Comments on: Maybe We Could Call It Accomplishment http://larison.org/2007/05/02/maybe-we-could-call-it-accomplishment/ n. the principle of good order "Observe the strange inversion of all order and sense! Dignity debased; how vilely is the function of a consul prostituted!" ~The Craftsman Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:04:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Christopher B. Hayes http://larison.org/2007/05/02/maybe-we-could-call-it-accomplishment/#comment-6429 Thu, 03 May 2007 19:42:49 +0000 http://larison.org/2007/05/02/maybe-we-could-call-it-accomplishment/#comment-6429 I'm slow to question any guy on such matters. I teach ballroom dance as a second job AND live in Kentucky. I've had a few verbal stones (and an actual beer bottle) lobbed my way, by guys who were on high school wrestling teams! Someone please tell me how greased men in leotards grasping at each other can consistently get away with questioning my orientation because I dance with women. I’m slow to question any guy on such matters. I teach ballroom dance as a second job AND live in Kentucky. I’ve had a few verbal stones (and an actual beer bottle) lobbed my way, by guys who were on high school wrestling teams! Someone please tell me how greased men in leotards grasping at each other can consistently get away with questioning my orientation because I dance with women.

]]> by: Grumpy Old Man http://larison.org/2007/05/02/maybe-we-could-call-it-accomplishment/#comment-6423 Thu, 03 May 2007 15:38:40 +0000 http://larison.org/2007/05/02/maybe-we-could-call-it-accomplishment/#comment-6423 I can see the Skull and Bones balletic interlude already (Act I), and the baseball number (Act II), which we'll crib from <i>Damn Yankees</i>. Let's see, perhaps a patter song called "Wildcat Poppy," and something along the lines of "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat" for the conversion scene. Fred Thompson could play the cowboy Godfather/Grey Eminence. It's eight in the morning, I'm cold sober, and notwithstanding the musical comedy references, I'm not gay. Please stop me, or call Max Bialystok. I can see the Skull and Bones balletic interlude already (Act I), and the baseball number (Act II), which we’ll crib from Damn Yankees. Let’s see, perhaps a patter song called “Wildcat Poppy,” and something along the lines of “Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat” for the conversion scene. Fred Thompson could play the cowboy Godfather/Grey Eminence.

It’s eight in the morning, I’m cold sober, and notwithstanding the musical comedy references, I’m not gay.

Please stop me, or call Max Bialystok.

]]> by: Christopher B. Hayes http://larison.org/2007/05/02/maybe-we-could-call-it-accomplishment/#comment-6422 Thu, 03 May 2007 14:56:36 +0000 http://larison.org/2007/05/02/maybe-we-could-call-it-accomplishment/#comment-6422 Bat Boy: The Musical might just fill the gap you describe. Bat Boy: The Musical might just fill the gap you describe.

]]> by: Grumpy Old Man http://larison.org/2007/05/02/maybe-we-could-call-it-accomplishment/#comment-6408 Wed, 02 May 2007 22:49:19 +0000 http://larison.org/2007/05/02/maybe-we-could-call-it-accomplishment/#comment-6408 Louis Auchincloss, a white-shoe lawyer, has written wonderful novels about the old Eastern upper class, from which he springs. Presumably most of these folks are Republicans. I think rather fewer Republicans (outside the think-tanks and the punditocracy) make their GOP affiliation a major focus of their lives, so that novels about them would tend to emphasize matters other than politics. Still, I would read a decent 800-page <i>roman-a-clef</i> about Texas, starring oil-field preppies and upwardly-mobile exterminators. Too bad Thomas Mann and Dostoyevsky are both dead and neither knew the Lone Star state or wrote in English. And I suppose if they can compose operas about Nixon in China and Jerry Springer, we can await someting like <i>Le Nozze dei Bush</i> or <i>Babes in Midland</i>, although perhaps with apprehension rather than tingling anticipation. Lord have mercy. Louis Auchincloss, a white-shoe lawyer, has written wonderful novels about the old Eastern upper class, from which he springs. Presumably most of these folks are Republicans.

I think rather fewer Republicans (outside the think-tanks and the punditocracy) make their GOP affiliation a major focus of their lives, so that novels about them would tend to emphasize matters other than politics.

Still, I would read a decent 800-page roman-a-clef about Texas, starring oil-field preppies and upwardly-mobile exterminators. Too bad Thomas Mann and Dostoyevsky are both dead and neither knew the Lone Star state or wrote in English.

And I suppose if they can compose operas about Nixon in China and Jerry Springer, we can await someting like Le Nozze dei Bush or Babes in Midland, although perhaps with apprehension rather than tingling anticipation.

Lord have mercy.

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