I NEVER TRY ANYTHING, I JUST DO IT

So Tura Satana is gone.

And of course you know her (if you know her at all) from Russ Meyer’s Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!



But there was more to her than that.

She was also in Astro Zombies, for example.

Anecdotes follow.

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Okay, so she wasn’t exactly Oscar material. But she IS one of the most enduring icons of 60s cult cinema, and no one can take that away from her.

Respect.

FUN FACT: Elvis Presley was a big fan.


Try me,

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IS THE SUPER BOWL OVER YET?

Either way, I thought I’d contribute to the festivities with my favorite Super Bowl moment ever.



Sorry, that’s it. I’m not a fan, and I can’t think of a single good memory associated with football. Apart from the first time I saw the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders, of course. And I was 11, so I have an excuse.

I’d elaborate, but Mark Dery did it for me a year ago.

Key excerpt:

It may come as Piss Christ blasphemy to many, but there are those of us who Truly Do Not Give A Flaming Fuck who finished last in the league in rushing the ball or who led the league in defending tight ends or who had a hot flash during red-zone play-action passes (although that does sound provocative, now that you mention it).

Not that anyone asked us. During the run-up to Super Bowl Sunday, anchorclones, talkshow hosts, politicians, and the rest of the chattering class act as if we’re one big happy congregation gathered in solemn veneration of the Gipper’s jockstrap, displayed in a monstrance. It’s the sheer presumptuousness of the sports-crazed majority that galls the unbeliever most—an obliviousness to the possibility, even, that not everyone shares the One True Faith. It’s the same genial arrogance that makes evangelical Christians so monumentally irritating to those of us who prefer a good exfoliating body scrub to being Washed in the Blood of the lamb.

Which might be putting it a little strongly. I know quite a few football fans who are (1) aware that some people don’t like football and (2) totally okay with this.

But on a macro cultural level, it sounds about right to me – to include the jock culture and the homoerotic bits, though I haven't processed the former into an all-out hatred of sports. I do like watching baseball and soccer sometimes (I just don't care who wins). But American football (from Little League to the NFL) does seem to embody the worst of sexist macho jock culture in a way that other sports generally don't. And I won't pretend that the fact that I was one of the kids the jocks and their cheerleader girlfriends picked on all the time isn't a factor in my lack of enthusiasm.

That said, it’s only fair to mention that it’s not necessarily limited to American football. I think that mentality exists in almost every country where football (as in soccer) is a huge deal at the expense of every other major team sport (and I’m thinking mainly of the UK here, but I’m sure there are other examples).

But anyway, that’s why I’m not all that excited about the Super Bowl.

Sorry.

Jocko homo,

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