Remember Liberace, Nigel?

[Doktor Howl]

TOM WAITS AND WILLIE NELSON STILL BREATHE THE AIR ON THIS PLANET.




There is, at least, that.  Not nearly as fabulous, though.

Tom Waits can't actually die.  He runs on nicotene and bourbon, not air and water.

And yeah, not nearly as fabulous.  Waits has a different vibe, one of sharing a joke with you, a horrible Lenny Bruce joke that makes you want to scream, only you can't, because Tom Waits is singing and you just don't interrupt that shit.

[Doktor Howl]

This is why we can't have nice things, Doc.  People with nitpicking concerns, cunnignly mongered fears, and a barely - qualifiable hardon for "Family" safe America have lsot us the right to have such Glorious Faggots.

Back then it didn't matter.  Like with my buddy, Nate the Great, some folks could jsut be spectacular, happy, and outrageously gettign a kick out of jsut beign themselves, and it was OK.  No one cared where that energy was coming from, or what they did with consenting adults in the spare time, they jsut appreciated having good, happy people around.

"Queer as a 3 dollar bill", grandad always called him, sharing a joke everyone knew, but could still get a smile out of anyways.  He had a vintage mirror from one of his houses, proudly displayed.  

Now everyone has to be the right approved flavor.  Everything has to be FAMILY ^tm safe, except of course for the sportball players, performers, or policitcos.  Every orphan has to be placed in a trailer house with dysfunctional, NASCAR, obese heterosexual foster parents who love the right sportsball players and performers, and vote for the right politicos.  Everyone has to love them some Jesus, and line up for more at the megachurch every Sunday.  

WalMart Religion™, Richter, it's what keeps America™ kneeling tall.  Glorious faggots and freaks are only appreciated when they're safely dead and not stomping around your TV set, reminding you of how things should be...How they could be, if only we had the courage.

Safe is the enemy of happiness, Richter.  Safe is the enemy of liberty.  The enemy of HOLY FUCK THAT'S COOL.  Safe is what got us into this mess, and for the life of me, I can't see a way out.  They've welded all the hatches shut with Family Safe™ products and "fun for the whole family" singers and goddamn Lifetime channel movies about "coping".  I don't fucking want to cope, Richter, I WANT TO KICK THIS PIG UNTIL IT STOPS BEHAVING.

[Doktor Howl]

Taylor Swift should have her vocal cords ripped out by a toothless beggar.

They'd just make another one.  There is an endless supply of manufactured "talent".  There was only one Elton John, one Liberace, one Johnny Cash.  There is an infinite number of Taylor Swifts, Miley Cyruses, and Justin Beibers.

Mind adding Freddy Mercury to the first part of this list?

Not at all.  Freddy Mercury was amazing, even if they do play Bohemian Rhapsody on the radio until I start screaming and spitting up horrible shit on my windshield.

[Adios]

Taylor Swift should have her vocal cords ripped out by a toothless beggar.

They'd just make another one.  There is an endless supply of manufactured "talent".  There was only one Elton John, one Liberace, one Johnny Cash.  There is an infinite number of Taylor Swifts, Miley Cyruses, and Justin Beibers.

Mind adding Freddy Mercury to the first part of this list?

Not at all.  Freddy Mercury was amazing, even if they do play Bohemian Rhapsody on the radio until I start screaming and spitting up horrible shit on my windshield.

Yeah, shame that, especially considering all the other stuff he did.

[Doktor Howl]

Taylor Swift should have her vocal cords ripped out by a toothless beggar.

They'd just make another one.  There is an endless supply of manufactured "talent".  There was only one Elton John, one Liberace, one Johnny Cash.  There is an infinite number of Taylor Swifts, Miley Cyruses, and Justin Beibers.

Mind adding Freddy Mercury to the first part of this list?

Not at all.  Freddy Mercury was amazing, even if they do play Bohemian Rhapsody on the radio until I start screaming and spitting up horrible shit on my windshield.

Yeah, shame that, especially considering all the other stuff he did.

The Album they did based on Metropolis was amazing.  So was A Night at the Opera.

Dok,
In love with his car.

[LMNO]

Now I want to design a T-shirt that has a three-dollar bill with Liberace's face, and the words, "Safe is the enemy of HOLY FUCK THAT'S COOL" emblazoned down the front.

[Adios]

Now I want to design a T-shirt that has a three-dollar bill with Liberace's face, and the words, "Safe is the enemy of HOLY FUCK THAT'S COOL" emblazoned down the front.

Does I smell new postergasm?

[Doktor Howl]

Now I want to design a T-shirt that has a three-dollar bill with Liberace's face, and the words, "Safe is the enemy of HOLY FUCK THAT'S COOL" emblazoned down the front.

I'd talk to Suu.  She is full of good advice on these things.

[Requia ☣]

The Album they did based on Metropolis was amazing.

Which album is that?

It occurs to me that I've never really heard a queen album, just some of the songs.

[Doktor Howl]

The Album they did based on Metropolis was amazing.

Which album is that?

It occurs to me that I've never really heard a queen album, just some of the songs.

The Works, IIRC.

[BadBeast]

Taylor Swift should have her vocal cords ripped out by a toothless beggar.

They'd just make another one.  There is an endless supply of manufactured "talent".  There was only one Elton John, one Liberace, one Johnny Cash.  There is an infinite number of Taylor Swifts, Miley Cyruses, and Justin Beibers.

There still is only one Elton John, but he seems to have become a horrible parody replacement of the one that had the credibility .
At least since that festeringly crass and cringy  "England's Rose".

[Doktor Howl]

Taylor Swift should have her vocal cords ripped out by a toothless beggar.

They'd just make another one.  There is an endless supply of manufactured "talent".  There was only one Elton John, one Liberace, one Johnny Cash.  There is an infinite number of Taylor Swifts, Miley Cyruses, and Justin Beibers.

There still is only one Elton John, but he seems to have become a horrible parody replacement of the one that had the credibility .
At least since that festeringly crass and cringy  "England's Rose".

We woke up just long enough to make the Captain and the Kid album, then buggered back off to sleep again.

[BadBeast]

Taylor Swift should have her vocal cords ripped out by a toothless beggar.

They'd just make another one.  There is an endless supply of manufactured "talent".  There was only one Elton John, one Liberace, one Johnny Cash.  There is an infinite number of Taylor Swifts, Miley Cyruses, and Justin Beibers.

There still is only one Elton John, but he seems to have become a horrible parody replacement of the one that had the credibility .
At least since that festeringly crass and cringy  "England's Rose".

We woke up just long enough to make the Captain and the Kid album, then buggered back off to sleep again.

I didn't realise he was asleep. I thought he was just sulking until Robbie Williams went away again, and stopped hogging all HIS column inches.

[Doktor Howl]

Taylor Swift should have her vocal cords ripped out by a toothless beggar.

They'd just make another one.  There is an endless supply of manufactured "talent".  There was only one Elton John, one Liberace, one Johnny Cash.  There is an infinite number of Taylor Swifts, Miley Cyruses, and Justin Beibers.

There still is only one Elton John, but he seems to have become a horrible parody replacement of the one that had the credibility .
At least since that festeringly crass and cringy  "England's Rose".

We woke up just long enough to make the Captain and the Kid album, then buggered back off to sleep again.

I didn't realise he was asleep. I thought he was just sulking until Robbie Williams went away again, and stopped hogging all HIS column inches.

No, he's kept in cold storage.  For tax reasons.

[Doktor Howl]

Last bump today.  Promise.

I'm doing something with this shit.