MORE! BASTARD SONS OF NEWT GINGRICH!

 

Been getting alot of hits on my Bastard Sons Of Newt Gingrich post lately.  I imagine some MSNBC producer typing “Newt Gingrich”, bastard, lovechild into a search engine, getting the results and for a moment thinking “My God, it’s true! Chris will  love this.”

If there actually is an illegitimate Newt Jr. out there, I imagine he’ll be showing up on your TV with his mom and Gloria Allred any minute now.

Who's your daddy?

 

The Howling

On the road in SoCal all week.  I have trouble staying asleep at night sometimes.  Sometimes I’ll wake up for no apparent reason and just can’t seem to settle my mind down enough to get back to sleep Tonight  This morning though it’s the transients that populate so many Motel 6es nowadays.  Drug addled, or batshit crazy,  one of them is howling like a coyote out in the parking lot.

No problem, I’ll just grab the book I bought in Bakersfield on the way down. Yeah read a few pages and soon I’ll sink back into oblivious sleep but noooooo this trip, I bought this book. 

After 116 pages I figured I might as well take a break and do some blogging. Strangely enough, the sporadic howling isn’t unnerving anymore. It’s actually kind of funny.

Great American Afros

Angela Davis

Larry Bertlemann

Julius Erving aka Dr. J

Bob Ross

Oscar Gamble

 

Last Week’s Recap

Politics:  Mit Romney wins New Hampshire primary and is all-but-declared the nominee by everybody.  I wish I had $100 for every time I heard the phrase “Democrats fall in love, Republicans fall in line”,  I could afford to round out my apocalyptical preparations.  Tamara reports I’m not alone in my apprehensions.

Sports: NINERS!!!!! Yes they are for real.  I don’t know if they can beat the Packers Giants next week but nobody can say they are a fluke and don’t deserve to be in the NFC Championship.  So to all you Cowboys… fetishists, blow out the candles in your shrine room, put the jersey in the wash and please, just STFU. This year, we win the pissing match.

Arts:  Bon Iver  Kathleen Edwards has a new album coming out.  Sepulveda says, download the track “Soft Place To Land”.

Bon Iver: "So who's album is it?" Kathleen: "Flip ya for it."

And Here I Thought She Was Dead

Am I the only one that this happens to?  You’re driving around listening to the radio or watching TV and some news comes on that an old celebrity has passed away right? And you think to yourself; “I thought they died like 5 years ago… yeah I swear I heard something about that.”

Well here’s a new one. You’re surfing the web (or driving around listening to the radio or watching TV) and you come across some news that an old celebrity is gay right?  And you think to yourself; “I thought she came out like 15 years ago… I swear I heard something about that… yeah, and then she OD’d.”

All the same, Kristy McNichol is stunned at the outpouring of support she has received from her family, friends and fans, many of whom probably having the exact same reaction I did before they started pouring out their support.

Which brings me to the whole subject of Gay Pride. Now, I consider myself a more than moderately compassionate and tolerant person, (stop laughing it’s true)  but when did we cross the line from tolerance over to celebration?  And what is it we are celebrating exactly?  Does it take an inordinate amount of determination/perseverance, skill or courage to be gay?

You want to see courage, watch Norm MacDonald talking about Gay Pride at the Filmore in San Francisco.  Or, you can watch the PG version with Dennis Miller below.

The Hand Of God? You Wish

Another Iranian Nuclear Scientists bites the dust.  What the hell is going on here? Is it simply the Iranians cleaning house and trying to drum up some sympathetic press in the process?  Or is it Israel’s dreaded assassination force aka, “The Hand Of God”?

Nobody knows for sure and really,  some guy… on a motercycle? That’s not a whole lot to go on.

Unless…

Hey Man!

Today in Rock and Roll history, two legends were born.  Elvis (1935) and David Bowie (1947).   Please try to celebrate responsibly.

The Bastard Sons Of Newt Gingrich

Drawing inspiration from my blogroll yesterday, over at Anthroblogogy I came across an old photo of Newt Gingrich that… astounded me.  Awwwww-oooooooooo! His hair was perfect.

Newt and Jemaine Clement.

Dumb As A Stump

I was in the mailroom at a Los Angeles Law Office yesterday.  While waiting for an attorney to come down and accept a subpoena, I eavesdropped on the clerk’s discussion of the nation’s fiscal dilemma. One young lady had it all figured out.  While she considers herself a staunch environmentalists, she realized sacrifices must be made. 

“Look, I like trees as much as the next person, but right now we need money more than trees so why don’t they just cut down those trees and make more paper? Then they can make more money.”

She was not blonde and she was not joking.

Ya Don’t Say

via Borepatch, Art School Owl insists “it is not crap.”