Welcome to The Cahokian... A thousand years ago Cahokia — across the Mississippi from what is now St. Louis — was one of the biggest cities in the world. Now it's an empty green spot next to the highway. I'm a middle-aged gay man living in New York City, center of the world, future footnote on somebody's future map. Welcome to the new world.
Friday, December 17, 2010
Please Dawn, Not on Christmas!
In honor of Christmas shopping, most of which I finished doing today, here's a brilliant clip from the John Waters camp classic film "Female Trouble." This is one of my favorite scenes from one of my favorite movies, a cautionary tale for gift-givers everywhere. That is, of course, the late Divine as Dawn Davenport. If you're partaking in this sort of holiday tradition this year, pay attention!
The closest I came to holiday drama as a child was when I was given a sort of rag doll I must have asked for (yes, I had progressive parents!), and the poor thing's head fell off within minutes of unwrapping, spilling sawdust everywhere. I can still remember what felt like hours of shrieking horror at the grisly tragedy that befell my new doll. I was inconsolable. The next day my parents exchanged it for an unbreakable plastic baby doll, the kind you filled with water which would soon dribble out of a tiny hole between its legs. There are many of life's lessons right there.
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Great video. My father in particular drank heavily on Christmas day. It really mellowed him out. That helped a lot.
ReplyDeleteMy parents were generally well behaved.
ReplyDeletethis is also one of my favorite Waters movies! The Diana Linkletter Story is probably #1 for me.
ReplyDeleteCONGRATULATION Ish, 65-31 DADT is repealed. Well, in a year. And no partner benefits. And.... but it's a start. I'm wearing my dad's old army coat and I know he'd support this today!
Hey Casey, thanks for stopping by. Old JOhn Waters was great! The new ones are too sappy for me. Female Trouble is my favorite, followed by the Divine-less Desperate Living.
ReplyDeleteAnd yeah, Woo Hoo DADT. Such as it is. Wish it was ENDA. And there's still that war problem. I'll probably write about all this later tonight.
this clip raises so many questions that i am at a loss to even type them. have you seen the "oh my god: shoes!" video? it might be up your alley.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCF3ywukQYA
Never seen that, freebones. Thanks for sharing. It does seem like it's related in sort of a post-modern way.
ReplyDeleteNever seen that, freebones. Thanks for sharing. It does seem like it's related in sort of a post-modern way.
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