Is there anything funnier than tiny cat pants?
It seems unlikely, but my goal in life is to find out.
posted by Aunt B at 4/24/2005 07:14:00 PM
Like Donnell Alexander says, "It's about completing the task of living with enough spontaneity to splurge some of it on bystanders, to share with others working through their own travails a little of your bonus life." But, it's mostly the kind of place that folks looking for "girls and cars" stumble across by accident.
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The Butcher--My youngest brother, who lives with me and works as, you guessed it, a butcher. He knows everyone in town.
The Recalcitrant Brother--Our middle brother, who lives in rural Georgia and has a kind of movie star life, if that movie star is Burt Reynolds in Deliverance.
The Reverend--Our Dad, a Methodist minister, perpetually three years from retirement.
Mom--Our Mom. She doesn't get a funny nickname because our mom will not stand for funny nicknames.
Mrs. Wigglebottom--My dog. She's got terrible manners.
The Corporate Shill--Or The Shill, as we call her. My friend from college who was constantly getting me into trouble and going to parties she neglected to tell me about where cute boys would ask her "Where's Aunt B.?"
The Legal Eagle--The Shill's husband.
The Super Genius--She lived next door to me my freshman year of college and we've been friends ever since my first day on the floor.
Miss J.--My first adult friend, meaning the first lasting friendship I made after college. She was my roommate in grad school.
Her Lover--Her Husband.
The Divine Ms. B.--Miss J.'s sister and one of my heroes, because she's brave and funny and mystic and fearless.
JR--My oldest friend. I've known her since I was in the second grade.
Elias--JR's husband and the person who's musical tastes have most strongly affected my own. Oh, how I long to be cooler than him!
The Professor--My closest friend here in Nashville. She's a genius, but she'll never tell you that.
The Man from GM--I've known him since I was 16 and he still hasn't forgiven me for telling him I was a vegetarian when I wasn't.
The Redheaded Kid--No one knows where he comes from or where he goes when he leaves here. I assume he's the Butcher's friend. The Butcher assumes he's mine.
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For that matter, why do the Dixie Chicks suck so bad? I assume you are all over them because of their politics, cause it can't be their music. Then why do you still champion them even after they made a bullshit apology for what they said about Bush???
I like the Dixie Chicks, not for their Washington politics, which I agree with, but so what? But for their Nashville politics.
Here's what I think: I think they got ostracized from Country Music because they won an ugly and public battle with Sony.
Sony couldn't openly retaliate because it would have proven the Dixie Chick's accusations against them true. But no matter how much money the Dixie Chicks made for Sony, they're now something of a liability--they want to make music that doesn't fit the mold of their previous best-selling albums (which could [and did] affect sales) and they've potentially given all Sony artists ammunition to renegotiate their deals.
Sony sees a real opportunity with the Bush thing and takes it.
I mean, please, I don't care how powerful Cumulus or Clear Channel is, nobody pulls a multi-million dollar act off the air, arranges events for the destruction of CDs, etc., without figuring that the record company's got its back. Could they risk it otherwise?
Could Cumulus Radio or Clear Channel afford to loose access to all of Sony's artists--everyone on Columbia and Epic, as well as all of the Sony labels, across genres?
No.
There's no way they would have dared made a public stand against the Dixie Chicks without knowing that it wasn't risking any reprisal from their record company.
Sony hung the Chicks out to dry. Sony could have stopped the story no problem, but the controversy punished the Dixie Chicks in a way Sony couldn't afford to itself.
The bullshit apology was beside the point, because it wasn't about the Chicks daring to take on Bush. It was about them daring to take on Sony.
At least, that's what I think.
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