Miscellaneous Oddness

#2For1 Deal On The 14th

Richard Benjamin famously said it: 

in the introduction to his most-forgettable film 

"Saturday The 14th" (which co-starred his better half, 

Paula Prentiss - both stopped acting afterwards.) 

his voice is heard, off-camera, stating this simple fact - 

"things get bad on Friday The 13th 

but they get rrreally bad on Saturday The 14th!"

(we merely paraphrase here...!)

Well, this year of Our Lord 2018 

in the misbegotten USofA, 

Saturday The 14th is, also, 

(on top of being "the day after the 13th") 

two very incompatible things: 

AND

NATIONAL 

NUDE 

DAY! 

... okay, it might have been

*international* really...?!?

anyway!

That's one way to participate...?!? 

That is mighty unwise 

to have those two, er, 

"holidays" 

coincide like that...!!! 

IT IS NOT SAFE 

to eat your macaroni 'n' cheese 

HOT FROM THE STOVE 

when you have no clothes on!!! 

  YOU MIGHT BURN YOURSELF...  

  LIKE... ALL OVER!!!  

Goths Have It Their Way

... AND they're having their DAY!  

Everything under the sun, 

everyone and their most distant cousin;   

ALL seem to have "their day" set in stone now 

--- i.e. on the social calendar, these days... 
WHY NOT THE 
*METROGOTHS* 
TOO - EH? 

AND, ON MAY THE 22ND, 
IT IS THE GOTHS' TURN IN THE... SUN? 
(... although they're celebrated on every other 
occasion: Valentine's, Halloween... Christmas?)

Once again, for the record -and right off the bat- 

the only "goths" that we will ever acknowledge 

in these luminous parts here

are the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths 

--- capisce? 

(This in spite of what they did to ROMA! 

A barbaric twist on Veni, Vedi... Vinci, eh? 

Well - we forgive... but we don't forget! 

Don Luciano will *never* forget...!!! 

But... Hmm... that is another story.) 

Modern Goths are... 

just not the same thing at all. 

Now, we've gone over those sad details elsewhere already; 
on that certain other blog of ours (no, not Lunacy!) 
(But... yes... on Lunacy, too!) 
... where we define what the Goth is, how it goes 
and why it has to go... 
We coined the term "Metrogoth" there, also! 
Not as rough as an Ostrogoth, nor as tough as a Visigoth... 
Just a Metrogoth! 
Could be a slogan - or a tee! 
No? Never mind... 

The Goth lifestyle is very much alive 

(lest it is... undead, really?) 

It runs the gamut from the bloodletting 

wanna-be vampires out there... 

... now, they may not look like it just like that,  

but those are the harmless ones, in truth! 

... to the borderline cross-dressers 

with very strange taste in music: 

...but never mind those sordid sounds anyways! 

LET'S MOVE ON! 

And what better way to wrap everything up here 

than rounding up all the usual suspects 

(as we simply love to do - you know it)  

in an attempt to beset the plague, 

extirpate by exposing the bad weed 

and circumvent any further propagation... 

perhaps? 

Hmm... Worry not, we are not so deluded 

as to think a single man -or single blog- 

could possibly ever be able to...! 

We can round them up, though - 

that we sure can do! 

Et les voici... And here they are... 

(as seen on Twitter)

I am absolutely certain that the odd ones 

over at the United Kingdom of Englandshire agree that 

... this guy and this gal should meet...

... this World Goth Day didn't fall on a Wednesday this year; 

eh? Too darn bad...! It had #WCW written all over it...! 

Aye, ultimately... it does fill my heart with sorrow. 

Aye, it really does. 

For the *metrogoth* is but the saddest of 

night creatures --- 

they put on a brave face, especially on the 22nd of May, 

but deep inside their dark hearts... there is loneliness. 

Anguish. Sullenness. Fear of rejection - or, 

worse yet, of contempt. 

They fight all those feelings off with this front 

that rejects conformity and embraces oddness. 

Yet all they truly want is acceptance... 

It is all very... sad. Aye, it is. 

To All Of You Whose First Summer Was That of 1969 too...

Yay - summer is here. Hurray. Phah.