DEATH TO ALL BUT METAL!

I half want to buy the Glenn Beck book for the comedic value, but the other half of me doesn’t want him to gain any sales numbers from me.

I think I just gained more insight into the Beck household than I ever wanted. Urp.

So is that group called The Panthers or something?

Beck’s book sounds just as titillatingly awful as expected.  I hope it gets to the dollar table at B & N soon so I can justify buying it!

the other half of me doesn’t want him to gain any sales numbers from me

That’s what they make libraries for…

If the hero of this novel is modeled on Glenn Beck, a more accurate catch-phrase for the warning he would give to a woman he was bedding:

Don’t laugh at my tiny penis.

That’s what they make libraries for…

Was that a slam at W?

McCartney fan!

Somewhere—I think on Facebook—someone suggested renaming the Rand “classic” Atlas Sharted. It’s probably just as applicable for Mr. Beck’s opus.

Glenn Beck penned a sex scene?!  Yuck!  (That’s as far as I got in the link because that was enough to make me throw up a little in my mouth.)

Who are the gay guys in the pics?

Somewhere—I think on Facebook—someone suggested renaming the Rand “classic” Atlas Sharted.

I am SO stealing that!

Isn’t “Don’t Tease the Panther” that Blue Oyster Cult song with all the cowbell?

“You know, Molly” he said breathily, teasing her virgin man-trap with the ceremonial ostrich quill pen that would never now be used to sign President Mobamo’s name to the Patriot Sterilization Act, “the Sixteenth Amendment was never truly ratified.”

That’s not in Beck’s book, but it should be.

Who are the gay guys in the pics?

Fun fact: ‘member how viciously homophobic ‘80s metalhead culture was? Yeah, turns out the hair-metal aesthetic was cribbed wholesale from Judas Priest, who got their look from the underground gay S&M scene in the UK.

Not sure what it means that the one actual homosexual in the genre was the only one you could ID as male from more than two yards away, but still, that is one epic unintentional punking.

before he could pick up the gist of the conversation something grabbed Noah’s full attention through the thin window by the door frame.

Christ. I had no idea the pain pills would make me hallucinate Glenn Beck taking a dump on the written word.

Going back to bed. For a year.

Fun fact: ‘member how viciously homophobic ‘80s metalhead culture was? Yeah, turns out the hair-metal aesthetic was cribbed wholesale from Judas Priest, who got their look from the underground gay S&M scene in the UK.

I don’t recall the metal/hair scene being particularly homophobic (well, at all, actually), though we might have been listening to different bands.  The hair band aesthetic always struck me as more of an androgynous/pretty boy kind of look than a real metal look - scarves, long hair and eyeliner?  Check out the first Poison album cover - it ain’t exactly “Manly Men Looking Rugged and Doing Manly Shit With Chainsaws and Backing Boat Trailers Into a Driveway.”  I’m not saying there wasn’t probably a good deal of homophobia in the hard rock scene - “I may wear eyeliner, but I’m not a fag, man!” - but I didn’t really encounter it in the music I was listening to.

However, there was a very strong, often overt, theme of objectifying women, in the hair band scene.  Frankly, it was frat boys with guitars and drums, and I was always a little surprised that bands like Poison were so popular with young women.  Then again, I think a lot of girls just liked the idea that they were rockers and lyrics be damned.  Which, as a hair band member, was kind of cool but in retrospect, it’s a little odd.

It reminds me of a couple posts that Amanda Marcotte wrote re: Dude Rock, which I’ve wanted to respond to but haven’t arsed myself to bother with yet.

Not sure what it means that the one actual homosexual in the genre was the only one you could ID as male from more than two yards away, but still, that is one epic unintentional punking

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I had friends that were crushed when Rob came out.  It just blew their minds that a guy singing such harsh music could be… gay?!?!?!?  I was surprised to learn it, for the same reason, but I didn’t really care.  As I recall, Freddie Mercury picked up his look from visiting the gay bars in Germany, as well, which gives lie to the notion that gay men are impeccable dressers.

which gives lie to the notion that gay men are impeccable dressers.

Uhhhh yeah, just check out Allan’s facebook photo ...

@Oblomova

Yeah, I’m all about the assists today.

@Ripley

Oh, sure, if you’re gonna insist on using the word “scene” correctly. I meant it more along the lines of “kids with ‘Eddie’ patches on their jean jackets.”

Check out the first Poison album cover

Fun fact #2: So this one time, right after that first godawful single came out, Look What the Cat Dragged In was sitting out on someone’s table during whatever passed for a party in 8th grade, and I, mistaking the band members for Vixen, said “I’m not really into their music, but man, they’re hot.”

The ensuing taunts may have colored my perception of homophobia in the headbanger community, I’ll grant.

Freddie Mercury picked up his look from visiting the gay bars in Germany

Y’know, I was so focused on Halford I totally forgot about the Scorpions’ rhythm guitarist.

which gives lie to the notion that gay men are impeccable dressers.

Ahem, the Sarah Silverman Program?  But DON’T BASH MY PAL ALLAN!  Just don’t go there.  Or me for that matter.  Snark knows no dress code. ;-)

Ahh, political movements.  Getting otherwise unpublishable books published for nearly five centuries!

Isn’t “Don’t Tease the Panther” that Blue Oyster Cult song with all the cowbell?

This is one band that could definitely use less cowbell.

Ahem, the Sarah Silverman Program?

I will lick the [redacted] [redacted] out of Sarah Silverman’s [redacted] any day of the week and come back begging for seconds.

Seriously.  She’s that fucking sexy to me.

And, gil?  I’ll do you for that!  Right!

“Manly Men Looking Rugged and Doing Manly Shit With Chainsaws and Backing Boat Trailers Into a Driveway.”

I have that album.