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April 03, 2006

ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SMELL THE OFFAL

In addition to not having a Macy's charge card, only owning 6 pairs of shoes, & never downloading a single Madonna song,  I'm also a complete failure as a homo due to my allergy to musicals. I break out in hives over Sondheim. CATS gives me impetigo. Liza makes me deathly ill.

However, I may at last get my Homo Card™ now that I've sunk to movie memorabilia. That's right, I'm now $100 poorer & the proud owner of a sheet from the first draft of Yentl. That's the film Barbra Streisand wrote, directed, & starred in, aka the one where she kisses Amy Irving - barf - while portraying a studious young Jewess, Yentlette, who impersonates a man, Yentl, so she can see Mandy Patinkin naked in a yeshiva. Or something like that. Behold:

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See also Barbra Streisand Still Hasn't Found the Spell Check; Who's the Bigger Fag Hag?

Posted by Jeff at April 3, 2006 12:22 AM

Comments

I wish that were real - but if BS' webmaster subpoenas it when he sues her for defamation - that would have me rolling on many counts.

Posted by: Martin at Blogbat at April 2, 2006 11:24 PM

I was going to share my idea for a musical with you. It could have been very lucrative...

Posted by: Patrick at April 2, 2006 11:48 PM

Poor, poor Babs. She certainly isn't just a pretty face. She's an incredibly nasty face.

Posted by: Molicious at April 3, 2006 10:38 AM

heh! nice scum on the Babs doc.

Posted by: Rubin at April 3, 2006 11:22 AM

You have just entered the Homo 12 step program:
1- Barbara Streisand
2- Bette Davis
3- Judy Garland
4- Mae West
5- Joan Crawford
6- Bette Midler
7- Patricia Nixon
8- Cynthia McKinney
9- Rosie O'Donnell
10- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
11- Dianne Feinstein
12- Tookie Williams

Let the memorabilia hunt begin!

Posted by: Mystery Meat at April 3, 2006 12:19 PM

Kill me

Posted by: beautifulatrocities [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 3, 2006 12:30 PM

Doesn't being a Republican disqualify you for card-carrying membership as well?

Posted by: agent bedhead at April 3, 2006 02:02 PM

I'm not a Republican, I only vote for them. I think I'm independent. During the course of my evolution from adolescent liberalism to a mature political philosophy, I even registered as a Green once, until I realized they were complete lunatics

Posted by: beautifulatrocities [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 3, 2006 02:13 PM

Don't they have homo school or something? A college friend went from being a clear-speaking bisexual to a full-lisped fag in six months. Last time I spoke with him, he was planning his (gay) wedding. I always assumed he just took a course.

Posted by: Carin at April 3, 2006 02:39 PM

Too bad Rosie O'Donnell wasn't nursing Babs as a baby. She would have been weened of the teet a lot sooner...

In the meantime, I'm still waiting...

Posted by: TF6S at April 3, 2006 04:12 PM

You could alwayths type with a lithsp and link to pictures of HAUT guys in thailor outfits inthead of those guys in full combat gear.

Ith's worth a try, HUNNNNNYYYY!!!! [Rolls eyes]

Stereotypical gays kinda annoy me these days, btw. Kinda in the same way those anti-mainstream goths annoy me by all dressing the same.

Posted by: Feisty at April 3, 2006 11:38 PM

"In addition to not having a Macy's charge card, only owning 6 pairs of shoes, & never downloading a single Madonna song, I'm also a complete failure as a homo due to my allergy to musicals. I break out in hives over Sondheim. CATS gives me impetigo. Liza makes me deathly ill."

Heh. Ditto, honey.

Well, on the musicals, at least. My (indefatiguably straight) assistant has declared testily that my iPod must contain every noise Madonna has ever made within three feet of a microphone.

Posted by: Sean Kinsell at April 4, 2006 10:57 AM

Oh, wait--there's no u in indefatigable, is there? (Just to differentiate myself from Streisand in the spelling department.)

Posted by: Sean Kinsell at April 4, 2006 07:30 PM

They took away my homo card when I said that Will and Grace was a poorly written, unfunny piece of crap.

I only own three pairs of shoes, but I like musicals. They still wouldn't give it back because I can't stand the gap-toothed slut.

Posted by: Attmay at April 5, 2006 09:51 AM

"You could alwayths type with a lithsp and link to pictures of HAUT guys in thailor outfits inthead of those guys in full combat gear."

Nope. Sailor outfits make me think of Donald Duck.

Posted by: Attmay at April 5, 2006 09:53 AM

So, Jeff, it looks like you're not a friend of Dorothy even though you're a self-confessed “homo.” This comment is an honest inquiry into what you mean by that, sort of a follow-up to my comments on your posting the series of pictures of our soldiers in Iraq.

Beneath the Yentl joke I see a preoccupation with what being a gay male means. As a straight one I found your recent reading list fascinating. In "Survival Guide for Homos" I liked most all the tips, but this one was really interesting:

Cultivate friendships with straight men. "But we have nothing in common," you say? Bullshit. You are men.

From there one segways to "Being a Man," as in: Manliness "thrives on drama, conflict, risk, and exploits: 'War is hell but men like it.' Manliness is often aggressive, but when the aggression is tied to the concept of honor, it transcends mere animal spiritedness."

I can’t think of any conflict in recent history where aggression was tied to honor more than the Battle of Britain. A true fight for civilization. Anyway, my hobby is building WWII model aircraft, in no small part because of the history.

There’s a Battle of Britain Mk. I Hurricane kit with the whimsical image under the cockpit of Figaro, the kitten from Disney’s Pinocchio, swatting a swastika. I wondered what kind of fellow chose such an idiosyncratic personal mark.

Turns out he was an extraordinary fighter pilot who flew combat from 1939-1943 till he was shot down and killed over Tunisia at age 26. Tragic, but I was intrigued to learn more than the official bio, and hit the next Google link.

It turned up this.

The pilot, Ian Gleed, was posthumously outed by a fellow fighter pilot who was his lover during the war. The guy commented that Gleed would have hated it had his homosexuality been known, but justified it on the grounds that times have changed, and society should be able to handle warriors of this stripe better now.

I dunno. A straight friend and I had a discussion about this this evening, and concluded that the old lover had done Gleed a disservice. Still, I wonder about two things. What do you think as a gay male, and how does this man’s life match your idea of gay masculinity?
Just wondering aloud, as they say.

Posted by: Redhand [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 5, 2006 08:06 PM

 
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