YOU'RE STILL WRONG
POST MRR COLUMNS
Post MRR Column 2
by Mykel Board
POST MRR COLUMNS
Post MRR Column 2
by Mykel Board
Strip
clubs don't appeal to me... If I was inclined to seek the company of
a bunch of angry drunk women who hated me, wanted all my money, and
were determined to tease me but not have sex with me, I would just
open a bar in Edinburgh. --Craig Ferguson
I
follow an actual red carpet to the inner room. Plush. Plush. Soft red
chairs, like in the corners of a romantic restaurant...by the
fireplace. White table cloths, thick carpeting... inviting me to take
my shoes off... run the shag between my toes... I don't. The host is
dressed like a Russian hitman. but softer and friendlier. The
lighting says QUIET... not dim, but diffuse... like looking through
gauze. On stage is Ona. Vaguely Oriental, she's beautiful. Not
make-up-silicone-centerfold beautiful, but a real-girl beautiful. My
sleeping mini-me begins to awaken.
There
is no pole on this stage. The lighting (black light?) makes Ona's
skin glow indigo. Her now visible nipples are only slightly darker
than the perky, but natural breasts supporting them. I take a bite of
my eggs benedict.
The
place is two-thirds empty. Who (else) goes to a strip club for
brunch? Even if it is the bacon and legs special. I take a
single out of my wallet and walk up to the stage. Ona doesn't notice
me. I quietly lay a bill on the stage floor and walk back to brunch.
Next
up is Kirsten, a colored girl wearing a blond wig that glows in the
stage lighting.
Meanwhile,
Ona comes over and sits in the empty chair next to me.
“Sorry,”
I tell her, “I can't do lap dances... just had a hernia operation.”
“That's
okay,” she says. “I'm happy just to talk. How come you're sitting
at such a big table by yourself?”
Her
voice is as soft as the lighting. Not a trace of an accent.
“I'm
expecting friends,” I tell her. “Sometimes my friends are flaky.”
She
laughs.
“Sounds
like my roomates,” she says. “I had to move out of Brooklyn... to
K-town. They just forgot to pay the rent.”
“Are
you Korean?” I ask her.
“No,”
she says. “I don't understand much Korean. I'm Chinese... from
Shanghai.”
“I
tried to learn Cantonese,” I tell her. “My favorite movies are
from Hong Kong.”
“That's
tough,” she says. “They have eight tones.”
“I
know,” I tell her. “I gave up on it.”
“Shanghai-ese
has five tones,” she continues, “Mandarin four. The levels are
different too, Mandarin only has moving tones. Shanghai has a plain
high and plain low tone.”
The conversation continues. Here I am, in a strip club, talking
with a stripper NOT about a lap dance, but about Chinese linguistics!
Yowsah!
By
now, Kirsten is down to her g-string. I pull another dollar out of my
wallet.
“Excuse
me,” I tell Ona, “I gotta tip the girls. It's a pretty thin crowd
today.”
“You're
telling me!” she says.
When
I get back to my chair, Ona's off, giving a lapdance to some fat
white guy at the bar.
Kirsten
soon leaves the stage and-- you guessed it-- appears on the chair
next to me.
I
give her the hernia story.
“No
problem,” she says. “Could you buy me a drink? I just need to
talk.”
I
nod and call over the waitress. I know strippers earn commission on
these girl drinks, but the club is empty and she needs the
money.
By
this time, my pal Richard, his 30-year old son and friend have shown
up.
“I'm
having trouble with the Florida Condo,” he tells me.
“You're
from Florida?” asks Kirsten.
Richard
nods.
And
she begins her story.
I was working in a
club in Florida, The bosses were all Russian mafia. Well, I had a
private dinner with one of them... took me to a fancy place... you
could smell the money... oozed out of the wallpaper... women in
dresses that'd cost a year's rent... and I live in New York... so the
boss buys me a fancy dinner... caviar, wine, the whole caboodle...
this guy comes over with a spoon around his neck. Pours a little
wine... into the spoon, then tastes it.... makes a smacking sound...
then offers me a taste... Jesus! I don't want to taste from that
spoon, it's been in thousands of mouths.... It IS a good dinner, but
I know the piper is gonna ask me to pay.
