stated, "This Fourth of July is yours, not mine, You may rejoice, I must mourn."

In his speech, Douglass acknowledged the Founding Fathers of America, the architects of the Declaration of Independence, for their commitment to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness":

“Fellow Citizens, I am not wanting in respect for the fathers of this republic. The signers of the Declaration of Independence were brave men. They were great men, too, great enough to give frame to a great age. It does not often happen to a nation to raise, at one time, such a number of truly great men. The point from which I am compelled to view them is not, certainly, the most favorable; and yet I cannot contemplate their great deeds with less than admiration. They were statesmen, patriots and heroes, and for the good they did, and the principles they contended for, I will unite with you to honor their memory….

Douglass states that the nation's founders are great men for their ideals for freedom, but in doing so he brings awareness to the hypocrisy of their ideals with the existence of slavery on American soil. Douglass continues to interrogate the meaning of the Declaration of Independence, to enslaved African Americans experiencing grave inequality and injustice:

"…Fellow-citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here to-day? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us? and am I, therefore, called upon to bring our humble offering to the national altar, and to confess the benefits and express devout gratitude for the blessings resulting from your independence to us?"

I say it with a sad sense of the disparity between us. I am not included within the pale of glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
"What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"
"...Would to God, both for your sakes and ours, that an affirmative answer could be truthfully returned to these questions! Then would my task be light, and my burden easy and delightful. For who is there so cold, that a nation’s sympathy could not warm him? Who so obdurate and dead to the claims of gratitude, that would not thankfully acknowledge such priceless benefits? Who so stolid and selfish, that would not give his voice to swell the hallelujahs of a nation’s jubilee, when the chains of servitude had been torn from his limbs? I am not that man. In a case like that, the dumb might eloquently speak, and the 'lame man leap as an hart.'

But such is not the state of the case. I say it with a sad sense of the disparity between us. I am not included within the pale of glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common. The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought light and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn..."

—Frederick Douglass, July 5, 1852

This speech given by Frederick Douglass would be remembered as on of his most poignant. Read the speech in full on PBS. ---------------------https://nmaahc.si.edu/blog-...

What the media omitted: Trump had a huge tarp over Mount Rushmore, and announced to the crowd that he would replace all the Presidents with faces of their wives.

Some soft confused clapping.

Then he uncovered the tarp and said "Just kidding! Here are our Alien Overlords!"

Followed by some soft confused clapping. With one drunken guy in the back yelling "YEAH!!!"

That was my cousin. We had a bet. I owe him $100

Gaining your independence from Britain is something a lot of the world can celebrate.

At least you all remember the date.

Eamon De Valera wrote the Irish constitution on a beer mat in a pub over a pint and the Irish Free state ended on the 29th December 1937 when the country took the name "Ireland". Probably 5 people in a hundred in Ireland would know the relevance of the 29th of December. Everyone in America knows the 4th of July - it's not celebrated - ... or does everyone know what the 4th of July actually means over there?

In honor of the 4th of July here's super patriot Liberace tearing it up with the Yankee Doodle Boogie. Typical Liberace, waaaay over the top, silly and with some great playing.

I posted this before I read the stuff about musicals. Oh well!!!!!!! Never really cared who Liberace was sleeping with as an adult and as a kid I liked him before I even knew what gay people were. Same with Little Richard. I knew they were different but it mostly made me laugh.

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I did a gallery show CB in Palm Springs. We had a great two hours, a lot of "influential" people attended and we were giddy. The crowd began to thin out and you could now engage with the guests.

"those Reindeer are spectacular, it must have taken weeks to glue all those rhinestones on and look at the musculature..... how perfect in your setting, how did you build those?"

Two gay guys were fawning over two chest high Reindeer sculptures covered in Rhinestones.

"No sir, I did not build them. I used to design Liberace's house for Christmas and he gave them to me"

"Liberace's?"

"Yes, sir, nice man"

Both of em pose in front of my installation and begin social media'ing and my buddy who owns the gallery says something like, hey lets shut down and go to dinner.

Within 10 minutes, the gallery is packed again and everyone is shooting the vignette with Liberace's Deer. I received a dozen offers to purchase the deer.

My piano teacher (she had a masters in music education and she minored in Piano at University) had a piano teacher that was a concert pianist. Her teacher was going to perform some place in Vegas and the promoter had provided a substandard piano for her to practice (she was going to be there for multiple days/shows). Wherever it was in Vegas, Liberace heard her practicing on this crappy piano. He went over and introduced himself (that always kills me when famous people do that, So nice). He offered her one of his pianos to use while she was in town (she took him up on his offer). Said he couldn't have been nicer.

My parents saw his Vegas show and raved about him.

From what I remember all the old ladies LOVED him. I always really liked him but as a kid that wasn't exactly cool so I didn't say much about it. As an adult, all that campy, glitzy, over-the-top stuff always made me laugh. Show Biz! He and Victor Borge were two of the best hosts of the Muppets.

Borge... wow, that is diving deep into memories.

Funny and talented.

He charmed my Grandma.... he called me Grandson, never could remember my name so he just went with Grandson.

Nicest man. So gracious. Home was very over decorated and super glammy.

I did a super models wedding.... Italian runway model. CB, every time we met i could smell her on me for hours. Intoxicating. So feminine unlike the Cali girls.

