Obviously, in addition to losing the class war, we've really been fucked in the culture wars. Townes Van Zandt, Joe Strummer and Shane McGowan would probably find this enragingly amusing. The idea of not swearing in bars is intriguing -- in a lot of places you can't smoke in bars, so not swearing in bars sort of fits in with the puritanical-Mormon-Nanny-State ethos that the country is evolving toward. Next, they will turn off the big screen TVs because sports TV encourages yelling, cheering and betting in bars. Then they will forbid talking to strangers. The sole reason for going to bars will be to drink. Which will then be forbidden by the FDA because alcohol is addictive and a food. (C6-H12-O6). Commerce will be paralyzed and human life will become extinct, although ....Life is already not worth living...
Shane is still with us, of course. But, what the hell...Now, I've sat in bars and found some loud mouth down at the end babbling insanely at the top of his lungs about the "the motherfuckin motherfucker did the fuckin motherfucker, you know motherfucker?" and found it offensive. So, either the bartender tells him to shut up or I leave. But, I envision the politically correct police hoping to get us all to stop drinking, yelling, singing and just sit there, sipping tea, coming and going and talking of Michaelangelo while fearing to eat a peach. Fuck'em.
Smoke 'em if you got 'em.
Posted by: zencomix | 13 January 2008 at 12:08 AM