Another Phil Anselmo Post

It's been a while since I've done a post about how hot former Pantera frontman Phil Anselmo used to be, so here's a new one. I'm sure he wouldn't be happy to hear it, but watching videos of him performing when I was a kid was probably one of the things that turned me gay... In case you never listened to the metal band Pantera, here's Exhibit A:

"Walk" - Pantera

And Exhibit B:

"This Love" - Pantera

Talk amongst yourselves.

It's Thanksgiving...

And since it's Thanksgiving, take this time to consider just how normal it would have seemed to see a story like this on cable news today, and be thankful that you didn't:



Obama Outlines Moral, Philosophical Justifications For Turkey Pardon

Exchange between Me and a Gay Shoe Salesman

Here's the scene. I'm at a shoe store looking for a new pair of boots when a 40-ish, vaguely fem shoe salesman comes to ask if he can help me.

GAY SHOE SALESMAN: What kind of boots are you looking for?

ME: Workboots.

GAY SHOE SALESMAN: Do you work in construction?

ME: No...

(GAY SHOE SALESMAN looks over my leather jacket, suspiciously)

GAY SHOE SALESMAN: Ohhhhhh....

At that point, I could have probably just said, "I'm looking for a pair of boots to wear at MAL, or while throat-fucking forty year old subs..." But I guess I'm too shy to say that to someone in their workplace.

In other news, I need a new pair of boots for MAL and throat-fucking subs; ages 26-45ish. I'll take any suggestions/volunteers/etc.

Maintenance Issues

For the past day or so there was a strange message coming up saying there was an image linked without authorization from the Thumblogger server and prompting a user name and password. I think I just got rid of it. It seems Thumblogger doesn't allow you to link blog icons from their site, so I shut them off and it seems to have done the trick. This would also be a good time to apologize to my readers for not updating this blog enough. So here's my pledge - for the fiftieth time - to start paying more attention to this blog again.

Also, I really dislike these new Blogger layouts and I kind of want my original Minima Black 2-columns back again. Something about this layout reminds me of MySpace. 

Responding to (the Rising Amount of) Pseudo-Intellectual Bullshit from Gays

Lately I've been getting political criticism on this blog that sounds disturbingly similar to the Tea Party crowd. All the racist, classist gays seem to be comfortable coming out these days. The fact that this anonymous commenter couldn't even put his name up on my Columbus Day post speaks for itself:

Howard Zinn was an active member of the communist party who stated that he was to the left of Mao Zedong, the commie responsible for the deaths of 70 million of his countrymen; he supported Castro, the commie who turned Cuba into a totalitarian prison camp while imprisoning, torturing, & murdering thousands (including gays, just for being gay - & still going on in Cuba). As any reader of his texts knows, he is a virulent hater of this country - the country that gives him the freedom to get rich spewing his hate-mongering hypocrisy. It's fashionable in your narrow-minded, arrogant little PC crowd to honor a jerk like Zinn, but it only illustrates your own hypocrisy.

--Stick to porn, something that doesn't tax your limited intellect.

I have a feeling which side this guy is voting for tomorrow...

And actually, if this guy knew his shit and was in any position to talk about the LGBT rights movement, he would know that the Gay Liberation movement had a complicated, though somewhat supportive view of the Cuban Revolution. They condemned the specific actions taken by the Cuban government against gays, and supported the fight against them, but they also greatly identified with the Revolution and with all people of the Third World in their struggle to throw off imperialism. But in this guy's mind, being supportive of oppressed peoples somehow equals calling for the execution of oppressed peoples, not to mention that Howard Zinn can't be blamed/given credit for any of this...It's a page straight out of the right-wing's propaganda playbook.

For more on the subject of Gay Liberation's relationship to Cuba, and also with the Black Panther Party and the Vietnam War, I strongly suggest reading the collected essays in Out of the Closets: Voices of Gay Liberation, edited by Karla Jay and Allen Young. Not all of it is visible online, but I'm embedding the preview of the section on Cuba right here: