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I think I've seen this done as an act by drag kings- worked well.

I can imagine it would. Still haven't been to a drag king show, due to suckitude. I should check the schedule over at Dykediva at some point. And am linking this more as a reminder to myself than anything.

D'you remember which group performed it?

Well, it was here, so that limits it to the current Royal Renegades, unless it was several years ago [which I'm thinking no, but, maybe?] in which case it could've been the Renegades' predecessor, the H.I.S. Kings, or, hell, any of the acts that came in for the International Drag King Extravaganzas...

Which is all to say that I'm no help at all. Sorry.

you mean you don't have it already? i thought everyone bought this crap when it was popular...

Neo, no worries. Oh, and shoot me an email with your mailing address. I have Gifts.

Moo hoo ha ha.

g-e-t-o, I suppose I'm not everyone, then. I didn't buy that crap when it was popular. Sorry.

Ah drag, nothing quite like exaggerated gender fantasies and sterotypes played out under a disco ball and emulators (that's fancy lighting rig talk). Only thing missing is booze...

well i didnt even half the words to this song until i looked it up on google, i thought it said 'i could never be your ONE' so i guess ignorance is bliss coz now i dont know if i like this song much. its like meeting a gorgeous guy and saying 'hello how are you', then you get talking and find out he has a case of the runs. I mean, now im like WTF?

Shut the fuck up.

Ahem. Sorry. Needed to do that. I could get into the why of shut the fuck up, but please, just... shut the fuck up, chicky babe. Disappear.

Don't apologize, don't explain. Figure somebody busts out with shit like that, it's too late to even bother trying.

Hate writing people off as totally fucking hopeless, but am starting to get used to the feeling.

Which translates to: what she said, chicky babe. Buh-bye.

well, you know, we all have opinions so u's can all go fuck yourselves.

sure, i mean, i like the song and all, the sound of it all together but its just weird ya know?

Thank you so very much for taking time out of your busy schedule to acknowledge that we can, in fact, all go fuck ourselves.

We'd been quite curious about that, after all.

Please feel free to drop by again when -- well, if -- you evolve into something useful.

In the meantime, you're on my "delete comments with extreme prejudice" list.

If you don't understand why, you better ask somebody.

Just not here.

Farewell, farewell.

Or badly.

I'd prefer badly, actually.

well, i may evolve into something useful, as i am only 16 years old so really i hope you feel better about taking the piss out of me now... aaron. so as a student i really do have a busy schedule, like you, whatever it is you do. so yes, i would like to hear what you have contributed to our world in your years of life. i dont wish anything bad onto people so farewell, farewell, i await your comments with enthusiasm. they really are quite a laugh.tata.

like, hello? why did everyone jump down my throat about what i said? i never said anything bad about it and then everyones like, shut the fuck up! what the hell is this? hasnt anyone been spun out by a song and they're like, woah man this is freaky? or is it just me? probably but oh well. have i evolved yet? ;) i'll give you credit on that one, its pretty damn funny.anyway i heard the song again on the radio and it made me laugh coz i remembered having the shit ripped through me by someone i dont even know over the net. You gotta admit it makes you smile a bit. okay then. speaking of weird songs has anyone heard I wanna Be A Cowboy?

Ai'ight, chickybabe, normally your ass would be dead as fuckin' fried chicken. But you happened to pull this shit while I'm in a transitional period. That, and I vaguely remember being 16, riding the dinosaur to school, hopping the pits of steaming lava as the Earth cooled. . . good times, good times.

There's a sizable Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and, possibly, I don't know, never asked, Transgender readership here.

Your comments had the slightest -- just the slightest, mind you -- whiff of homophobia about them.

This did not endear you to people.

Got it now?

She didn't disappear.

Not only is she fucking clueless, but she doesn't listen.

She's lucky I'm busy getting my geek on, and thus too happy with the world at the moment to smack her senseless.

I am not much with the milk of human kindness toward homophobia at the moment. I blame having moved to North Fucking Carolina.

well, its a bit of a shock that my comment came out like that. haha. me? homophobic? get real!!! i know who your readers are, do you really think im that stupid? a gay friend actually told me about this site and vaspider a long time ago. geeze. all sorted now? im not going to disappear, sorry.

I believe that the lesson here is: Review what you write, and make sure that it's coming out the way that you intended. Also: keep in mind that words have connotations and stuff. As in, meanings outside the dictionary definition.

And don't think you can be lazy because it's "just a blog" or "just a comments thread." That sort of thinking is leading to the death of the English language.

Not that I have strong feelings about that particular subject or anything.

(Actually, I am aware that there is another lesson here, but like Aaron, I am in a transitional period...)

You put it so much more nicely than I would have, Karin.

ok ok ok whatever anyways why does everyone always assume the worst of people?

and why, whats wrong with North Carolina?

scoobermanic, perhaps for some of us it comes from being the objects of hurled rocks, cans, & invective more or less frequently. Makes us a trifle skittish. If you act as our enemy, you will be treated as one until, & if, you begin to behave more benignly. As Aaron has pointed out, commenting here is a privilege, not a right.

VA- good lord, is NC that bad? I've applied to a bunch of jobs down there!

There's a cheerful sort of bigotry here that I really don't know how to deal with; the rampant CHRISTIANITY (as opposed to, you know, people who follow the teachings of Christ) brings with it an awful lot of "love the sinner, hate the sin" smiling-faced bigotry.

. . . and she deals with several hundred of them. Remind me to kick another donation to Scarleteen. And send a bottle of Scotch.

Chicky babe, people only assumed the worst because of what you posted. If you didn't intend to come across that way, perhaps, as has been suggested, you should put more thought into what you write.

And I can easily make you disappear from here if I'm so inclined. Retroactively, in fact, which will make some of the other comments look weird in context, but it's a price I'm willing to pay.

Behave.

VA -- we get a lot of that smiley bigotry in Texas too. It's like, you can't be *that* mad at them, because they're so *polite*, but then they say these things...

My response, I regret to admit, was to run away from Houston to Austin, the one part of the state where the freaks outnumber the bigots.

Oh, and re putting things nicely: people who've known me for a while tend to duck and cover when I start getting excessively polite. The degree of politeness is directly related to the degree of irritability that it's covering up.

So, VA, what you're saying is that if I get that job at the Quaker school, I should just stay on campus?

Karin- I've heard that about Austin [& Houston, too]- good to have it reaffirmed. Or not, seeing as the only schools in TX hiring are some great distance from Austin...

yuh-huh well i'll behave then i dont really care if you delete my comments its not as if they mean much its basically to pass the time on the school holidays so you can if you want, otherwise you can read them later and laugh about how you got absolutely cranky with a 16 year old girl from australia.

Believe me, chick, I won't laugh about it. You need to think about what you say.

And yes, Neo. Staying away from the general yokels is recommended. Bigger cities, like Raleigh? They're not so bad. Little towns, like where I live? You learn to fake a smile that's not too strained.

And where the fuck is a Quaker school in NC? I desperately want to put my son into one once he's school-age.

And yes, Karin.

It's just like that.

Ah, VA- it'll be a while for your little one. I applied to Guilford College [which the website says is/was Quaker, & their aa/eoe statement is original and quite thorough, so it sounds like they may still be]. It's in Greensboro, if I remember correctly. I can't be picky, but I think the smallest city I applied to a school in was Fayetteville [which I hear is like Madison, only in the south].

Neo -- Certain parts of Houston are delightful; Montrose, the Heights (where the majority of the Houston Axis of Liberal Bloggers seems to live), etc. Also terrific museums. It's once you start getting too far away from downtown that it gets really scary. But in the end, I couldn't deal with the traffic, the pollution, or my job. I like Austin better, by a long shot, although I miss the Menil Gallery.

Neo, as delightful as it would be to have you that close to where I live (it's only about 25 miles from home): you really don't want to live in Fayetteville.

Trust me. You just don't.

VA, Neo, Karin, my apologies. Feel free to continue this conversation in a different thread.

chick, I tried making allowances for youth. Silly me, I forgot that teenagers don't recognize mercy when they see it.

Thank you for reminding me.

You can go now.