tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post5358801783402254941..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Project much, Buzz?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-18752207528257853962013-04-03T10:04:30.043-07:002013-04-03T10:04:30.043-07:00Late to the party, I know, but someone who loves t...Late to the party, I know, but someone who loves the book because it "denounces small town racism" is<br />like someone who loves Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure because of the quality time they spend at the "Circle K". Yes, they do visit the Circle K in the movie, but it's hardly the point.<br />Based on the excerpt, Bissinger is definitely indulging in ex-contemporaneous memory adjustment when it comes to describing Boobie as a powder keg the coaches wanted to explode as long as they had a back up<br />running back.<br /><br />In the book, the coaches are described of thinking of Boobie as an extremely talented head case, but at no point does he describe them as rooting for Boobie to not be on the team anymore, or to be injured.<br /><br />The book is a tremendous document of high school football in Odessa Texas. I would strongly recommend separating that art from the artist. <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-83007570744441343052013-03-30T16:46:20.844-07:002013-03-30T16:46:20.844-07:00"Don't know nothin' about Buzz Bissin..."Don't know nothin' about Buzz Bissinger, but (FWIW) I'm a straight guy and I tend to get a huge kick out of gay guys. They're often hilarious, bright, tough, talented, soulful ... and they nearly always know where the best restaurants are. (They also don't talk much about kids and sports, two topics that bore me silly.) I admit that initially I didn't know what to make of them and found a few of them creepy. But that was decades and decades ago."<br /><br />Makes sense. I'd say the arts are fundamentally feminine, with their emphasis on emotion, ambiguity, and nuance. However, great artists benefit from the masculine life path which allows singular devotion to an ideal--women have to spend much of their energies raising a family. As a result, feminine men, who include many gays, are particularly suited to achievements in the arts. I think artistic men would tend to get along better with gays, if not merely because so many artists are gay for the reasons discussed above.<br /><br />Conversely, masculine women are responsible for the feminist movement, which has produced no Sistine Chapel, no Mona Lisa... But I don't see anything wrong with a man being feminine or a woman being masculine. The fear of sissy boys came from an ancient evolutionary desire to have enough warriors to avoid being destroyed by rival trobes, but I think with our oceans and our nukes America has more than enough warriors.SFGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-46901975740322203492013-03-29T19:07:17.685-07:002013-03-29T19:07:17.685-07:00bourbon said...
Seems like the gist of a lot of th...<i>bourbon said...<br />Seems like the gist of a lot of the comments here is "Jews hate hate HATE Gentiles", ...<br /></i><br /><br><br />prove it aint so!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-4007257017147418022013-03-29T11:49:57.432-07:002013-03-29T11:49:57.432-07:00the final book ended up being critical about life ...<i> the final book ended up being critical about life in the town of Odessa, complete with portraits of what Bissinger called "the ugliest racism" he has ever witnessed,</i><br /><br />I take it Buzz has never been to Israel.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-83881322871955447442013-03-29T00:00:49.187-07:002013-03-29T00:00:49.187-07:00Seems like the gist of a lot of the comments here ...Seems like the gist of a lot of the comments here is "Jews hate hate HATE Gentiles", with every bit of the absurd reductiveness and hyperbole Whiskey applies to women and beta males.bourbonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-13270627927012289962013-03-28T21:43:14.295-07:002013-03-28T21:43:14.295-07:00Don't know nothin' about Buzz Bissinger, b...<i>Don't know nothin' about Buzz Bissinger, but (FWIW) I'm a straight guy and I tend to get a huge kick out of gay guys. They're often hilarious, bright, tough, talented, soulful ... and they nearly always know where the best restaurants are. (They also don't talk much about kids and sports, two topics that bore me silly.) I admit that initially I didn't know what to make of them and found a few of them creepy. But that was decades and decades ago.</i><br /><br />... Okay!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-42956444136998157862013-03-28T21:20:46.824-07:002013-03-28T21:20:46.824-07:00"DYork said...
