In defense of Elvis
 

If I were you I'd worry more about your own body obsession. When your rack droops, or your butt, or your jawline (and it will eventually, no matter how much you exercise), you're going to be completely psychologically unable to handle it and plastic-surgery yourself until you look like Michael Jackson.

WTF?
 

You could make it up to me by sending evidence of your perky breasts and taut, supple buttocks, but apparently you don't feel that sorry for me.

I knew someone in college who grew up without a TV. Poor guy, he had absolutely no defenses whatsoever. He'd watch anything. Night Court, every night at 11:30 . . . .

In defense of Elvis
 

Not true. I am cool with aging as long as I look really, really good for my age. So as long as I look 26 when I am 36, I say I win. When I am 60, I don't want to look 30, as long as I look 50, I win.

I like to think of this mathematically. I look 10 years younger than I am. Then factor in that I date guys at least 7 years older than me. But then, I only date them if they look 5 years younger than they are.

Add it all up and I look 12 years younger than my man. See, no need for plastic surgery. It is all about the numbers.

I wish I was a little bit taller....I wish I was a baller
 

I don't like Sean Puffy Cohen much. I don't like his music, I don't respect him as a person, and I think his bodyguard is (was) doing hard time for gun possession because he and his people decided that his image needed a street-cred makeover.

That said, he found Biggie, he gave us Biggie. For that I am eternally grateful. He also contributed to Biggie's death. For that I am eternally angry.

Str(I'm betting that Biggie and/or Pac have big new album releases coming out well into the 2010s -- they must have spent every waking moment in the studio -- but that's a whole other rant)8.

Infamy, as in, A Day that shall live in...
 

Sorry to disappoint - I guess it wouldn't suprise you to know that I wasn't "American" until relatively recently? The household I grew up in wasn't "American" so typical US culture sometimes took a backseat at my house. Try explaining the need for a class ring in HS to someone who never had one and didn't grasp the concept.

-T(Outable, but who cares? If I need to hide from you, I can always skip out on my EU passport.)L

In defense of Elvis
 

If you're so hot, and so freaked out about what exact age you look, how come you like to go out with guys who look so much older than you? You enjoy the arm-candy-younger-mistress-of-a-more-powerful-married-man aura when you go out on the town?

Oh, I think I made it through knowledgeable enough about pop culture. Once the children in the family outnumbered the adults, my parents gave up the little battles about TV selection, and concentrated on the bigger stuff like making sure that we survivied childhood relatively intact.

We were grounded from rated R movies for two weeks when my five year old sister called my 9 year old brother a faggot at the dinner table in front of company. He didn't come out until 11 years later.

The Believer
 

Re: Terrence Mallick

In law school, I went with a group of friends to see Thin Red Line. After it was over, the theater was silent as the credit "Directed by Terrence Mallick," appeared. At this moment, I hear the guy sitting behind me say, in a matter of fact way, and not really for anyone else's benefit, "Fuck Terrence Mallick." Perfect and priceless.

str8.

Crush, Crushed
 

How can anyone not recognize Diamond Dave?

Shit... where were you during the 80s?

S(I still dig "Drop Dead Legs," but not much else...)D

"I dropped my pencil... gimme somethin' to write on man..."

I wish I was a little bit taller....I wish I was a baller
 

Fuck Biggie.

He sounded like he had a fist sized wad of taffy stuck in his mouth, or he'd just left the dentist's office and his mouth, jaw, lips and tongue were still numb from novacaine.

I don't miss his ass one bit and am amazed he's thrown into the pantheon of great rappers such as Dre, Ice Cube and Chuck D. He's not worthy to wash their jockstarps.

S("... sometimes your [supposed] words just [mystify] me...")D

I dumped a girl once primarily because she was too pop-culture dumb. I just found out my current s/o watches more TV than I do (SAMPLING FOOTNOTE - this sentence is patterned after, and an homage to, a line from Eminem's 1998/99 breakout hit "My Name Is").

str("Sharpton, say something goofy." "I will not rest until there is at least one black Keebler Elf.")8

In defense of Elvis
 

No. I have explained this once before, but maybe you were absent that day. It is because I get hugely turned-on when my b/f gets hugely turned on by my body. It makes for hot as hell sex and I am sure that there may even be some "sex is power" aspect to it. But never spent too much time analyzing it. It is one of those if-it-feels-good-do-it things for me. Just seeing him like that is almost enough for me to orgasm, but not quite enough, as I still need at least a bit of direct clitoral stimulation for that.

When you both are 22, it doesn't matter that you are the same age, because at 22, if the wind blows across his crotch he gets turned-on. Now when guys get a bit older than that, they get, for lack of a better term, more discriminating. And if you ask me, they tend to discriminate toward women that are younger than they are.

So you see, it is really all about the sex for me. Other than politics, it is my only hobby. Running and working out aren't even hobbies for me because I do them so that the sex stays hot.

Carry on.

In defense of Elvis
 

Congrass. You just made the number three slot on the ignore list. I cannot stand egocentric self centered people. tatas.

In defense of Elvis
 

Good one.

In defense of Elvis
 

Sounds like a wannabe rapist to me.

In defense of Elvis
 

Rape is when sex = violence and there is no consent. Sex = power is an entirely different concept, one that always includes consent as I see it. If it doesn't include consent, then back to sex = violence.

