Brucie's Jukebox Party! Hallowe'en Special!

These songs aren't on the wallbox, but it's Hallowe'en and they are from the same general era, they knew how to do it right back then.

Of course they didn't have music videos back in the day when I had a pet dinosaur, but this stop animation Lego version is fantastic, it's like Rick & Steve do Hallowe'en.

I just found out that the Condi Ling character on Rick & Steve is voiced by Margaret Cho, I should have known, it's perfect for her. The resident insecure fag hag, or "alternative lifestyle companion" as she prefers to be known, who has a way of making every man she meets gay. You have no choice but to love her.

Monster Mash - Bobby "Boris" Pickett & the Cryptkickers


This next song isn't necessarily a Hallowe'en tune and just in case you needed any more proof that Brucie's a sick puppy, ever since I was a kid I've always associated it with the occasion.

What can I say? Somehow it spoke to me. I was eight when this song came out and though it was controversial, I thought it was brilliant. It sums up the prevailing attitudes toward mental illness in the Sixties and I think I kind of took it as a cautionary tale. I should shut up now.

They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa! - Napoleon XIV

Toon Time Hallowe'en TRIPLE Bill!

Yeah I know, I spoil you guys sometimes.

On this video I couldn't help but notice the very first opening credit that proudly proclaims: "NRA, Proud Member, We Do Our Part", Jeez man, why don't you just fuck me gently already? That "We Do Our Part" line sounds like something simplistic like Sarha Palin would say, it's easy to see how induhvidual self-justification has a long history in the US.

Betty Boop - Halloween Party - 1933


Now here's something I didn't expect to find. This is a Max Fleischer silent from 1928 featuring Koko the Clown. I never knew about this one before, and entertainment value aside, it's quite an ingenious cartoon considering it's from the very earliest days of animation. It actually reminds me of some National Film Board of Canada work.

Max Fleischer - Koko’s Haunted House - 1928


Though our feature today is not a Hallowe'en them, it does have a creepy old man, and Cab Calloway. You can't go wrong with Cab Calloway as far as I'm concerned, and I haven't had him on this blog thingy in a while. Have I mentioned that I'm a lifelong fan of Cab Calloway?

Betty Boop & Cab Calloway - The Old Man of the Mountain - 1933

Brucie's Jukebox Party! Selection C9

This is the only version of this song on YouTube, so you'll have to put up with the little intro bit at the start, it's worth it.

Butterfly Baby - Bobby Rydell

Sorry Barbie, He's Just Not Into You

Meet Palm Beach Sugar Daddy Ken, that's the actual name as it's being marketed. I decided a long time ago that the world is such a strange little place now there's no point in making shit up any more, all I do is report it.

Perhaps you saw it on a pop culture news site, a cable TV network, or on one of our favorite comedian's Twitter page. If you haven't yet seen Barbie Palm Beach Sugar Daddy Ken Doll, well, here he is! Now your life is complete. He's part of a Palm Beach Collection of dolls, but really, this is the winner of the batch. Rooted hair! White pants after Labor Day! Bite-sized dog! This doll has it all.

I know this Ken isn’t actually being marketed as gay, I'm guessing Mattel doesn't think they can get away with that, but come on, gayer than a picnic basket doesn't even come close to describing this thing. This makes the old Earring Magic Ken actually look like Larry the Cable Guy, even with the purple jacket and cock-ring necklace.



Based on some of the gay roommates I've had over the years, this thing is going to sell like wildfire just for the camp value alone. I know the marketers at Mattel put a lot of work into Ken's makeover years ago and that's how they came up with the Earring magic version, apparently it was decided that little girls want Barbie to have a gay boyfriend. It sold like crazy too, to gay men before they bowed to the homophobes and pulled it off the shelves.

But if they honestly think that what Barbie needs now is a sugar daddy of all things, especially one that looks like that, then they’re playing to sexism in a very strange way. Besides, I could use a sugar daddy myself, so don't muscle in on my territory, girlfriend.

And his little dog too! Oh, I hate little dogs, especially when they're owned by men. I can't deal with a man that has a dog that could make a nice light snack for an average cat. Ok, so she can have him after all.

Now that I think about it, that hair makes him look a bit like a televangelist with a taste for the good life, you think he keeps Barbie just for cover? You're not fooling anybody, Ken.

Brucie's Jukebox Party! Selection B6

I keep getting sidetracked and missing these things. I should just do up a stack of them and let them autopost, it's not like I don't know what the playlist is.

