11/17/2004
Nicole Richie's mother arrested for operating illegal Botox lab out of Beverly Hills bathroom. "One woman complained that she developed a lump on her lip that makes it difficult for her to drink and pronounce words, while another had what court papers describe as "holes in her face" following treatment."
Pig turned into sausages for being gay.
A Texas school district's Sadie Hawkins-esque homecoming tradition where boys and girls change roles for a day by cross-dressing is cancelled when one parent complains it has homosexual undertones. Isn't this the way of our country now? One bigoted wingnut complains and a harmless tradition is brought to its knees.
Better even is the woman's explanation! "It's like experimenting with drugs," Davies said. "You just keep playing with it and it becomes customary. ... If it's OK to dress like a girl today, then why is it not OK in the future?" (Um— Maybe because this is a special event?)
So instead the tradition has been changed to Camo day. Everyone wears black boots and camouflauge. Why don't they just hand out rifles too? Classic. When are people going to stand up for common sense and not bow down to these nutjobs?
WP's Dirda on Edmund White's Arts and Letters: "He has allowed his readers some insight into the particular gift (and burden) that is a gay life. Above all, he reminds us -- as does Catherine Deneuve in her interview -- that pleasure is never to be despised. 'Sex,' White laments though, 'cannot be esteemed by Americans as an art, a form of dalliance, an expression of affection; no, it must stand for a transcendent search, a quest for self-revelation or self-perfection. The early Christian martyrs excoriated the flesh in the name of the spirit; the modern American puritan united the flesh and the spirit and excoriates both.'"
Posted 3:23 AM EST by Andy Towle in Elsewhere | Permalink
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"...the modern American..." Wow! How true and how very scarey.
Posted by: dan | Nov 17, 2004 8:34:45 AM
This is really no surprise. Texas is now speaking for the nation and effectively setting social policy. The state board of education is requiring publishers to define marriage as between a man and woman in all textboks used in Texas public schools. This has the effect of becoming a national standard since they are such a large buyer and publishers won't produce multiple versions of the same text.
We have so much to be proud of!
Posted by: HoyaBoy | Nov 17, 2004 11:39:19 AM
RE: Sadie Hawkins dance.....
This is so ridiculous I can't stop laughing. John Waters has to make a film about this story.
I remember when I went to highschool, it was a tradition for the football team to dress up as the female cheerleaders at the last pep rally. They still do that to this day, so I wonder if some moron is now going to try to stop that!
Posted by: Patrick | Nov 17, 2004 12:39:30 PM
Don't forget, it's Texas the s###hole of America.
Posted by: dan | Nov 17, 2004 2:03:15 PM
So let me get this straight....the COMPROMISE was to encourage them all to dress up like they're going to war?
Man, we are FUCKED. You watch. It will be illegal to identify oneself as gay by about 2006.
The hands of time are truly being turned back.
Posted by: Jefferson | Nov 17, 2004 2:12:43 PM
I hope nobody ATE those sausages. 'Cause that could make them ... you know ... turn gay. Or catch The AIDS.
Posted by: Jake | Nov 17, 2004 2:29:32 PM
Someone please send Davies a few quarters so she can buy a clue.. while your at it, send some over to the Liberty Legal Institute attorney, Hiram Sasser.
Someone needs to ask Davies, "Why wouldn't it be okay? Halloween ring a bell?"
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert road trip down to the Davies house anyone?
Posted by: jase | Nov 17, 2004 3:16:41 PM
Do you remember the legal issues in P-town over the play "Naked men singing" because one woman went and was to see... naked men singing?
Posted by: Vincent-louis Apruzzese | Nov 17, 2004 3:22:45 PM
I have always said: let us give the not so great State of Texas back to Mexico....if the will have it! I have also said that Abraham Lincoln should have built the equivalent of the Great Wall of China along the Mason-Dixon Line and told white male southerners: " It is yours.... just stay there! Black boots and uniforms? You know, the rest of the world learned their lesson about faciest and nazis way back when in 1940. Evidently America never, never did and probably never will. Pity, and it will bring us all down.
Posted by: Jay Johnston | Nov 17, 2004 4:52:54 PM
MANHUNTUPDATE,MANHUNTUPDATE,MANHUNTUPDATE!!!
I am jonesing.....or make that huntering.....
Posted by: HUSTLERWHITE | Nov 17, 2004 5:44:20 PM
Reply to HOYABOY
Texas is also the (apparently) first state where you can hunt from your own living room.
Posted by: Scott | Nov 17, 2004 7:17:54 PM
Ah, Edmund White, who 20 years ago famously proclaimed that promiscuity was an art form, a great accomplishment! How many young men died by believing such self-serving drivel? Let him stay in France, please. He's a ghetto writer, in a bad way
Posted by: jeff | Nov 17, 2004 10:17:01 PM
Camo Day? CAMO DAY?? In the era of school shootings and other fun events, this seemed like a good idea to these morons? It's the triumph of bigotry and stupidity!
Posted by: Jess | Nov 17, 2004 10:57:14 PM
Now now, Jess. You have to look at this from their point of view: Camo clothes will make students *harder* to hit.
Posted by: jase | Nov 18, 2004 10:09:56 AM
Jess and Jase... your comments are devine...don't stop!
Posted by: Jay Johnston | Nov 18, 2004 11:52:27 AM