Ah to be in London now that gin is in the air

A bar in London will be pumping vaporized gin and tonic into the air.  “Tickets, priced £5, are available for hourly slots and customers must be over 21.”

Wonder what brand.  I have a real affinity for Tanquery.  Tanquery 10 is the best.  As Col. Potter once said, “there aren’t enough Os in smooth” to describe it.

 

Common stupidity . . .

. . . because stupidity is often more common than sense.

The Nashville city council unanimously passed a bill banning consumption of alcohol at after hours clubs.  This follows the passage of ordinances placing tough requirements on parking and zoning.  As this issue has moved through the council, we’ve been treated to repeated reminders that one club – Faded – had 84 police calls during a one year period.  Of course, Faded is located downtown on 2nd Ave North, with some residential nearby and most of the police calls were for noise.  But, Nashville’s city council decided to deal with a limited problem by trying to stamp out all such clubs.  (For the record, after hours clubs aren’t exactly my thing.)  Oh, and if the patron brings in alcohol, the club can lose its permit.  (We’ll ignore the stupidity of a citizen having to get a permit to conduct a lawful business.)

After 3 a.m., if a person wants to drink, he can go home, go to a friends home or ride around in a friends car.  But, he can’t go to a lawful dance club and listen to music.  That’s stupid.

 

It’s a painting, not a photograph or Maybe I need to learn to be offended easier

Certain groups in the Christian community, including Concerned Women for America and The Catholic League are in high dungeon over a poster being used to advertise this weekend’s Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco. In case you are not one of those whipped up about this event, it is an annual street fair that caters to a certain segment of the GLBT (this is one time all 4 letters are appropriate) community who enjoy certain sexual fetishes, especially BDSM and leather. It is not for that faint of heart. (The FSF link above has a galleries section in case you need more detail about what sorts of things happen at this fair.) Anyway, here’s the poster:

Obviously, it’s meant to bear a striking resemblance to Leonardo De Vinci’s Last Supper.

Matt Barber, policy director for cultural issues with CWA said his group wants California’s elected officials – including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer – to “publicly condemn this unprovoked attack against Christ and His followers.” How exactly is this an attack on Christ or his followers? While it is certainly a parody of a painting made 1500 years after the events it purports to depict, it in no way says anything negative about Jesus or Christians.

Gays are the boogeyman to these groups. Gays are ridiculed, attacked, mocked, lied about and rejected by these groups in order to raise money. Other “sins” committed by those inside the flock are not safe to attack. Divorce, domestic violence and gluttony, also named as sins, receive little or no attention from AFA, CWA of the Catholic League. Throughout my Pentecostal upbringing, I spent way to many Sunday nights after service sitting across the table at Shoney’s watching a 400 pound traveling evangelist shovel another hot fudge cake into his maw while gossiping about the last church he was at to take this manufactured outrage very seriously.

And the final irony for me is the fact that The Catholic League has contacted 200 other religious organizations to join them in a boycott of Miller Brewing Company, one of the event sponsors. Religious groups calling for a boycott of a beer company for sponsoring a gay event. Wow.

To have a real impact, they should ask their members to boycott Blow Buddies.

[Update:  For a different view on this, visit local blogger Mark Rose over at Right Minded.]