Saturday, September 12, 2009

Why I like KCRW... its not even on ITunes yet...

A great gem from Ms.Spaulding's Most excellent Blogg

Julian Bond's message to LGBTs: 'keep pushing on - victory is just ahead'

by: Pam Spaulding

Fri Sep 04, 2009 at 08:30:00 AM EDT


Reading Alvin's earlier diary ("From 'outside agitators' to 'wealthy gay activists' - Some of us black folks haven't learned a thing" bumped back up below this post), it's good to remind people that there are black folks who DO get it. Rev. Walter Fauntroy may have been director of the DC bureau of Dr. King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference, but that clearly didn't enlighten him to the fact that civil rights are human rights. He has hopped into bed with charlatan Bishop Harry Jackson.

However many others who were part of the black civil rights struggle, like Congressman John Lewis, who will keynote at Equality Alabama's conference later this month, have our backs.

read the rest at: PHB


Gay Bands... hmmm...

The lovely people over at God Hates Fags! Love Gods Way! have taken all the worry out of your music concerns. They have a very useful lsit of bands that they have decided that you ( avoid... I loved the reasons fro some of them. My comments and observations are in red:

Bands to watch out for

  • Ween (Rainbow) What? as in weenie, Oscar Meyer is gay too?
  • Lil'Wayne (I think these folks got size issues)
  • P!nK (gay family) good gawd! a gay family!?
  • The Black Keys (racist and homophobic? what is this a two for one?)
  • Coldplay (well they are kind a hot.. .but I think they be straight dudes)
  • SlipKnot (make-up) (what? style is not Christan too?)
  • RadioHead(h'bout Christan radio head?)
  • Michael Jackson (but he said he wasn't gay... just ask his daddy!)
  • Boredoms (ok, so I can't have fun with these folks, and yet I can't be bored either... no wonder i ended up in therapy)
  • School of Seven Bells (gay twins) (what all twins are gay too?)
  • Jason Mraz
  • Jonas Brothers (Gay people don't kiss their brothers. Normally..)
  • Rilo Kiley
  • Death Cab for Cutie (they are kinda cute... I watched them last night, that would make PBS gay too?)
  • Sarah McLachlan (totally!)
  • George Strait (what Staight is gay now too?)
  • Cold War Kids (that just about rules out most folks my age)
  • Toby Keith (cowboy) (true, after Brokeback Mountain, we all know 'bout 'dem cowboys!... yee haw!)
  • P-Diddy
  • Black People (what all Black Peoole are gay too?)
  • Vampire Weekend (Not sure here, most vampires I know are hetero...)
  • King Crimson (just the name is suggestive)
  • Kate Bush (kissed a girl) (stop that!)
  • Bob Dylan (aw c'mon... Dylan is gay?)
  • Fleet Foxes
  • Sigur Ros (nudists) (most nudists arn ot gay, and most of my gay friends won't get neked in public)
  • Twisted Sister (well... maybe her sister is twisted)
  • The Spores (endorse suicide)suicide is not a gay thing... tho because you assholes have made head-trips out of a lot of kids there ARE a lot of kids who off themselves when they are tryign to come to grips with their sexual orientation)
  • Scissor Sisters (obvious reference to our penchant to sewing and decorating, that would make my mother gay... trust me she's not!)
  • Turbonegro(there you go again... another antiblack refrence again)
  • Rufus Wainwright (an proudly so)
  • Merzbau(really? I kinds thought most glbt folks were better spellers)
  • Ravi Shankar(aw c'mon... he can't be gay... tho his music rocks!)
  • The Butchies (lizbians) (bitch... that's spelled L E S B I A N S)
