534 - Too Much Money Doesn't Have To Be A Drag

[10:17 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

"We had internet installed for the lady we keep in our barn.."

[10:17 AM] 

Hehe

"No mouse or keyboard down in the hole, but we put it on Youtube to set to keep running and turn her chair to face the screen to keep her quiet."

"It puts the lotion on it's skin or we put it on the Merzbow playlist again."

Any more story come out on that fantastic claim?

[10:32 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

I guess it's a rich client's barn with horses they breed and some lady lives in the loft to take care of them

[10:33 AM] 

Live-in ostler

[10:34 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Complete with wifi, security cameras, etc.

[10:34 AM] 

"Like everyone has"

"We used to have a farrier too, but you know how it is these days."

[10:36 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

"can we get an extender for the servant's quarters?"

[10:37 AM] 

"Upstairs or down, sir?"

"By Jove...didn't think of that.  But do you think Down uses the internets?"

[12:33 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

i read that like 70% of Norwegian medal winners in the Olympics have asthma

and that in general in endurance sports elite athletes have higher prevalence of asthma than even the general population

Which is bogus, obviously. But since most bronchiodilator medications are straight up hormonal or affect hormones and can double as PEDs

[12:37 PM] 

I know I don't believe a stat like that.

Prescription-legal cheat

The Asthma Olympics would be a pretty tense show.

"Jorgensen is pulling away!  He's pulling away!  He's on point to beat not just the Olympic record but the World record!  He's still- uh oh!  He's holding his hand to his chest!  No!  The leaders are blasting past him now!"

[12:41 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

lol

[12:42 PM] 

You'd never know who'd win from their records.  Guys at the finish keeling over...guys wiped out along the entire course...

[3:45 PM] 

I don't understand these people... https://www.nst.com.my/world/2018/02/338448/lisa-marie-presley-bankrupt-sues-manager-us100-million

[3:51 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

People that just burn through massive piles of money like idiots?

[3:54 PM] 

Just sticking a relatively small amount of a 100 mil fortune...say 10 million...in a savings account would basically protect you and your kids and grandkids...

I told you my hundred million dollar plan?

Win 100 million in the lottery...

Put it in the kind of Savings account you can get with a pile like that.

Have the interest moved to your checking account

Live a very comfortable life.

And every year, fill out a 1040EZ for your income.

By itself saving thousands of dollars in accountant BS every year

[3:59 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

I'd love to live on the interest of a big pile of millions

[4:00 PM] 

"But Mr. Silver!  Even at the multi-millionaire rate it only pays like 2%!  And then the taxes!"

"Right...so if the taxes are say 50%, I'll have to – somehow – get along on nothing but a million a year."

[4:00 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

With even a million dollars i think i'd probably stop working

I wouldn't even know what to do with like, 5 million

A million dollar house/property... a few 100k cars... Then i'd be bored for the rest of my life.

I'd have to buy you and Mr. Brown out so i'd have someone to talk to all day

[4:02 PM] 

I thought about it

I'd move to a college town and be a student til I died

[4:02 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

That would be cool

[4:04 PM] 

Could finish as many degrees as I wanted...take anything I liked...take advantage of the tons of stuff going on.

[4:04 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

i think i'd buy an ice rink

probably lose money on it but it'd be cool to be able to play any time i wanted

and for free

[4:04 PM] 

heh

nice

[4:04 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

Which town? State College?

Or go big with like, Boston or Berkeley

[4:05 PM] 

State College would be nice

[4:05 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

That looks like a nice campus / town combination

[4:05 PM] 

I'm not a city guy, really

Big campus next to a "town" city

Why assemble your own estate and figure all that stuff out when you can attend one.

Full of experts

World class library

Museums

Film, art, lit, plays

And I assume they'd love having a cash cow in perpetuity

[4:08 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

yeah

Give them a million and you get unlimited access to everything and even some new building wing named after you

[4:09 PM] 

"See him? That's the Duke of State College.  He's been here 30 years altogether."

"Professor?"

"No, student."

