Posts by Russell Brown
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Up Front: Towards a Sex-Positive Utopia, in reply to Emma Hart,
Tongue in cheek? And more of Simon Cowell than the girls themselves?
And yeah, a lot like being high. At 13. As a deliberate marketing exercise.
No, it's something you're uncomfortable with.
Simon Cowell was five years old when girls screamed themselves silly at the Beatles in 1964.
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Up Front: Towards a Sex-Positive Utopia, in reply to Emma Hart,
Porn is already, in my opinion and experience, miles ahead of mainstream film and television and advertising/fashion, in depicting a wide range of body types and sexual tastes.
Oh god, don't. I made the mistake on Saturday night of proposing that Caitlin Moran might not be completely right about everything in the whole world.
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Up Front: Towards a Sex-Positive Utopia, in reply to Emma Hart,
The energy in that crowd was incredible. All singing along ... they'd hold off on a line, we'd sing, they'd laugh, the crowd was euphoric.
Yeah, but you'd sing, right? You weren't screaming so hard you couldn't actually hear any of the music.
Which was clearly very annoying for the Beatles.
Otoh, Johnny Devlin, in 1950s New Zealand:
Devlin’s first performance at Auckland’s Jive Centre electrified the fans. Young women and girls screamed hysterically as he sang and moved across the stage, all hip-wriggling, groin-grinding Presley style. ‘I guess I shook my leg or something and they screamed. Then I shook it again, and they screamed again.’
Hits like ‘Lawdy Miss Clawdy’ came in 1958, when Devlin toured the country to sell-out audiences. At the end of a Christchurch show he drove off in a pink Cadillac. Next to him was Cabinet minister Mabel Howard, decked out in furs. Shrieking girls and women queued outside venues for a look at their idol, but most wanted something of him. He threw bits of his clothes into the audience, and his agents stitched his shirts so that fans could rip them from his back.
It might not be to your taste, but it's been happening for at least six decades. I imagine doing it's a lot like being high.
Have I found the sole place where you get judgey? ;-)
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Tracey Nelson's stats:
Handling errors continue to be the Blues biggest woe, this week they made seventeen - their most yet this season - including two intercepted passes for the Sharks' first and second tries. The Blues are now averaging almost thirteen handling errors per game this season, which is four more than the other New Zealand sides.
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Hard News: The war over a mystery, in reply to Bart Janssen,
I won't bother quoting your post Bart, because I agree with every word of it.
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Hard News: The war over a mystery, in reply to HORansome,
A family member of mine worked for the police at the time of the Crewe murders and is still adamant to this day Thomas did it but that the police bungled the investigation, leading to them fitting him up for a crime they sincerely believed he had actually committed.
The police as a group still largely insist they had the right guy – although they’re pretty much the only ones now. Hutton had a cheer squad of officers sitting in on the Royal Commission every time he appeared.
Hunter’s timeline of the way the focus switched from Demler to Thomas is fascinating – and without touching on his theory about particular actions on Hutton’s part, a great deal of what he presents from various official records is frankly astonishing.
The case against Thomas involved him balancing on a ledge outside the house, opening some louvres without being noticed, poking a rifle through and nailing Harvey with a single, brilliant shot to the head. During a violent storm.
They also had to shift the time of the murders way past the Crewes' known regular bedtime to get around Thomas's alibi. And consciously and deliberately ignore evidence from a neighbour connecting Demler with a rifle that met the description of the murder weapon.
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Hard News: Really The Blues, in reply to Fraser Gardyne,
It’s all very sad Russel. One small edit, Harleys are V twins.
And my name has a double l, so I guess we're even ;-)
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Hard News: Really The Blues, in reply to Tom Semmens,
Next up was the Blues manager. He arrived late. He had no presentation. He “waffled on about himself for ten minutes minutes” and didn’t have clear answers to any questions. He left with vague instructions to call someone if he was keen to play for them.
Far out.
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Hard News: Really The Blues, in reply to Gareth Davidson,
For all remaining Blues fans (yes, both of you), there is a solution at hand…
After that swifty the Hurricanes pulled on us with Weepu and Nonu, I'm just all out of trust, I'm sorry.
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Up Front: Towards a Sex-Positive Utopia, in reply to Emma Hart,
Well, not if moppetry is what’s being actively marketed to them, no. I’m struggling to come up with a male singer marketed to teenager *girls* as aggressively masculine. There must be some.
Not all that many -- Elvis would be the outstanding example, but he was pretty too. But 13 yo boys aren't exactly hairy-chested beasts either. Maybe that's just what girls are comfortable with at that age.
BTW, I had a Twitter conversation a while ago with a teenaged trans-man (who I'd mistaken for a lesbian) who was sporting both a Justin Bieber haircut and a Justin Bieber t-shirt. That was quite meta.