She married a club owner dude from Chicago. Pretty sure he got kicked out by the wise guys and he was a piece of work. Throw back to another time. He would build a club out of an old building and sell it when it became big. At this time, he had at least 6 clubs running in LA and he was in so many controversies.... just did what he wanted, fuck off anyone who didn't like it. Permits? What fucking permits, type guy.

I was scared of him and she was always hugging me and crossing her immaculate legs and hugging me.... very Italian.

Her feet were a work of art.

Anyway, wedding day comes and a VERY eclectic guest crowd fills in.

I'm almost finished, just have to go pay my respects to Angie when Steve walks in.... "Hippy, wanna hit".... groom passes me a joint in the middle of the venue.

There is a small piano tucked into the side of the bar and beyond that, a pergola patio where "Boogie Knights" was doing sound check.... popular disco band that are really hard rockers.

This man that looks like Gene Simmons pushes his walker past me and says "Excuse Me".... the walker is actually a stroller and inside the baby seat is a huge pit bull dressed in cashmere scarfs and throws.... emotionless, just sitting there like a baby.

Next to the Gene Simmons doppleganger, a fucking slutty hot 23 yr old, long legged, short short skirt porn star type girl follows him to keep his balance.

Every single vendor, worker, photographer stood still in silence. In awe or shock, this couple was a TV show in and of themselves.

Dude stops and whispers in the porn stars ear.... she takes the doggy carraige and arranges it next to the wall behind the piano and helps "Gene Simmons" onto the piano bench.

The room is still at a stand still and Boogie Nights stops playing as they see him now next to them. I'm sure that they thought he was Gene Simmons. I did.

Dude rolls up his sleeves and begins playing the most beautiful music I could imagine. Melancholy turned jazz turned classical turned blues turned every head. He was a virtuoso.

Porn star swayed her hips to the dog.

I saw Boogie KNights leave for the parking lot... I assumed to change into their costumes.

Hug and kiss Angie, tell her about the piano and all she says is "The man is brilliant and ecentric... Steve's type of friend".

Crew and I hit the parking lot with piano music filling up the Ojai Valley Summerhouse. Amazing.

I walk up the drummer for Boogie Knights and HE hands me a lit joint.

He drops his sunglasses and asks... "Who is that guy?"

"I dunno, you guys changing into your costumes"

"No, we are fucking mortified to play with that man in the room. Guitar player is throwing up he's so nervous now."

I wonder who it was. You know GS does not possess that talent.

Funny story; Liberace is on Letterman and Dave's asking him about missing shows. Liberace only missed one show in his life up to that point. Dave asked why and Liberace responded, pulled groin. Dave shoots back instantly, your own? Liberace almost fell off his chair he was laughing so hard.

He did not take himself so seriously like many in Hwood did at the time. Great story.

It was not Gene Simmons, it looked like a 75yr old version of him though. He had giant rings on every finger.

I'm constantly amazed when people you kinda/sorta know but not all that well, sit down with an instrument (usually a piano or guitar) and just nail something. You didn't even know they played or thought they were like me and not exactly a virtuoso.

Holy fuck I've just read the end of the last thread.

Talk about fascism and racism being alive and well. Holy fuck.

Butch, even if you were loaded, that's no excuse.

What exactly is racist about pointing out the atrocities that the Chinese communist committed?

Or are you referring to the Alpha Draconis link...

Remember Irish thinks any other dictator regime on the whole planet is preferable to the US of A. Its probably a grass is always green situation.

I'm always a kind of "Does the Iron Curtain match the drapes?" kind of guy.

Yes, in Irish's world, Lincoln, Mao, they're all the same.

"prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular racial or ethnic group ..."

Between Muslims and Chinese ... that's 3.2 billion people this blog pisses on ... or about 40% of the world's population. That's a lot of hatred right there. That's a dangerous amount.

Wait, so if I say that what the Chinese Commies are doing to the Uighurs is unacceptable, I'm being racist towards Chinese or Muslims?

The answer is neither cause I'm against Chinese Commies, not the Chinese.

Aren't ppl from Hong Kong Chinese?

So standing up for them is also somehow anti-chinese according to the book of Irish?

Or siding with the students at Tienam Square - that's somehow anti-Chinese too?

Or saying Mao was a murdering tyrant is somehow racist in your book?

C'mon brah. That sounds looney.

It doesn't just sound...

And then there was Vlad The Impaler...
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Full article..recommended reading for any DBB sadists
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One man's dracula is another's super-dracula!

I can enjoy a good musical. There's West Side Story, Sound of Music, The Wall, and....then uh uh... Jack Black's Pick of Destiny?

Is the new Cats a descent into the weirdest hell? (I've only seen the trailer.)

I don't mind musicals, in general. But in high school, I was drafted to be in the pit orchestra for Music Man and Annie. I can't tolerate either now.

Grease. I kind of like Grease 2 too. What's not to like with a song about bowling that's really about getting laid. Something new... 'Blinded By The Light'...About how Springsteen music changed the life of a young Pakistani kid growing up in England. It's based on a real story.

Is the new Cats a descent into the weirdest hell?

From what I have read, if you watch it you will be permanently emotionally and mentally damaged .......