"Hello People, I'm B..."DYork said...<br /><br />"Hello People, I'm Bobby Brown....."<br /><br />I just read the lyrics, not a fan. He sounds like the typical bitter nonathletic musican-nerd."<br /><br />I merely mentioned it as it seemed apropos in this case. Actually, I generally share your opinion of Zappa. He was a talented musician, but his lyrics were mostly just snarky, nihilistic filth, of a kind that appeals to a certain kind of left-libertarian twenty-something.Mr. Anonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-28677718607725418952013-03-28T21:03:33.000-07:002013-03-28T21:03:33.000-07:00Don't know nothin' about Buzz Bissinger, b...Don't know nothin' about Buzz Bissinger, but (FWIW) I'm a straight guy and I tend to get a huge kick out of gay guys. They're often hilarious, bright, tough, talented, soulful ... and they nearly always know where the best restaurants are. (They also don't talk much about kids and sports, two topics that bore me silly.) I admit that initially I didn't know what to make of them and found a few of them creepy. But that was decades and decades ago. Ray Sawhillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02434181069400646328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-66460372750415845132013-03-28T18:35:18.024-07:002013-03-28T18:35:18.024-07:00Seeing this guy in leather pants and high heels wo...Seeing this guy in leather pants and high heels would probably cause someone to have to go on disability, the mental trauma would be just too much to bear. It must be extremely embarrassing for kids as they grow up to have a father like that. Teen son: "Guys, I want you to meet my dad. No, not him, the other one, that one there in the red dress".Chicagonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-76666318574475591182013-03-28T18:20:51.932-07:002013-03-28T18:20:51.932-07:00My Old Navy Addiction
By Jizz Jussinger
http://w...My Old Navy Addiction<br /><br />By Jizz Jussinger<br /><br />http://www.vice.com/read/my-old-navy-addicition<br /><br />"I have an addiction. It isn’t drugs or gambling; I get to keep what I use after I use it. But there are similarities: the futile feeding of the bottomless beast and the unavoidable psychological implications, the immediate hit of the new that feels like an orgasm and the inevitable coming-down. In the past few years, I've bought 81 graphic tees. Dozens of shorts, both board and cargo. My name is Jizz Jussinger. I am 58 years old, the author of Some Kids Play Football but It's Complicated and Award-Winning, father of three, husband. And I am a shopaholic.<br /><br />It started three years ago. I have never fully revealed it, and am only revealing it now in the hopes that my confession will incite a remission and perhaps help others of similar compulsion. If all I buy is Old Navy, I will be fine. It has taken a while to figure out what works and what doesn’t work but Old Navy men’s clothing best represents who I want to be and have become—a laid-back guy you'd be unafraid to call "dude," a Yacht Rocker from a landlocked state, someone who would be good at surfing if he tried, probably. During a recent trip to the Navy, a fellow shopper said I looked like Luke from The OC, a compliment that at this point in my life means more to me than any piece of writing.<br /><br />I own 124 polos, 75 sweaters emblazoned with Old Navy Athletics, 41 pairs of khakis, 12 track jackets, and 115 pairs of novelty-print boxers covered in pizzas and beach balls and burgers and ducks. Those who conclude from this that I have a John Hughes fetish, an extreme John Hughes fetish, get a grand prize of zero. And those who are familiar with my choices will sign affidavits attesting to the fact that I wear polos every day. The self-expression feels glorious, an indispensable part of me. As a stranger said after admiring my look in a red-sleeved raglan and a pair of plaid cargos with flip-flops, “You don’t give a fuck.”"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-11980742546052371962013-03-28T18:18:22.248-07:002013-03-28T18:18:22.248-07:00K, this is the part where we just stand back, shut...K, this is the part where we just stand back, shut up, and let him talk. Maybe a strategic "go on," or "tell me more" would be apropos.<br /><br />:)Svigornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-36394501697417952962013-03-28T17:01:00.017-07:002013-03-28T17:01:00.017-07:00I think you wanted "meow!" not "Oka...I think you wanted "meow!" not "Okay!"Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-39187760621309529502013-03-28T16:47:13.237-07:002013-03-28T16:47:13.237-07:00"
I have seen WFANS' Mike Francessa in pe..."<br />I have seen WFANS' Mike Francessa in person:short and fat, with rolls of cellulite. Always referring to some superjock-in is his case Jim Brown-a stud."<br /><br />I think I missed 4 decades somehow.Truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17286755693955361308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-24205986308509402272013-03-28T16:37:30.729-07:002013-03-28T16:37:30.729-07:00"Straight guys put enormous effort into being..."Straight guys put enormous effort into being a man: strong, stoic, courageous, compassionate, dependable, self-sacrificing, and here gays come along acting like uber-flighty women."<br /><br />Though most men are not gay, most men aren't macho. In school, how many guys are really tough? Most guys are not tough, and they could have been pushed around by tough guys. Or guys might have grown up in a mellow community where most kids just wanna get along. <br /><br />Most guys are beta and they prefer to hang around other betas because they feel more comfy that way. Alphas or wanna-be-alphas are always measuring one another and looking for pecking order, like in FIGHT CLUB. Since most guys are gonna lose in such game, they prefer beta-dom. And even if they find gays ridiculous, they may find gays less threatening to them than tough guys are. <br /><br />Part of the appeal of the Beatles and Stones was that they were skinny guys who got the chicks. Elvis was more manly but became less appealing in the 60s. <br />Indeed, a lot of rockers, if not for their music, would be geeks: Pink Floyd guys, the Who guys, etc. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-21860870274561979932013-03-28T16:31:42.479-07:002013-03-28T16:31:42.479-07:00"Bissinger...the Pauline Kael of sexual polit..."Bissinger...the Pauline Kael of sexual politics."<br /><br />But Kael was rarely politically correct. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-47206165611044013662013-03-28T16:30:55.617-07:002013-03-28T16:30:55.617-07:00May the Fist be with you.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNyZuoj2EM0" rel="nofollow"> May the Fist be with you.</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-85215540363443997132013-03-28T12:29:00.344-07:002013-03-28T12:29:00.344-07:00Whiskey said:
