do yourself a favor on this lovely saturday morning and don't start thinking about what the median age of a butthole surfers fan has to be, because if you do, this seems (a little) less obviously absurd. https://t.co/qllwd2bJWf
— GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachi) May 8, 2021
Also, that typo for ‘message’ in the embedded tweet is golden. I think you have to pay more than Cameo prices for a personal BS massage…
to be clear, the only reason i find it any amount of absurd is because i find the idea of cameo kind of absurd, but that's just a matter of personal preference.
— GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachi) May 8, 2021
To date myself… I never completely forgave my mother, during her stint as a low-level NYC mayoral campaign worker in 1969, when she turned down a Jimmy Breslin autograph to fangirl at Norman Mailer. She came home starry-eyed, chirping ‘I’ll never wash this hand [Mailer shook] again!’, and then told me that it was undignified to adulate a ‘mere’ newspaper columnist. (I wouldn’t find out for years that Gloria Steinem was one of the organizers behind that campaign, either.)
Raven
Vax live didn’t seem like a fundraiser
Mary G
It’s so nice to see silly stuff like this able to be front paged because TFG isn’t creating news every ten minutes. Thanks, President Biden. Boring is beautiful.
Another Scott
Mrs. Betty Bowers is doing that too. I guess it’s a thing.
Cheers,
Scott.
NotMax
Hmm. Butthole Surfers and Mailer’s campaign … Eureka!
:)
Baud
I’m so out of touch.
dr. bloor
Just out of curiosity, was it the same hand he used to stab his wife?
hrprogressive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3GoQG0nU7g
May not be everyone’s cup of tea, but this is a pretty fun song from the mid 90’s alt-rock group referenced in the title!
jl
So, I’m confused by this post. Was Butthole Surfers a minor NYC political party, or a rock band, or what
Edit: ha ha, joking, I think they were (are?) a rock band. I don’t think I’ve ever heard one note, though.
jl
@hrprogressive: OK, thanks. Now I’ve heard a few notes. Probably heard them before in hipster coffee shops but didn’t know what it was.
RSA
@jl:
Here’s another set of notes, the single “Pepper,” which is the only one of theirs that charted; I like it.
https://youtu.be/CO8vBVUaKvk
Raven
@NotMax: My old man was in a “head” on Guadalcanal during a USO show and Artie Shaw was there and said “shake the hand that played with Ava Gardener’s. . .” Well, you know, there was a war on.
Nicole
Thanks to this post, I just searched Cameo, seeing as tomorrow is Mothers’ Day and my kid didn’t get me anything, but no Gil Gerard, so never mind.
Mike J
Having seen the Butthole Surfers a time or two, I am all too aware of the age of their fans.
HypersphericalCow
I was once offered a job with Cameo; I did not take it, which was probably the right decision.
Catherine D.
Aw, Bo Obama died ?
dlwchico
My father-in-law owned an indy bookstore for a while when he was younger. He was also a big fan of Kurt Vonnegut and got him to do an appearance at the store. As a result we have inherited his little Vonnegut shrine, which includes a cigarette butt from the great one himself.
dmsilev
@Another Scott: An exorcism? Yeah, I guess I could see the market demand for that.
Elizabelle
@Nicole: You stole our Saturdays with the Billboard link!
But all is forgiven. What fun.
dmsilev
@Catherine D.: Always sad when that happens. At least, from what they said, the whole family was there to say goodbye.
jl
@RSA: Thanks, listening now. I like this one.
The first bores me. I wonder if that sound has been ripped off by so many emo bands that it is tiresome now?
ljdramone
@Mike J: I saw the Butthole Surfers at this show. The Cramps played “Auld Lang Syne” at midnight. Best New Years Eve ever.
RSA
@jl: Cool.
I’m kind of out of touch, culturally. Searching online, I discover that Sarah O’Connor is an Irish stage actress associated with Frozen, but I immediately thought… Terminator.
Nicole
@Elizabelle: Hee hee! I’m glad it was fun. I was just browsing Stereogum again myself, after getting back home from a day out. For better or worse, reading the site has given me an earworm of Aretha Franklin and George Michael’s “I Knew You Were Waiting for Me” that has lasted for two days now.
Elizabelle
@Nicole: Haven’t gotten to that one yet.
Craig
@ljdramone: I saw them play for free on The Mall on July 4th ’89. Just amazing.
Benw
The Butthole Surfers rule! Independent Worm Saloon is an all time classic.
Citizen Alan
@jl: They didn’t have many notes for you to hear — I only remember a single BHS song to ever chart and that was in the early 90s.
rikyrah
Da phuq ???
IntoTheMystic (@Mystic_Sailor) tweeted at 4:37 PM on Fri, May 07, 2021:
Pennsylvania Republican DA, 44, pleads guilty to raping at least five women in his office and switching on a noise cancelling machine to cover up the sound
? https://t.co/PVsnoA9BW3
(https://twitter.com/Mystic_Sailor/status/1390782902263238656?s=02)
Kay
You will never hear a Democrat talk about their Republican constituents in such a nasty, disrespectful way. Never.
It’s one of the big differences between the two Parties and it never gets mentioned. Republicans attack the Democratic voters in their own districts. Their own constituents. It’s remarkable.
She’s angry they don’t support her- thinks she’s entitled to it.
Jacqueline Squid Onassis
@Mike J: @ljdramone:
Ah, nice. But can you say you were at the famous show at Danceteria? I was and it is legendary for good reason.
(The link doesn’t do the show justice. Just for the record… They came on about 5 hours late – sometime around 3 AM – long after genius opening band Happy Flowers had come and gone. Gibby was incoherent from the beginning and naked by the end of the second song. Sex was had on stage. Teresa was knocked unconscious for a while by a thrown bottle. Gibby didn’t seem to notice the beer bottle that shattered on his forehead. The slamdancing was the most violent I’ve seen and I used to go to all the punk matinees at CBGB’s.)
Kay
She’s not talking about her Democratic opponent here. She’s talking about voters. AKA “her enemies”.
It’s fucked up. These people require some kind of psychological intervention- she’s now going to battle with the voters in her district who don’t like Dear Leader? That’s what she thinks her job is?
EmanG
I’ll never forget laughing as my friend passed out when they started rolling the penis surgery footage. One of my favorite shows ever. Also, the age thing checks out.
Nobody in particular
@Nicole: Gil Gerard? He wasn’t in much, Buck Rogers, minus the Queen soundtrack. I was into Sci-fi. I watched.
Searcher
Cameo is OnlyFans for people who are famous enough to not need to show skin. You give a few bucks to someone you like and they acknowledge you for a few seconds.
You may be delighted that, the last I heard, the most popular / person who is currently making the most money from Cameo is Brian Baumgartner, who played Kevin on the Office.
Uncle Cosmo
@Raven: Was it Ava Gardner who supposedly said of Frank Sinatra, He may only weigh 110 pounds but 90 pounds is [crude anatomical reference deleted]…?
I dunno – maybe it was Lana Turner….
Nobody in particular
@Uncle Cosmo:
I’d put my money on Ava Gardner.
Ms. Turner preferred real gangsters, like Johnny Stompanato, not the crooners the gangsters admired.
LiminalOwl (formerly The Fat White Duchess)
@rikyrah: OMG, that’s horrendous. Thank you for the info, though the reduced charges are infuriating.