i am all the way crazy

"...and you're currently on tour with willie nelson?"

yeah, well. not any more.

"i'm not all the way crazy"

have you met jesco white?

jesco – also known as jesse, also known as elvis – was born in 1956 in bandytown, west virginia, a tiny mountain town in the hills of boone county. he is an acclaimed appalachian mountain dancer, clogger, and entertainer.

jesco met his wife norma jean while hitchhiking one christmas eve, and while he originally intended to rob her, he instead fell in love.

the pbs documentary "dancing outlaw", first released roughly 17 years ago, tells the story of jesco's deep desire to carry on in his father's famous footsteps, reveals the troubled marriage he had to norma jean, and chronicles his love of huffing, and all things elvis.

my deepest thanks to raeleen mcmillion for introducing me to jesco all those years ago, making me a fan for life. if you're anything like me, this excerpt will send you scowering the internet for more. or you could just click this here link and get your own damn copy of the original documentary.

when pirates strike

that was the headline to one of cnn's more dramatic news segments friday.
i, of course, was imagining jack sparrow walking a picket line.

republican tip of the day

even other republicans are laughing behind your backs

hi republicans! here's a little tip for you: invoking the boston tea party is one thing (wasn't there a great schoolhouse rock...?) and while there is a perfectly legitimate position to be taken regarding reigning in government deficits, debt and spending (especially once the economy comes roaring back - any day now) perhaps you could have picked a better name for the little parties you're having around the country.

the following definitions are not from me, they are taken directly from urbandictionary.com:

teabagging: to have a man insert his scrotum into another person's mouth in the fashion of a teabag into a mug with an up/down (in/out) motion.

or there is this somewhat more colorful definition:

teabag: dipping one's nuts in a chicks mouth, or when the party crashin' asshole passes out, you 'drape' the ballsack over the face.

and if that's not clear enough for you, there's this (my personal favorite):

teabagger: one who slaps another person in the face with their nad sack.

now republicans. if that's what you're gonna be doing down by the river all next week, you might wanna let these people know. and maybe you should ask larry craig and lindsey graham to post a few flyers at their favorite "local pub."

i'm gonna guess, though, that some crusty old white guy somewhere came up with this bright idea (there were plenty at that convention you held last year) and y'all didn't even know it meant that scrotum dropping stuff. and i know – "you're not the right or the republican party," but c'mon, you weren't dropping bag when the last white house guy took a gazillion dollar surplus and pissed it away.

the other thing is this: i'm not sure, but i think during that original boston tea party deal they actually dumped a whole bunch of tea into boston harbor. like, a shitload of it.

in comparison, you look kinda silly standing there waiving your little white sacks around.

nonetheless...teabags up, and good luck!

quote of the day

"Rather than everyone here having to learn Chinese — I understand it’s a rather difficult language — do you think that it would behoove you and your citizens to adopt a name that we could deal with more readily here?

Can’t you see that this is something that would make it a lot easier for you and the people who are poll workers if you could adopt a name just for identification purposes that’s easier for Americans to deal with?”

– betty brown
texas republican state representative

(brown was addressing ramey ko, a representative of the organization of chinese americans, during a meeting of the texas house elections committee.)

the balcony is closed

roger ebert gives bill o'reilly a gigantic thumbs down.

more crazy canucks!

another country province heard from: commenter christopher chimes in to let us know that married heteros and married marys can live together in peace in b.c:

"Just checking in to let you know that all seems to be going well for hetero marriage in British Columbia too.

Despite all the Marys marrying down on the beaches of BC, Michelle and I are still safely in the embrace of the sacrament of marriage endorsed by our Church some 15 years ago.

For whatever reason, we don't feel threatened everytime we pass through the Peace Arch Crossing on our way back from Seattle."

but what do they tell the kids in school?