Yikes

If I'd known Ann Althouse was going to give me a shout-out I would've tidied up a little around here (she busted one of my ubiquitous typos, now fixed). As it is, I welcome all Althouse fans and I hope you'll stick around. I don't blog too much these days and when I do it tends to be updates about my alleged musical career but every once in a while I say something of actual interest to those outside the small circle of fans of my music.

That said, regular readers might not be aware that in the blog world an Althouse link is sort of like unexpectedly getting plunked into heavy rotation on a major commercial radio station. Pretty cool indeed! Check out Ann's blog - like most of the others on my Daily Reading list, her stuff seems to annoy the living hell out of reactionary leftists, who insist on calling her a conservative even though she really isn't. Great stuff.

Thanks, Ann Althouse!

Let's open comments and see if I don't have to shut 'em right back down.

UPDATE: I almost forgot, AA ran a Google search on me and came up with this FCC judgment against a Dallas radio station for playing one of my songs. I remember reading about this years ago as the station was under attack by some Christian fundamentalist group for playing the song. In our early days we tried to ignite this sort of hype for ourselves several times, phoning and faxing Chicago TV stations pretending to be members of one outraged group or another who were protesting a Screeching Weasel performance. It never worked, of course. By the time the Dallas thing happened we were already doing okay for ourselves so we didn't really care so much. If I'd known they'd been hit with a 2K fine I would've chipped something in!

The weird thing about it is that they attempted to decipher my lyrics and, as you might expect, often failed, sometimes hilariously and usually making it worse than it was. Case in point:

"When you just need a man, a beat-me-leather fag,
to take you out in drag."

Now, as silly as it may seem to debate the subtle nuances of this example of high culture, it does sort of irk me that they got it wrong. The line is "beefy leather fag," not "beat-me-leather fag." It's an important distinction because "Beefy leather fag" is funny whereas "Beat-me-leather fag" sounds like something translated from French by Babel Fish.

Also, the FCC thing doesn't distinguish between the lyrics and the spoken intro. The latter ends at the line, "Won't you be my homosexual husband?" and is spoken by former J.D.'s editor and current filmmaker Bruce LaBruce (link NSFW!), a very funny guy (who I think might be gay).

Anyway, there are many other mistakes in the FCC's version of my lyrics. I don't even remember all the lyrics - I ad-libbed a bunch of them. Plus that song was written almost 20 years ago.

Oy, I need a nap.