All things frivolous to make you happy this Friday:
My current favorite interior design blog. I’m in the midst of re-doing my apartment, and Dept. of the Interior and my just-discovered Domino Magazine (RIP) pool on Flickr have been my best friends.
Golden Girls: How One TV Show Turned a Generation of American Boys into Homosexuals. You’re welcome.
Misspelled Tattoos, via Instaboner. I still cherish the episode of Sorority Life when one of the sisters, Julie, decided to get “JEWELZ” tattooed on her back, with a giant image of a diamond. Tattoo guy spelled it “JEWLEZ.” Amazing.
I got halfway through the Golden Girls article, grumbled “This isn’t that funny,” then realized it wasn’t trying to be funny. And then I laughed and laughed.
“Most gay relationships last a week. It is no coincidence that this is the amount of time between Golden Girl episodes when they first aired on primetime.”
Just in case you were afraid to read the whole thing…
FYI, the Misspelled Tattoos link also goes to the Mad Men beards.
Woops! Fixed. Thanks Mimi.
The misspelled tattoos are truly, awsomely tradgic.
From the GG link:
“The 1980s was an epoch of President Reagan’s manly wisdom and the terrifying threat of Cold War annihilation. America had sobered up from the flashy lights of 1970s disco. We were skipping all night cocaine and sex parties to focus on our careers.”
I don’t think the ’80s the author lived through are the same ’80s that happened on my planet.
The Golden Girls article is truly amazing. I’m having trouble picking my fave line.
Wait, no; “It gave them an excuse to wear tight jeans and to sneak off to public parks for quick releases with hairy men of different ethnicities.”
lolol interracial sex lolol.
Preying Mantis, I was thinking the same thing about the same sentence (except I was a kid then). I associate much of the 1980s with widespread cocaine use.
I was a kid then, too, but that’s when a lot of family friends were wrecking up their lives through addiction and involvement in the drug trade. Expanded use of cocaine was also what was fueling a lot of the gang and cartel violence that was constantly making the papers at the time. Escobar didn’t wind up one of the ten richest people in the world by ’89 because everybody gave up the nose-candy.
Also, I’d like to point out that Debbie Harry rocked the Franken-bang trend first, not Gaga and not Chanel. I am defensive because I am also rocking said hair.
Is that ChristWire site real? No way!
Was he serious with that Golden Girls article? Or was it a very poor attempt at satire and wit?
The Jesus I know doesn’t know whether to laugh or to cry at the Golden Girls post, but kind of shrugs his shoulders and then goes off to feed the poor.
True story. I was referring more to the bow-ish hair, but I will give Ms. Harry credit where it is due.
Also, I think the Golden Girls thing is a joke. It has to be.
Christwire is a satire site (though there are still some problems with it). I was once sent this article about someone discovering the song “Can’t Touch This” and thinking that it’s new. It contains the line, “While I don’t know if this McHammer is somehow affiliated with McDonalds…” which is pretty awesome.
Such a gift in the Golden Girls article when I saw that they published the word “irregardless.”
The Golden Girls article really needs a drinking game.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE GOLDEN GIRLS LINK.
Now I finally understand why I love them!
Cassandra: It’s called Poe’s Law; religious fundamentalists are often hard or impossible to tell apart from parodies thereof, even for other fundamentalists.
According to another article on the same site, Glee is the new Golden Girls.
“Sadly, with his clothing obsession and sassy attitude, Kurt Hummel may be destined to become this generation’s Betty White.”
http://christwire.org/2010/01/what-every-parent-should-know-about-the-tv-show-glee/
I will never understand misspelled tattoos. Did you not make the artist do a stencil? Did you not LOOK AT the stencil? Was your artist HIGH? WTF?