Jailhouse Rock lyrics...a walk on the wild side

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I've heard this song off and on much of my life, and never really listened to the lyrics, or picked up the gay allusions. It's probably not a co-ed hoosegow, after all.

How did this even get on the radio, when "Let's Spend the Night Together" by the Rolling Stones always had the "night" bleeped out on the radio when it came out? It's one of my favorite tunes by The King. I never saw the movie Jailhouse Rock, so I don't know how the film approaches the gay issue (what issue?).


(words & music by jerry leiber - mike stoller)

Jailhouse Rock

The warden threw a party in the county jail.
The prison band was there and they began to wail.
The band was jumpin’ and the joint began to swing.
You should’ve heard those knocked out jailbirds sing.
Let’s rock, everybody, let’s rock.
Everybody in the whole cell block
Was dancin’ to the jailhouse rock.

Spider murphy played the tenor saxophone,
Little joe was blowin’ on the slide trombone.
The drummer boy from illinois went crash, boom, bang,
The whole rhythm section was the purple gang.
Let’s rock, everybody, let’s rock.
Everybody in the whole cell block
Was dancin’ to the jailhouse rock.

Number forty-seven said to number three:
You’re the cutest jailbird I ever did see.
I sure would be delighted with your company,
Come on and do the jailhouse rock with me.
Let’s rock, everybody, let’s rock.
Everybody in the whole cell block
Was dancin’ to the jailhouse rock.

The sad sack was a sittin’ on a block of stone
Way over in the corner weepin’ all alone.
The warden said, hey, buddy, don’t you be no square.
If you can’t find a partner use a wooden chair.
Let’s rock, everybody, let’s rock.
Everybody in the whole cell block
Was dancin’ to the jailhouse rock.


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Shifty henry said to bugs, for heaven’s sake,
No one’s lookin’, now’s our chance to make a break.
Bugsy turned to shifty and he said, nix nix,
I wanna stick around a while and get my kicks.
Let’s rock, everybody, let’s rock.
Everybody in the whole cell block
Was dancin’ to the jailhouse rock.
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The President's approval ratings over time

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Pollkatz has an interesting chart on their website, detailing President George W. Bush's ratings as they plummet--incredibly--even further into the toilet.

This week, several of the polls pegged his approval rating at 33%. At this rate, Richard Nixon, circa 1974, will soon seem by comparison to be a beloved President.
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President Bush's son?

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I don't know what the origin of this photograph is. Someone sent it to us. I don't know if this is George Bush's son with another woman, or if he and Laura have been keeping this one under wraps. There is a version of the picture on http://strangepolitics.com
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Happy 442nd birthday Willie Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was probably born on April 23, 1564. He may be the greatest artist who ever lived. If not, he's right up there.

Some posts about Shakespeare on all this is that:

Shakespeare and the typing monkeys

Audio Blog: Jerry Melin & Jack Discuss Shakespeare & "Self-love" Late One Night In NYC

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More LBJ photos, and LBJ links on all this is that

We have published numerous articles and interesting photos of LBJ over the years. My favorites are the photos of various people receiving what came to be known as "the Johnson Treatment." And then there's maybe my favorite political photograph of all time. . .the one where JFK seems to be trying to pipe LBJ down. Links to some of these follow. /jack

One of the heroes and villains paintings

LBJ In A Characteristic Pose

Running Mates: Senators Lyndon Johnson And JFK

The Johnson Treatment, Part 6: The Hump and Senator Russell get the treatment

The Johnson Treatment, Part 5: Senator Richard Russell (Dem., Georgia) Undergoes The Treatment

The Johnson Treatment, Part 4: President Johnson Gives The Treatment To Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas



The Johnson Treatment, Part 3: LBJ Gives Eartha Kitt The Treatment


The Johnson Treatment, Part 2: Richard M. Nixon, Republican Presidential Front-runner Gets The Treatment

The Johnson Treatment

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Poem: Reds

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1
There is no tomorrow
Until we get through
The day after yesterday;

There is no future
Until we complete
The day before tomorrow.

2
Tomorrow's sweet
For those of us
On the manana track.

3
Not so long ago
The only threat against
Our little Xanadu were The Reds.

The Reds are gone
Leaving us
With the only people

We ever needed to fear:
Our government
And selves.
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Dick asleep?

VPOTUS Dick Cheney says he was "looking at his notes," and not sleeping, at a meeting in the Oval Office with President Bush and Chinese President Hu Jintao in Hu's first Oval Office visit.
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Photo: The baby

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Gay British man becomes switch-hitter with a goat

Goat Boy Stephen Hall's friends "are all joking with me about it.
I have never done anything like this before."

The Sun today reported that a man having sex with a goat was witnessed by riders on a passenger train in England. The unemployed Stephen Hall, roped the female goat and proceeded to have sex with her, as "dozens of passengers watched". . .and began calling the Constabulary with their cell phones.

He was soon arrested by the Humberside Police Dog Section (their dog sex crimes unit?!).

A Police Inspector, Dave Crinnion, said "I saw the goat the next day — it did not seem too upset but it is difficult to tell."

Hall, who is gay, said: "My friends have been giving me a lot of stick. They are all joking with me about it. "

Editors note: He says he's gay. But he's rodgering a female goat. Was he experimenting with gender, or was she just the slowest? Does this make him bisexual? Or did she just happen to be the slowest goat?

