Sarah Palin is a chronic panderer and attention whore. One of the least popular Tea Party GOP candidates, she is always involved in a project of self-(re)invention: From a failed TV series, to a movie extolling her patriotic virtues, and now her motorcycle mama phase, Palin is a grizzly bear that cannot stay out of the spotlight.
On a related note, Chicago hosted the International Mr. Leather (IML) competition this weekend. I had intended to go, attend some panels, and do some interviews, but other events interfered. Nonetheless, it was great to see all of the leather daddies out in force (as well as the curious and surprised eyes of tourists and others not in the know, as a young girl was overheard saying, "Why are all those men dressed as policemen daddy?"). Timing is everything. Such then, that Sarah Palin's desperate photo op at the Rolling Thunder rally signals all sorts of BDSM, kink, and fetish potential on her part.
[Consider, Sarah Palin is all into "bears." Now we see her in leather. Call me titillated, but I thinks that Ms. Palin could be a very naughty girl, the type you don't bring home to mother.]
I wonder what the founder of the Carter Johnson Leather Library would think of Palin's energy? I will have to ask her during our interview, which of course I will be sharing here on WARN.
Palin is such good sport. In honor of IML I couldn't resist using her as an entry point for a fun read on leather, kink, and sex. From Time Out magazine:
That's Ms. Leather Daddy to You
In college, as a member of a military fraternity linked to ROTC, Pony (not her given name) developed an interest in bootblacking—the act of caring for another person’s shoes while they’re in them (and the master-slave aspect that comes with it). Last month, after an exhaustive weekend of competition in San Francisco, the Rockford native was crowned International Ms. Bootblack at International Ms. Leather (IMsL), the world’s largest event for leatherwomen. The win took Pony completely by surprise. “I’m not a leather dyke,” says the openly bisexual titleholder. “I’m a girlie femme who wears pink ribbons in my boots.”
As part of her Ms. Bootblack duties, Pony comes to Chicago this weekend to support and coach the men competing for International Mr. Bootblack, part of the International Mr. Leather (IML) weekend. It’s her third appearance at Chicago’s annual fetish mega-event. Pony will be joined by another IMsL winner, Lamalani, a Seattle resident who took home the coveted International Ms. Leather title. “Coming from a Chinese background, I kind of held everything in and didn’t explore that,” Lamalani says of her fetish. “A lot of it is exploring my physical and emotional boundaries. It’s fun, it’s sexy and it’s hot.”
Pony and Lamalani are part of what they say is a growing community of women interested in kink and fetish. But unlike their male counterparts, leatherwomen don’t have neighborhood taprooms like Touché and the Cell Block to explore their interest. That’s okay, they say, because the leather community has been quick to overlook the typical divides between gay/lesbian and gay/straight.
“I’m bisexual and female, but my master is straight and male, and we fit in at all the leather events,” Pony says. “Because we identify as leather and respect the leather history and community, that respect is always returned to us.” Case in point: At Chicago’s fetish joint Jackhammer, people of all sexual orientations and gender expressions are welcome in the basement playground the Hole, provided they’re wearing proper attire.
Lamalani echoes Pony’s sentiment. “I really think it boils down to a leatherperson’s heart, spirit and energy,” she says. At last month’s Cleveland Leather Awareness Weekend (CLAW), “the leathermen were just open arms,” Lamalani says. “They didn’t see me as a woman. They saw me as a leatherperson. Because we are outlaws to begin with, we band together with other outlaws.”
Both women say this spirit of inclusion extends to IML, the second- largest leather event in North America after San Francisco’s Folsom Street Fair in September. Although they admit that no part of the weekend is aimed specifically at women, who attend in comparatively slight numbers, the event maintains a strong female presence among volunteers, bootblacks and the infamous vendor mart where women might get their fetish going in live BDSM demos or just man a table. According to Pony, the relative rarity of women gives her an added cachet. “My favorite part is the reaction of ‘Oh, my gosh, a real live girl. Can I touch you?’” she says.
