Life Magazine asked Chris Rock if America was ready for a black president like Obama and he replied: “America’s ready for a retarded president, why wouldn’t it be ready for a black president?”.

I think that’s funny.

Andrew Sullivan calls “300” the most gay movie of all time.  He’s gay and it’s funny if you read the column as I do.  Anyway, I’ll admit the screen fills with beautiful men.  It’s hard to describe a horrific slaughter like the  Battle of Thermopalae as gorgeous, but this film is really wondrous visually.  300 lean and muscled up men in capes and thongs.  Damn.  I think of myself as very darn straight, but wow.  And how Freudian do you have to be to recognize swordplay and big thick spears as just a bit on the phallic side?  And, as I’ve heard him described elsewhere, the guy who plays Xerxes looks like an ultra pierced Eurotrash club fag in this role.  But(t), you know, I didn’t think about any of that while I watched.  I was “into” this movie almost like Starwars in 1977.  I just flat willingly suspended my disbelief.  I think it had something to do with going to see this one by myself at an “off” hour in a huge, but almost empty auditorium.  No kids, no cellphones, no scratches on the film, no distortion in the speakers, no sound from the theatre next door.  It was such a delight that I was glad, even eager, for a good popcorn chomping old fashioned good guys-bad guys melodrama.  It is no doubt brutal and violent, in a graphic novel blood splashing way.  After all, most Greek stuff is brutal and violent and this is a myth/legend about a bloody historical event.  It’s literally “theatrical”.  Dignity, Honor, Valor, Bravery, Romantic notions all, I agree.  Patriotism, the last refuge of scoundrals.  Still … it’s comforting, I suppose, to think for awhile that those ideals, those virtues, might really exist.

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P.S. I’ve been posting comments everywhere as “anonymous” without thinking to sign the posts.  sorry.  If there’s sumpin’ stupid, it’s likely me.

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