With my b/f, he always consents. In fact, sometimes he even begs.

Liberty Avenue, USGAY
 

What does Liberty Avenue, USGAY mean?

In defense of Elvis
 

For those of you who weren't exposed to popular culture much, this means that the sex is good sex.

I wish I was a little bit taller....I wish I was a baller
 

I am with you on this. I don't get why he is so regarded. The Source named him the best MC ever and I think I was pissed off for a month.

Best?
Ever?

Better than Rakim?
Better than Chuck D?
Better than Pac?
Better than Andre 3000?

Hell, he's barely better than Percy Miller.

Even(waiting for thurgreed to kick the knowledge)Odds

In defense of Elvis
 

"... and now, sister's not a virgin anymore...

cause sex is violent, sex is violent, sex is violent..."

God, I can't wait for Jane's new record...

In defense of Elvis
 

Cool. So, if I tell the cute little GA working under me that, if she wants to keep her job, she needs to make me very, very happy, (wink wink), and she does, there is thus consent, because there's no violence?

Interesting theory . . .

In defense of Elvis
 

Do you take it in the ass?

I ask because you certainly talk out your ass a lot.

In defense of Elvis
 

I hope it doesn't suck.

http://www.janesaddiction.com/graphics/logo_sm.gif

Coming full circle....
 

Which suggests her boyfriend probably likes to give it to her in the ass, right gwnky?

I now appreciate Raising Arizona more.

"And this here's the TV. Two hours a day, either educational or football, so you don't ruin your appreciation of the finer things."

Jack (JFF's womb was a rocky place, where her hottie boyfriend's seed could find no purchase) Manfred

In defense of Elvis
 

I didn't say without violence there was always consent, which is what you are saying.

I said rape is an act of violence and that there is no consent. With the exception of statutory rape, where the victim is considered incompetent to give consent, the absence of consent is what makes a sexual act a rape. The motivation for the sexual act is to commit an act of violence. But sexual desire is not part of the equation. It is an act born of violence.

If there is no consent, it is a rape by definition and rapists are motivated not by sexual desire, but by a desire to committ an act of violence.

That is what I was saying about rape.

I supose you can come up with a fact pattern where the woman or the man is being coerced to the point that they don't feel they have the option to refuse the sex. Therefore, you could argue that there was no consent, and thus a rape.

The fact pattern you describe sounds like sexual harrassment.

In defense of Elvis
 

Holy crap. You really are a man.

Or Barbi Benton.

In defense of Elvis
 

JFF,

Get rid of your tag line. It sounds like an ad for the Oxygen channel or Lifetime.

S(changing pants, one day at a time)D

Liberty Avenue, USGAY
 

ABBA, no good can come from this.

In defense of Elvis
 

I thought they broke up and the lead singer formed Porno for Pyros?

JFF--
Rape has to do with violence and power. There's no point in arguing about it. You are simply wrong.

Anyway, I have very little interest in discussing rape. I was only pointing out that your little nickname for Slave applies to you as well.

In defense of Elvis
 

Nah, just a realist.

Liberty Avenue, USGAY
 

I truly don't know what it means and am curious. Is it an address? Is that a military tag?

Liberty Avenue, USGAY
 

My response was making reference to, and light of, my exchange with PP earlier today.

As for the location thing, because of the timing, I thought it perhaps had something to do with barely's purportedly poorly calibrated gaydar.

In defense of Elvis
 

The they reunited for two concert tours in the late 1990's (sans the original bassist), and are now making the first new music since 1991 (again, sans the original bassist, which is why I say that I hope it doesn't suck). And, like SD, I can't wait. I just hope that Dave Navarro doesn't insist on doing any vocals.

Sleeping in Crim Law Class Were Ya, ABBAKiss?
 

Were you absent from crim law or just sleeping the day they taught you the elements of the crime or rape? The issue is consent. End of story.

All the talk about power, violence and any other factor you think is the motivation for a rape is psycho-socio-pathology. But it has nothing to do with the crime. I don't agree that it is about power. It is about violence and consent.

The interplay between sex and power has nothing to do with rape if there is consent. It is that simple. Go dust off your Emmanuel's and brush up on your Crim Law, 'kay?

The Water is Piping Hot
 

I am not optimistic. I don't think a clean-and-sober (and older) Janes can ever come close to the fucked-up brilliance of Nothing's Shocking. I saw them in Seattle on that tour. Dropped acid on the way there. During the opening act (some nondescript skate punk act), I was beginning to think that was a mistake. Cramped seats, too many people, slightly negative vibe. Then Jane's came on and fucking blew my mind. Perry actually got in trouble with the FBI that night. It was early into the Bush I regime, and Perry said to the crowd, "Who's going to be the first one to shoot President Bush? I guess I'll have to do it." Followed, of course, by an incindiary "Pigs in Zen."

Ollie (and I'm pissing on myself) Ramone

In defense of Elvis
 

Paigow - sorry I high-jacked your board today. I am sure that tomorrow the politics board will liven up, then I will give you your board back, 'kay? Don't pout sweety, it makes your ass look bigger.

In defense of Elvis
 

I thought that point was established when JFF said that women don't notice that their nipples are erect when they are talking to men because they are concentrating on what they are saying. I always know when my high beams are on.


Well, in Barbi Benton's case, she might very well not notice that her own nipples are erect, for more than one reason.