But given that there’s no event geared specifically toward the ladies, why should women bother with IML? “An event like IML is really the alternative sexuality community’s World’s Fair, and everybody’s welcome,” says Pony, who, along with Lamalani and other women, can attend the IML and bootblack competitions, hit key parties like GearBlast and the MAUL Uniform Party, attend the Pantheon of Leather (an awards ceremony honoring men, women and clubs), and play alongside male counterparts. “Just the vendor mart itself is a reason to go,” Pony says. “To be able to buy whatever you need or want and have nobody look at you sideways for it is really quite a feat.”
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[Consider, Sarah Palin is all into "bears." Now we see her in leather. Call me titillated, but I thinks that Ms. Palin could be a very naught girl, the type you don't bring home to mother.]
Yeah see, this is why my blog exists, for parenthetical moments of admission like the above.
Mrs. P. would make a really bad leather dyke imo, more like a femmed out biker girl, imo. That's having known a couple and I don't know her, so there's that.
I've only been to Folsom Street once, back in the very early 90s. I was dating someone who had an interest in it -- no I was not a participant in her interest -- so I tagged along. I ended up having a very negative response to it, though I chalk it up to the times.
Leather was not as accepted as it was then, so they suffered from a beleaguered reputation and didn't appreciate us vanillas being there, even if we were in relationships with leather folks.
Cue the Authenticity Tests. The nonstraight community has more than the Black community ever will and seem to add more and more on a yearly basis. I do revel in failing all of them.
The Black dude in the leopard print speedo and his white master dressed in business attire, leading him around by a dog collar, let's say it left a bad impression.
One thing I like about the leather folks is their displays do make one question their own sexuality, the relationships between sex and perceived power, and just how much kink they have in their own lives and relationships whether they use or identify as leather or not. I do enjoy that Palin does that too, in a sense.
Beyond the ordinary risk in ordinary life to totally get wrong, any guessing about anyone's sex life, kinky or not, I think it might be more troublesome to play that game with Mrs. Palin. All we know for sure is she is a genuine redneck (admits that and admits she want to put that awful song, "Redneck Woman," as her ring tone,) and she a fraud and a phony as a biker chick.
I loved the unintended confession in her question to the real biker chick about how can they deal with getting all sweaty in the leather? And she wore heels. Personally I haven't owned a motorcycle since I was a teen. I never was part of that tacky Harley hog culture. But I know leathers are for protection, and it gets cold even in summer, when you crank up to 60mph or faster. And even if you are the back passenger, ya don't want to be wearing heels in case you need to dismount quickly even at a low speed.
Personally, what I find more interesting than speculations about her sex life (and even more disturbing, and that is saying a lot) is the reality of the people who fall for her mediocre, high school theatre level show. Then again, I have long know what H.L Mencken said about the tastes of the American People. And as a general matter, It proves to be true, day after day, after day.
PS. My standard for hot motorcycle chick was set by Uma Thurman in Kill Bill. She rocked those yellow racing leathers. Never mind the combat sequences.
Mr DeVega:
I would like you to prove to YOURSELF (not to me) that YOU are more concerned with the issues such as:
1) The Black Unemployment rate at 16.1%
2) The failure of schools to deliver on the vision that they are the "Great Equalizer" - that allowed their present administrations to get into power but have not followed up upon..............
MORE than you are interested in Sarah Palin and "Tea Party" threats to Black people.
Do you see how much Tim Wise has damaged you?
Capping off the Memorial Day weekend jiggaboo jamboree...,
Where in that whole and entire post did CDV characterize Sarah Palin as a "threat to Black people"?
[quote]Where in that whole and entire post did CDV characterize Sarah Palin as a "threat to Black people"?[/quote]
I forgot about that secret "Dick Riding Obama" agreement that you all have running between each other.
KC Nulan.
KC Nulan (blank stare)
KC Nulan!!!!!!!!
Please go down the LIST of posts by one Chauncey DeVega and then ENUMERATE the most popular FOLKS in his wet dreams.
I assure you that the top 3 list are:
* Tea Party
* Any White folks that Tim Wise says are bad news for REAL Black folks because he heard them say something ill about Negroes in the "Whites Only" events that he can slip into
* Sarah Palin!!!!
