I'm firmly stuck with Nina Simone's version (it is the only real one), with brief intrusions of Boombastic. I'm pretty happy with that, but I wish I'd brought headphones to work today.
Can we maybe vote on the whole murdering people issue?
Wash ,'Serenity'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Nov 09, 2010 6:24:08 am PST #4373 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jesse - Nov 09, 2010 6:24:47 am PST #4374 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
So I was looking at the Onion earlier, and I had to double check that I still wasn't there when I saw this headline:
Vt. Barber Says Not Good at Cutting Blacks' Hair
No, that was in the New York Times, via the AP. [link]
Hil R. - Nov 09, 2010 6:26:50 am PST #4375 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
No, that was in the New York Times, via the AP. [link]
There have been a bunch of stories like that, though it's more usually a hairdresser who says she can't style a black woman's hair.
Cass - Nov 09, 2010 6:28:25 am PST #4376 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
BINAO: Fry or Gatiss?
Gattis, all of the way.
BINAO: Cumberbatch or Freeman?
Cumberbatch, even dark. Much more so if natural though.
Amy - Nov 09, 2010 6:33:51 am PST #4377 of 30001
Because books.
I'm firmly stuck with Nina Simone's version (it is the only real one)
Ah! I was trying to imagine you owning a Juice Newton album and having a really hard time ...
§ ita § - Nov 09, 2010 6:34:56 am PST #4378 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Vt. Barber Says Not Good at Cutting Blacks' Hair
WHY IS THAT NEWS? The last time paid a a white barber to cut my hair, it was a nightmare. Unless it's a straight all-over job with the clippers, I want to see either naps on his head (making an assumption here) or evidence of his previous good work.
I was trying to imagine you owning a Juice Newton album and having a really hard time ...
Ha! I've never heard that version all the way through. Didn't learn it existed until uni.
Cass - Nov 09, 2010 6:38:31 am PST #4379 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
WHY IS THAT NEWS?
I was wondering. It sounds less like, "ahhhhhh, racism" and more like, "oh, skillset."
Heck, I get twitchy with fine, wavy hair about who cuts it. News flash: different hair is different.
DavidS - Nov 09, 2010 6:40:53 am PST #4380 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The barber thing is a hot button historical issue in the civil rights movement. There had to be legal rulings that barbers and hairstylists couldn't turn away customers because of their race.
Jesse - Nov 09, 2010 6:42:35 am PST #4381 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, note that the actual story is not that the Vermont barber isn't good at cutting black hair, it's that he lied to a black prospective customer about being the barber, in order to turn him away, and this is how he's defending himself.
Jessica - Nov 09, 2010 6:45:43 am PST #4382 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
They buried the lead - this is the real story:
Mike Aldrich, who is white and runs Mike's Barber Shop in Bellows Falls, told the would-be customer when he stopped in last month that the barber wasn't in.
Instead of saying "Sorry man, I have no idea how to cut your hair and wouldn't want to fuck it up" he flat-out lied to get the guy out of his shop. The entirely reasonable-sounding reason he gave for this was after the fact. I'd be pissed too.
[yeah, xpost]