Bissinger and his fellow media elit...<i>Whiskey said:<br /><br />Bissinger and his fellow media elites are so far removed from that he can't even see it. And its part and parcel of the femalization of the West. Such attitudes fit in with the aging harpy crowd of the View, for example.<br /><br />3/28/13, 11:21 AM</i><br /><br />Bissinger...the Pauline Kael of sexual politics.fishnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-47337968378075444722013-03-28T11:21:28.773-07:002013-03-28T11:21:28.773-07:00I saw a couple of the TV series episodes. The lead...I saw a couple of the TV series episodes. The lead actors were all White and all generally depicted positively, the most positive being the walk-on QB caring for his ailing grandmother while his father was deployed. The book however depicted Odessa Whites negatively. <br /><br />The problem is that most of the elite is really, really freaky. Bissinger's writings could be the work of any aging White woman writing for say, the Times or Huffington Post etc. All about sex and personal life; the essence of gay men and most women. Nothing larger: technology, society, technique, coaching strategies, mental approaches, etc. <br /><br />Look at HS football. The most interesting thing is the national recruiting, use of video posted by athletes themselves, and the requirement for fundamentals for those not blessed with ungodly physical talents, still the majority of recruited athletes into college.<br /><br />And Bissinger misses the point. Straight men find gays distasteful, disgusting, and funny (Robert Smigel, of "Gary and Ace, the Ambiguously Gay Duo" and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, and South Park mock gays endlessly) -- BECAUSE GAYS ARE MEN ACTING LIKE WOMEN. The definition of unmanly. Straight guys put enormous effort into being a man: strong, stoic, courageous, compassionate, dependable, self-sacrificing, and here gays come along acting like uber-flighty women.<br /><br />Bissinger and his fellow media elites are so far removed from that he can't even see it. And its part and parcel of the femalization of the West. Such attitudes fit in with the aging harpy crowd of the View, for example.Whiskeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01854764809682029464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-80956123804312988552013-03-28T10:32:02.986-07:002013-03-28T10:32:02.986-07:00Mr. Anon said...
Frank Zappa wrote a song about t...<i>Mr. Anon said...<br /><br />Frank Zappa wrote a song about this already.<br /><br />"Hello People, I'm Bobby Brown....."</i><br /><br />I just read the lyrics, not a fan. He sounds like the typical bitter nonathletic musican-nerd.<br /><br />Just a smug, obscene rant against "America", athletes and "success".<br /><br />I'd rather critique the homo-erotic male bonding garbage of sports culture without going over to the lefty loser-nerd extreme.<br /><br />I'm against the jock worship and the nerd-loser bitterness reaction as well.DYorknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-62508923888141452882013-03-28T10:26:01.959-07:002013-03-28T10:26:01.959-07:00DYork
There is now very solid medical research wh...DYork<br /><br />There is now very solid medical research which shows that watching sports entertainment is highly correlated with poor health.<br /><br />I have seen WFANS' Mike Francessa in person:short and fat, with rolls of cellulite. Always referring to some superjock-in is his case Jim Brown-a stud.<br /><br />Steve<br /><br />Why haven't you made a post about Michelle Shocked. She sure had me fooled for all these years. I could have sworn she was a lesbo. Go Google Michelle Schocked and gay marriage comments.You won't be disappointed.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-45917198159425278282013-03-28T09:19:44.683-07:002013-03-28T09:19:44.683-07:00The man spend 1/2 a million $ on women's cloth...The man spend 1/2 a million $ on women's clothing?<br /><br />Sounds like an oppressed minorityElvisNixon.comhttp://www.elvisnixon.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-23548009804586241222013-03-28T09:00:30.418-07:002013-03-28T09:00:30.418-07:00Well, it started in Vienna not so many years ago /...<i>Well, it started in Vienna not so many years ago / When not enough folks were getting sick / A starving young physician tried to better his position...</i><br /><br />When I visited relatives in Vienna in 1986 I was told that Freud's theories were never much accepted in Austria. Perhaps (in part) a legacy of the great anti-Freud satirist, Karl Kraus. USA is where Freudianism really told hold. The culture of 1950s America was drenched in Freudianism. fnnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-22819849749390582202013-03-28T08:33:57.820-07:002013-03-28T08:33:57.820-07:00He seems to have a vegetable fetish, too, judging ...He seems to have a vegetable fetish, too, judging by the 'carrot' comment. Weird.Laguna Beach Fogeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08027025872132699493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-10125308175267457482013-03-28T07:28:33.385-07:002013-03-28T07:28:33.385-07:00Can anyone here who has actually read the book com...<i>Can anyone here who has actually read the book comment on this? I have never read it either, but I have never got the impression at all that it was primarily about racism.</i><br /><br />That's what makes its moralizing more effective and insidious. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-8142064316385299052013-03-28T07:25:03.063-07:002013-03-28T07:25:03.063-07:00http://www.fashion-era.com/sports_fashion_until_19...http://www.fashion-era.com/sports_fashion_until_1960.htmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com