'So,' says the big
muttha, 'think it's time we go to my place?'
I'm sure the guy has
a gun, I gotta get out of there.
'Sure Boris,' I tell
him, 'just let me take care of a few girl things.'
I stand up. He pats
me on the ass. I head for the ladies, lucky... it's out of view of
the table. I split. Bang, out of there. Take a cab to my place in
Miami. Grab a few clothes... Bang. I'm on the train, running away.
Bye bye Florida. You think the LAW has a long arm? It's a baby-prick
compared to the long arm of the RUSSIAN MOB.
“Yow!”
I tell her. “You should write about this. It would make a great
book. You know that book Girlvert?”
She
shakes her head.
“This
pornstar wrote it. She started as an actress and then went on to
direct. You should read it.”
“I'm
already writing a book about my life,” the Negress tells me. “It's
called Homage to Catatonia.”
“What?”
I ask.“That's a play on a George Orwell book, Homage to
Catalonia. Three people in America know that book. And you've got
a parody?”
She
smiles. “I'm glad you know it. Most of my friends don't get it.”
“I'll
bet,” I tell her. And we go on talking about writing.
The
conversation continues. Here I am, in a strip club, talking with a
stripper NOT about a lap dance, but about writers and writing!
In
my experience, most strippers are just taking care of their
families.... paying for the kids. It's a living... making ends
meet... for those who can't do anything else. This is a room full of
intellectuals with tits and twats! Not one of the (other) customers
in this place has half the brains of these girls. Yowsah!
What
a commercial for heterosexuality, huh?
FLASH
ACROSS THE ATLANTIC: Russia has the Olympics and
America's homos call for a boycott. Jeezus fuckin' Sodomy! You've got
citizens of the most mass murderous country of the millennium:
America! America, who has killed A MILLION PEOPLE in Iraq and who
knows how many more in the rest of the world... America, who right
now is asking for permission to bomb Syria for killing the same
Al-Quidists
that America has killed. To kill Syrians for … I
donno. And citizens of this most evil country want to boycott the
Russians because Russians are unfair to homos??? Can you say
misplaced self-righeousness?
They
can do that though. They're GAY. GAY is the new Negro. Everyone
talks about my gay friend. No party is complete without the
PARTY HOMO, not prancing, not faggy, not Freddy Mercury
butch, but just like you and me... only talking about MY HUSBAND
(if a guy) or MY WIFE (if a girl)... and being congratulated by the
other guests on the legalization of gay-marriage... and how finally
the world is realizing that gays are just like everybody else.
In
the 60s, there were rent-a-Negro agencies. You could make your party
ethnically complete. Be hip! Too bad they don't print the yellow
pages anymore. There'd be pages of PARTY GAYS. Ouch!
PICTURE
THIS: Citizens of Luxembourg feel discrimination. No one
appreciates their tiny country. They have protests. Write letters.
Complain because they get no respect from the bigger countries. Then
there are Germans. They feel discrimination. Other Europeans don't
like Germans: leftover grudges from World War Two. Then, the Belgians
join in. The Belgians feel insecure. They have two main languages:
French and Dutch. People say they have to choose... that there are no
real Belgians, only French and Dutch who haven't made up their minds.
Then,
there are the Turks. Turks live all over Europe, but because of their
name and language people still call them Turks. The Turks are calling
for the right to choose their nationality. Just because they were
born a Turk doesn't mean they have to stay one. They might be a
Belgian, trapped in a Turk's body. They want the right to identify as
any nationality they please. To vote in any election. To free
themselves from the restriction of one national identity.
Based
on who knows what, these groups decide to hook up. They unite and
call for Luxembourg, German, Belgian, and Turkish (LGBT) rights.
