Meade: "What theme?"
Me: "My piss theme. I had a piss theme going. That's how I got to the dog that pissed off the Nazis. I Googled 'piss,' because I saw I had a theme going."
Meade: "What?"
Me: "There was the 'pee-o-meter' and... "
Meade: "Where was the piss in the first post, the Johnny Weir..."
Me (suddenly realizing I didn't use Johnny Weir's "pissed me off" and "heard worse in bathrooms" until the the second post): "Oh, yeah."
Meade: "Johnny Wee-er."
Me: "You're good with the homophones. The homophobe homophones."
Meade: "I'm afraid of homophones."
Showing posts with label Johnny Weir. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Johnny Weir. Show all posts
Friday, January 7, 2011
"Edmonton's Gold Medal Hockey Pee-O-Meter."
Things found in the sidebar of a Canadian website while looking for other things.
What I was looking for was that quote about poutine.
Eh. The whole quote isn't even there. It's here:
What I was looking for was that quote about poutine.
Eh. The whole quote isn't even there. It's here:
It was them criticizing me as a person, and that was something that frankly pissed me off. I’ve heard worse in bathrooms about me.... If I had the chance to sit down with them over a poutine, I think we'd all be, like, lovely people together.
"All the gay websites couldn't figure out why I was such a jerk that I wouldn't talk about it."
Said the ice skater Johnny Weir (who people have long assumed is gay, even though he wouldn't say it):
1. Although in the past, it was fear of negativity from heterosexuals that kept gay people in the closet, these days, a gay person might choose the closet because of the negativity of other gay people.
2. If a celebrity wants to write a successful book about himself, he needs to withhold at least one juicy piece of information. For Weir, this was that news — even though the only real news was that he's saying what he'd never said before.
3. Some people think of themselves as, above all, individuals, and when others think the most important thing is their membership in a particular group, they resist. They don't want to be defined by a single quality, especially when it's a quality that makes other people see them in terms of the group stereotype, and not personal uniqueness. There was a special playfulness to this notion in Weir's case, because he engaged in the very open "flamboyant" style that people think of as stereotypically gay.
4. Just because you're gay doesn't mean you like other gay people and want to join their team. Heterosexuals don't naturally love all the other heterosexuals. Gay men may need to look for their sexual partners in the pool of gay men,* but there's no reason why you have to like everyone in your category of potential sexual partners, and, indeed, it's a good idea to reject the vast majority of potential sexual partners. You only need one (at most). You're entitled to think that most of them are jerks.
5. Ice skating is not a team sport.
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*By the way, this is the pool of gay men:
"But pressure is the last thing that would make me want to 'join' a community... The massive backlash against me in the gay media and community only made me dig my 'closeted' heels in further."So, what do we learn from this? Possible lessons:
1. Although in the past, it was fear of negativity from heterosexuals that kept gay people in the closet, these days, a gay person might choose the closet because of the negativity of other gay people.
2. If a celebrity wants to write a successful book about himself, he needs to withhold at least one juicy piece of information. For Weir, this was that news — even though the only real news was that he's saying what he'd never said before.
3. Some people think of themselves as, above all, individuals, and when others think the most important thing is their membership in a particular group, they resist. They don't want to be defined by a single quality, especially when it's a quality that makes other people see them in terms of the group stereotype, and not personal uniqueness. There was a special playfulness to this notion in Weir's case, because he engaged in the very open "flamboyant" style that people think of as stereotypically gay.
4. Just because you're gay doesn't mean you like other gay people and want to join their team. Heterosexuals don't naturally love all the other heterosexuals. Gay men may need to look for their sexual partners in the pool of gay men,* but there's no reason why you have to like everyone in your category of potential sexual partners, and, indeed, it's a good idea to reject the vast majority of potential sexual partners. You only need one (at most). You're entitled to think that most of them are jerks.
5. Ice skating is not a team sport.
_________
*By the way, this is the pool of gay men:
Friday, February 19, 2010
Did the skater Johnny Weir deliberately allude to Picasso's "Boy with a Pipe"?
After skating in the Olympics last night, Johnny Weir got a wreath of roses, which he wore on his head as he waited for his scores:
And here is the famous painting:
And here is the famous painting:
Saturday, February 25, 2006
"I didn't feel my inner peace, I didn't feel my aura."
The WaPo is giving out its own Olympic medals. Example:
Best Johnny Weir QuotesOh, and I love this one:
Gold: "I never felt comfortable in this building. I didn't feel my inner peace, I didn't feel my aura. Inside I was black" (after finishing a disappointing fifth in men's figure skating).
Silver: "I could very likely wake up and feel horrible, like Nick Nolte's mug shot" (before skating his long program).
Bronze: "I dragged myself out of bed, had my Starbucks, put on my self-tanner and went from there" (after winning the national title last month).
Things We Still Don't UnderstandYeah, what's with that commercial? And, with all that time NBC spent on skating, they should have figured out a perfectly brilliant way to teach the new scoring system and make us care about it.
Gold: Curling rules.
Silver: New figure-skating scoring system.
Bronze: The Lenovo ThinkPad commercial.
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