Happy New Year! I’ve spent the day so far lazing around, eating leftover pizza and listening to music. And that’s about all I’m going to do, I think.
I’ll be back at work blogging tomorrow.
In the meantime, does anyone have any especially fond memories of Tom Martin and/or Steele from the past year?
Oh, and here’s a video from an Old School New Wave band called Polyphonic Size. It was 1983. They were from Belgium.
It maybe that it wasn’t. I rushed my reskim, and memory may be failing me.
Synagogue of Satan sounds like it should be performed by a Metallica covers band made up entirely of neo-Nazis.
Too many good moments to count.
Obviously, I am a total Steele fangirl.
Penguin whores is the kind of thing you can’t make up. Or rather, it’s so weird it sounds made up.
How about a plaque?
Manboobz Too Big of a Cunt of the Year Award (for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence and Cuntitude)
Something like that.
Happy New Year! Gay camp was awesome and I met a young man who I wil be seeing again…
On the “I want this on a t-shirt” subject – I see people saying things of that ilk, and a friend of mine is looking to raise money for chest surgery (he is a trans man) and I wonder if itd be worth selling fabric painted t-shirts and throw pillows (hat tip to Captain Awkward) to help him get some funds.
My favorite moment was Pell trying to pass a photo of Montgomery Clift off as himself in the 80s.
Penguin whores. That and that alone. Everything else veered between unfathomably weird and outright disgrace.
Oh katz, that was side-splitting.
I wish I’d been around during the Uncle Monty Pell debacle! Just reading it later was ROFL material.
My friends at google tell me that the jesters fool is the name of an album by a hate group that you can buy on Amazon for 99 cents. http://www.amazon.com/Jesters-Fool/dp/B0028IPQ7O
A group so totally unknown that Googling their name only brings up things like “Why do people hate Rush Limbaugh?” (which is a whole class of stupid by itself).
Or … has Roissy decided to form a band? The mind boggles!
Oh wait, Roissy was the histrionic jester, sorry. Jester’s fool was ol’ Steelebutt.
You can tell that album is going to be comedy gold* just by the album cover. Check out the font.
*Unintentional division
Unintentional Division, the band they formed before Joy Division!
One of the classic Steele moments was when he blamed his painful inability to write decent English on a single female teacher’s vile MISANDRY.
I’d love to know what really happened, because I don’t for one second believe that anyone would actually claim that men can’t write with a straight face, as it’s so easily and in most cases instantly disprovable. I suspect the truth is more likely to be a case of sarcasm whooshing right over poor little Torvus’ head, assuming this conversation ever happened in the first place.
She prolly corrected his grammar and he was scarred for life.
Or told him the brutal truth that he’s a godawful writer and should not try doing it for a living. Not that I can see a teacher saying anything remotely like that in real life. But then, Steele and real life are barely on speaking terms.
I’m picturing something more like the following.
(Imagine this exchange happening via email)
Teacher – Henry Miller wasn’t actually a very good writer
Steele – Excuse me? Perchance, are you; saying that men, as a group, as it were, in fact, cannot write?
Teacher – No, I just think that Miller is overrated.
Steele – Vile misandry! You m-feminist, how could you say; that?
Teacher – Um, what? Also, while we’re on the subject of writing, we need to have a chat about your use of semi-colons.
Steele – You have crushed; my dreams of being a writer. I hope you’re proud of yourself, you evil harpy.
@thebewilderness
What makes you think that’s a hate group? Because it has ‘hate’ in the name? Think about how that sounds.
Bwahahaha!
It could take place face to face y’know. I’m sure Steele uses audible semicolons when he talks.
Now if only it’d been a male (mangina?) teacher, it could be another job for a time-travelling Pierre!
Happy new year from Pierre.
You know that annoying finger gesture some people use to indicate quotation marks? Now I’m trying to imagine one for semicolons.
PIERRE HAS A KITTEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Is there any sort of government body that handles complaints about teachers? If so Pierre could have been answering the customer service line.
Sad sad sad, the Catholics at pathos are defending the popes right to support the anti gay killing policy of Uganda, cos we all know the pope LOVES the gays mmm right?
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/badcatholic/2013/01/the-disgrace-of-papal-blessing-for-ugandan-homophobia.html