What do they ask for? The right to BE LIKE OTHER EUROPEANS, get
respect, pay taxes, run for the European parliament, own mansions in
Spain. Other than being Europeans (debatable with the Turks), these
groups have nothing in common. But they all demand to be included in
THE CAUSE.
The Luxembergers, Germans, Belgians, and Turks have more in common than any two letters of the groups glommed together under GAY CIVIL RIGHTS.. But wait. There's more. The Civil Rights group has a new letter. As if LGBT weren't oxymoronic enough, now there's LGBTQ.
The Luxembergers, Germans, Belgians, and Turks have more in common than any two letters of the groups glommed together under GAY CIVIL RIGHTS.. But wait. There's more. The Civil Rights group has a new letter. As if LGBT weren't oxymoronic enough, now there's LGBTQ.
Q???
Queer???? GAY is as queer as a five-dollar bill. GAY is marriage and
the “right” to spawn / adopt human tadpoles! GAY runs for mayor
of New York, on a 100% yeah big-business platform. Oh wait, that's
LESBIAN.
Then
there's Bradley Manning, the hero of WikiLeaks. Tortured horribly by
the army and the CIA. Stripped, strapped down, the unimaginable...
all for revealing to the world how horrible the government is. His
treatment proves his point. So what happens? The liberal press, says
it's all because of hormone imbalance. He's really a girl trapped
inside a boy's body. They want him sent to women's prison. The
government should pay for sex change surgery. Oy vey!!! He shouldn't
be in jail at all!
You've
got a great human being. One who should be honored for risking
everything to tell the truth. And LGBTQ are saying the reason for his
actions is that nobody called him Chelsea. It almost makes me
want to give up anal sex.
We
don't need EXCUSES for Bradley Manning's actions. His were acts of
greatness. Pushing them off on hormones diminishes them. He did the
right thing. He acted with integrity and courage. Those nouns don't
NEED hormones.
So
buckaroos, last month, at least in my life, has been a great one for
hetitude. Homos, on the other hand, have been an embarrassment.
ENDNOTES:
[Contact: Send those... er... private videos..or music or zines... or
anything else (legal only!) to: Mykel Board, POB 137, New York, NY
10012-0003 You can also contact me by email at god@mykelboard.com.
You can comment on the blog version of this column at
http://mykelsblog.blogspot.com/.
I will delete personal attacks or violations of Godwin's Law.
Everything else is fair game.]
-->Taking a bath
naked dept: The
National Coalition Against Censorship reports the children's
book, THE DIRTY COWBOY was removed from the school libraries in
Annville-Cleona Pennsylvania. The book had a picture of a dirty
cowboy taking a bath... just sitting in a bathtub... no goodies
showing! Why was the book removed? "Children may come to the
conclusion that looking at nudity is OK, and therefore
pornography is OK."
-->Ban the converts dept: Under the headline CHRISTIE SIGNS BAN ON GAY 'CONVERSION THERAPY, amNewYork reports that New Jersey governor Chis Christie signed into law a gag rule that "prevents therapists from counseling gay and lesbian youths to change their sexual orientation." His reasons include "medical research that sexual orientation is determined at birth."
I'm waiting for the law against
Christian Conversion Therapy, since it's clear, that being JEWISH is
determined at birth. The gay establishment is apparently happy at the
signing, again not realizing that laws that shut OTHER PEOPLE up...
can turn around and bite you on the a***. I'd write the word, but by
the time you read this there'll be a law against it.
--> The Progressive
Magazine reports that the drug company Pfizer hired
private investigators to find evidence of corruption against the
attorney general of Nigeria. They wanted to blackmail him into
dropping legal action against the company. This according to
WikiLeaks. The Nigerian
government had filed a lawsuit against Pfizer alleging fraudulent
drug tests on children.