If Cornel West was not sufficiently melanated - Mr Chauncey would have been on him too for DISRESPECTING the Black president.
Save your clowning for April Fools day - KCNulan. ON MEMORIAL day I REMEMBER all that you fundamentalists say and are about.
rotflmbao...,
Why Ronald A. Barr, you madcap..,
um,er,ah..., I don't think about another cat's dreams period, ever.
But wrt what cats post, Palin "succeeds" because like Mr. Ghetto, she's an adept pop psychologist.
LOL look who's back to defend Joan of Arc 2.0 from people so afraid of her, they fall over laughing every time she trots out one of her old vaudeville acts.
This week, it's posing on somebody else's motorcycle and upstaging an entire event meant for MIA servicemen.
No, CONGESTED F'UP, the people afraid of Sarah Palin are the GOP, and with good reason. If they let her silly butt on the ticket it will bring EVERY liberal, even the ones bitching about Obama, out of the woodwork on election day.
Unless she tries to cast herself as some moderate, there goes the R-voting independents (again, just like 2008.) So no, you are the ones with the Palin problem and she has your asses squarely over a barrel. I think it's funny.
CONSTIPATED HALFWIT said
[quote]Where in that whole and entire post did CDV characterize Sarah Palin as a "threat to Black people"?[/quote]
Please learn how to use HTML tags. [quote][/quote] does not work in Blogger comments, has never worked in Blogger comments, and never will work in Blogger comments, because it's bbcode, not html.
Oh Crap:
For a person who's own identity is keyed upon the avatar of a person he does not like - I am not sure that your advice is valid.
I use the [quote] as a means of IDENTIFYING a quote from another person - NOT for the message system's ability to process it.
Let me ask you a question - Does it feel strange that - at a time of economic crisis (and Africa being bombed by Americans and 3 African Colonists) you invest more more time focusing on a woman who HOLDS NO ELECTIVE OFFICE than you do on the Commander In Chief who is launching bombs on Libyans?
WHERE IS NAOMI KLEIN and SY HURSH when you need them to "Speak Truth To Power"?
@CRAPPY FEEDBACK
For a person who's own identity is keyed upon the avatar of a person he does not like - I am not sure that your advice is valid.
I haven't offered you any advice. Why would I?
But you're wrong about me not liking Ms. Palin. I like how she splits the GOP base, the way she gets you all hot and bothered then dumps you for the big bucks.
I like how she frightens the GOP brass for more than just the reason I listed, above. I like that when someone says something negative about her, males like you rush in to defend poor, beleagured, martyred Joan of Arc 2.0.
I like that duped conservatives send $100 to SarahPAC, then get a remaindered book they could get off of ebay for $4 with free shipping.
Mostly, though, I like the threat she poses to conservative so-called "values voters" who can't stand the thought of a woman pastor, let a female commander in chief. I really do hope you're put in the position of having to vote for either the dumb gurl or the pretty Mormon.
You're also full of crap in that explanation of why you continue to use code from a different content management system which does not do what you claim.
There are instructions below every comment box on which coding tags will "IDENTIFY a quote from another person". But then, I would not expect the dumbest conservative on the internet to be able to use them.
@CONSERVATIVE FAILURE
Let me ask you a question
I don't have to field any questions from bossy, entitlement-issues, blueballs cosnservatives.
Here's the deal, CF: people blog on what people wish to blog on. No amount of disapproval from you will change that. No amount of haranguing people to post on matters YOU wish to talk about on everyone else's blog will change that.
You have your own blog for that.
@Constructive. You are back. Shouldn't you be out eating a hotdog or polish sausage and pumpkin pie while fantasizing about me and the other assorted folks who are the objects for your onanistic fantasies on your own site?
You enjoy blogging by proxy where to make up for a deficit in attention on your own various projects you want others to parrot your positions. Sorry, won't do it. I write about what I find interesting.
But, in the interest of being a good sport, and also because I love a good car wreck, I will offer you the space for a guest post. Now, if you take me up on this, please write something of reasonable length on a topic of your choice.
Fair? I think the world needs to see your work in a place other than buried in comments sections here and elsewhere.
