July 6, 2012
Looking Forward To The Past
Sorry. I'm just mesmerized by this picture. It is my Twitter avatar. Seeing LBJ looking like he just spent the weekend at Woodstock with Timothy Leary is like seeing Richard Nixon sporting a Joe Dirt mullet.
Or, perhaps, it is sadder than that. Think Howard Hughes. One day you're the richest man on the planet, so dashing you are giving Clark Gable a run for his money and fucking Rita Hayworth, the next you are hermetically sealed in a Vegas penthouse, with fungal yellowed fingernails, a bacteria phobia, and a plethora of drug addictions. Getting weekly blood tranfusions from Mormons because they are "pure."
My fall, on the other hand, has not been nearly as precipitous as these fellows.
Got a little spring in my step for a change. Although dropping El Cid with Leary, or better, LBJ, would have been the damned bomb.
This picture provides an interesting glimpse into LBJ's repressed homo side. After all, the man who sodomized Richard Russell and Sam Rayburn deserves to let it hang out, just a little.
Posted by: Jack Straw at July 7, 2012 7:32 AMexcuse me while I kiss the sky
Posted by: Cletus Socrates at July 7, 2012 10:09 AMI've been thinking about opining on Lyndon's last days at my place for awhile now. Maybe I'll do it this weekend if I don't get side-tracked by cocaine and buggery.
Posted by: skippystalin at July 7, 2012 11:34 AMLooks like Robert DiNero in Cape Fear.
Posted by: JohnB at July 7, 2012 12:18 PMHey Cleatus, it's "excuse me while I kiss this guy".
Posted by: Boogliodemus at July 7, 2012 12:24 PMI can't see a picture of LBJ without being reminded of a story my Dad forwarded me, the Paul Krassner spoof in the 1968 Realist:
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Parts_That_Were_Left_Out_of_the_Kennedy_Book)
"Krassner most successful prank was The Parts That Were Left Out of the Kennedy Book, a grotesque article following the censorship of William Manchester's book on the Kennedy assassination The Death of a President. At the climax of the grotesque-genre short-story, Lyndon B. Johnson is on the Air Force One sexually penetrating the bullet-hole wound in the throat of JFK's corpse."
Posted by: Patton at July 8, 2012 1:27 AMAre you sure that isn't a picture of Gene Hackman?
Posted by: Harper at July 8, 2012 10:49 PMHey Cleatus, it's "excuse me while I kiss this guy".
Posted by: Estherxqh at October 25, 2012 12:59 PMThis picture provides an interesting glimpse into LBJ's repressed homo side. After all, the man who sodomized Richard Russell and Sam Rayburn deserves to let it hang out, just a little. Actually, "Trouble Every Day" is about the MSM as much or even more than the Watts riots:
Posted by: Strong at February 27, 2013 10:12 PM