The premise behind this song is that there was a law in Texas prohibiting the sale of firearms to customers who are crying. I don’t know if there ever really was such a law, but you can bet your boots the NRA got it overturned if so.
Open thread.
by Betty Cracker| 221 Comments
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The premise behind this song is that there was a law in Texas prohibiting the sale of firearms to customers who are crying. I don’t know if there ever really was such a law, but you can bet your boots the NRA got it overturned if so.
Open thread.
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(h/t LAMH36)
Since commentor LAMH36 is a NOLA native and a smart lady, I will take her advice:
Please check out the Zulu Social and Pleasure Club website here.
IMHO, Zulu is the BEST of the parades to see on Mardi Gras! The Zulu club is easy going and seem to be having the most fun of all two big Mardi Gras parade. Rex is the “King of Carnival”, but are still a bunch of stuffy ole money types…blah.
Zulu is King of Parades!
Carnival, “farewell to the flesh”, our European ancestors’ religious repurposing of the grim chunk of late winter when supplies ran thinner than the starving domestic animals. Better to stomp the romp than to get stomped by yet another snowstorm…
Apart from one last blast before settling in for the repentance of late winter, what’s on the agenda for the day?
Extra tune for our Bloghost, the Deadhead:
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She was so young. Too young to die today, of course, but when she wrote her first giant pop hit she was a high school junior. Keeping that in mind puts the “adolescent angst” thing in perspective… she was an adolescent!
From the AP, via ABC:
Singer-songwriter Lesley Gore, who topped the charts in 1963 at age 16 with her epic song of teenage angst, “It’s My Party,” and followed it up with the hits “Judy’s Turn to Cry,” and the feminist anthem “You Don’t Own Me,” died Monday. She was 68.
Gore, a nonsmoker, died of lung cancer at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan, according to her partner of 33 years, Lois Sasson.
“She was a wonderful human being — caring, giving, a great feminist, great woman, great human being, great humanitarian,” Sasson, a jewelry designer, told The Associated Press.
Brooklyn-born and New Jersey-raised, Gore was discovered by Quincy Jones as a teenager and signed to Mercury Records. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a degree in English/American literature…
“She was a serious artist that was way ahead of her time,” said Ronnie Spector in a statement. “She had a certain sound. But you want to be able to do new things too, and it can be hard on an artist that is so identified with a specific sound. Although she wasn’t in a girl group, Lesley was definitely a huge part of that era. But she continued to be creative, and kept looking ahead, and that’s how I will remember her.”…
In the 1990s, Gore co-wrote “My Secret Love” for Allison Anders’ film “Grace of My Heart,” released in 1996. A couple of years later, she appeared in “Smokey Joe’s Cafe” on Broadway. Gore had been working on a stage version of her life with playwright Mark Hampton when she died…
She officially came out to the public when she hosted several episodes of the PBS series, “In The Life,” which dealt with gay and lesbian issues.
During the 2012 presidential campaign, Gore turned “You Don’t Own Me” into an online video public service announcement demanding reproductive rights which starred Lena Dunham and Tavi Gevinson, among others…
Read what she wrote to go with the video at the top:
… Women, let’s rise up. Our vote alone can win this election. A vote for Obama is a vote for your health and your right to choose. It is a vote for equal pay and equal rights. A vote for Obama is a vote for our families. It is a vote to marry who you choose. It’s a vote to start a family when you choose. A vote for Obama says that we won’t stand for violence against women and that rape is rape. Our vote ensures that our daughters will grow up with the same rights that we’ve had. A vote for Obama sends a message: This war on women must end. We will not go backwards…
And here’s an earlier, happy, silly performance that commentor Raven found for us:
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Well, it’s new to me. And I really enjoyed the remix, until my brain shortcircuited & tried to insert ‘Blank Space‘ as a third harmony…
by Betty Cracker| 106 Comments
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I’ve never been to jail (except as a visitor to an incarcerated uncle and once to bail out a bone-headed friend who got busted for DUI). I hope to maintain my lifelong record of non-incarceration. Jail is so unpleasant.
But prison movies / television shows — now there’s a genre that just seems to inspire brilliance: Papillon. Shawshank Redemption. Cool Hand Luke. Oz. Orange is the New Black. Even campy shit like Prisoner: Cell Block H. What makes it work so well?
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Funk legend Sly Stone, who was living in a van a few years back, was awarded $5 million in damages after an LA jury found that business managers had ripped him off. I hope he can collect from the vultures.
Open thread!