"He have a lot of degrees?"

"...none..."

[4:10 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

Still "undecided"

[4:10 PM] 

"DAAAAAMN..."

Lol

[9:29 AM] 

ah

So

Went to a Drag Show

It was one of the oddest spectacles I've ever attended

Like – super karaoke

I mean...

Karaoke - get a room full of people and folks'll put themselves out there and it doesn't matter if you sing all that well, it's just goofy and sometimes embarrassing but its a fun time.

And then there's a Drag Show...

Drag Show – Skip the singing in favor of lip sync, put on glam costumes – often but not always of the opposite sex, and put on a SHOW, dammit!

It was a contest

[9:35 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

I've seen stuff on tv before

[9:35 AM] 

Mr. Green's wife does it.  We were there to cheer her on.

[9:35 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

They look entertaining, in a strange way

[9:38 AM] 

They make you feel all funny? 

Heh

Anyway

There were 6 altogether.  The one was the reigning maybe-male champion.  He was really good.

Then 3 women...one of which was.

And 2 males...neither of which was.

Ranged from what is apparently Professional to a First Timer.

[9:43 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Where was this?

When i went to Provincetown there was a parade with lots of guys in drag.. didn't interest me

[9:43 AM] 

Were they performers, or just guys in drag?

[9:44 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Just guys in drag sauntering around

There was a playhouse with performances but we didn't go

[9:46 AM] 

These were performers "singing" and dancing for tips. 

The indisputable attention grabber was so astonishing...

Hard to figure out where to start

#1.  Had to be closing to 7' tall...BEFORE adding the high heels!

[9:48 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

That's a big bitch

(Got that line from Deuce Bigalow)

[9:48 AM] 

Just a giant...even the tall guys there were small.

She won

The bar owner had to stand on a chair to put her crown on.

Meanwhile his mom is at the bar and she's about Mrs. Silver's size

"How...how...how?"

[9:50 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Got a big daddy. Or pituitary gland issues

[9:51 AM] 

She was...uh...career I guess. 

Had hips so absurdly wide it had to be falsies or surgical

And would pull off Cotton Club flying splits to the ground. 

Shook the building

Actually, just walking past where we were sitting would shake us.

NOT pleasant to look at

One can only do so much to get "pretty" with negative facial features and then the body mods...just disturbing

But a heck of a crowd pleaser

[10:04 AM] 

@Mr. Blue - "Secret" (not advertised) gay club/bar in town

[10:05 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Is it down by papa johns

[10:05 AM] 

Few blocks from here

no

relatively no...

[10:06 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

i recall there was a BYOB gay bar near the home video / papa johns

i think in that bigger building that itself used to be a regular bar

[10:06 AM] 

Might be the same one...I wouldn't call it that close.  Closer to PJ than here I suppose

[10:06 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Blue Oyster

[10:06 AM] 

Nah...mixed crowd, Mr. Brown. 

I got the impression there was just as much straight there for the show as gay.

Mrs. Silver thinks the newbie liked me.

heh

There are good arguments for that theory,

They were all very "hands on" type performers...hand holds, personal attention and close dancing before whirling away to the next audience member.

But in my case, he tousled my hair on song 1.

And on song 2 CLIMBED UP ON THE TABLE to put a string of beads on my neck and danced around before leaping off.

After the hair - lean to Mrs. Silver "He's terrified."

"Yeah?  Mrs. Green said he was nervous doing this.  Been working with him a couple weeks to build him up.  How could you tell?"

"His hands were freezing cold."

"Poor kid.  But he's doing good."

"Yes."

I think I got the only hair mess-up and table hop of the (counts)...dang...16 performances

Full concert...plus public dancing during an intermission

That had it's own downsides - "Aw maaaan...she's (actual woman) cute and is here with a girlfriend...bummer.”

We got home after 2 I think

[10:17 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Sounds gay

[10:18 AM] 

...what was your clue?  Hehehe

Anyway, it's not my culture at all, so I couldn't refuse the invitation - fresh anthropology is hard to find around here.