-->It's for your own good dept: Schools in Fort Wayne Indiana are introducing the fingerprinting of all students. Recognition technology, they say, will allow students to pay for their lunches. School officials excuse the privacy invasion by saying the fingerprints will "reduce the risk of a student's ID card getting stolen or lost, help eliminate clerical errors, and speed up the process so kids have more time to eat.”
Yeah, right. See what the cops
match when they find that next bag of weed. Eliminate clerical
errors, my ass.
-->It had to happen
dept: Just when a fad diet hits, another fad diet comes
along telling you that not only was the first one wrong... it was
actually dangerous. Eggs were healthy, then bad, now good again.
Margarine was good, then bad. Diet sodas, they now say, make you fat.
And the newest? CHOLESTEROL IS GOOD FOR YOU. It had to happen. You
can see the details here.
-->Letting Go dept:
I've said it before. It's time for Jews (and Armenians, and whoever
else holds a half-century grudge) to let go of their holocaust. That
period has been used as an excuse for some of the most heinous crimes
of the millennium... and a good deal of them from LAST millennium.
It's time for some cultural Alzheimer's. The excuse was “we
remember so it never happens again.” But it DOES happen again. Over
and over... just to different people.
Well, in a last ditch attempt to
exploit the victims, Israel has crowned Ms.
Holocaust Survivor. I
shit you not. Check it out here.
I wonder how she did in the swimsuit contest.
-->Not
letting go dept: I still
want to keep the pressure on Maximum Rock'n'Roll.
They've got a new
dictateress, but as far as I can see, no changes planned. If you'd
like to see me back there... or if you just want to comment on my
getting fired. Post on the MaximumRock'n'Roll facebook page (though all comments about me have been
quickly censored). You can also email them directly at
mrr@maximumrocknroll.com.
-end-
4 comments:
The problem with your argument regarding misplaced priorities in relation to criticizing Russia's violation of both human rights and free speech is that it is predicated on creating a false dilemma. One can both be critical of one's own government's actions as it relates to gross violation of human rights domestically and abroad and, in turn, be critical of the Russian governments current conduct. As such, one does not preclude the other.
Thanks for the comment Anonymous, but I think you misinterpreted me. Of course you can be (and should be) critical of Russia for its violation of human rights. BUT, being critical and calling for international government action (such as a boycott) are different. Individuals should use their right to criticize. Governments, however, need a moral leg to stand on in order to take action. The US government does not have such a leg.
I will begin by agreeing with you that I think Bradley Manning was courageous and heroic but I also believe that his outsider sexual identity had a negative effect on his present circumstance. According to the 2013 documentary 'We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks', Bradley Manning's tragic flaw was when he admitted his crime to a stranger on the internet because he felt lonely/guilty. I propose that a person who knows what they want sexually is less likely to be lonely or desperate than an undecided homo/hetero/transvestite. According to generalities, a strong man or tenacious woman would be more likely to be able to stick to the Circle Jerks' "Deny Everything" conviction required for such risky acts than a person without the conviction to know who they want to screw. At the risk of sounding prejudiced, it is my experience that a cliche homosexual/bisexual personality trait is talking a lot and revealing "too much information." These traits are opposite to the stoic "James Bond like" traits I associate with most information stealing spies. The Wikileaks strategy can only protect the whistleblowers when they remain anonymous. Now I am not naive enough to think that there are not wide exceptions to generalities, especially involving homosexuals, but in this case the "weakness" associated with homosexuals seemed to be his downfall.
I hope I didn't offend anyone. I believe that an intelligent person can talk about trends and probabilities among groups of people with the underlying assumption that any exception is possible. Variation is the rule not the exception. Really, I was just presenting an idea and hoping that Mykel would prove me wrong.
Thanks for the comment Homophobe? I think we're arguing different points. Your point was that it might have been a homo-weakness that lead Manning to be caught. (I wasn't even aware of any indication of him being gay. Only trans-gender.)
My point was caught, or not, he's a hero and deserves a medal for his acts, not jail. The reason for his being caught is irrelevant.
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