  • Wilco (Walmart but not Wilco)
  • Bjork (mb)(well SHE IS from Iceland and all..)
  • Tech N9ne
  • Ghostface Killah
  • Bobby Conn
  • Morton Subotnik
  • Cole Porter (WTF?)
  • The String Cheese Incident
  • Eagles of Death Metal
  • Polyphonic Spree
  • The Faint
  • Interpol (Iwoud assume that they supported law and order)
  • Twisted Sister (jj) (What the hell is a jj?)
  • Tegan and Sara
  • Erasure(well I thought for sure the Christians would allow for mistakes)
  • The Grateful Dead (drugs too) (wtf pt 2)
  • Le Tigre(they neverhave liked bilingualism)
  • Marilyn Manson (dark gay) (well that girl is definitely problematic)
  • The Gossip(Yeajh like (Christians don't gossip! My people call it dishing... )
  • The Magnetic Fields
  • The Doors (wtf pt 3)
  • Phish (where's the beef?)
  • Queen (well duh!... but what cha gunna do next tiem they paly We will Rock you @ the ball park, bud?)
  • The Strokes (no comment)
  • Morrissey(?questionable?) (What as in morals?)
  • Metallica (duh!)
  • Judas Priest (duh!)
  • The Village People (double duh!)
  • The Secret Handshake on't tell its a secret!)
  • The Rolling Stones (duh!)
  • David Bowie((triple duh!)
  • Frankie Goes to Hollywood(duh!)
  • Man or Astroman my students ask that about me all the time, "is he a man or is he an astroman?")
  • Richard Cheese what as in head cheese?!)
  • Jay-Z
  • Depeche Mode
  • Kansas (oh now you are getting crazy, the whole barking state of Kansas is gay?)
  • Ani DiFranco
  • Fischerspooner
  • John Mayer
  • George Michael (texan) (All Texans are gay? Well they do have a size issue and all... No wonder DubYah is so messed up,,, he was havign a sexual crisi, and took it our on Iraq! Freud explains everything)
  • Angel Eyes
  • The Indigo Girls
  • Velvet Underground
  • Madonna ( Her holiness Madoona please...)
  • Elton John (His holiness Sir Elton Jon, please)
  • Barry Manilow (duh!)
  • Indigo Girls (repeat!)
  • Melissa Etheridge (duh!)
  • Eminmen which ones the blue or the red ones?!)
  • Nirvana(so I guess Budhists and Hindus are no good either?)
  • Boy George (duh!)
  • Jon Brion
  • The Killers(I can understand this one...)
  • Lou Reed (hmm!)
  • Lil' Wayne (repeat... your issues are showing again!)
  • Motorhead
  • Jill Sobule
  • Wilson Phillips
  • DMX
  • Wesley Willis
  • Lisa Loeb
  • Ted Nugent (loincloth) loin cloths are NOT gay!)
  • Dogstar
  • Thirty Seconds to Mars NASA is gay too!)
  • Lil' Kim(so they don't like short women either?)
  • kd lang (duh!)
  • Frank Sinatra (wtf!)
  • HinderI thought they were in business to hinder...)
  • Nickleback
  • Justus Kohncke
  • Bob Mould
  • Clay Aiken (duh!)
  • Arcade Fire
  • Bright Eyes
  • Corinne Bailey Rae
  • Audioslave
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers (duh!)(duh!)(duh!)(duh!)
  • Panic at the Disco (listen Mary, thats Panic at the GAY Disco!)
  • The Cure (makeup)
  • Spin Doctors
  • The Deers (Os Viados!)
  • Lindsey Lohan
  • The Smiths
  • Beck(I thought they unquestioningly follow Fox TV)
  • Tom Waits
  • The Cramps (what Christians women don't menstruate?)
  • Cannibal Corpse(yeah this one creeps me out too)
  • Britney Spears (kissed Madonna) (OH Dear... she kissed THE Madonna! But really, her music is too bad to be gay... I mean really!)
  • Perfect Sin(ok... well...)
  • The Queers (ok, just the name is a give away)
  • NoFx(gay punk) (you... talk'n to me?)
  • Soup Dragons(wtf is a frick'n Soup Dragon anyway?)
  • Elton John(really gay) (honey that's really really really gay... and damn proud of it!)