Save for minor grammar or organizational changes if need be I won't alter your piece. I assume you will post a version of it elsewhere to keep folks honest..because there are so many who want to mischaracterize you.
rotflmbao...,
Ronald aka constipated faceplant (the cultural strategerist) gots seven blogs OC;
Uncategorized Rantings
The Diary Of Urban Bread & Circuses
The Cultural Strategist - SOLUTIONS Digest
Politics, Policy, Pathology and Hope WITHIN The Black Community
Technological Reparation
Surveillance Upon The Embedded Ideologues That Lurk Within Our Community Consciousness
making him easily the busiest little temporal lobe epileptic in the whole and entire blogosphere.
I think the world needs to see your work in a place other than buried in comments sections here and elsewhere.
You been missing out CD, Ronald pays Shay Riley's little undisclosed kneegrow coonservative republishing fee and she's been posting his hypergraphic chindribble for the last 6 months or so...,
Ronald aka constipated faceplant (the cultural strategerist) gots seven blogs OC
Rotfl, each one every bit as ignorant and incoherent as the other, I see. *smh*
[quote]You enjoy blogging by proxy where to make up for a deficit in attention on your own various projects you want others to parrot your positions. Sorry, won't do it. I write about what I find interesting. [/quote]
Mr DeVega:
While I have called you and your minions BIGOTED I have never called you all DUMB.
Why then go in the above line of argument?
You have merely stated that few Black people choose to POST on my blogs.
YOU DID NOT say:
1) My positions are WRONG and offered poof of such
2) YOUR positions, while POPULAR, have effectively delivered that which was promised to BLACK PEOPLE as you and other 'Embedded Confidence Men' successfully got our people to fuse their RACIAL CONSCIOUSNESS in with their IDEOLOGICAL/EMOTIONAL sentiment in the American Political Domain.
Do you see the perversion of your (collective) positions? At a time of great (and growing) GRIEVANCES among our people you are forced to say "SEE CS Black people don't want to hear your FOOLISHNESS - as evidenced by the lack of posts"
What you are LOATHED to say is "MY (your) personal ideological positions that I propagandize frequently IS THE PREVAILING POSITION throughout Black America. YOU (CS) are correct in arguing that I BEAR MORE CULPABILITY in our present condition that you and other Black Conservatives who I admit can't get a job handing in the Black community - handing out clean needles to crack heads because we despise you".
You see Mr KCNulan - a Linear Algebra book is read by a small, small percentage of Americans. THIS factoid does not prove that the book is INACCURATE.
If you were more transparent in your antics - beyond asking where are the recent articles from Sy Hursh and your girl Naomi Klein about the US Millenarianism in Libya - I WOULD SEE FROM YOU more analysis of:
* The GAP between what you and others conspired to SELL OTHER BLACK PEOPLE about the glories that OBAMA would bring to Black America and WHERE WE PRESENTLY STAND.
Keep in mind that THIS DID NOT START WITH OBAMA - it is true. The BLACK COMMUNITY has a STACK OF PROGRESSIVES representing EVERY SINGLE PLACE where BLACK FOLKS and/or their White Liberal Snarling Fox Join-Venture Partners have the FINAL SAY in who represents them. Despites all of this - there is little ORGANIC INCREASE that you can point to among those who traded their EQUAL BALLOTS for promised future prosperity.
Do you see, Mr DeVega - EACH story on Sarah Palin and The Tea Party is a STORY YOU DID NOT WRITE about the truth WITHIN the Black Community.
Still I am not mad at you sir. You merely have been listening to Tim Wise too long.
IF YOU could provide me with an audio recording of Mr Wise ONLY telling "WHAT BLACK PEOPLE NEED TO DO TO BECOME ORGANICALLY STRONG - AS A MEANS OF LIFTING OURSELVES PAST THE FORCE OF WHITE SUPREMACY"
I will:
* Shut down ALL OF MY BLOGS
* DELETE THE CONTENT - for no one to see again
* Sell all of my computing equipment and NEVER use the Internet again.
AGAIN - he can ONLY talk about BLACK FOLKS in the entire speech. NOT A WORD about what WHITE FOLKS are saying about us behind our backs - as he know how important what WHITE FOLKS SAY are to Blacks with your consciousness.
