Dan Quayle: music critic

Pretty sure that was Lurch.

 

Holy crap, that made me puke in my mouth ... twice.

Right back at ya, Sappington.



Brazil's finest! If he were a Brazilian soccer player, he'd be Banaldo.

 

You know, the Pacers used to play his "Time for Big Fun" before tipoff. Thank god that didn't last long. Also purging my Hank Schwartz memories (yes, I know his real name), he did a campaign spot for Republican Robert Orr's 1984 re-election campaign, and got involved in a protest of out-of-state trash being shipped to a Brazil (that's BRAY-zil)-area landfill. In-state trash, in the form of Henry Lee Summer, was just fine.

So I'll take your Henry Lee Summer and raise you a Jimmy Ryser.

 

To each his own, I guess. I know a lot of people love Scarecrow, but aside from Lonely Ol Night I just couldn't get into it.

 

Janie Frickie ... not that bad. In 1977.

She's pushing 60 now.

Setting it on a tee for somebody ....

 

Quayle jumped out of his seat in a huff and went storming out of the Casino. Meanwhile Mellencamp was unaware that Quayle was in town, at his concert, or that he had done his little drama-queen stunt. I don't know if Quayle is looking for a consulting job with a right wing think tank or the Bush Regime or something like that, but he went running to the press to draw some attention to his foolishness. "Well, I think Mellencamp's performance was not very good to begin with, and the comment put it over the top." Quayle-over-the-top boggles the imagination but eventually someone told Mellencamp what had happened.

"I wasn't aware that Dan Quayle was at the show the other night but had I known, I certainly wouldn't have changed a word. I still feel there are many people left behind by this administration. Not talking about problems doesn't make them go away. It's kind of telling that he chose to walk out as I was doing a song about tolerance." Tolerance was never really one of Quayle's strong suits. And that drew an even more celebrated golfer at the tournement into the fray.

For a very long time Charles Barkley has been very famous for being a basketball Hall of Famer and a Republican. According to Chris Baldwin at Travel Golf, Barkley backed up Mellencamp AND seems to have undergone a transformation from red to blue. "He's right," he said about the singer. "The word 'conservative' means discriminatory practically. It's a form of political discrimination. What do the Republicans run on? Against gay marriage and for a war that makes no sense. A war that was based on faulty intelligence. That's all they ever talk about. That and immigration. Another discriminatory argument for political gain."