Since it was heterosex, more or less, and no one perished, it won't have the legs the stories about our local Enumclaw man did. Nearly a year later, at least a dozen people a day Google [tm] into here looking for Enumclaw+beastiality...
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The German Chancellor's bum has the krauts in an uproar

A picture of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's tush in a British newspaper has triggered an uproar in the German government and press.

The notoriously bottom-feeding British Sun reproduced photos of Merkel on vacation, showing her from the back changing into a bathing suit.

A government spokesman accused the Sun of voyeurism. A newspaper promised that the Germans would thrash the Brits for this in the World Cup.


"I'm Big in the Bumdestag," was the Sun caption.
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Secretary Donald Rumsfeld arrested, reportedly taken to the laughing academy

In a bizarre incident at The White House Tueday afternoon, Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was taken into custody and has reportedly been placed in a secure government mental health treatment facility in Maryland. The incident occurred at around 4:30 EDT.

According to sources in The Administration, Rumsfeld arrived at The West Wing and demanded to speak with President George W. Bush. The Secretary was refused entrance by the new Chief Of Staff, Joshua B. Bolten. A shouting match ensued in which Donald Rumsfeld accused the Chief Of Staff of cutting him off. "This is not what The President would want! I won't be shoved aside by some pissant bureaucrat!" Rumsfeld shouted as he charged past office workers and attempted to break down the doors to the Oval Office.

White House security, summoned by Bolten, were on the scene within seconds, and took the Secretary into custody. He was ushered into a government S.U.V., and taken to a, thus far, undisclosed location. The White House press office refused comment on the incident, saying the incident would be discussed in the morning's press briefing.
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Alien Lore 72 - The 1966 Beaver County UFO

"The case was closed and never reopened," according to Brian Seese's, in his book "Unexplained Events in Beaver County."

In late 1966, a NICAP investigator assigned to the case, delivered his final report to his Washington, D.C., supervisor, Richard Hall, who in turn gave it to Dr. Edward Condon

"I personally hand-carried a copy of Weitzel's very thick and extremely well-documented report to Dr. Edward Condon," Hall said. Dr. Condon, you may remember from Alien Lore No. 32: The Condon Report - The Study That Killed Project Blue Book And All (Admitted) Government Research On UFOs And Alien Visitors. He was the guy who helped kill all government research into UFOs and The Greys.

"Years later, I learned to my astonishment that he never turned over the case to his staff, and it gathered dust in his personal files," Hall said. It never appeared in the report Condon made to Congress, even though it was one of the UFO incidents most ripe for further research. The government report instead focused on the cases like Roswell, that could never be proved or verified.

"Maj. Hector Quintanilla tried to pass it off as a sighting of the planet Venus and an earth satellite," said Hall.

Project Blue Book files would show the final status of the incident, Hall said. But the real truth behind Blue Book may never be known. As you may remember, the government shut down Project Blue Book in 1972. Or, at least, they quit talking about it.

Dozens of sites, most pointing to a government cover-up, recount the sightings of April 17, 1966.

Deputy Sheriff Dale F. Spaur and Posse Member W. L. Neff made the following statement about the interstate UFO chase in a report to the National Investigation Committee On Aerial Phenomena.

"On April 17, 1966, at about 5:00 AM, the undersigned, Dale F. Spaur and Barney (W. L) Neff, were patrolling the southeast portion of Portage County, Ohio. We had been hearing radio traffic about a UFO near Portage County. We found an abandoned car on the berm on Rt. 224 between Atwater and Randolph. We left our car to routinely investigate this vehicle. Spaur noticed a light over the trees on the hill next to the berm, and called Neff's attention to it. As we watched, the light came closer and a large, self-illuminated object was seen as its source. The object came directly overhead and hovered above us. Its light lit up the ground where we were standing, and our cruiser, P-13. It was too bright to look at without hurting the eyes.

"We got into our car and radioed that we had spotted the UFO. During that time, it began moving away from us. We followed it down 224 onto Rt. 14, to the Ohio-Pennsylvania border, and into Pennsylvania on Rt. 51; then through Rochester, Pa., and on Rt. 65, up to Conway, where we stopped.

"As we passed East Palestine, Ohio, Patrolman Wayne Huston, of the East Palestine Police, joined in our pursuit. In Conway, Pa., Officer Frank Panzanella met us where we stopped, and we stood with him watching the object as it hovered and then rose, twice, in a rapid climb. The object seemed 30-45 feet across, and 18-24 feet high. The light it gave off lit up the ground over the road and over fields as we pursued it. At first it was about 150 feet up; then it rose to around 1000 feet. During the chase it changed altitude and direction, maneuvered smoothly, had a sort of dome-shaped top, and at times showed a projection on the top part, near the trailing edge. Not all of it was self-illuminated; part of the top trailing portion looked metallic; not shiny,
but satiny.

"At times we measured its speed over the ground at about 103 miles per hour. At one point, near Rochester, we lost it while getting through a bridge-underpass area, but when we emerged, it had come down lower and seemed to have waited for us; it went off fast ahead again then. We were, and are, sure we were not chasing an illusion, or seeing a reflection, star, planet, or similar still object. "

Signed:
Dale Spauer
William Neff
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