[quote]pays Shay Riley's little undisclosed kneegrow coonservative republishing fee and she's been posting his hypergraphic chindribble for the last 6 months or so.[/quote]
Mr KC Nulan:
FOCUS
I am ONE BLACK MAN.
Let's pretend that ALL THAT YOU SAY IS TRUE.
Now let us look at 40 MILLION BLACK PEOPLE - APPROXIMATELY 18 Million who have the ability to vote.
WHY are you so concerned about ME and the "Booker Rising Blog" more than you concern yourself about ALL OF THE NON-BLACK CONSERVATIVE BLOGS that are infected with JingOism AND DO SO FOR FREE.
What about ME is so THREATENING to you that this FAR, FAR, FAR greater force upon the mind of BLACK AMERICA does not seem to trigger the same concern?
You can't justify your position Mr KCNulan - BEYOND your noted ARROGANCE.
EITHER I am IRRELEVANT - per my unpopular blogs OR you (and Mr DeVega) are PROTECTING something - which is a greater FORCE upon Black America - but you do not wish to take down because it is FAVORABLE to you despite its INEFFECTIVENESS in transforming our people.
I give Ms Reily about $50-100 each year as she opens her funding drive.
THINK QUICK KC Nulan - HOW MUCH did Black America give to the OBAMA CAMPAIGN in aggregate?
IF CORPORATE DONATIONS are mean to skew elections and direct the resources toward their favor upon the election victory - WHY IS IT that THIS FAR, FAR, FAR larger number of NEGROES WITH AUTOMATIC DEBITS to the OBAMA CAMPAIGN not more concern to you than what I pay Ms Reilly for the upkeep of her blog?
You can't continue this line of thinking, Mr Nulan, yet maintain fidelity to your superior intelligence. You are smarter than the average Negro.
Why is that you love Klien and Hursh because they LEAVE NO STONE UN-TURNED in pursuit of their (conservative) target. YET when it comes to PROPORTIONALITY I am such a SUPERIOR target of Interest than my 1/40,000,000 proportional representation can justify?
This is "Mall Cop" behavior Mr Nulan.
WHO is stealing from YOU as you focus on ME as I fit your PROFILE?
I am not asking you to STOP - mind you. The more that you and Mr DeVega posit your content on that which bothers YOU - the better measure you provide of your askewness.
rotflmbao
Ronald, Ronald, Ronald, Ronald, Ronald...,
I do my level best to live by the motto, "don't start none, won't be none."
Absolutely the ONLY reason I even know you exist is because you made the mistake of trying out some of your deranged porch monkey antics on me (i.e., you.started.some) and it backfired on you.
Earlier this year, I was feeling expansive - and extended you an olive branch - which you summarily rejected - because you are not any kind of serious black partisan.
Ronald, you know that you're a paid coonservative troll (or as others refer to you a "bot") on a mission to attack and interfere with black pundits with whom your partisan patrons disagree.
C'mon admit it. I know it's not a wannabe highbrow outfit like Manhattan, Claremont, Pajamas, et al, but you know you're dipping your bill in the Jesse Lee Peterson fund for coonservative shenanigans posted up by somebody, mebbe a Koch Bros. outfit or something for advanced melanic cybonic coonery.
Mr KCNulan:
What is an "Olive Branch" to YOU is an unworkable "Land Give-back" to me - leaving me:
* Compromised
* Vulnerable
* Complicit with YOUR actions
You have an ego problem sir.
Again I struggle how to comprehend your concern about me a "So-called Paid Conservative" than the far far far larger galaxy of NEGROES WHO PAY THE CURRENCY OF THEIR EQUAL BALLOT in the expectation of Social Justice.
You see, KC Nulan - you are concerned that I am "DISRUPTING" thought that YOU find tantalizingly per YOUR OWN bias. The line up of content by Mr DeVega makes you cream as their is a near perfect overlap of YOUR enemies list.