He's So Fine - The Chiffons

Hate Crimes Legislation Passes In U.S.

All it needs now is Obama's signature and he said he would do it so it's pretty much a done deal.

And not a moment too soon, there is nothing more painful to watch than the passage of bills through the House and Senate in the US. The way they tack things on to other legislation so somebody can nitpick about one thing without seeming to complain about another is enough to drive any decent person crazy. It's always nice to see a system that can move slightly faster than the geology it inhabits.

As much as I would like to congratulate my friends to the south, it's been twelve years for this one bill, twelve bloody years to pass a piece of legislation that to most civilized people would seem to be a no-brainer.

And then I watch the mainstream gay activists down there saying they have to take things slow, they have to build up consensus state by state. Has it never occurred to anyone down there that there are 50 states to deal with and at the rate they are going the Sun could turn into a red giant before they get halfway through it? I won’t live that long, entire civilizations will come and go while people are still making bad commercials full of cheap lies to scare the populace about the evils of faggots.

So sue the bastards: that’s what we did up here, sue your own government if you have to, you have that right. If your constitution is based on the idea that all people are created equal, then make sure your government sticks to it. This is why I think the Boies Olson lawsuit is a really good idea, and I’ve been watching it extensively, somebody needs to rattle the cage and the big league gay rights career lobbyist crowd would do well to stay the hell out of it, just like they’ve been told. These lovely egalitarian notions of freedom and equality still only seem to apply to those who are forceful enough to deem themselves equal above all others, no matter what side they’re on.

I can sit up here in Canada and bitch about it all I want because it’s not like anybody in the States ever bothers to see how things are done in the rest of the world anyway, or how the rest of the world even thinks. The greatest, most powerful industrialized nation in history always has to go it alone even as the rest of the world moves on with human rights, they still have to work things out based on their perceived sense of determined self-governance and that romantic ideal of free speech that makes people thank their oppressors for being so forthright.

It’s getting to be a while now that the US has stopped being a cultural influence in the world. That’s part of the reason I don’t follow the state-by-state gay rights battles down there anymore. It’s like watching the grass grow under a big, noisy, and dare I say white trash family that walks all over it. It’s turned into a familial cultural situation that will always be with us and has little hope of ever changing soon.

There are some things I doubt I will see before I die: peace in the Middle East, any movement whatsoever in Africa, and actual freedom and equality for all as guaranteed in the constitution of the United States of America.

So congratulations, but uh, many parts of the world have moved on, oh shining beacon of freedom and hope for all.

Brucie's Jukebox Party! Selection B2

I know it's starting to seem like this blog is an endless succession of cartoons and music videos, but it's easy stuff to post while I work on other things. I have posts in the works about the Catholic-Anglican marriage (while gays can't), My own take on the passage of the Hate Crimes act in the US, and Canada's current propensity to label everything that happens to a gay person as a hate crime. But I need to give these things final edits and I don't get paid for this so listen to the music in the meantime.

To make up for my lack of editorial content, if you want to call it that, tonight's song is a more up-to-date recording of the original 1963 version that is on my machine, but it's still the same song and let's face it, Roy Orbison is just pure magic.

In Dreams - Roy Orbison

Toon Time

I was never a big fan of Popeye, but I can admit I always had a thing for Bluto. He was a dude's dude who kept losing to a guy with big forearms, a can of spinach and... Olive Oyl, eek.

Fright to the Finish - Popeye - 1954

Brucie's Jukebox Party! Selection A11

It's Friday night, and because I'm in a good mood, we get a double bill. And I finally got a shot of the wallbox, we'll just ignore the fact I'm not set up for lighting, composition, or anything else that makes for a decent photograph, deal with it, I am.

This first song a good old classic, it's been used in movies, cartoons, parodies, you name it, you've heard it, unless you're not from here (Earth).

Pipeline - The Chantays


This second song isn't on the machine, but I thought I would haul it out for my sister, who reads this thing. Her name is Linda and way back in the day I inherited her record player and records, this was one of the records, she claims a friend gave it to her as a lark. She's ten years older than me so you can imagine what a smartass 7 year old is going to try to do with his 17-year old sister.

I have to admit this song comes back as a bit of a surprise to me because I haven't heard it in at least 45 years and it's much worse than I remember, I mean this thing sucks no matter how cute Jan and Dean were, and they were cute. It's a good thing she doesn't hold any grudges.

Linda - Jan and Dean