jamie lawrence-howard • highly absorbent redundant and superfluous verbiage • clogging tubes since 9.1.98
our fearless leader, president bush, hath decreed that the national anthem should be sung in english.
isn’t that a foreign language for him? oh, the irony.
i’d hereby like to translate the national anthem for president bush, so he’ll know what it means.
because, evidently, he hasn’t a clue about what it means.
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citroen 2cv on spring and broadway
the citroen 2cv (or “deux chevaux”) is my favorite car of all time, although i’ve never had the privilege of driving one. just looking at it is enough to make you smile. and, appropriately enough, i saw one last night in manhattan after a great cassoulet at jardin bistro.
and, though i did not know this until i googled for the link above, billy joel drove a deux chevaux in that famous crash into the side of a long island house.
great design and celebrity cachet. what else could you want in a car?
stuart at 36 degrees design, the designer of the template i used to make my widget for queerspace, has made a great new widget.
in his words, with capitals intact, “The widget has two sides, the first of which is an excel spreadsheet, filled with some meaningless data, and the back side is a word document, accessed by flipping the widget with the ‘i’ in the top right corner.”
now is that brilliant or what. perfect for nefarious work avoidance.
on the mandisa thing, which i blogged about earlier–here’s my quick take on why she was voted out when she was.
as i see it, mandisa had two sets of hardcore fans–the ultra-religious ones who got the hints and knew she was religious, and the gay fans who loved her diva-hood.
her gay fans stuck by her when she sang a gospel song the previous week, becuase gay people in general are hyper-sensitive to bigotry and wouldn’t avoid voting for her on that basis alone. and she sang the song well. i voted for her, because i love me some gospel and she kicked butt singing the song.
her gay fans would be hypersensitive to hypocrisy as well, though. so when it came out that she was openly supportive of a known, active homophobe, her gay fans (including me) abandoned her.
and she went home. simple as that.
you could say that she went home because it was country week, and she did an abysmal job at singing the song. which she did.
but she dropped too far, too fast for it to only be a country music thing.
mandisa, darling: it’s a gay thing too.
just ask donna summer. really though, mandisa, you should have asked her before you went down the same career-wrecking road she did.
bottom line? just about everybody will tolerate a different point of view.
and just about everybody gets annoyed with hypocrisy.