GOODBYE, SARAH JANE

I’ve been caught up in deadlines and internartional travel, so I’m behind on current events bloggery.

So even though it’s old news to most of you, I should probably say something about Elisabeth Sladen passing away.

Actually, I can’t really add to what’s already been said by most of you in yr own blogs. Except that Sladen, as Sarah Jane Smith, was my high school crush.

Well, one of many, yes. But Sladen was different somehow. She was British, for one. And she looked great in a ski cap. And she hung around with Doctor Who, which like most people my age, I discovered during the Tom Baker years and instantly fell in love with the whole concept.

She was also feisty and independent, yes, although that didn’t make as much an impression on me – Nashville didn't get Doctor Who on TV til the early 80s, and by that time, even at the tender age of 16, I thought all women acted like that. 

Anyway, I always loved Sarah Jane as a character – so much so that I wrote bad poetry about her, and even once stole her look and name wholesale to create a superhero character for Villains and Vigilantes.

If that’s not true love, what is? I ask you.

So credit to Sladen for creating such a believable, vivid character. She may never have escaped it career-wise, but the tributes that have been pouring in speak volumes.

I’m yr fanboy,

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LISTEN TO IT #30: OH CANCER, UP YRS

Meanwhile, Poly Styrene of X-Ray Spex is also gone.

Which may not mean much to a lot of you, but I’m a big fan of X-Ray Spex. They only managed one album before splitting up, but they made it count. So much so that it’s hard to pick just one song for this post. But I’ll go with “The Day The World Turned Day Glo” because it gets me blood moving in the morning.

Meanwhile, by the wildest coincidence, I’d been planning to do a post on Poly’s latest solo album, Generation Indigo, which is only her third solo album since X-Ray Spex broke up.

Based on the evidence below, like a lot of pioneering music icons, she might never live up to her own past, but she still had something to say, which is more than you could say for almost any female singer mainstream singer today.

I don’t know if I’d go so far as to say there’d be no Lady Gaga without Poly Styrene. But there’s no doubt she did her part to kick Polite Society in the teeth.

Respect.

Seen and heard,

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OBAMA’S BIRTH CERTIFICATE AND OTHER PRACTICAL JOKES

What just happened:

"Hey Obama, show us yr birth certificate."

"No."

"Hey Obama, show us yr birth certificate."

"No."

"Hey Obama, show us yr birth certificate."

"No."

"Hey Obama, show us yr birth certificate."

"No."

"Hey Obama, show us yr birth certificate."

"No."

"Hey Obama, show us yr birth certificate."

"All right, here."

"Hey Obama, why are you wasting America's time on this insignificant issue instead of focusing on important things?"

ZING!

Well, who really didn’t see THAT coming?

Gotcha,

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OBAMA’S BIRTH CERTIFICATE AND OTHER PRACTICAL JOKES, PART 2

What also just happened:

"Hey Obama, show us yr birth certificate."

"No."

"Hey Obama, show us yr birth certificate."

"No."

"Hey Obama, show us yr birth certificate."

"No."

"Hey Obama, show us yr birth certificate."

"No."

"Hey Obama, show us yr birth certificate."

"No."

"Hey Obama, show us yr birth certificate."

"All right, here."

"Hey Obama, you don’t actually expect us to take yr word for it that this is a real birth certificate, do you? As if we couldn’t tell the difference."

ZING!

Well, who really didn’t see THAT coming?

Gotcha again,

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OBAMA’S BIRTH CERTIFICATE AND OTHER PRACTICAL JOKES, PART 3

What also just happened:

"Hey Obama, show us yr birth certificate."

"No."

All right, I’ll stop.

But you see where I’m coming from. We all knew exactly what would happen if and when Barack Obama ever produced his long-form birth certificate.

“It’s a fake.”

“It’s a political stunt.”

“Okay, now why aren’t you showing us yr college transcripts?”

"ROLLERBALL IS NOT BALLPOINT!"

See? It never really mattered what he did. Either way, Obama was going to be pwned.

Which is ironic, since I had a going theory that Obama was playing his own practical joke – intentionally not releasing his LFBC just to see how many Republicans he could get to dither over what turned out to be nothing at all.

Some days you just can’t win.

Anyway, we’re probably stuck with it, especially with Republicans still keen on pushing Birther bills requiring proof of natural American citizenship to ensure Obama never becomes president again.

Or Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Oh SNAP!

The joke’s on you,

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