When I dare to hold up what are transparent PERMANENT INTERESTS - and then have the audacity of showing you "Negroes Complaining" after the excitement of their MISSION ACCOMPLISHED MOVEMENT ----- your concern about ME is not that I am hating on "Negro Biblical Truth" but that I am EXPOSING that which you are selling to the easily manipulated Negroes as they "lift up their skirts" to you.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uR1hyaPf2t0/TctzI1slxkI/AAAAAAAAD9s/lsqGhmy949Y/s1600/Granny+Panties.jpg
Mr KC Nulan - fear not about "the ONLY reason why you KNOW ABOUT ME".
I would be more impressed if you proved to be more concerned about the millions of Black people with OPINIONS and GRIEVANCES about their lot in lift but LACK:
* The literacy to EXPRESS their frustration in written form on a blog
* Lack the VISIONARY OVERSIGHT to start INSPECTING the HAND THAT FEEDS THEM, as they don't realize the arsenic that the hand reached out for so-called ASSISTANCE is laced with.
Instead your mantra of "Don't Start None WON'T BE NONE" is best understood as your desire for the NEGRO TO KEEP OUTWARDLY GRIEVING against forces that HE CAN'T SEE striking the blows against his head while YOU and other Embedded Confidence men don't ever seem to use the institutions that "Favorable Progressives" now control to LIFT THIS MAN UP IN AN ORGANIC FASHION.
IF I am guilty of DISRUPTING YOU then it is akin to me whispering to a line of Missouri's finest cattle that they are not standing in line for PRIME CORN FEED and electrolysis to remove the hair from their unibrow. INSTEAD the electric shock that they hear is being administered to their compatriots who ran to be first in line because you and DeVega told them that Sarah Palin is going to get any who remain in the stock yard after 6pm.
Your olive branch doth have too many THORNS and SHARP RAZORS which cut flesh to be a real olive branch. You don't even bother to hide them any longer.
Why don't you show SELF RESPECT by stop referring to ME with the same primate references that you'd say was RACIST if someone said them about Obama.
PLEASE NOTE - I AM NOT DEMANDING THAT YOU STOP as anyone reading both of our words but notice this about YOU - is going to reduce credibility points from you.
YOU achieving this higher level of consciousness about yourself and which line you wound not cross would be all the "Olive Branch" that I need.
IF I am guilty of DISRUPTING YOU then it is akin to me whispering to a line of Missouri's finest cattle that they are not standing in line for PRIME CORN FEED and electrolysis to remove the hair from their unibrow. INSTEAD the electric shock that they hear is being administered to their compatriots who ran to be first in line because you and DeVega told them that Sarah Palin is going to get any who remain in the stock yard after 6pm.
Your olive branch doth have too many THORNS and SHARP RAZORS which cut flesh to be a real olive branch. You don't even bother to hide them any longer.
Why don't you show SELF RESPECT by stop referring to ME with the same primate references that you'd say was RACIST if someone said them about Obama.
lol,
Okay Festus.
I'll stop giving monkeys a bad name if you'll parse that livestock metaphor you introduced in the interest of clarity. Thanks.
EACH story on Sarah Palin and The Tea Party is a STORY YOU DID NOT WRITE about the truth WITHIN the Black Community.
Everywhere you go...control freaks. If you're in doubt as to why Black cons so often get the house nigga epithet, wonder no more.
The same can be said for you, every time you rush to defend Joan of Arc or those bigots waving the misspelled picket signs and confederate flags.
Why is it so important to you to dictate what goes on on other blogs?
I love you Black cons, so EAGER to protect dumb bigots like Sarah Palin and the entire tea party, by running around trying to silence people who make fun of them.
@Constructive. I see folks have got you a bit hemmed in. Free yourself. Do the guest post and you won't have to play defense.
Please? Pretty please? With sugar and chitterlings on top?
[crickets]
rotflmbao...,
OC - my olive branch proposition to the constipated faceplant was conditioned upon his articulation of definite solutions and his efforts in his own community (Atlanta - though he lives out in Fayetteville) of implementing the same.
Not only does this hypergraphic bot not have any solutions to proffer, he doesn't even have credible notions, much less the brick and mortar social network there on the ground to get even the most rudimentary efforts going.
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